1994 PEEL SESSION
The 1994 session was recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studio 3 and originally aired
on John Peel’s BBC Radio One show in July of 1994. The four songs were
recorded to 24-track and then mixed to stereo on the same day. While a studio
version of “Crow” was released in October of 1994 on the band’s debut
album At Action Park, studio versions of “Canada”, “Disgrace”, and
“Spoke” would not appear on any Shellac albums until much later
(1998’s Terraform and 2007’s Excellent Italian Greyhound) – making the
1994 Peel Session recordings the only official recordings of these songs for
several years thereafter.
2004 PEEL SESSION
The 2004 Peel session is a “Live From Maida Vale” session recorded live to
stereo in front of a small audience at BBC Maida Vale Studio 4. It originally
aired in December of that same year. As with the 1994 session, this recording
includes songs that were previously unreleased and would not appear as album
versions until years later. (Album versions of “The End of Radio”, “Steady
As She Goes”, and “Paco” were released in 2007 on Excellent Italian
Greyhound.)