BBC Radio 1 is to pay tribute to the late John Peel with a night of live music from the Maida Vale studios where the DJ's legendary Peel Sessions programmes were recorded.

Steve Lamacq will host John Peel Night on Thursday December 16, kicking off at 7pm with a one-hour documentary celebrating the influential broadcaster's career and life.

The documentary, Teenage Dreams So Hard to Beat, takes its title from Peel's favourite song, The Undertones' Teenage Kicks, and the band is among those paying tribute in the documentary.

Other musicians whose lives and careers were changed by Peel contribute to the documentary, including Orbital, The Cure, New Order, Supergrass, Robert Plant, Underworld, Siouxsie Sioux and The Buzzcocks.

Following the screening of the documentary, every studio at Maida Vale will be taken over as many of the bands Peel championed perform and talk about the man and the music he liked.

There will be live music from Underworld, The Wedding Present, Melys, Steveless, Trencher, Hefner, Stuart Murdoch, Graham Coxon and Nina Nastasia with other bands to be confirmed.

Between 11.30pm and 1am, DJs will take over with sets by Dynamite MC, Alex Patterson, Dave Clarke, Hixxy and Coldcut.

Lamacq said: "Many of the bands and DJs who are coming down are part of Peel's extended musical family - and everyone's been terrifically helpful and enthusiastic in organising the show.

"I'll be anchoring the night but there will be guest DJs crashing the decks and people wandering in and out. We want it to be pretty spontaneous in honour of the great man."

Peel died last month, aged 65, while on holiday in Peru.