John Peel's 50th Birthday Surprise

[vinpinman]

Great to finally have the full show. Most of it has been kicking 
around for a while, I have the Fall set on FiS and the Wedding 
present is downloadable from Perfumed garden but this is much better.


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, rockerq@... wrote:
>
> > <<The Wedding Present's set is on their 6 CD Peel Sessions set on 
Sanctuary 
> > Records (admittedly ripped from some other listener's
> > tape, because for some bizarre reason only the Fall's live set 
exists in the 
> > BBC R1 archive,>>
> > 
> er... I think I might be that listener!
> 
> David told me that when they were compiling the box set they found 
that quite 
> a few of the Weddoes' BBC master tapes had gone missing, probably 
because in 
> the days before digital masters, the analogue quarter inch reel 
tape was the 
> only master for each session or live set - so when the odd track 
had previously 
> been used on various releases (Tommy, Strange fruit etc), the 
original master 
> would have been sent to the cutting studio - and then no-one had 
bothered to 
> check whether they were returned to the BBC archive.
> 
> Rocker
>