XTC Peel sessions update

[jake]

Thanks a million for this Ken - it's amazing that the band have compiled 2 separate releases of their BBC recordings in the last few years and failed to locate these recordings, when a couple of phone calls from you to the right people found them almost immediately!

The Chalkhills website where I saw that quote from Andy Partridge about the sessions being wiped is a fan site without any connection to the band, but I found a contact email address on XTC's official website (http://www.xtcidearecords.co.uk/), and have just sent them a message passing on your info....

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken_garner" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
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> Richard, the Radio 1 media manager /archivist, in response to my queries, has confirmed the first four sessions (among other XTC sessions) have all been digitised and are safely housed at Maida Vale.
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> I have a hunch as to why the band might have been told they were missing in response to a basic record company phone enquiry to Radio 1. Richard, earlier this week, to his surprise, could not find these sessions listed in the online catalogue accessible at Radio 1.  A simple phone call to the guys manning the hard drives at Maida Vale, however, confirmed they really were in the digital archive, they had been digitised along with all the other surviving old Peel stuff ten years ago. In other words, they must never have been catalogued for the new online archive back in 2000/2001!
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