400 Box (another one from summer 79)

[Humphrey]

Sounds great quality (both audio and content) so far (part 2 playing now) - thanks so much, these are priceless and timeless ...

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "steve" <saipanda@...> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> 
> Sorry for delay in this one, again from our 400 Box of fun:
> 
> 24 July 1979 (Monitors, Scritti Politti)
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/24_July_1979
> 
> Sorry it's another six-part epic. Be great if someone can sort out a unified version. Many thanks to whoever did the last one (Ray?).
> 
> Further to a recent message, the Poison Girls are played on this one. I also remember noticing a bit of a lack of Crass and related artists on shows at the time (with the exception of Honey Bane), which seemed a bit strange as they were so big in the indie charts.
> 
> On the Fall in 79 point - I thought they were kind of a grower for Peel, eventually emerging unchallenged. As a counter-example, the Undertones seemed to start big, big, big, but didn't last the distance in the same way (although Teenage Kicks obviously did). 
> 
> Anyway...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> SW
>