Those new polls on the site...

[ken garner]

I think you're right, this is my growing hunch about what happened: 
There was only one session, in 83, of the 4 tracks you have ('Send My 
Love' aka Send for Me with Ari Up ex-Slits on vocals, 'The Riddle' 
with Bim Sherman on vocals, plus 2 instrumentals called 'Not a 
Nobody' and something like 'Peel Session 83 part one'). Steve 
Barker's notes on the website after the first para are describing the 
first album, and editing/presentation on the site has simply confused 
the issue. The 1981 date is most probably an urban myth, most likely 
because either (i) Steve's done that thing we all do in which 
musically-treasured vague memories get accidentally post-dated a 
little bit farther into the past than they were in fact; or, less 
likely (ii) the band did record a session in 81, but it was never 
broadcast. Looking back at my original correspondence, the person who 
confidently dates it in 83 (not 81, as the others) and id's the track 
titles as both your tape and www.dub.org does, is a credited 
contributor to the on-u website.

I don't have any NAS records, most of my on-U stuff is later 80s 
things like Dub Syndicate, the Barmy Army LP, Keith Le Blanc, 
Tackkead, Little Axe; though the only one I actually do dig out and 
play once in a while is Dr Pablo & the Dub Syndicate's 'North of 
the River Thames' On-U LP30.

kg

PS. seeing as you were a fairly consistent listener, I am VERY much 
looking forward to anything your tape collection turns up with 
reference to my unknown/incomplete(?) dates file (downloadable from 
the files section of the peel news group website, everyone: remember 
all corrections/additions received get an acknowledgement in the 
book), especially for 81-83! By the way, does the way you taped 
session tracks enable you to identify for a show what (normally) both 
sessions were, or if there were definitely only one that night? My 
data suggests 18/8/83 also featured the debut session first broadcast 
by So You Think You're A Cowboy?*, for example, as well as NAS.

*who could, incidentally, be another nomination as a One Session 
Wonder, I note!


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@...> wrote:
>
> 
> >
> >"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
> 
> The 3 tracks at www.dub.org are 3 of the 4 tracks from
> the 1983 session.   I can't even guess the title on the other
> one - they aren't that sort of band!
> 
> The Steve Barker thing is confusing.  He is describing tracks
> from that first album in 1981 but it reads like they did them for
> a session however I only have the one and I was a fairly
> consistent Peel listener then so I ought to remember it as it
> would have interested me a lot.
> Perhaps someone else knows of it
> 
> martinw
>