Which are John Peel's 140 fave albums?

I bought "Sipple up deh" off ebay, and it just came from JA.

"Revolution Dub" is the same as "Sipple Dub" off the box "Rare Dub" as mentioned. Except my single is scratchy/crackly like a mother.

anyhoo, Peel's Birthday today. which calls for presents.

094, the Spitout single has been found by an anonymous somebody and is available from the usual place. (currently it's a 3 track m4a but i've sent him a version of it split into mp3s so you may want to wait a while until that's up). (it's very noisy)

also, 008 Arthur K Adams has also been found (Speed Limit Records - http://speedlimit45rpm.com/) and will be available shortly.

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/photos/wildwood.png

5 new tracks in the last 3 days, woot. at this rate, and with 10 left to find, we'll be finished next week 8)

(oh, and, as someone said way above, i think the other side of the Electro Hippies track is You Suffer by Napalm Death:

http://www.discogs.com/release/367419
was mentioned in Guardian a week or so ago as shortest single)

Also well done Mark for going to the SOURCE.

6 music playing them throughout the day. O Superman and Bucky Skank so far...

^ impt questions

Yesterday was 7 years since he died. As MES said, "He's gone and you see all these bastards walking around..."

Now this is a coincidence..

I got a 'facebook friend' request for Thomas Ravenscroft, and remembered I'd mailed him about the unknown disc, "Groovy" by Dreamland express. He mailed me back saying he'd record it for me, but it never happened.

So anyway, I tried tracking down "Tickey Dopies" yesterday, and found that Eric Idle played it as part of his comedy radio show "Radio 5". Apparently, it's downloadable as "torrent".

"Series 1, episode 2" if you are interested.

that's great news, in fact the only news for several years.

am listening now. is partial, about 70 seconds worth... a fantastic 70 seconds though.

http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/John_Peel's_Record_Box

Some good updates (e.g. Nilsson, the suggestion that it's actually one e.p. not three singles)

Great site, thanks!!

ok, according to the peel yahoo group email list thing a couple of tracks have turned up on the shared shows that everyone's been posting (they bought hundreds of tapes off ebay and have been digitising them gradually) we are down to the following:

(list taken from (defunct?) http://my.opera.com/JohnPeelsRecordBox/blog/ and updated with the sipho bhengu (1992-03-14) and fireman (1992-09-25) a-sides)

A-Sides:
027 Dreamland Express - Groovy

B-Sides:
027 Dreamland Express - u.f.o
090 Sipho Bhengu - I saluti

http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/29_September_1978

This also has "Ticky Dopies", and also this was the show that played the whole of "That's Life" the first (only?) punk "concept" "rock opera" album, Sham 69.

Which means I have heard this before...

"Dreamland Express" is not "Dream Express", a euro-disco outfit from 1974 or thereabouts.

We Shall Never Know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-asHmCt-is

John Plays "Tickey Dopies"

Hello folks.

I am just about finished with this project.

Let's summarise what I don't have (or you might not have)

27. Dreamland Express - Groovy + u.f.o (EMI) - This I have had no luck on finding, but I have found some possible leads as to who they were....
32 Electro Hippies - Mega-armageddon Death (Peel session) - This is a Strange Fruit promo, it has "You Sexy Thing" by Cud on the other side!
34 Firemen - Old Smokie / Louie's theme - This I have got via ebay, might take a month to get here.
70 Nice - The thoughts of Emerlist Davjack (IMMEDIATE) - This is a one sided promo, with JPeel commantary. I do have this from a broadcast, with latter day Peel talking over it.
86 Sasha Caro - Grade 3 section 2 + Little maid's song (DECCA) 1967 - I lost out on ebay last week, this is somewhat pricey and hard to find. The side 2 here is anthologised, not found side 1.
90. Sipho Bhengu - Tickey dopies + I saluti (INKONKONI) 1971 - Found it!
141. Yami Bolo - Richer than Cory (JAMAICA INTERNATIONAL) - On its way.

Note that the three Nilsson singles are actually just one record, a "hits" e.p. with three tracks on it.

Yeah, possibly no-one's interested but hey.

(i would love a good copy of the sipho bengu.)

pm me, can sort it.

Is the Nilsson EP thing confirmed as existing? It's not apparently on Discogs. I have an EP of Without You but the tracklisting is different (and it's also not on Discogs).

http://www.discogs.com/Nilsson-Without-You/release/778212

(have eventually sent email, mark. was waiting until i was back in front of proper computer)

look now.

Just found my "Pop a top" b-side "The Lion Speaks" Rico, cuts at one minute in.

Does anyone have the full version?

probably, somewhere.

those sipho bhengu tracks are both from a compilation mentioned here: http://electricjive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/thala-thala-1971.html

Yes, I think that's where I got the tracks from.

http://danger-man.co.uk/rickminas.asp

I can't try it here, but it seems to be a link to the Sasha Caro tracks...

Yes, links are live. I think we had at least one of those before.

Well, that's the lot either accounted for or on its way!

Except for Dreamland Express...

Aside from the Dreamland Express tracks and the Firemen, "Old Smokie", I know have an mp3 of everything on the list.

Mark G, were you able to track down Firemen, "Old Smokie"?

Yes I did. I actually managed to get a decent copy off Ebay.

Funny, this is the single that JP managed to destroy by dropping it down the back of a fridge, or some such, and all he could do was to ask his listeners to track him down a new one.

So, drop me a line..

He never did, you know..

What's the deal with Dreamland Express? Any leads on whether it's real or just a total mystery?

I found a gig flyer with Fairport Convention and Dreamland Express, but more than that, no.

...which also had John Peel on the bill, right?

http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/middleearth3sep67.jpg

One of these days, I'll get Tom Ravenscroft back on the case...

Hi all,
My Covid lockdown project has been John Peel's record box. I've come pretty close to getting them all. I need I'm not Drinking More - Al Ferrier and Ticky Dopies/ I Saluti - Sipho Bhengu, and , of course, Dreamland Express - I think I saw somewhere that John Peel may have played the Dreamland Express tunes on his show. Is that true? Mark G, I see from a post about 5 years ago that you got hold of the Sipho Bhengu. I would dearly love to have copies of these tracks (and the rest of the Thala Thala compilation album)

If Mark G or anyone else can help me with these last few tunes that would be great. Does anyone else need any from the list?

Just sent you a Webmail with a link to the Al Ferrier song.

And..

city worker - thank you so much. I had kind of resigned myself to failure, or at the very least a long long wait to find that. Do you have any gaps in your collection? Who knows, I moght have something you're after. You're welocme to any music I have.

Mark G, Hi. Did you send a weblink as well? It hasn't come through to me....
I have to say, I'm amazed and delighted to get these responses.

Hi,

Not as yet, but.

Listening to Peel's intro to a 1973 Be Bop Deluxe session and it's striking how different his on-air voice is from later years. He's even more lugubrious and deep-voiced in 1973. Anyone know if the change was intentional or just something that gradually happened?

He definitely tried his hardest to distance himself from his fluty-voiced public school hippy persona of the late 60s, I didn't know he was doing it as early as '73 though.

I think Marc Bolan broke his hippy heart tbh.

coulda been bowie