The Peel Sessions

The session mp3s are presented below in a beautiful box.
Click on the menu thing at the top of it (may have to click twice, to wake it up) and you can select how you can view them, by list or by icon (I prefer the list myself, but each to his own, etc).

If you right-click on one of these, a little drop-down menu appears.

From this, choose to either listen to it before you grab ('play'), or simply download it.

If you click play on the first track and then leave it alone the box will play the entire contents of this month's selections in one continuous stream of Peelie music! blimeycorblimeyguvnah.

A brand new crop of sessions will be here on the first day of each month, replacing the ones before them.

I can be contacted at stuart.jones40@ntlworld.com

the cure recorded their very first peel session on 4/12/1978 and we all know what happened after that - they went mega global, began to look silly and, arguably, lost any notion of what a melody was anymore. however! i'll shut up about that and just say that this early session is so damn fine that these versions almost topple their officially issued counterparts.

the impossible to categorize dawn of the replicants taped a number of sessions for john. the galashiels quintet recorded this, their first, on 12/08/1997.

ramshackle but loveable punk do-it-yourselfer's the desperate bicycles taped only one session for john peel, on 04/07/1978. The version of 'Sarcasm' here is taken from their LP; i simply couldn't locate the peel one, sorry.

1978 small wonder records signing nicky and the dots had just the one bbc session for fat jack peel before imploding. this rare session by the brighton bopsters was committed to tape at maida vale 4 on 11/07/1979.

another and even more famous brighton band, the piranhas, were much loved by our hero. he even travelled down to the south coast of england to catch them hammering out their fabulous cockney rockney punk pop in their local pub. they taped three sessions, here's the final one, immortalised on 16/01/1980.

i've tried to find out anything at all about pluto monkey but sadly without success. i think they may be some or all of dawn of the replicants (also featured on here this month) masquerading under another name. anyhow, their only session was recorded on 23/02/2000. and here it is.

twisted nerve were another combo to put down just a single peel session, taped on 17/10/1981.

i hope you approve of these sessions - and come back next month!