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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

in edinburgh during 1977 a teenage budding songwriter, mike scott, became interested in the UK punk scene and began writing for fanzines, eventually starting his own, Jungleland. he and a guitarist named Allan McConnell formed a band,
The Bootlegs, which gave way to Another Pretty Face in 1978. The friends created their own record label, New Pleasures, and began issuing singles, achieving success with their first release All the Boys Love Carrie when the New Musical Express
named it Single of the Week. The band signed a contract with Virgin Records and toured with Stiff Little Fingers but Virgin released them four months after the signing. between 1980 and 1982 Scott, amongst other projects, worked occasionally
with swell maps member nikki Sudden. Another Pretty Face continued to release music and came to the attention of Nigel Grainge, founder of Ensign Records. Grainge signed them up and the group moved to London, changing their name to Funhouse. however, mike Scott had become dissatisfied with the band. He later described Funhouse's sound as "similar to a jumbo jet flying on one engine". he began working on solo songs and recordings,
a decision that led to the creation of The Waterboys. here's the only peel session by his fascinating fledgling combo, recorded on 18/02/1981. if you've visited this page already and grabbed this session, please download it all over again because these are better-quality copies. my thanks to my good pal ken in edinburgh for supplying the better replacement mp3s.

The Bodysnatchers were a seven-piece all-female band involved in the British 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Formed in London by Nicky Summers in 1979, in the aftermath of the punk rock scene, The Bodysnatchers released two
ska/rocksteady singles on 2 Tone Records. Their first concert was in November 1979 at the Windsor Castle pub in west London, where they supported Shane MacGowan's band The Nips. For their third gig, they were invited by Chrysalis Records to play
at Debbie Harry's birthday party in late 1979. After signing to 2 Tone they undertook a tour supporting The Selecter in spring 1980, and during that summer toured with The Specials and The Go-Go's. They also played London's Hammersmith Odeon supporting
Toots and the Maytals, as well as other slots with artists such as Lene Lovich and Madness. They appeared in the documentary film Dance Craze, featuring live performances by various 2 Tone bands. The Bodysnatchers played together for less than two years, with the group disbanding in 1981, not having released an album. Some of the original members evolved into another all-girl band, The Belle Stars. After The Specials' original vocalists left the band, the Bodysnatchers' lead singer, Rhoda Dakar, went on to sing with The Special AKA. this session was
taped on 27/08/1980.

The Cimarons are a UK reggae band formed in 1967, the UK's first self-contained indigenous reggae act. Jamaican natives, they migrated to Britain in 1967. They were primarily session musicians in Jamaica, and backed many artists, including Jimmy Cliff.
Their first album, In Time, (Trojan Records, 1974) featured a rendition of the O'Jays' Ship Ahoy which the purists ridiculed as lush and phoney; another track Utopian Feeling was labelled unrealistic, and two pop standards: Over The Rainbow, and My Blue Heaven really tarnished their image. Vulcan Records released On The Rock two years later, while more rootsy, it didn't set the charts aflame either. They then switched to Polydor Records and issued Live At The Roundhouse in 1978 which displayed the groups' harmonious sound without revealing their introverted stage presence. Polydor released Maka the same year, an album which is generally considered to be their best work. Cimarons' next three albums did nothing to improve their status. After the final LP in 1983, they didn't surface again until 1995 when Lagoon Records released compilations of earlier albums. this session was put down on 06/12/1978.

the English musician and songwriter Ian Matthews moved to London in 1966, taking a job in a Carnaby Street shoe shop. That year he formed a trio, The Pyramid, a short-lived surf band which recorded one single, Summer Of Last Year in January 1967, on Deram Records. In the Spring of that year, Matthews was recruited by Ashley Hutchings as a vocalist for Fairport Convention, where he duetted first with Judy Dyble and then with Sandy Denny but in 1969 he departed toward a musical direction of his own. Matthews recorded his debut solo album,
Matthews' Southern Comfort, whose sound was rooted in American country music and rockabilly. This was his first experience as a songwriter, although the band also covered the likes of Neil Young and Ian and Sylvia. He followed it up by forming a working band using the name of his first album, and Second Spring and Later That Same Year followed. The band went through several different lineups and toured extensively for the next two years, to general critical acclaim. They had one commercial success: a 1970 cover version of Joni Mitchell's woodstock was a number one hit single in the UK. Afterwards, Matthews split with Southern Comfort, who went on to release three albums of their own on Harvest Records. After recording two acclaimed solo albums on Vertigo Records, under the sponsorship of former Yardbird Paul Samwell-Smith and surrounded by a who's who of like-minded British semi-folkies , Matthews formed Plainsong, who signed to Elektra Records and in 1972 produced In Search of Amelia Earhart, which solidified his songwriting reputation with the critics, if not the general public. here's a bbc radio one peel session by ian immortalised on 17/05/1971. Two tracks from this session are missing, unfortunately. also, the track I've called Through My Eyes couldn't be identified, it's a guess.

Kevin Coyne was a musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems. he passed away in his adopted home of Nuremberg, Germany, on the 2nd of December 2004. Coyne is notable for his unorthodox style of blues-influenced guitar composition, the intense quality of his vocal delivery and his bold treatment of injustice to the mentally ill in his lyrics. Many influential music figures have described themselves as Coyne fans, among them Sting and John Lydon. between 1972 and 2004 he recorded and released 32 albums,
with something interesting and passionate on them all. here's a very early session kevin recorded for our hero on 24/01/1974.

Taste were an Irish rock and blues band formed in 1966 that gained fame in large part because of their unique style, and the talent and charisma of the band's founder, songwriter and musician Rory Gallagher. The band, a power trio, also moved on to make history as one of the first three acts to perform on the televised studio program, Rockpalast, in Germany. formed in Cork, Ireland, in August 1966, in their early years Taste toured in Hamburg and Ireland before becoming regulars at the Maritime Hotel, an R&B club in Belfast, Northern Ireland.in 1968 they moved permanently to London where they signed with Polydor records and toured the United States and Canada with the British supergroup Blind Faith. In April 1969, Taste released the first of their two studio albums, the self-titled Taste, with On the Boards following in early 1970, the latter showing the band's jazz influences with Gallagher playing saxophone on numerous tracks. In November that year, the band, along with Yes, opened for Cream at the latter's farewell concerts. that same year Taste toured Europe but were disbanded by Gallagher, who decided to pursue a solo career, performing their last
show on New Year's Eve in Belfast. here's a rare top gear peel appearance by the group, taped on 05/08/1968.

the Visitors hailed from Edinburgh, where they started off as the Deleted. They debuted with the Electric Heat EP, which sufficiently impressed mr. Peel that he financed their second and third 45's. They split before a 4AD album produced by Wire was completed. i'm giving you the second of their three peel sessions, taped on 16/12/1980.