Thanks for this. I have 5 Hand's albums, but never heard these BBC recordings. I was lucky enough to see the band play at the Cambridge Folk Festival ('79 maybe?), and was even luckier to meet Dick Gaughan a few years later.
Yes the tracks are correctly labelled, though as you say, two of them are not those listed on the Peel Session of 1977 - and in fact the Paddy Fahey's Reel element of the second track was not mentioned either in the Peel listing. It would be extremely unusual for a band to have supplied two incorrect titles in a Peel Session to the BBC... but I did notice on the BBC Genome site that the band featured twice in 1977 on a Radio 3 programme called "Sounds Interesting". In the absence of any introductory comments then perhaps the Radio 3 show is the more likely source. Unless you have more details of the source of this recording?
Thanks for that. As I recall, these tracks were part of a tape trading circuit back in the days when such things existed, and the details were minimal (on the copy I got anyway). It may well have been assumption on someone's part that these were strictly Peel only. I don't think I'd even heard of the Sounds Interesting tracks before now. So you may well be right, but I'm not sure how to confirm it either!
Thanks for this. I have 5 Hand's albums, but never heard these BBC recordings. I was lucky enough to see the band play at the Cambridge Folk Festival ('79 maybe?), and was even luckier to meet Dick Gaughan a few years later.
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Yes the tracks are correctly labelled, though as you say, two of them are not those listed on the Peel Session of 1977 - and in fact the Paddy Fahey's Reel element of the second track was not mentioned either in the Peel listing. It would be extremely unusual for a band to have supplied two incorrect titles in a Peel Session to the BBC... but I did notice on the BBC Genome site that the band featured twice in 1977 on a Radio 3 programme called "Sounds Interesting". In the absence of any introductory comments then perhaps the Radio 3 show is the more likely source. Unless you have more details of the source of this recording?
Thanks for that. As I recall, these tracks were part of a tape trading circuit back in the days when such things existed, and the details were minimal (on the copy I got anyway). It may well have been assumption on someone's part that these were strictly Peel only. I don't think I'd even heard of the Sounds Interesting tracks before now. So you may well be right, but I'm not sure how to confirm it either!
'Sounds Interesting' was a record review show, as I understand it, Weathermeister - a Radio 3 'Roundtable'. There were no sessions for it.
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