13 Sept 1983

[Darren Giddings]

I've just uploaded an hour and a half from the above show, of which a  
good quality hour already exists. I wonder what went on there, in a  
sea of unrecorded shows, suddenly I and A.N.Other randomly record and  
keep chunks of exactly the same show?

I haven't looked in detail at the cross-over, but a cursory glance  
suggests that my tape starts about 4 minutes earlier (still not the  
start of the show), includes a Dyke and the Blazes track between  
Serious Drinking and the Fall, and another ten minutes or so after  
Xmal Deutschland. It goes a bit wobbly at the first tape end (the  
Undertones track), but such is the joy of those "5 for a pound"  
cassettes you used to be able to get in garages ... I suppose I'm  
lucky it still plays at all.

I've learned from previous posts and the new one can be found on  
Megaupload rather than Fileserve:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7MGDF5C6  (hope it works)

Hearing Tools You Can Trust again reminded me that I have all their  
sessions taped if anyone is interested? This was the show that got me  
into them, and I even corresponded with them for a little while, awe- 
struck teen that I was back then. Peel seemed quite into them, until  
that Whistle Test feature on 'making a Peel session' which rather  
unfairly portrayed them as  shambolic chancers, after which there  
were no more sessions, and I don't think I even heard another of  
their records played on the show, though they subsequently did two  
excellent LPs, a 12" and a VHS video ....

Darrg