john peel

[Stuart McHugh]

>>Is it just me or are other people starting to tire of Johns constant on
>>air mistakes

>Do you prefer pre-recorded programmes with no mistakes? I like the live
>shows... warts and all. Much better.

Absolutely, did you know that absolutely everything on Radio One is on
Minidisc apart from Peel's home shows? Its totally production-line stuff.
Which should at least give the likes of Jo Whylie the chance to be wity and
urbane since they don't have to concentrate on changing records. Yet
somehow Mark and Lard are the only ones who seem to have any spointanaiety
in their shows, which they always had anyway. We don't have dj's any more,
we have 'presenters'. Personality-driven radio. Yet the likes of Emma B or
Dave Pearce completely contradict that term. Would we want a Peel show
where a producer puts on the next minidisc'ed item and (like, say, Zoe
Ball), the dj exclaims "oh, Pulp, I like this one!"

Cuh. Kids of today, don't know you're born, etc.

Stuart