The Flying Cream Shots?

[Eddie Duffy]

Many thanks to Ken and co. for the info!

Eddie.

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, stephen phythian <theallnewadventuresofspp@...> wrote:
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> If I remember right, I'm sure the name featured on the cover of the early peel session 12"s. This was before it became common knowledge what it was and I can remember scouring the thousands of names on there to see if I could suss it out. (i never did though)
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> --- On Tue, 8/12/09, ken_garner <ken_garner@...> wrote:
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> From: ken_garner <ken_garner@...>
> Subject: [peel] Re: The Flying Cream Shots?
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, 8 December, 2009, 23:25
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> John told me the story years ago, and made me swear to secrecy. But seeing as Mr Dann has already blown it (in that "professional friend of the dead" article just 3 days after John's death - everyone i know who knew John took a dim view of this self-serving piece, to put it mildly), there's no point keeping silent any longer. John deliberately slotted this fictitious band name into many show intros right from the late 70s through to the 90s. He told me that the only person who ever twigged was Billy Bragg, who sent him postcards from around the world commenting on rumours of the Flying Cream Shots activities. John told me that when he lived in Dallas a friend of his wrote the photo captions for porn mags, and this was the magazine's pic desk's term for one of their most typical, ever-popular images.
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups. com, "Paul Webster" <paul@> wrote:
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> > See an article by the Trevor Dann on Peel's death
> > http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ arts-entertainme nt/music/ features/ memories- of-a-free- spirit-542606. html
> > it includes the following
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> > 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.
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> > Paul
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> > From: "Father Christmas" <so_it_goes_ 2512@>
> > To: <peel@yahoogroups. com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:31 PM
> > Subject: [peel] Re: The Flying Cream Shots?
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> > > Hi Eddie
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> > > 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.
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> > > Best wishes
> > > Steve [TK]
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> > > --- In peel@yahoogroups. com, "Eddie Duffy" <eddie.duffy@ > wrote:
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> > >> (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?".
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> > >> 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-)autobiograph y 20+ years later.
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> > >> 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?
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> > >> Eddie.
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