[peel] Simon Joyner - "The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll"

[Martin Wheatley]

At 03:05 03/05/2008, you wrote:

>Label description for the new Simon Joyner re-issue:
>
>"Omaha, Nebraska native and singer/songwriter Simon Joyner has been
>writing about the dizzy and dark aspects of the human condition since
>1992. The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll was originally released in
>1994, on Sing, Eunuchs!, exclusively on vinyl, and marks the first
>major critical milestone in Joyner's lauded career. John Peel famously
>played it in its entirety on his BBC radio program and Joyner's
>underground cult status was solidified; in all of John Peel's years in
>radio he had only played a record in its entirety one other time."
>
>Two questions:
>
>1) Is the info above accurate? If so, does anyone know the date when
>presumably John played the record in its entirety?(an upload of the
>tape would be nice... Andrew, where art thou???)
>
>2. What was that *other* record played by John in its entirety?
>"Tubular Bells"?

It was not that uncommon for Peel to play whole records on the 70s as
"reviewing new records" was one of the loopholes in the needletime
restrictions which still applied then.  By playing a whole new record Peel
gave himself elbow room to play what he wanted in the rest of the show

martinw