Echo & The Bunnymen – The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983 (Remastered) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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.”

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