The selections from this show were taken from the first 90 minutes of the programme. To anyone looking at the scarce number of tracks that I’ve blogged about this show and thinking that it must have been a poor show, I can only attribute the paucity of tracks down to a mixture of Peel playing a number of records which have already shown up here over recent weeks (Sonic Youth, The Fall, Urban Hype etc) and the fact that after a pretty lengthy run of being able to share whatever I wanted, several tracks that I had slated for inclusion weren’t available. Such as...
Fudge Tunnel - 10% [Peel Session]: The Nottingham metallers had written to Peel in order to bring him up to date with what they had been up to and their imminent activities. “For a band that hates touring..” they had been clocking up a lot of live work over 1992 including support slots with Sepultra (a band which I know more for their various T-shirt designs than for any of their songs). They had been due to play some gigs in the United States later in the year, but this had fallen through due to incompetence on the part of their record label. Still, they remained sanguine about this turn of events, “Who wants to tour America when you can play Stoke-on-Trent.”
Wreck - You’re Gonna Change (Or I’m Gonna Leave): Hailing from Chicago, this cover of Hank Williams Sr’s 1949 song was the b-side to their 7-inch single, Mikey. Surprisingly faithful to the spirit of the original despite being produced by Steve Albini.
Custom Floor - UPS Driver: a 55 second quickie that featured on the San Diego band’s first single released via the local label Goldenrod Records. Peel liked the tune but had no idea what the title meant. It would be another year or two before the mellifluous tones of Jonathan Pryce would soundtrack their British adverts. Even now, if you were to ask me to quote an advertising slogan from my youth, it’s probable that I would say “Consider it done” before any other.
Peel declared himself to be suffering from “9 consecutive colds” but he had been taken out of himself by the beauty of Holland’s third goal, scored by Denis Bergkamp a day earlier in their 3-1 win over Germany at Euro ‘92. He had even gone to the trouble of contacting Erwin Blom of Eton Crop to congratulate him.
In the news, the people of Ireland had backed closer union with Europe in a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty by a margin of 69%/31% (that’s what a mandate looks like). Meanwhile, John Major was warning Tory eurosceptics that there would be no going back on relations with Europe...
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Love the bit with Fudge Tunnel, very much a rock & roll story that.
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