Arena (1975)

Today Carshalton Beeches... Tomorrow, Croydon (1981x4)

Air date: Jan 31, 1981

Arena investigates the grassroots of rock today with John Peel and John Walters. John Peel's radio show provides a unique platform for the thousands of groups who have been making music entirely outside the big business of the record industry. Tonight's programme does not begin in a 36-track recording studio in Los Angeles but in a bedroom in Carshalton Beeches, a tasteful suburb just outside Croydon. Featuring The Nightingales from Birmingham; The Liggers from Manchester; The Skids from Dunfermline; and introducing, from Carshalton Beeches, Move to India.