John's First Big Weekend

[thebarguest]

Thanks for these !

The show from the 7th has "done the rounds" before and its
one of my favourite shows from the 90's. So its great to get
the other one ..................


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
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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.
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> 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
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> 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
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> k
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