400 Box (1 more)

[steve]

Not to forget that Numan turned up on the 25 years of the Festive Fifty special on 19 Dec 2000 to play Are Friends Electric:

http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/19_December_2000

This then led to a full live session at Maida Vale early the following year:

http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/07_February_2001

The F50 special one track appearance was over 21 years since Numan's previous (full) session, in 1979. Ken in The Peel Sessions (p. 282) makes this the third longest gap between sessions, lagging only behind the Incredible String Band (27 years) and Faust (26 years). 

(Seems like a typo and the Undertones might be a bit higher up the list, Ken).

SW


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> Suppose part of his proclivity for experimental electronica of early 80s  - Superman by Ms Laurie Anderson sums that up. But it was quite an extensive field Early Human League, Wire, Red Crayola, Heaven 17, late Human League, the Fire Engines and Young Marble Giants. Howard Jones may well have featured on peel too ... Depeche Mode definitely did.
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> Date: Wednesday, 20 July, 2011, 9:21
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> page 61 of Numan's biog, 'Praying to the Aliens', reads: "the Radio one DJ John Peel was very supportive towards Tubeway Army at this stage. He'd played tracks from the first album and we did a three-track session for him on 10 January 1979, which he broadcast a week later."
> Although, the first place I heard the band was on Radio Luxembourg, also from the first album - there was a Sunday evening show I think, which might have been Stuart Henry. Am betting there are no copies of these hiss-ridden shows!Cheers
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> 1b. Re: 400 Box (1 more)    Posted by: "MARK LUETCHFORD" M.Luetchford@... m.luetchford@...    Date: Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:01 am ((PDT))
> Tubeway Army!  Now was Peel responsible for Mr Numan's success? I think we should be told. Mark
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