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Chesterwick
Chesterwick
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Little bit of new info on radio sessions by Nick Drake
Apr 28, 2018, 20:39
I know there's a few fellow Drake aficionados out there so I thought I'd flag up these titbits of info (and there is no functioning Drake forum these days so here will have to suffice)

Including the now-released Peel session, it seems there were four, not two BBC Nightride appearances in total featuring Nick:

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?q=Nick+Drake#search
(scroll past the 00s stuff on the first page)

The 24th Sept 1969 listing is, I'm pretty sure, previously unknown but, to my mind at least, was most probably a repeat of the Peel session from the previous month(?)

The 6th April 1971 show is very interesting as it both confirms Ian Cameron's participation and is not the April 13th 1970 listing which I think this session was assumed to be all these years. So it looks as though Drake recorded at least three, not two, BBC sessions.

But, of course, it's with a heavy sigh that I know these confirmations don't bring the prospect of any of the tapes being discovered any closer; I guess it does, at least, flesh out the Drake story a little more - rather like the revelation of his Granada TV appearance from 1970 did a few years back.
Popel Vooje
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Edited Apr 29, 2018, 01:29
Re: Little bit of new info on radio sessions by Nick Drake
Apr 29, 2018, 01:26
There's a blogger who claims John Wood also mentioned a slot on BBC2 which - if it's correct - would mean that there was more than one tv appearance. Not sure how much credibility to give it though, seeing as Norton cuts it out!

https://www.burkinsblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/nick-drake-the-untold-story-part-1/
Chesterwick
Chesterwick
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Re: Little bit of new info on radio sessions by Nick Drake
Apr 30, 2018, 10:42
Thanks, Popel...got a security warning on that site, though, so didn't investigate!

John Wood has asserted somewhere that he thinks Nick did a BBC Late Night Line Up appearance in 1969 and Peter Paphides mentions it in his piece on Five Leaves Left in the Remembered For A While book. I think it's rather odd, myself; nobody else in Drake's circle seems to have confirmed that it happened.
Popel Vooje
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Re: Little bit of new info on radio sessions by Nick Drake
May 03, 2018, 14:18
Chesterwick wrote:
Thanks, Popel...got a security warning on that site, though, so didn't investigate!

John Wood has asserted somewhere that he thinks Nick did a BBC Late Night Line Up appearance in 1969 and Peter Paphides mentions it in his piece on Five Leaves Left in the Remembered For A While book. I think it's rather odd, myself; nobody else in Drake's circle seems to have confirmed that it happened.


Yes - I get that warning on my PC but not on my phone, so have deleted it and done a virus scan. It is the same programme you refer to, though, and John Wood does indeed seem to be the only person who's mentioned it, but you never know.
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