John's First Big Weekend

[ken garner]

...well, all I can say is stay tuned. Thanks for the compliments, but bear in mind what you 
are all getting are not the highlights, but the totality of my collection of complete shows, 
which is quite small, by the standards of some on this list! And, just as everyone know you 
put your strongest songs at the start and end of each side of an album, or at the major 
staging points in a two hour radio show, I am eeking out my rips to keep my audience 
hooked. There are, however, one or two more surprises to come before we're finished, I 
think. For example, I have still not given you what, in my view, is the best Peel show I have 
just about complete, not one that has previously gone the rounds from other sources, and 
possibly one of the grooviest I ever heard...

k


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for this, Ken: you have a fantastic collection!! Errr...any
> chance of the rest of the Brambles shows in the future? (cringes
> pathetically, tugs forelock).
> 
> Best wishes
> Steve [Teenage Kicks]
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > 
in Glasgow. I discovered these tapes unlabelled a few weeks ago
> while undertaking an 
> > enforced clear out of my university office (to facilitate space for
> window repairs), where I 
> > moved part of my tape archive in the mid-90s, for what reason now
> escapes me. I had 
> > forgotten I had taped complete the two consecutive shows Peel had
> done live in October 
> > 1994 from BBC Scotland's old studios in Queen Margaret Drive as part
> of the Glasgow City 
> > Council backed `Ten Day Weekend" music festival. So this week's
> downpod from me is six 
> > hours of Glasgow-focussed musical entertainment, the highlights
> being perhaps Nectarine 
> > No 9's session and the squeaky BBC Scotland chair (Friday), and the
> football match reports 
> > from the Glasgow Herald's David Belcher, and John Williamson
> (Saturday). The Saturday 
> > show is clearly the better and more eventful of the two, with more
> interviews and jokes, 
> > though both are great musically, with the Frank Black and Teenage
> Fanclub session 
> > getting a deserved repeat, and a spin of the H Foundation. There is
> also a brief mention of 
> > me.
> > 
> > Listening to these over the past few evenings for the first time
> since that weekend, the 
> > social whirl of those 3 days all came back to me. Peel, Hawkes and
> Alison arrived on 
> > Thursday afternoon and after a meal in Long Fung we all went down to
> see Uresei Yatsura 
> > at the original 13th Note basement café venue at the top of
> Glassford Street. We all teased 
> > Hawkes for declaring without irony that he "really liked the chick
> on bass". On Friday 
> > afternoon, I introduced and interviewed Peel at a packed GFT chat
> show, at which several 
> > old pals of his showed up and an unknown woman presented him with a
> tray of pot plants. 
> > On Saturday we went for lunch in Gandolfi's in Albion Street (Peel
> had the Finnan 
> > haddock, still, I was pleased to note on a recent visit, a staple of
> the menu), and then a 
> > crowd of us went to the BBC studio for the show, where, as Peel
> rightly credits, only the 
> > BBC Scotland engineer Andrew stayed calm amid the mad onslaught of
> special guests and 
> > features. Afterwards we trooped down to Mother India for a curry,
> then saw AC Acoustics 
> > and Shriek at Nice N Sleazy's. I will never forget Hawkes' and
> Alison's blank faced 
> > astonishment at emerging up the stairs onto Sauchiehall Street at
> midnight and, 
> > confronted by the sea of humanity, noise, ambulances, taxis and
> activity all over the 
> > street, asking "what's going on? Has there been some incident", and
> me and Stewart from 
> > the BBC saying,  no, just a normal Saturday night in Glasgow, it's
> ok. John was somewhat 
> > less surprised, I think.
> > 
> > peel 1994-10-07a
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8K9A6KPB
> > peel 1994-10-07b
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JFNYRL5L
> > peel 1994-10-07c
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B7SE55UC
> > peel 1994-10-07d
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JYYZHOS0
> > 
> > peel 1994-10-08a
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RB28RM6R
> > peel 1994-10-08b
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=94LEZJ79
> > peel 1994-10-08c
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=594W92AV
> > peel 1994-10-08d
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=11I5CT7Q
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > k
> >
>