#special guest sunday: realindevelopment-returns

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The Cure - 10.15 Saturday Night 

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The Sugarcubes - Delicious Demon

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The Pogues - Sally MacLennane

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Joy Division - Sound Of Music

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

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Special Guest Sunday with @realindevelopment-returns

this is a bit of a tribute to bbc dj john Peel, but having grown up in Melbourne, Australia, it's a round-about trip to get there. our story starts with kylie minogue. i should be so bloody lucky era. she was everywhere, even the cover of the crappy magazine that came with my parents subscription to the car club.

so i made a vow to give up commercial radio and start listing to the 'alternative' stations in my town, 3RRR and 3PBS. i'd already dabbled with the clash, my local library had a 2-for-1 tape that i pretty much had on permanent loan and i'd memorised both 'the clash' and 'give em enough rope'. (or thought i had, turns out there were a lot of lyrics i'd totally misheard!). it was this first week of flicking between the two stations to find music that appealed to me that i came across indie pop, the primitives i think were the first band that grabbed me. pre internet so you just couldn't hear any song you wanted like now, it was weeks before I heard that song again. but finally i found my show, my music.

wednesday nights 7-10pm were 'new, used and abused' and the top 8 at 8 were my window to this new british sound. records hot off the plane, sometimes only a week old. and then one night, the dj lawrence hudson played that year's john peel festive 50. it was the one that had freakscene and for the first time i found out about this british dj John Peel.

there was a record shop in the next suburb over and it had a lot of imports and one of those was the new order peel session. the first of peel session records. i'd made friends with the dude 4 houses down since finding indie and i was as impressed by Julian's copy of Never Mind the Bollocks on vinyl as he was with my copy of Floodland by the Sisters of Mercy on cassette. he was big on swapping records, i can't remember what i swapped of mine but i ended up with his copy of New Order's Brotherhood. massively impressed by the album and the visual design, i quickly became a new order collector and indirectly, this influenced my later work in desk top publishing too.

so one day Julian drops around and he's like 'oh i bought this for you' and hands me that copy of the new order peel session. then he holds his hand out and said 'it was $15'. cheeky bastard, i paid him though.

but from there i got a real love of the peel session. i didn't buy a lot of them (as they were really expensive) until some cheaper cd reissues came out a few years later but once the internet blossomed into a file sharing phase it was fun to search for peel sessions, and now with the mighty youtube, it's even easier to listen to them. yay.

so here's my show, i hope you like it. a lot of it is influenced by that heady stage of finding 'my' music. i've tried to stick to one song per band but the fall get an extra pick (and maybe two indirect ones too) because of MES and co.'s legendary service. enjoy!

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AC⚡️DC - High Voltage

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Sonic Youth - Victoria

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The Sundays - My Finest Hour

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The Fall - Blindness

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Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards

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Galaxie 500 - Flowers

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Orange Juice - Falling and Laughing

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The Sisters Of Mercy - Floorshow

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New Order - Too Late

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The Wedding Present - Davni Chasy 

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