For the first time in ages, we’ve skipped some Peel broadcasts due to the timings on the files not matching my minimum of 45 minutes worth of material rule. If you’re less precious about these things, and quite frankly most people are, then head to the John Peel wiki to find out about (and listen to) content from 30 May 1992 and 5 June 1992.
Tonight’s Peel Show had a real need for speed running through it. Perhaps it was inevitable given that Peel was setting off to the Isle of Man for the 1992 TT Races on the following day. He was sent a postcard from Andy Overton, one of the competitors. Further DeathRace like thrills found themselves on Peel’s playlist in the shape of On the Road Again by Drag Racing Underground, which nearly got in on the grounds of the extraordinary vignette it includes which is set at a truckstop.
As he had hoped to on the previous week’s show, Peel had met up with and shaken the hand of Diblo Dibala.
Elsewhere, it wouldn’t be summer 1992 without a story about the unravelling marriage between Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Today’s news story concerned them turning up separately for Prince William’s school sports day. Peel expressed surprised sympathy for Diana, “I don’t think any marriage could survive the crap being thrown at hers.”
The selections from this show were taken from the last 90 minutes of the programme. I had only one selection that I wanted to share but was unable to:
The Bardots - Gloriole [Peel Session]: I caught two of the tracks from the Norwich four-piece’s session. This brisk piece of Goth rock caught my interest, but I wasn’t so taken with their cover of The Beatles song, Don’t Let Me Down.
One track made my initial selections only to ultimately miss out:
Velocity Girl - My Forgotten Favourite: Named after a C86 touchstone track and with a sound that was pure UK shoegaze, the fact that Velocity Girl hailed from College Park, Maryland seemed to suggest that not every female fronted Stateside band in the early 1990s wanted to be Hole, when they could instead be Bleach. I was initially seduced but ultimately found myself thinking that Ipswich’s finest did a better job.
The file that I heard the recording of this show on ran on to include the start of Lynn Parsons’s show. This provided a fascinating insight into pre-Matthew Bannister playlisting though to Parsons’s credit, she showed an early understanding of the orthodoxy that would see nothing older than 5 years played on the station by opening her show with One Better World, a 1989 single by ABC, which had barely scraped inside the Top 40. Maybe Peel’s influence rubbed off on her and she opened all her shows with similar minor hits. At 2am on Sunday morning, she’d surely earned the right to experiment.
Full tracklisting
Video courtesy of ABCVevo
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