Bend It!

[steve]

Hi Alan,

Many thanks for the wiki updates. 

I used to have at least a couple of the Bent It series on cassette and wish I had one or two now. Alas, didn't seem able to connect to the link you gave. Did anyone else have more luck?

A kind of similar series, also on Exotica, was the Exotic Beatles. A wiki search shows Peel played at least three tracks from Vol 1 in June 1993:
http://peel.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Search&ns0=1&ns500=1&ns502=1&redirs=0&search=exotic+beatles&limit=500&offset=0

Triva fans, though, may like to know JP himself features briefly on Vol 2:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gugukluhayat@.../msg10925.html

The clip of JP: "The whole Liverpool boom was just John, Paul, George and Ringo."

Cheers,

Steve W




--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Alan Ford <ford.alan@...> wrote:
>
> In the early 90's John played some miscellaneous football songs from
> an album (or series of albums) called Bend It!
> While doing research into a show tracklisting I have discovered that
> one can be downloaded here
> 
> http://cosmobells.blogspot.com/2009/11/bend-it-trattoria-menu3.html?zx=ba0222a1d3884a60
> 
> On the tape I've been researching John states that he doesn't know who
> "Oei-Oei-Oei-Fantastico Cruyff Barcelona" is by.
> 
> On the wiki for 6/4/93
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/06_April_1993_%28John_Peel_Is_Jakki_Brambles%29
> it's listed as
> 
> Fantastico Cruyff Barcelona: Oei, Oei, Oei (CD – Bent It! 91) Exotica
> 
> According to the blog link above, and also this one:
> http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~sight/bridge/bendit.htm
> it is called "Oei-Oei-Oei-Fantastico Cruyff Barcelona" and it's by Johan Cruyff
> 
> I have amended 6/4/93 accordingly.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alan
>