The John Cavanagh Tapes – Episode #1

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A few weeks ago my old friend the Scottish broadcaster, promoter, documentarist (you name it, he's done it) John Cavanagh – see links below to his current / recent work - were having an email chat about something else entirely different, when he dropped in a mention in passing of his taping of Peel shows as a pre-pubescent in the seventies and how he'd recently been listening to some of them again. I nearly fell off my chair. How on earth could we have been acquaintances and shared several professional enthusiasms – including Peel - for over 20 years, and never in all that time discussed his off-air tape collection? Anyway, John went back to his tapes and a couple of weeks ago presented me with a first batch (yes, that's right, he says there are maybe a few more to come!) of some 9 complete shows from 75-77, plus 3 or 4 other short fragments, and according to my analysis, six of these shows have not previously popped up anywhere (the 3 that have – 1975/11/18, 1975/12/08, and 1975/12/09 - are so close in detail to the familiar versions in the torrents that I have a strong suspicion that John's tapes may be the original source of these, dating to a tape sharing network he contributed these to years ago).

Anyway, here's the first discovery of those six, John Peel's show dedicated to his Top 15 singles of 1975. Enjoy. Oh, and it gets even better next week


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PS. I am trying to put these on the mooo server, but using Filezilla on my Mac does not reveal all my folders, and those that do appear do not have drop-down arrows to enable me to open them. Can any Mac users explain the simple mistake I must be making?

Peel 1975-12-19 (1 hour)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E96CPUS2

John Cavanagh:
http://www.phosphene.debrett.net/soundwave.htm
http://www.radiosix.com/  (and click on `programmes')
http://www.myspace.com/phosphene_soundwave
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/11_november/12/derbyshire.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtzdcLGWyCQ