do you remember??

[ken garner]

That's right, what you have there, Steve, are almost certainly the shows of Mon 8 June 
1981 through to Thurs 11 June 1981. Session sheets only indicate a repeat of BeBop 
Deluxe (1st TX 17/3/75) on the Monday, but it sounds plausible that Walters would repeat 
The Slits and some of those others. This is the only Radio Times-documented instance of 
Walters depping for his presenter in 80-82, I think: before that they'd used Gambo, and 
afterwards it was Mark Ellen, Muriel Gray, then Kershaw.

The unasked question is Why? - I suspect it was so Walters & Chris Lycett (who were acting 
as a trio with Peel for producing everything emanating out of Egton 318 in 1980-82) could 
put pressure on Peel to return the favour, and stand in for Walters Weekly (Sat 4-5pm, R1, 
81-83) with the first series of Peel's Pleasures while Walters went on holiday that summer, 
for 6 weeks from (roughly) the start of July to mid August that year.

So lister Colin Ellis was correct in something he told me offline, but which i Just ran out of 
time to check before going to press in the summer, and therefore does not appear in the 
shows index - yes, there was a first series of Peel's Pleasures in those weeks of summer 
81. The shows I list in summer 82, and which exist in their entirety in the Mike Dick 
collection of off-air tapes currently being digitised at Maida Vale, constituted the second 
series

Steve - is it detectable from your tapes, in either the sound quality or the slickness of the 
editing/links, for example, whether these are pre-recorded or live shows? I suspect 
Walters would have pre-recorded them rather than stay in R1 til midnight. Are they really 
good, snappy and funny, ie Walters at his best - or does he banter on and on? If the 
former, it might be nice to hear them!

kg

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "stephen877847" <s.moon984@...> wrote:
>
> This may not be the instance to which you are refering, but I remember 
> John Walters filling in for Peel for, I think, a week during, what I 
> estimate to be, June 1981. So that would be 4 shows I imagine. I have a 
> tape of bits and pieces of it which I converted to MP3 a few years ago -
>  he played the first Slits session, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, 
> Tenpole Tudor, T Rex amongst others, plus there was a healthy dollop of 
> banter as you can imagine.
> 
> Curiously the above is the same vintage as the recent crop of shows 
> that you uploaded, for which I am eternally grateful to you. If anyone 
> is interested I can upload the recording.
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Moon
> 
> 
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "kevin_beech" <kevin_beech@> wrote:
> >
> > i was flicking through ken's book last night,
> > 
> > does anyone remember walters filling in for peel one night ?
> > 
> > was the house of love in session? i remember him playing christine by 
> > both house of love and sioux and the banshees.
> > 
> > does anyone remember the 2 john's hosting a video show in the 80's
> > 
> > and can anyone remember peel introducing a welsh band on t.v.(again 
> > 1980's)i thought this was on the last tube,but have found the clip on 
> > youtube and it wasn't 
> > any idea's anyone??
> > 
> > kev.....
> >
>