[peel] Re: 400 Box (1 more)

[RobF]

New Order 1982 - 1998 (16 Years)

On 21 July 2011 15:03, so_it_goes_2512 <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:

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> > (Seems like a typo and the Undertones might be a bit higher up the list,
> Ken).
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> Yes, Steve, the longest gap was discussed around the time Ken's book came
> out, I seem to remember, and Culture  were left out, thus making the list,
> from my own feeble calculations:
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>    1. Incredible String Band (27 years)
>    2. Faust (26 years)
>    3. Gary Numan (21 years)
>    4. Undertones (20.5 years)
>    5. Wire (14 years)
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>       6=.  Culture (13.5 years)
>       6=.  Pastels (13.5 years)
>       8.     June Tabor (13 years)
>       9.     Pulp (11.5 years)
>    10.    Orbital (11 years)
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> But I'm sure there was at least one other that I can't remember, and surely
> David Henderson earns an honorable mention for the 12 years between his last
> appearance with the Fire Engines (1981) and his first with Nectarine No. 9
> (1993). And Peel, in one of his BFBS shows claimed a record for El Hombre
> Trajeado doing three sessions in the same year (1998): actually, it was only
> two as Ken states, that record going to Microdisney (1984).
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> Steve (TK)
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