Hefner at the BBC

Peel sessions proper

Peel 1

TX 13 Oct 98

The Science Fiction

I Stole a Bride

You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone (Beach Boys song)

Lisa and Me

Recorded 29 Sep 98

You Need a Mess of Help… appeared on the CD single of The Hymn for the Cigarettes, and The Science Fiction appeared on Boxing Hefner.

Peel 2 (Gospel)

TX 3 Mar 99, 17 Jun 99

Nobody Knows

Dragnet for Jesus

He Got Better Things For You

Turkle Dove

Recorded 17 Jan 99

These songs were released as Revelations!

Peel 3

TX 28 Mar 00

Milkmaids

Kate Cleaver’s House

Don’t Give Up On Us Baby (David Soul song)

TX 12 Apr 00 (accidentally omitted on 28 Mar)

Everything is Falling Apart

Recorded 16 Feb 00

These songs were released on the two CD singles of The Greedy Ugly People.

Peel 4

TX 16 Jan 01, 11 Apr 01

The King of Summer

Peppermint Taste

Can’t Help Losing You

The Nights Are Long

Recorded 29 Nov 00

Peel 5

TX 11 Dec 01

Gabriel in the Airport

New French Tits

The Pines

Anne and Bill

Recorded 29 Nov 00

Three of these songs were later recorded by Darren and John's new band The French.

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Live sets broadcast on the John Peel show

Live in Newcastle (Sound City)

TX 28 Oct 98

The Hymn for the Alcohol

Pull Yourself Together

May God Protect Your Home

The Hymn for the Postal Service

Christian Girls

Live at Peel Acres

TX 12 Aug 99

We Love the City

Hold Me Closer Tonight

Down Street

Seafarer (now Seafaring)

Good Fruit

Live in Liverpool (Sound City)

25 Oct 99

We Love the City

Hello Kitten

The Hymn for the Alcohol

Blind Girl with Halo

Twisting Mary’s Arm

Live in Groningen, Holland

TX 11 Jan 00, rec 8 Jan 00

Hello Kitten

The Sad Witch

The Greedy Ugly People

The Librarian

The Hymn for the Alcohol

Don’t Flake Out on Me

Painting and Kissing

The Hymn for the Coffee

The Sweetness Lies Within

Twisting Mary’s Arm

Live at BBC Maida Vale

TX 23 Aug 00

Your Head to Your Toes

The Greater London Radio

Don’t Flake Out on Me

Good Fruit

The Greedy Ugly People

The Cure for Evil

Don’t Go

She Can’t Sleep No More

The Day that Thatcher Dies

The Sad Witch

GUP, Cure, She Can't Sleep and Thatcher were released on the bonus EP with the limited edition of We Love The City. The whole set was released as Maida Vale

Live in Birmingham (One Live)

TX 1 Nov 01

The Nights are Long

Don’t Go

Pull Yourself Together

The Hymn for the Alcohol

Alan Bean

China Crisis

The Greater London Radio

Painting and Kissing

I Stole a Bride

The Sad Witch

I Love Only You

The Hymn for the Cigarettes

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Peel oddities

Festive 50 special

TX 19 Dec 00

The Hymn for the Alcohol

Recorded 13 Dec 00

Christmas carol concert from Maida Vale

TX 8 Dec 99

Lonely this Christmas (Mud song)

Keeping It Peel

TX 16 Dec 04

The Librarian

Hymn for the Alcohol

RIP John Peel

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Steve Lamacq sessions

Lamacq 1

sometime in 1998

Twisting Mary’s Arm

Tactile

May God Protect Your Home

The Librarian

Twisting… later appeared on Boxing Hefner. Thanks to Darren Hayman for filling in the names of the other tracks for me.

Lamacq 2

TX 12? Apr 99, 7-10 Jun 99

Hymn for the Things We Didn’t Do

To Hide a Little Thought

The Weight of the Stars

Every Little Gesture

…Things We Didn’t Do and To Hide a Little Thought later appeared on Boxing Hefner

Lamacq Live acoustic

TX 16 Oct 00

Don't Go

Pull Yourself Together

The Greedy Ugly People

The Nights are Long

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Hefner at the other radio stations

Hefner have also done about four sessions for GLR, one for VPRO in the Netherlands, and a "Black Session" in France.

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