Those new polls on the site...

[ken garner]

Yes, that's what my correspondents said to me in their letters back 
in the 90s after IST came out: Adrian Sherwood allegedly took in some 
18 musicians and singers to Maida Vale (they are clear that this is 
where it happened), and took over the mixing and production himself, 
as one might imagine (I wonder if Dale Griffin was the 
session 'producer' that day, by any chance, hm?). Apparently Steve 
Barker of ON THE WIRE BBC Radio Lancashire knew something about it, 
but i've not been in touch with Steve for, well, er, decades, I have 
to admit...

You say 'listening back...' that means you still have the tape. 
Looking forward to any more snippets you can give me!

kg


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@...> wrote:
>
> At 15:44 27/03/2007, you wrote:
> 
> 
> > >
> > >PPS. before I stupidly wiped the first half dozen votes out, I 
did
> > >spot that some of you had already voted for THE NEW AGE 
STEPPERS. Now
> > >this is useful. One or two correspondents wrote to me after In
> > >Session Tonight came out citing this as one I had missed, 
suggesting
> > >it was broadcast perhaps sometime in Summer 1981. But neither I 
nor
> > >BBC producers or archivists can find any documentary or audio 
trace
> > >of this session. No session sheet, no file, no tapes. There is 
not
> > >even a contract carbon at Written Archives. Nor does it show up,
> > >therefore, yet, on my master day by day calendar. All I know is
> > >gleaned from an unofficial On-U Sounds tribute site which claims 
to
> > >identify some of the tracks and that the line-up was huge! Does
> > >anyone, especially those of you who voted for it, have any other
> > >information about it all you can recall, which might lead me to 
at
> > >least pin down the broadcast date and line-up? Cheers!
> >
> >I taped it 18-8-83. No guarantee that was the original broadcast 
date
> >might have been a repeat
> >
> >martinw
> 
> The answer to why you have a problem has just occurred to me
> Listening back I would say that it was almost certainly produced
> by Adrian Sherwood rather than one of the BBC's in house
> producers.  Even if they used Maida Vale I can't see Adrian
> taking much notice of the BBC paperwork
> 
> martinw
>