Peel Night Fallout

[Kim Harrison-Lavoie]

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 10:11:43 +0100 Stuart McHugh 
<smchugh@...> wrote:

> From: Stuart McHugh <smchugh@...>
> 
> >Peel reckons that he and the interviewer had a light
> >hearted talk about a whole load of things about being a 
> father/son but >that they deliberately edited out 
> everything else bar him having a go >at William.
> I don't know how accurate that might be as the chat was 
> probably fuelled by red wine; he certainly did have a lot 
> to say about it, but it was certainly edited by someone 
> with an interest in psychoanalysis as they did rather dwell 
> on this subject - and the interviewer was no better, just 
> when the conversation would return to music or the war or 
> something more fruitful, he would say "so, back to your 
> son's room then".

I was a bit shocked by the lack of balance in the 
interview. I think the only times any of the children other 
than William were mentioned were when he said they all 
leave the room when he comes in to watch TV and when he 
referred to "William and the other children". It looked to 
me like anything nice that he had to say about them ended 
up on the cutting room floor, which makes me wonder whether 
the motivation was to try and stir up further criticism 
about his Radio 4 program. 

 The radio shows for Wednesday and 
> Thursday are covering what I take to be live stuff which 
> wasn't broadcast from Maida Vale as there were 
> documentaries going out at the time - last night had Bonny 
> Prince Billy and, er, someone else, Cinerama are tonight.

I missed hearing the Bonnie Prince Billy set because I was 
seeing him perform live at the time. If anyone taped this 
and would be willing to do a copy for me in return for 
cash, a trade, chocolate or a couple of pints of slightly 
used blood ( O pos. ), please email me. Also, if anyone 
out there was at the gig last night and happened to be 
recording it, I might even consider throwing in a minor 
organ such as a tonsil or appendix.

Kim