Boomtown Rats Peel sessions

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Boomtown Rats Peel sessions

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

I had Radio 6 play it for me

The Peel sessions versions are arguably better than the LP versions. Neon Heart is and also Living In An Island/DUN LAOGHAIRE.

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=48603&p=3&topicID=5549939

BTW Peel didn't drop the Rats, they dropped him.....

http://theboomtownrats.blogspot.com/2009/12/kats-karavan.html

"We keep getting sessions planned with them, new sessions for us which, for one reason or another, they don't seem to be able to do. Perhaps we've got one lined up for early in the new year, perhaps they'll do one. It would be very nice if they did anyway because, although they're famous and so on, it would still be nice to get a session out of them."

http://kingrockerrockson.blogspot.com/2010/07/boomtown-rats-peel-sessions-77-78.html

noelindublin · Loudmouth

I have no reason to disbelieve John Peel if he claims the Rats had promised to do another session. It would be good to ask Gary Roberts or Simon Crowe about this but I'd imagine Bob was calling the shots at that stage.

Maybe Geldof thought mainstream radio was the way to go- at that time they were almost guaranteed airplay so being on Peel might not have made much difference.

Of course a Peel session sort of meant you were cool. Didn't Geldof refer to JP as an ageing hippy in his autobiography and make some disparaging comment about Peels perfumed paradise, so there must have been some sort of row.

I don't have a copy of the gospel according to Bob and haven't read it for years but I think it better explains the situation with John Peel. Peel played loads of good music but a lot of it now looks a bit dated and tame. Well he did like Magazine and Wire and XTC but I've never really gotten New Order.

PS Why does spellcheck not recognise the word hippy!

-- Edited by noelindublin on Tuesday 19th of October 2010 02:16:14 PM

IrelandCalling · Never In A Million Years

I finally got the Peel Sessions (all 8 tracks) a few weeks ago and they are bloody good!

"Neon Heart" is wonderful, better than the album version, but all 8 tracks have something and are well worth listening to.

I wish there was more! I have most of the B-Sides, the Peel Sessions, some very good audio bootlegs; but wishn there was lots more - like plentiful outtakes from album sessions

noelindublin · Loudmouth

IrelandCalling wrote:

I finally got the Peel Sessions (all 8 tracks) a few weeks ago and they are bloody good!

"Neon Heart" is wonderful, better than the album version, but all 8 tracks have something and are well worth listening to.

I wish there was more! I have most of the B-Sides, the Peel Sessions, some very good audio bootlegs; but wishn there was lots more - like plentiful outtakes from album sessions

I think this must be the earliest recording of Neon Heart, live from Morans Hotel I think. Geldof seems to have a slight Jagger inflection in his vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8UKAS1KjrM

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

IrelandCalling wrote:
plentiful outtakes from album sessions

It would be interesting to hear what they recorded with Wainman (Surfacing) and Godley & Creme (V Deep) in the aborted sessions. However unless a kindly sound engineer has preserved them as was the case with the Dudgeon sessions, I doubt they will ever be heard. At Home & Away and the Virgin/Ensign demos must be owned by someone, but I haven't seen them on sale anywhere. And there aren't even that many bootlegs.

It's amazing there is so little available out there.

IrelandCalling · Never In A Million Years

I listened to the Peel Sessions again last night, it struck me 'Like Clockwork' is the same one as the YouTube clip I posted yesterday, where the uploader called it "Reggae Version" from Demo 8 Track

The whole Session is wonderful I think, all 8 songs just sound tremendous!