[peel] Re: The Flying Cream Shots?

[Paul Webster]

See an article by the Trevor Dann on Peel's death
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/memories-of-a-free-spirit-542606.html
it includes the following

I loved the opening to his show in those days. In would come the low 
dum-da-dum of Grinderswitch's "Picking the Blues", and after the slide 
guitar figure we'd be treated to the usual litany of awkward and 
unpronounceable band names. Regular listeners may have noticed that, for 
pure devilment, John would sometimes trail a band who didn't exist - "... 
and the Flying Creamshots in session". He'd seen the phrase in a Dutch porno 
mag.


Paul
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Subject: [peel] Re: The Flying Cream Shots?


> Hi Eddie
>
> That rang a bell straight away, and sure enough, in Ken's book, p. 285, 
> just after the Flying Pickets:
> 'At this point, regular Peel listeners might expect to find a session by 
> the Flying Creamshots. Mysteriously, I can find no trace of one, although 
> Billy Bragg once reported to Peel he'd just missed them in San Francisco.'
> John was fond of making up band names, usually to make a point about not 
> playing band's demos or tapes. Maybe? Hope this helps.
>
> Best wishes
> Steve [TK]
>
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Eddie Duffy" <eddie.duffy@...> wrote:
>>
>> (with apologies for the spam filter-bothering title)
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>> I was listening to the 22nd September 1982 show a couple of days ago, and 
>> Peel's intro mentioned that one of the tracks on that night's show would 
>> be from an ensemble called The Flying Cream Shots. "Blimey!", I thought. 
>> "Those post-punk outfits and their wacky names, eh?".
>>
>> 120 minutes later, as Grinderswitch were fading out to the pips, I 
>> realised that no such band had been played on the programme. And 
>> (carefully) Googling the supposed band name just now only turned up a 
>> handful of pages, all of which seemed to have some relevance to Peel. It 
>> turns out that Flying Cream Shots was one of several provisional titles 
>> for the (semi-)autobiography 20+ years later.
>>
>> So, my question is: does anyone know if "flying cream shots" is some sort 
>> of regular Peel in-joke? And did he often throw in fake band names at the 
>> start of the show to check if anyone was paying attention?
>>
>> Eddie.
>>
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