Those new polls on the site...

[ken garner]

ok, I understand, very common practice. Here's what Steve Barker (op. 
cit.) says about New Age Steppers' Peel session on that On-U sound 
site (http://www.skysaw.org/onu/artists/newagesteppers.html):

"Although I cannot personally testify to this, it is rumoured that in 
1980/1981 NAS, together with producer Adrian Sherwood, took seventeen 
musicians to the BBC Studios in Maida Vale to record a session for 
the John Peel radio show. Given the penury in which most musicians 
lived at the time, seventeen lots of Musician's Union fees would no 
doubt come in handy!

"The set opens with Ari Up's off-centre vocals on the NAS version of 
Junior Byles' "Fade Away", a tune which the singer had cut for 
Channel One's JoJo Hookim some five years earlier but which had 
already achieved the status of a reggae standard. "Crazy Dreams and 
High Ideals" [Rhythm 59] is one of those songs, which counted as 
favourite down at On-U and was versioned over time numerous times by 
others and its author Mark Stewart.

"A version of "Animal Space" was originally released as a UK 7" 
single by the Slits on the Human label and can also be found on their 
album "Return Of The Giant Slits" on CBS. Bim Sherman's "Love 
Forever" [Rhythm B13] is next for the Ari Up treatment with some 
great spooky on-key screams in the dub towards the track's close. The 
set is rounded off by a dub version of Viv Goldman's overtly 
political "Private Armies". Viv was better known as a music 
journalist, mainly for the New Musical Express (NME) music paper 
rather than a musician."

But it might be that those track details are about their first album, 
not the Peel Session rumour of 81.

And elsewhere on the same site, you find this:

"New Age Steppers - Peel sessions 1983 / session tracks Tracks 
recorded for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. 
Included 'Not A Nobody', 'The Riddle' and 'Send My Love' [Rhythm 29] 
which are available to download at www.dub.org.uk"

which is different...

can you relate any of that to what you've got there?

kg

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@...> wrote:
>
> At 20:24 27/03/2007, you wrote:
> 
> >Thanks! That's great. Er, you don't by any chance still have that
> >tape do you? Or a documentary record of it, which identifies the
> >tracks? Does Peel read out the line-up on your tape? All details
> >appreciated. It might have been 83 rather than 81, but anyway, now 
I
> >have a TX date, if I look at that show's script on microfilm at
> >written archives when I'm there after Easter, it should give any
> >previous TX dates on page 1, with any luck. So many thanks again
> >
> >kg
> 
> The problem is that I didn't record the shows - just the session
> using the Pause button so I just have 15 minutes of music
> without Peel.   I don't have the titles of the songs either although
> I can confirm there were 4 tracks - 2 with female vocals and 2 
dubby tracks.
> 
> 
> 
> >PS. why not check my updated list of 'unknown/uncertain' show dates
> >attached under 'files' on the list website. Got any more tapes /
> >diaries from the early 80s? These are still the 'lost' years, in
> >terms of complete documentation at the BBC...
> 
> I'll do that
> 
> martinw
>