The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983 (Remastered) Echo & The Bunnymen

• 1 Read It In Books (John Peel Session) 02:29
• 2 Stars Are Stars (John Peel Session) 03:06
• 3 I Bagsy Yours (John Peel Session) 02:53
• 4 Villiers Terrace (John Peel Session) 04:14
• 5 The Pictures On My Wall (John Peel Session) 03:06
• 6 All That Jazz (John Peel Session) 02:54
• 7 Over The Wall (John Peel Session) 04:49
• 8 All My Colours (John Peel Session) 04:27
• 9 That Golden Smile (John Peel Session) 04:26
• 10 Heaven Up Here (John Peel Session) 04:45
• 11 Turquoise Days (John Peel Session) 03:57
• 12 Taking Advantage (John Peel Session) 04:16
• 13 An Equation (John Peel Session) 03:49
• 14 No Hands (John Peel Session) 03:11
• 15 Silver (John Peel Session) 03:49
• 16 Seven Seas (John Peel Session) 03:59
• 17 The Killing Moon (John Peel Session) 03:37
• 18 Nocturnal Me (John Peel Session) 04:14
• 19 Watch Out Below (John Peel Session) 02:48
• 20 Ocean Rain (John Peel Session) 03:49
• 21 My Kingdom (John Peel Session) 03:59
• Total Runtime 01:18:37

Info for The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983 (Remastered)

Echo & The Bunnymen have collected their Peel Sessions recordings from 1979 through 1983 and will be releasing them in the U.K. on September 6th. The session tracks were recorded for The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1 and have been released on a limited basis over the years. This is the first time to collect all of the Peel Sessions from the golden formative era of The Bunnymen.

The post-punk were not alone in attributing success to Peel, whose regular Radio 1 sessions often provided the first major national coverage to bands that would later achieve great notoriety.

Significantly, this collection of 21 tracks are from the very beginning of the bands existence. With little money, the band used them to demo new material. Many of the songs were written due to the fact a Peel session had been booked, not because the show loved the new songs - demonstrating the level of trust, confidence and love they had for the band.According to Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant, these recordings could quite simply be some of the most significant in the bands career - “Without John Peel sessions, Echo And The Bunnymen in my opinion, would not exist! It’s that simple. The band got so much support from him and John Walters (Peel’s producer). Recording a Peel session was essential to the development of our songwriting skills while at the same time giving us amazing exposure and self-belief.”

Echo & The Bunnymen:
Ian McCulloch, vocals
Will Sergeant, guitar
Les Pattinson, bass
Pete De Freitas, drums

Digitally remastered

Echo & The Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine. By 1980, Pete de Freitas had joined as the band's drummer, and their debut album, Crocodiles, met with critical acclaim and made the UK Top 20. Their second album, Heaven Up Here (1981), again found favour with the critics and reached number 10 in the UK Album chart. The band's cult status was followed by mainstream success in the mid-1980s, as they scored a UK Top 10 hit with "The Cutter", and the attendant album, Porcupine (1983), reached number 2 in the UK. Their next release, Ocean Rain (1984), continued the band's UK chart success, and has since been regarded as their landmark release, spawning the hit singles "The Killing Moon", "Silver" and "Seven Seas". One more studio album, Echo & the Bunnymen (1987), was released before McCulloch left the band to pursue a solo career in 1988. The following year, de Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident, and the band re-emerged with a new line-up. Original members Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson were joined by Noel Burke as lead singer, Damon Reece on drums and Jake Brockman on keyboards. This new incarnation of the band released Reverberation in 1990, but the disappointing critical and commercial reaction it received culminated with a complete split in 1993.

After working together as Electrafixion, McCulloch and Sergeant regrouped with Pattinson in 1997 and returned as Echo & the Bunnymen with the UK Top 10 hit "Nothing Lasts Forever". An album of new material, Evergreen, was greeted enthusiastically by critics and the band made a successful return to the live arena. Though Pattinson left the group for a second time, McCulloch and Sergeant have continued to issue new material as Echo & the Bunnymen, including the albums What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? (1999), Flowers (2001), Siberia (2005) and The Fountain (2009). ...

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