Belle & Sebastian

BBC Maida Vale studios
London
UK

18th December 2002


Broadcast live on John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show


2002: Sony FM tuner > line out > Sony MDS-JE530 > minidisc master
2010: minidisc master > Sony MDS-JE530 > optical out > Edirol UA-1D > wav > CDWave (tracking) > TLH (FLAC, checksum)


01 DJ intro
02 Oh Come All Ye Faithful (with audience choir)
03 DJ chat
04 Christmas Time [Sonics]
05 Santa Claus
06 Step Into My Office, Baby
07 Jonathan David
08 Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto [James Brown]
09 Photo Jenny
10 Silent Night (with audience choir)
11 instructions to audience
12 Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem (with audience choir)
13 Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me [Elvis Presley]
14 If You Find Yourself Caught In Love
15 The Boy With The Arab Strap
16 Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel (with Tracyanne Campbell from Camera Obscura)
17 Get My Away From Here, I'm Dying
18 chat
19 I Took Some Time For Christmas
20 Twelve Days Of Christmas (with audience choir)


Broadcast in several segments during a 2-hour radio show: 01+02, 03 to 09, 10, 11+12, 13 to 19, 20

If you're looking for perfectly-played versions of B&S songs, this is not for you.
If you're after moments of endearing sloppiness, coupled with everyone involved sounding like they're having a thoroughly great time, this is for you.

I make no apologies for having left in some of the band's interactions with John Peel, and a number of Peel's comments at the end of songs, and Peel's impression of a mating fox at the end.


RIP John Peel

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