The single got negative reviews but was played on John Peel's radio show.
From 1982 to 1985, he produced an occasional survey of new American pop and experimental music for the BBC that was broadcast as part of “The John Peel Show” in the UK.
In some markets, including the UK, the album was released with a cover photograph that featured dolls of Hendrix, Brian Jones, Bob Dylan and British DJ John Peel, an early supporter of Hendrix.
She was described by John Peel as "the best lady singer-songwriter in the country".
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Bridget St John (born Bridget Hobbs, 4 October 1946, South London) is a British singer and songwriter, best known for the three albums she recorded between 1969 and 1972 for John Peel's Dandelion label.
One critic described the service as being similar to a John Peel show except that it ran all night.
The band recorded a John Peel session on 17 October 1984 ("Cut The Dust", "Sedative Ends", "No. 3 Sound", "Mother Tongues").
Cyderdelic was narrated by John Peel and starred Barry Castagnola (Beetle), Marc Wootton (Su Long), Liam Woodman (Frogger), and followed the trio over two months as they traveled from the May Day demonstrations to the sunrise celebrations at Stonehenge.
Hayman first made a name for himself as the lead singer and main songwriter in UK indie rock band Hefner, who were big favourites of the late John Peel.
The shows concept of a non genre, non decade specific show, was sparked by the fond memory of DB growing up listing to the late John Peel in London.
The highly influential British DJ John Peel played the LP - then only available there on import - regularly on the BBC; it subsequently came second in a reader's poll held by Britain's leading music paper Melody Maker.
His music has been broadcast by famous British DJs John Peel, Mary Anne Hobbs and Karl Hyde of Underworld, and he has toured in places like Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, UK, Spain, Turkey and China.
Lab 4 were regularly played on Radio 1 by John Peel who also invited Lab 4 to launch their third album Virus on one of his 'John Peel Session' at Maida Vale.
Songs on the album are a compilation of the group's singles from the previous three years ("Paris Maquis", "Hystérie connective" and "Panik") and John Peel BBC Radio 1 session recordings.
John Peel played some tracks off this white label and the record went on to become a small cult-classic prompting NME to refer to Winer as The Grandmother of Triphop.
Following a successful demo in 1987, We Need Therapy, the band were picked up by London based label, Vinyl Solution, and set about recording a raw album which eventually gained exposure via the John Peel Radio 1 programme alongside emerging bands like Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror.
He also has a long broadcasting career which includes contributions to BBC Radio 1 as stand-ins for David "Kid" Jensen and John Peel.
The demo recording of "His Guiding Hand" was released as a single, Peel describing it as "the cheapest single ever made and one of the classic records of all time" and keeping the single in his box of most treasured records.
(Aside from the first John Peel Session, the band were on A&M Records when all the featured sessions were recorded, but A&M have since been taken over by Universal Music Group; hence this release.)
Primitive Origins, an EP by Prong, features songs like "In My Veins" which was later re-recorded during a session with John Peel (BBC).
It was released on cassette only, and features a sample of DJ John Peel before the first track suggesting they use Psylons Is Golden as the name of the album.
This cover version, though not released as a single, entered John Peel's Festive Fifty at number 15 in 1979 and continued to feature through to 1982.
When he heard John Peel play "Flag Day" on the radio, he wrote to the Housemartins to ask them if they would play in Norfolk.
The latter track formed part of the band's sole session for John Peel's radio show, and on this track Brennan assumed lead vocal duties.
After playing Teenage Kicks on BBC national radio John Peel then became a big supporter of the Good Vibrations record label.
The track "Long Distance Love" was placed at number 26 in John Peel's 1976 "Festive Fifty".
A promising early career was marked by recording, touring with The Human League in UK and Europe, leading to some John Peel sessions.
In 2011, Wani's song Hujan was selected to be played throughout the month of May on Dandelion Radio, an internet radio station founded in June 2006 with the aim of pursuing the musical legacy of the popular and influential BBC Radio 1 disk jockey John Peel.
The first studio recorded version was aired on 1 June, 1982, during John Peel's radio show.
XOL DOG 400 also recorded a John Peel session for Peel's Radio show on BBC 1 and was also the only German act to play at the 1998 Meltdown Festival in London hosted by John Peel.
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The 'Peel Session' version was also voted into #10 place in John Peel's 1990 Festive Fifty.
After two EPs released on their own Wisdom label won airplay on John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show, and enthusiastic reviews in New Musical Express, Sounds and Melody Maker, they were signed by Demon Records offshoot F-Beat, for whom they released 2 albums, 1991's Boat and 1993's Smothered.
Obojeni Program were one of the first Yugoslav bands to have a video played on MTV's 120 Minutes and they were also on John Peel's tracklistings in year 2002.
In 1989 they toured the UK and, on 5 September recorded a session for the John Peel show on BBC radio.
The occasional interviews on the main show have included the actors Colin Baker, Deborah Watling, Jules Burt and Eugene Washington, music composers Murray Gold and Mark Ayres and writers John Peel, Steven Moffat, Tom MacRae and Paul Cornell.
This exhibition was a tribute to the D.J. John Peel and consisted of more than 60 artists including Jessica Voorsanger, Sarah Doyle and Cathy Lomax all of whom had made work relating to a band or singer that John Peel had discovered or championed.
In 2005, Stephens gained a national slot when he became one of the replacements for the late John Peel as part of the station's One Music strand, which was intended to keep the spirit of Peel's show going with DJs Rob da Bank and Ras Kwame.
BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel stated in a 1993 interview that it was one of his top 20 favorite albums.
"Rawlinson End", the longest track on any Bonzos album, features the first appearance of Vivian Stanshall's character Sir Henry Rawlinson, whose exploits would later be documented as a series of BBC Radio 1 sessions for the John Peel show; a 1978 LP and 1984 semi-sequel; a 1980 film and book; and who would make a final cameo appearance in a 1994 commercial for Ruddles Real Ale.
During this time John Peel became a Lotuspool fan; Zoom and Panel Donor were signed to larger labels; Lotuspool became one of the first 10 labels on the internet as they joined the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA); Lotuspool was pursued for acquisition by three major labels; and the Lotuspool ownership struck up an alliance with James Grauerholz and the author William S. Burroughs.
The b-side "Goethe's Letter to Vic Chesnutt" was not written by typical Hefner songwriter Darren Hayman, but, according to Hayman, a "guy called Mathew who I no longer keep contact with. He was in this band called the New Bad Things who are most famous for a song called 'I suck' which John Peel played every night for about four years."
Although supported with airplay from BBC Radio 1's John Peel amongst others, the album was generally considered a disappointment by many fans.
Their second single "Why?" earned a regular spot on John Peel's radio show in early 1996, and was voted into number nine on that year's Festive Fifty.
She recorded the track "Lou" (about Lou Reed) as a guest lead vocalist with the band for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel's Peel Sessions and often performed the song live with them from mid-1977 up to May 1978 when she left the band.
Metal Box is represented with 10 of its 12 tracks, four of them are in different versions, three of these in a BBC John Peel session and the remaining track, "Swan Lake", in the form of its 12" remix as "Death Disco". The "Death Disco" B-sides "No Birds Do Sing" and "1/2 Mix"/"Megga Mix" are also included along with "Memories" B-side "Another".
Recorded by John Peel, "In a Broken Dream" and several other songs sung by Stewart remained unreleased until 1970 when Miki Dallon re-produced the track for his Youngblood label and released it.
Listening to John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in the late 1980s, Begg was introduced to early Chicago acid and bands like Warp's LFO, Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads and Negativland.
The BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel described "Where's Captain Kirk?" as... "the best Star Trek associated song".
Highlights include the band's performance at the 1991 Reading Festival and a brief interview with the late John Peel, and the band's 1992 appearance at the Glastonbury Festival when singer Damon Albarn lunges into a PA speaker which falls on his foot and severely injures him.
Susan reappears in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Legacy of the Daleks by John Peel, which takes place after the events of The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
From Birmingham, they recorded two albums for Harvest Records, had one track, "Maybe My Mind (With Egg)", included on the Harvest sampler Picnic - A Breath of Fresh Air, toured Britain with Bakerloo (Blues Line) and were guests on John Peel's BBC radio programme.
The album brings together the tracks from the July 1989 EP of Tubeway Army's 10 January 1979 and Numan's 29 May 1979 sessions for disc jockey John Peel's show and three tracks broadcast by BBC Radio 1 from the Year of the Child concert held at Wembley Arena on 30 November 1979.
This was heard and liked by the BBC's John Peel who invited the band across the Irish Sea to do a session for his famous radio program, the Peel Sessions.
In March 1974 the John Peel BBC radio show broadcast four songs from the 19 February 1974 performance - "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch", "Totalled", "Baby's on Fire" and a cover version of "Fever".
A different version recorded for the John Peel Show on BBC Radio One is featured on the compilation album Hatful of Hollow.