Peelenium

[Dougal McKinnon]

Without seeking to involve myself too much in the catfight that's 
become the Peelenium debate on the Peel list - and if folk are fighting 
over things he's played from the first decade, just think of the 
bloodshed that's going to occur when he plays something you hate from 
later years ("How could he have played x when he could have played 
y?!?!?!" or "Why didn't he play z?!??!"), can I just say in response to:


> From: Martin Wheatley <martinw@...>

> Punk is not working class music because in the 1980s class distinction is
> meaningless 

I don't think I'd agree with that at all.  When you think that the 
biggest social upheaval in the UK in my lifetime took place in the 
1980s with the coming to power of Thatcher (yes, in '79 I know), the 
year long miners' stike in 1984/85, record unemployment, dismantling of 
"traditional" industries,  the Labour Party turning in and eating 
itself, etc, etc. I'd say class distinction was at least as valid then 
as at any time before.

And if he doesn't play Big Flame or Bogshed at any stage of the 
Peelenium, I'll have his head on a spike. 

dougie

dougal mckinnon
(d.mckinnon@...)