
Category: Radio Sessions


Dead Can Dance In Session – 1983 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Dead Can Dance – In Session for John Peel – November 19, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Starting off the week with Dead Can Dance and their first session for John Peel, recorded on November 19, 1983 and broadcast on November 26th. Along with The Cocteau Twins, Dead Can

The March Violets In Session – 1984 – Past Daily Soundbooth
The March Violets – in session for John Peel – June 12, 1984 – Broadcast, June 19m 1984 – BBC Radio 1 – The March Violets tonight. One of the Post-Punk bands from Leeds in the UK who pioneered Goth and were closely associated to another Goth/Post-Punk band, Sisters Of

Artery In Session – 1982 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Artery – in session for John Peel – January 30, 1982- Broadcast February 15, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Artery in session for John Peel tonight. If we had the Internet in 1980, and we were able to have the kind of access to bands now that we didn’t

Th’ Faith Healers In Session 1991 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Th’ Faith Healers – in session for John Peel – March 24, 1991 – broadcast, April 27, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Th’Faith Healers to end the week. The more I comb through albums and sessions from the 90s, the more it becomes glowingly apparent it was a decade

The Lucys In Session – 1981 – Past Daily Soundbooth
The Lucys – in session for John Peel – March 3, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – The Lucys in session for John Peel to end the week. Not that I’ve been purposely focusing on bands that had a brief flourish and then vanished, but truths to tell, there’s a

The Frames In Session – 1981 – Past Daily Soundbooth
The Frames – in session for John Peel – February 24, 1981 – Broadcast March 2, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – The Frames tonight – a band who only released one single and had two other songs issued as part of a compilation album. The Frames were a four-piece

The Charlatans In Session – 1990 – Past Daily Soundbooth
The Charlatans – in session for John Peel – March 20, 1990 – BBC Radio 1 – The Charlatans – perennial favorites tonight. And while we’re celebrating Manchester and all things Mancunian, The Charlatans were one of the first bands in that wave of Alternative/Indie/New-Psych known as Madchester. And

Wire In Session – 2011 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Wire – in Session for Marc Riley – November 21, 2011 – BBC 6 Music – Wire to end the week. I call Wire Musical Comfort Food – they are an emotional go-to band. Listening to them has always been a battery charge – a sign that everything’s okay. Life

Rory Gallagher In Session – 1973 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Rory Gallagher – John Peel Session for Top Gear – February 5, 1973 – Broadcast February 8, 1973 – BBC Radio 1 – Rory Gallagher in session for John Peel tonight. A lot of fond memories associated with Rory Gallagher. In the early 70s he seemed to be in an