18 August 1999

[Andrew]

I've just had a quick look through the book's show list and couldn't find  a reference to the time when his wife was seriously ill - maybe this was it? anyhow, will dig out the following week's shows to see if anything mentioned.

Cheers
Andrew

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "so_it_goes_2512" <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
>
> > Reading through my diary for 1999 at the weekend, I came across this strange bit of info for Wednesday 18 August 1999 - "Listened to Peel but
> > it was a taped repeat of a show from 3 weeks ago." According to Ken's book, nothing out of the ordinary is mentioned. The session guests were the Flaming Lips (repeat). Any ideas what happened? Or did I imagine it?
> 
> Hi Doc, no you did not. Somebody (not me) has already noted this fact on the 1999 Wiki page, and also that the following night (the 19th) was presented by Steve Lamacq. I double-checked by counting forward to the next available show containing a Peelenium and (given the fact that 31 August was a birthday special) 01 September indeed contains the expected 1944 choice.
> 
> As to why, I noted when I was writing up the 18 August show that Peel was very tired due to eye laser surgery, so he was more than likely off sick.
> 
> Best wishes
> Steve (TK)
>