Peel 1981

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Hi Karl,

This is the kind of thing where I'd like to be able to point you to the Wiki year page for 
1981 and that would be it. Unfortunately, though, 1981 is one of those that's still a work 
in progress (it's not the only one). I'll try and get a bit organized on 1981 this upcoming 
week. There are a couple of things up there already, so here's the link anyway:

http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/1981

Better news, though, is that there were a big punch of 1981 shows floating around 
relatively recently. I think most of these were originally shared via the group earlier this 
year (by Kevin/Julian, from memory), although I might be wrong, and many were (also?) up 
on John Peel Everyday.

Think these are mostly from those ones, at least they are what I seem to have ("It Makes 
Me Laugh" was a bit more recent):

1981-02-16a (New Order, Rezillos sessions)	59:07	
1981-02-16b (New Order, Rezillos sessions)	1:00:50	
1981-04-07 (B Movie, Positive Noise)	
1981-04-08 (All singles show)	2:00:14	
1981-04-09  (Cuban Heels, Glaxo Babies sessions)	2:00:22	
1981-05-11 (Chefs, Frames sessions)	1:59:57	
1981-05-12 (Flock Of Seagulls, Ski Patrol sessions)	2:03:09	
1981-05-13 (Revillos, Department S sessions)	1:58:41	
1981-05-14 (New Order, Killing Joke sessions)	1:59:16	
1981-05-16 (It Makes Me Laugh)	43:50	
1981-05-18 (The Moondogs, Ivor Cutler sessions)	2:00:20	
1981-05-19 (The Moderates, The Lucys sessions)	1:59:43	
1981-05-25 (Day after LFC won the European Cup in Paris)	1:33:31

If you search the group under the session artist names, you might be able to find some of 
these. Links may or may not still be active, but can be re-uploaded if not. Some are also 
available at John Horne's "Rewind" page:
http://www.jonhorne.co.uk/jptapes/jptapesrewound.html

And one at Gary's successor to the mighty John Peel Everyday:
http://johnpeeldotnet.wordpress.com/downloads/

And Fades In Slowly:
http://fadesinslowly.blogspot.com/

Good hunting!

In addition, there the Festive Fifty for that year, which seems to be scattered around 
volumes 1 and 2 of the 17 volume dvd compilation available on assorted torrent sources 
(thanks to DeeDee). Have a quick Goggle for links. Hopefully, Mic of this list will be 
updating the Wiki on this at some point, following his amazing job on 1978, 1979 and 
1981 F50s.

Finally, think the 400 Box may well be including 1981 shows -- as it's supposed to include 
stuff from around five years from 1978. All will doubtless be revealed in the fullness of 
time.

Cheers,

Steve

PS On the monetary front, please check the message in the past few days from Rocker re 
donations for 400 Box postage.


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "egdirdle2001" <penarth2002@...> wrote:
>
> I have very many TDK 120s from Jan 1981 upto about 1987. Unfortunately 
> they feature very little of the chat and mainly the music from Peel 
> shows.
> 
> With my male completist gene working overtime I seem to have worked up 
> a soft spot for Peel's 1981 shows.
> 
> Are any from 1981 available to download and can I make a monetary 
> contribution towards this kind of archive making. Many, many thanks to 
> the people who have put up the shows from 1978 and 1979 as well as all 
> the others. I really do appreciate this very much indeed.
> 
> I really miss him...him and Strummer
> 
> Best wishes everyone
> 
> Karl
>