[peel] licensing peel sessions....

[Kim Harrison-Lavoie]

I'm not really sure that I know the answer to this one, but 
I've always had the impression that the Peel sessions were 
owned or controlled by the bands who record them. 

Sometimes people will request repeats of certain Peel 
session tracks and I think I've heard JP reply that he 
can't just play them freely because it would involve 
royalty payments - I got the impression that the financial 
arrangements were rather complicated.

Also, some bands have put out Peel session tracks as 
B-sides for singles, which has reinforced my idea that the 
bands own the rights. Have you contacted the bands in 
question and asked them? 

Is Crawford of Rothko fame on this list? They just recorded 
a session (can't wait to hear it!) so he might be able to 
help.


On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:19:47 EDT matt0050@... wrote:

> hello... first off let me introduce myself to the list
> my name is matt... i'm from philadelphia USA. i'm 22 and my 
> current musical obsessions arent't very current at all but 
> rather dated stuff from the C86 era i love the shop 
> assistants, the primitives, and the 14 iced bears... among 
> others.
> 
> my question to those "in the know"...  i would like to 
> license a peel session or two for my label.. show and 
> tell... here in the states. i'd like to release the skinned 
> teen peel session from january of 94 (i beleive) as part of 
> a full discog for that band... and i'd like to release the 
> session golden starlet did in january of 95 as a 7"...
> i sent john peel an email about the skinned teen discog 
> about 3 weeks ago and failed to garner a response.... woe 
> is me is there someone i should be talking to about this 
> other than john peel... he surely doesn''t handle this 
> stuff all by his lonesome.... and i'm impatient and want to 
> know what it's gonna take to get these fine records 
> out. anywayz hello to you all and good day!               
> luv, *matt!
> 
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Kim Harrison-Lavoie
kimhl@...