[peel] Trivial Titbit for a Wet Bank Holiday

[mark.whitby2@...]

Well, Alan has drawn up a shortlist of seven Beefheart songs he's going to choose from, and I can reveal that 'Trust Us' is one of the seven.

Mark
---- Phil Edwards <festive50@...> wrote: 
> Mark
> Please please play "Trust us".
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>   Cc: ken garner
>   Subject: Re: [peel] Trivial Titbit for a Wet Bank Holiday
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>   I don't know what this says about me (actually I can guess), but I really love this list. I think I'll use this as the basis for my Peel Back and Sniff feature on Dandelion in June. Gives me an excuse, if any were needed, to play some Beefheart too.
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>   Mark W 
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>   ---- ken garner <ken_garner@...> wrote: 
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>   > This is sad and nerdy but I spotted something a few days ago which means yet another update to my LONGEST GAPS BETWEEN PEEL SESSION APPEARANCES chart: Julie Tippett(s), nee Driscoll, reappeared with Working Week singing Venceremos, in May 84 - I know, because I found it on a fragmentary off-air tape from Spring 84. So she joins the roll of honour, reprinted here below, now looking, er, rather different from my original Top 10 in The Peel Sessions. More emendations welcome.
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>   > Top 22 Longest Gaps Between Peel Session Appearances
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>   > John French 36 years: 2nd with Beefheart in May 68, 3rd with new Magic Band in July 04
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>   > Incredible String Band 27 yrs: 11th in Oct 73, 12th in Nov 2000
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>   > Faust 25 yrs 6 mths: 1st in June 73, 2nd in Jan 99
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>   > Buzzcocks 24 yrs: 4th in May 79, 5th in June 03
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>   > Gary Numan 21 yrs: 2nd in March 79, 3rd Dec 2000
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>   > The Undertones 20 yrs 6 mths: 6th in Dec 82, 7th in May 03
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>   > New Order 16 yrs 6 mths: 2nd in June 82, 3rd in Dec 98
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>   > Misty in Roots 16 yrs: 8th in May 86, 9th in July 02
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>   > Julie Tippett nee Driscoll 15 yrs 6 mths: 3rd with Brian Auger's Trinity in Oct 68, with Working Week in May 84
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>   > Steve Hillage 14 yrs 6 mths: with National Health March 76, with The Orb Oct 90
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>   > Wire 14 yrs 4 mths: 4th in May 88, 5th in Sept 02
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>   > Echo and the Bunnymen 14 yrs: 6th in Oct 83, 7th in Sept 97
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>   > Pete Astor 13 yrs 11 mths: in Weather Prophets Dec 86, in Wisdom of Harry Nov 00
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>   > Culture 13 yrs 6 mths: 2nd in Jan 89, 3rd in July 02
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>   > The Pastels 13 yrs 7 mths: 1st in Feb 84, 2nd in Nov 97
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>   > The Raincoats 13 yrs 3 mths: 2nd in Dec 80, 3rd in April 94
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>   > June Tabor 13 yrs: 5th in Feb 78, 6th in Jan 91
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>   > Llwybr Llaethog 11 yrs 10 mths: 2nd in Oct 89, 3rd in Aug 01
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>   > Pulp 11 yrs 6 mths: 1st in Nov 81, 2nd in March 93
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>   > Chris Cooper & Graeme Naysmith: 11 yrs 4 mths in Pale Saints Aug 89, in Lorimer Dec 2000
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>   > Eon 11 yrs 2 mths: 1st in June 91, 2nd in Aug 02
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>   > Orbital 10 yrs 10 mths: 1st in Sept 93, 2nd in July 04
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>   > ...and Bobby Wratten would be next: 10 yrs 5 mths: with Fieldmice in April 90, Trembling Blue Stars, September 2000
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