INFOMAN

FESTIVE THIRTY-ONE 1997

1 CORNERSHOP - Brimful of Asha (Short Version)

2 MOGWAI - New paths to Helicon

3 HELEN LOVE - Does your heart go boom?

4 PERIOD PAINS - Spice Girls, who do you think you are? (White label)

5 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - Lazy line painter Jane - with Monica Queen

6 Novak - Rapunzel

7 The Fall - Inch (White label)

8 Daft Punk - Rollin' and scratchin' (from Homework)

9 Clinic - IPC sub-editors dictate our youth

10 David Holmes - Don't die just yet (Arab Strap Mix)(White label)

11 Blur - Song 2

12 Belle And Sebastian - Dog on wheels

13 Hydroplane - We crossed the Atlantic

14 Stereolab and Nurse With Wound - Simple headphone mind

15 Bette Davis and the Balconettes - Shergar

16 Arab Strap - Hay fever (from The Girls Of Summer EP)

17 The Fall - I'm a Mummy (from Levitate)
(cover of Bob McFadden and Dor)

18 Spiritualized - Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space (Original Mix)
(from Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Promo)(Dedicated DEDCD 034P)

19 AC Acoustics - I Messiah am jailer

20 Stereolab - Fluorescences

21 Hitchers - Strachen (from It's All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye)

22 Bis - Sweet shop avengerz

23 Secret Goldfish - Dandelion milk summer (from E.K.O.K. EP)

24 Prolapse - Autocade

25 Dream City Film Club - If I die I die

26 Stereolab - Miss Modular

27 Delgados - Pull the wires from the wall (John Peel session, 1997/7/16 B)

28 Propellerheads - Velvet pants (from Spybreak CDS)

29 Hybirds - 17 (from Take You Down EP)

30 Prolapse - Slash/oblique (from The Italian Flag)

31 Angelica - Teenage girl crush (from Smile)

 

Possibly Bubbling Under
These were broadcast by John Peel on 23 December 1997, immediately before he bagan to broadcast the Festive 31. Some have suggested that they comprise the uncredited bottom 19 of the Fifty. This is unlikely, though I have listed them anyway.

32  Junior Reid - Mashing up the Earth (12" Version)

33 Stony Sleep - She had me

34 Ash - A life less ordinary

35 DJ Hype - Peace, love and unity

36 Blur - Beetlebum

37 Verve - Sonnet (from Urban Hymns)

38 Panacea - Stormbringer (from Low Profile Darkness)

39 Velodrome 2000 - Charity shopping

40 Vinyl Junkie - Can't forget

41 Idlewild - Chandelier

42 Cuff - Evaporate

43 Starkey Banton - Weeping and wailing (12" Version)

44 Suckle - Symposium

45 Ivor Cutler - Goosie (from A Wet Handle)

46 Underworld - Moaner (from Beaucoup Fish)
(played from Batman & Robin Soundtrack)

47 Cornershop - Sleep on the left side (Album Version)
(from When I Was Born For The 7th Time)

48 Pulp - Help the aged

49 Velocette - Get yourself together

50 Propellerheads - Take California

(all A-sides of singles except where stated, 1997)

 

Last updated 03 April, 2006