From A.Bruderer@... Mon Aug 2 14:22:55 1999 From: A.Bruderer@... (Adam Bruderer) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:22:55 +0100 Subject: "All Tomorrow's Parties" - FREE PROGRAMME Message-ID: <76369.93.368.959309995@...> Oi!!! What happened to the Cuban Boys tape?? On 29 Jul 99, at 18:00, Annie O'Leary wrote: > From: Annie O'Leary > Adam Bruderer Don caos de la nada A.Bruderer@... *************************************************** The best way to become boring is to say everything. - Voltaire From jmsmall@... Tue Aug 3 13:38:44 1999 From: jmsmall@... (Stig) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 12:38:44 +0100 Subject: sessions Message-ID: <76369.94.369.959309995@...> For any fans of very long lists (and I know you're out there), I've put up a website with Rocker's Peel Session list which details all the sessions and live sets broadcast on Peel's show since 1992. http://www.vheissu.freeserve.co.uk/peel/sessions.html Bound to be loads of mistakes, all of which will rather conveniently be Rocker's fault. But if you do notice anything or have any session details where they're missing feel free to let me know. Stig -- jmsmall@... From robfleay@... Wed Aug 11 00:33:00 1999 From: robfleay@... (Rob Fleay) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:33:00 +0100 Subject: (Fwd) John Peel Message-ID: <76369.95.370.959309995@...> 7F00,0000,0000>Incidentally, Will and I are playing at John Peel's birthday party at the >end of the month (when it will be broadcast, I do not know). This is referring to Bob Arellano & Will Oldham. Have any other acts been mentioned? ========================================= robfleay@... http://www.aas.mcmail.com ========================================= From dodgefromgrange@... Wed Aug 18 17:44:25 1999 From: dodgefromgrange@... (Kevin Culhane) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:44:25 +0100 Subject: gaurdian Message-ID: <76369.96.371.959309995@...> I was in the University Library today (studying for repeats) and was reading the papers. Yesterdays Gaurdian had an article which said that to celebrate Peel's 60th birthday there would be a special Peel night on BBC2 and also something happening at radio1. Appartently "it will include suprise preformances by some of his favourite groups". Sounds exciting. I thought with what I had heard of what the gaurdian had said about the programmes music policy being racist it was strange for them to laud him as one of Britians national treasures. kev. _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com From mozy@... Wed Aug 18 23:10:00 1999 From: mozy@... (Maureen) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 22:10:00 +0100 Subject: gaurdian Message-ID: <76369.96.372.959309995@...> Kevin Culhane wrote: > I was in the University Library today (studying for repeats) and was reading the papers. Yesterdays Gaurdian had an article which said that to celebrate Peel's 60th birthday there would be a special Peel night on BBC2 and also something happening at radio1. Appartently "it will include suprise preformances by some of his favourite groups". Sounds exciting. I thought with what I had heard of what the gaurdian had said about the programmes music policy being racist it was strange for them to laud him as one of Britians national treasures. Ah, the Grauniad curse strikes again ... Maureen From kimhl@... Thu Aug 19 02:00:37 1999 From: kimhl@... (Kim Harrison-Lavoie) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:00:37 +0000 Subject: ?! Message-ID: <76369.96.373.959309995@...> Does anyone know what's happening with the Peel programme tonight? I tuned in late and it sounds like a repeat of the one with the Flaming Lips session. Anybody? Kim ---------------------- Kim Harrison-Lavoie kimhl@... From robfleay@... Thu Aug 19 01:58:14 1999 From: robfleay@... (Rob Fleay) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:58:14 +0100 Subject: ?! Message-ID: <76369.96.374.959309995@...> > Does anyone know what's happening with the Peel programme > tonight? I tuned in late and it sounds like a repeat of the > one with the Flaming Lips session. Anybody? I thought I was having serious deja vu...it was a repeat of the whole show....I missed the start so dunno if there was any explanation.... ========================================= robfleay@... http://www.aas.mcmail.com ========================================= From troche@... Thu Aug 19 04:59:51 1999 From: troche@... (Tom Roche) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 22:59:51 -0400 Subject: The Times (UK) OPINION Aug 18: Centre of attention: John Peel Message-ID: <76369.96.375.959309995@...> Wednesday August 18 1999 OPINION Previous: Stephen Farrell at large - On the road to Pristina | Other links | Next: Joanna Coles � Photograph: PA Centre of attention: John Peel It's hard to know what Half-man Half-Biscuit would have made of it. The DJ who made that group almost as famous as, well, Captain Beefheart in the Sixties is still alive, has the OBE and is about to have two nights - one on BBC2 and another on Radio 1 - dedicated to his survival and his 60th birthday. Yes, John Peel, once the glummed-down voice of alternative pop, is now, as that other erstwhile rock 'n' roll rebel Tony Blair said, "truly a living legend". Or, as his long-term producer John Walters put it with cruel irony: "He's like the Queen Mother. Everybody loves him." Loves him? This was the man the columnist Linda Lee-Potter said should be gagged for his music and seditious opinions. This was the man of whom Joe Strummer said: "Listening to him is like having a dog be sick in your face." Now it's not so much hip as hip replacement. . . But that was 30 years ago when he was one of Radio 1's first DJs. Now rock jock has become schlock jock. OK, he is narrating a series on pop, but this is about the Vimto, Fanta, children's drink variety. And we have to endure his Saturday morning Radio 4 show, Home Truths, a kitchen table confessional with its mix of Agas and Angst topped up with gooey whimsicality about his family and detached country living. . . He talks oft of his wife called Pig (because of the way she laughs), and his four children (two have Anfield as their middle name, Dad being a Liverpool fan). All very whimsical - like his career which started in Dallas, Texas, when the Beatles hit it big. That's when the ex-public school boy remembered his Liverpool roots, flattened his vowels and hit the small time on Radio KMEN. In the Seventies, he segued from hippy to punk... His Radio 1 show, often idiosyncratic to the point of being completely impenetrable, espoused the causes of Bogshead, T Rex, Pulp and The Smiths (what did happen to The Incredible String Band?) at a time when Tony Blackburn, and Co. were clogging the airwaves with The Carpenters. He kept his cred when all about were losing theirs, though the image slipped a bit when - to everyone's embarrassment, mostly his - he fronted Top of the Pops. Still, it's been gear, sometimes Top Gear. Just ask Captain Beefheart. Or your gran. Todays contents pages : FRONT PAGE | FULL INDEX | BRITAIN | WORLD NEWS | BALKANS | BUSINESS | SPORT | FOOTBALL | CRICKET | INTERFACE | FEATURES | OPINION | ARTS | OBITUARIES | LAW REPORT | COURT PAGE | WEATHER Copyright 1998 Times Newspapers Ltd. This service is provided on Times Newspapers' standard terms and conditions. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material from The Times, visit the Syndication website. From d.mckinnon@... Thu Aug 19 09:48:42 1999 From: d.mckinnon@... (Dougal McKinnon) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:48:42 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Subject: ?! Message-ID: <76369.96.376.959309995@...> > From: "Rob Fleay" > > > Does anyone know what's happening with the Peel programme > > tonight? I tuned in late and it sounds like a repeat of the > > one with the Flaming Lips session. Anybody? > > I thought I was having serious deja vu...it was a repeat of > the whole show....I missed the start so dunno if there was > any explanation.... There WAS an explanation, but I missed it. I was sitting reading Luke Sutherland's "Jelly Roll" when I suddenly realised that Steve Lamacq was talking and only caught the end where he said "......so instead, here's a tape of a recent show featuring The Flaming Lips in session". dougie dougal mckinnon (d.mckinnon@...) From smchugh@... Thu Aug 19 10:33:21 1999 From: smchugh@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:33:21 +0100 Subject: ?! Message-ID: <76369.96.377.959309995@...> >From: Dougal McKinnon > > >> From: "Rob Fleay" >> >> > Does anyone know what's happening with the Peel programme >> > tonight? I tuned in late and it sounds like a repeat of the >> > one with the Flaming Lips session. Anybody? >> >> I thought I was having serious deja vu...it was a repeat of >> the whole show....I missed the start so dunno if there was >> any explanation.... > >There WAS an explanation, but I missed it. I was sitting reading Luke >Sutherland's "Jelly Roll" when I suddenly realised that Steve Lamacq >was talking and only caught the end where he said "......so instead, >here's a tape of a recent show featuring The Flaming Lips in session". Bizarre, but at least I'm not going mad - I was pretty sure that the Millennium had got set back about 10 years, and then the 'anecdotes', like how his dad had loads of Charlie Kunz records, how he wouldn't have liked Panacea and then he played David Gerhaghty's request for his friend moving to Glasgow... from the website, it should have been a live dj set from Tony Surgeon... I must say this is the most bizarre bit of programming I've every heard at Radio One - usually if there's even a short-notice crisis, they find someone to fill in, after all there should be some sort of playlist that the producer has. I know that Peel chooses all the records himself and Kevin Groaning probably wouldn't make quite the right selections for Peel listeners, but you'd imagine that Lammo would have hung around and filled in. Maybe he had a prior engagement? Stuart From smchugh@... Thu Aug 19 10:40:32 1999 From: smchugh@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:40:32 +0100 Subject: The Times (UK) OPINION Aug 18: Centre of attention: John Peel Message-ID: <76369.96.378.959309995@...> >From: Tom Roche > > > > Centre of attention: John Peel but I thought I'd remark that when Peel (and Jensen) fronted Top of the Pops no-one was embarassed by it; in fact the blend of sarcasm reserved for the dull acts on a dull show certainly perked up my Thursday evenings... S From mozy@... Thu Aug 19 12:15:19 1999 From: mozy@... (Maureen) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:15:19 +0100 Subject: ?! Message-ID: <76369.97.379.959309995@...> Dougal McKinnon wrote: > > From: "Rob Fleay" > > > > > Does anyone know what's happening with the Peel programme > > > tonight? I tuned in late and it sounds like a repeat of the > > > one with the Flaming Lips session. Anybody? > > > > I thought I was having serious deja vu...it was a repeat of > > the whole show....I missed the start so dunno if there was > > any explanation.... > > There WAS an explanation, but I missed it. I was sitting reading Luke > Sutherland's "Jelly Roll" when I suddenly realised that Steve Lamacq > was talking and only caught the end where he said "......so instead, > here's a tape of a recent show featuring The Flaming Lips in session". > It wasn't much of an explanation. Just that he couldn't broadcast the show. I'm wondering if there's a family crisis ... Maureen From andys@... Thu Aug 19 12:41:09 1999 From: andys@... (Andy Smith) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:41:09 +0100 (BST) Subject: ?! Message-ID: <76369.97.380.959309995@...> > Does anyone know what's happening with the Peel programme > tonight? I tuned in late and it sounds like a repeat of the > one with the Flaming Lips session. Anybody? Lammo made an announcement at the start of the show that "John can't bring you the programme he'd planned for tonight". Hence the repeat show. Mysterious and slightly ominous, I thought. Andy From troche@... Sun Aug 22 02:16:45 1999 From: troche@... (Tom Roche) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 20:16:45 -0400 Subject: mystery deepens Message-ID: <76369.98.381.959309995@...> John Peel has, for almost 2 decades, done a fresh BBCWS half-hour 52 weeks a year. And I can count maybe 5 times in 18-ish years when a rerun has been aired, and I'll bet some of those were due to BBCWS scheduling goof-ups or the like. The show feeds 3 times each Friday, to Europe and the Americas, on SW and RealAudio. Only once has a substitute voice done the show, and it was a woman I'd not heard before, and she said Peel would be back next week, and he was - this may have been when Pig had the brain surgery. Friday's (yesterday's) show, which would have been recorded mid-week 10 or so days before, was a normal show, although Peel did introduce himself at the top as "beleaguered John Peel." (Track listings available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/johnpeel/tracks.htm ) But at the end of the show the continuity announcer came on and said that next week's show would be hosted by Steve Lamacq. There was an early feed of that show which could be heard quite weakly this evening on the BBC Africa Service (at 2230 GMT Saturdays on 15400, good luck.) It just finished airing, and Lamacq indeed hosted it, playng 8 or so Peel-esque tracks. (If Peel were to have done this show it would have been recorded mid week this week.) What was bothersome was that, as far as I could tell through the static, Lamacq made no mention of Peel, i.e. no mention of him being a substution, no mention if Peel (or Lamacq for that matter) would do the show next week. Just This is the BBCWS and I'm Steve Lamacq and here's the new one from Elastica. This I believe was Lamacq's first appearance ever on BBCWS. Of course if the reason, whenever it is revealed, turns out to be something minor, we will likely get 4 Radio Times columns and 3 Home Truths explaing it in detail. Lets hope. Still, it is bothersome. Tom Roche Atlanta From nunununa@... Sun Aug 22 12:09:20 1999 From: nunununa@... (nunununa) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:09:20 +0100 Subject: mystery deepens Message-ID: <76369.99.382.959309995@...> Over here in the UK we've had the same thing with his radio 1 shows. He was on on Tuesday, but on Wednesday they played a repeat of a show from a few weeks ago. Then on Thurs Steve Lamacq did his show for 4 hours to cover for Peel. Nothing has been said about why Peel hasn't been able to do his shows either! Any suggestions? Nunununa ********************** Nunununa's home ....http://surf.to/nunuworld -- All about music by groups from Oxford + photos from gigs Ooberman fansite...http://bounce.to/ooberman -- The lovely Ooberman! Nunununa's den........http://members.tripod.com/nunununa -- All about Nunununa ICQ # 22661317 From Stephen_J._Wood@... Mon Aug 23 19:24:20 1999 From: Stephen_J._Wood@... (Stephen_J._Wood@...) Date: 23 Aug 1999 17:24:20 GMT Subject: mystery deepens Message-ID: <76369.100.383.959309995@...> Hi, all! I heard through a friend that Peel's wife was taken ill last Wednesday, just before his Radio 1 show was due to go on air, he obviously rushed home or wherever, hence the rapidly substituted repeat show last Wednesday. By Thursday, Lamacq was available, so he covered for that show. Apparently the pig was not as ill as at first feared, so I think Peelie will be back on air this week. I suppose he normally pre-records his World Service show while he is in London on the Thursday, hence Lamacq covering for this week's show. Here's wishing the voice of the Peelenium a speedy recovery! Cheers! Rocker, P.S. I suppose this really throws out the timing of the Peelenium. No chance that the BBC will give him an extra show to make up, I suppose! rocker@... From smchugh@... Tue Aug 24 16:38:21 1999 From: smchugh@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:38:21 +0100 Subject: mystery deepens Message-ID: <76369.101.384.959309995@...> The word on the street (ok, in some newsgroup or other) is that it was indeed a family illness which kept Peel off-air - The Pig to be precise, she became unwell quite suddenly hence the repeat show on the Wednesday. It seems that she's not as ill as it originally appeared, but I suppose you can see why there might have been some concern in the family resulting in the shows being pulled. I think he will be back on-air tonight. I see that there's a 'Peel night' on BBC2 on Sunday, starting at 9pm. There's also a Radio One 'celebration' of some sort, anyone know when that is? (Same day? What day's his birthday anyway?) Stuart From Les_Miller@... Tue Aug 24 16:32:57 1999 From: Les_Miller@... (Les Miller) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:32:57 +0100 Subject: mystery deepens Message-ID: <76369.101.385.959309995@...> His birthday is 30th August. Stuart McHugh on 24/08/99 15:38:21 Please respond to peel@onelist.com Sent by: Stuart McHugh To: peel@onelist.com cc: (Les Miller/GB/3Com) Subject: Re: [peel] mystery deepens From: Stuart McHugh The word on the street (ok, in some newsgroup or other) is that it was indeed a family illness which kept Peel off-air - The Pig to be precise, she became unwell quite suddenly hence the repeat show on the Wednesday. It seems that she's not as ill as it originally appeared, but I suppose you can see why there might have been some concern in the family resulting in the shows being pulled. I think he will be back on-air tonight. I see that there's a 'Peel night' on BBC2 on Sunday, starting at 9pm. There's also a Radio One 'celebration' of some sort, anyone know when that is? (Same day? What day's his birthday anyway?) Stuart --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- ONElist: your connection to people who share your interests. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From kimhl@... Tue Aug 24 17:48:51 1999 From: kimhl@... (Kim Harrison-Lavoie) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:48:51 +0000 Subject: mystery deepens Message-ID: <76369.101.386.959309995@...> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:38:21 +0100 Stuart McHugh wrote: > From: Stuart McHugh (snip) I see that there's a 'Peel night' on > BBC2 on Sunday, starting at 9pm. There's also a Radio One > 'celebration' of some sort, anyone know when that is? (Same > day? What day's his birthday anyway?) Someone told me that there will be special Peel-related programs on Radio 1 on the 31st of August and the 1st of September from 10.00 to 2.00. From d.mckinnon@... Wed Aug 25 11:07:17 1999 From: d.mckinnon@... (Dougal McKinnon) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:07:17 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Subject: mystery solved Message-ID: <76369.101.387.959309995@...> Peel returned to the airwaves last night (24/8/99) and told listeners that his absence was indeed due to his wife's illness - she collapsed in the kitchen at home last week and split her head. He said that she had recovered and, indeed, she was well enough to go to the Ipswich game last night and then give a brief on-air match report. The Peelenium resumed (unfortunately, in my view) at 1941. dougie dougal mckinnon (d.mckinnon@...) From smchugh@... Tue Aug 31 10:44:04 1999 From: smchugh@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:44:04 +0100 Subject: Birthday stuff Message-ID: <76369.102.388.959309995@...> Simon Mayo's Golden Year (or whatever he calls the thing) for today is taken entirely from Festive 50 entries. But what was the year? S From smchugh@... Tue Aug 31 11:57:47 1999 From: smchugh@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:57:47 +0100 Subject: Birthday stuff Message-ID: <76369.102.389.959309995@...> >From: Stuart McHugh > >Simon Mayo's Golden Year (or whatever he calls the thing) for today is >taken entirely from Festive 50 entries. >But what was the year? Since no-one else will have heard this I might as well put you put of your misery - tracks were played were: MAAS - Pump Up The Volume (46) New Order - True Faith (7) Sugarcubes - Birthday (1) Prince - Sign 'O The Times (32) Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul (36) The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma (15) I think that was it - seemed like an awful year for music particularly with the #32 (and the Eric B track was much worse than I remember it), as well as the records being on the long side. In fact though, as you can see if you go to the F50 site, there was a load of stuff in there which was worthy of the F50 - The Fall, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Bhundu Boys - you name it. A real dearth of UK talent though, only the Smiths and Wedding Present making any sort of impact on the proceedings. Though he could have payed I Ludicrous... Stuart (oh yes, 1987) From jmsmall@... Tue Aug 31 14:05:09 1999 From: jmsmall@... (Stig) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:05:09 +0100 Subject: aural examination Message-ID: <76369.103.390.959309995@...> Has anyone seen the blurb about tonight's birthday celebration programme on the Radio One website? "we'll be looking at John's life through his ears" Interesting concept... Stig -- jmsmall@... From smchugh@... Tue Aug 31 17:40:06 1999 From: smchugh@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 16:40:06 +0100 Subject: aural examination Message-ID: <76369.103.391.959309995@...> I guess everyone's on holiday or something otherwise there would have been countless reminiscences about the stuff on the tv night - the length of Nigel Biscuit's hair, all those 7" sleeves that flashed up on screen (ah, the Fakes, the Mekons, Desperate Bicycles - happy days). I did have a hearty laugh at Jo Wiley's trail for the shows to come - "The Captain... that's Captain Beefheart, OF COURSE". Without a discernible trace of irony. Stuart