Did Peel ever play Tom Waits?

[andrewthezmore]

I've got a very fuzzy recollection of hearing the NME freebie version 
of Downtown Train on the radio at the time (1986?) If it wasn't Peel, 
not sure who it might have been, Annie Nightingale perhaps.

If he wasn't keen on him generally, it probably wasnt Peel who played 
it - I think he played 3 of the 4 Cocteaus/Smiths/Bronskis NME tracks 
and made a point of not playing the U2 track...



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "lorcan58" <lorcan58@...> wrote:
>
> A Google search using this search string:
> 
> zappa site:avistic.demon.co.uk
> 
> reveals two Zappa plays on 30 September 1998. Springsteen and Waits 
> are harder to spot using this technique because Kershaw's playlists 
> are mixed in and AK was a well-documented fan of both.
> 
> Lorcan
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Roger Carruthers <roger.carruthers@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Ditto Frank Zappa ?
> > I think I posted the question here once before, but apart from 
some 
> early
> > Mothers, eg. in the final Perfumed Garden, I don¹t recall ever 
> hearing any
> > Zappa on Peel, which considering his prodigious output, would 
seem a
> > deliberate omission ­ possibly because John was fond of Beefheart, 
> who fell
> > out with Zappa, or perhaps he couldn¹t quite stomach Zappa¹s 
> famously
> > cynical world view?
> > Can¹t see why he would dislike Tom Waits though, who seems a 
pretty 
> genial
> > sort of fellow from what I¹ve read...
> > Cheers
> > Roger
>