12 August 1985

[Darren Giddings]

Here's another fragment - the first hour of a 1985 show which I think  
currently only exists as an AM version and with the first couple of  
minutes missing. This one is FM stereo and has the beginning of the  
show intact:

http://www.fileserve.com/file/8WHKZUk

Normal Fileserve apologies are offered.

The tape went a bit wobbly during the Cure track but I think I have  
fixed it from there on in.

Peel opens the show by apologising for missing the previous Wednesday  
show on a "matter of principle" - I wonder what that was all about?  
As he also says he is sorry to have missed Wednesday's Cure session,  
I guess he is talking about the show which in the end was hosted by  
Pete Drummond, to the bewilderment of listeners like me who were far  
from prepared for Pete's 'Smashie & Nicey' delivery. Somewhere I have  
a tape I made at the time of the Cure session tracks with Drummond's  
"idiosyncratic" intros.

Darrg