From troche@... Sun Mar 2 04:49:59 2003 From: troche@... (Tom Roche) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:49:59 -0500 Subject: The Observer: Book Review: "31 Songs" by Nick Hornby Message-ID: http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,900872,00.html REVIEW : "31 Songs" by Nick Hornby Viking £12.99, pp208 That's the great thing about lists. You just can't help arguing with them. John Peel runs a connoisseur's eye over Nick Hornby's 31 Songs Wot? No Gene Vincent? By John Peel Sunday February 23, 2003 The Observer This is the first Nick Hornby book I've read. Shocking, but true. Surely, people have said, you must have read Fever Pitch. 'But it's about Arsenal,' I have replied, remembering the pain of the 1950 Cup Final, when they beat Liverpool 2-0. Happily, 31 Songs is not about Arsenal. And, of course, it is a list. Men, it is often asserted, like lists, but speaking as a man I'm not sure this is true. Doing a little quiet but important research at a birthday party recently, I asked a number of men present whether they cared, in any special sort of way, for lists. It seemed they did not particularly, although they were quite interested in a) loft insulation and b) restoring vintage cars. There was a time, about 15 years ago, when I wrote on popular music for this paper. For five years, I crisscrossed the country (at my own expense, I want you to know) reviewing everything from Bob Dylan at Wembley (awful) to post-punk bands with silly names I've forgotten in venues without a single one of the emergency exits required by law (often rather good). The one thing I learnt from this - and it is something Hornby acknowledges early in his book - is that it is much easier to write about things you don't like than things you do. So this, being as it is a list - with extensive explanations that, on occasion, read like apologies - of the author's favourite records, must have been a bugger to write. Hornby further acknowledges the frustration the music-lover can feel when people he or she is attempting to interest in the best bits of records simply won't listen. Only last week, fired by a positive review of yet another compilation of the early works of Gene Vincent, a review that majored on the astonishing guitar playing of 'Galloping' Cliff Gallup of the Blue Caps, I attempted to interest a Radio 1 co-worker in Gene's 'Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back'. (There are no Gene Vincent records in Nick Hornby's Hot 31.) 'Why,' I marvelled, 'does Cliff start his solo from there and how, in a matter of seconds, does he get back to there?' But, despite the fact that 'Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back' is less than two minutes long, my colleague had lost interest and was talking about tops with someone else. The feted author of High Fidelity and About a Boy is unusual, I think, in considering all of a song lyric rather than fragments. This is due, in part at least, to what he describes as his need to 'solve' songs; to, as it were, wrestle them to the ground, consider them in detail, extract from them their core meanings and by so doing achieve some sort of completion. I'm not with him on this. Not at all. Two of the records that would be under consideration for a place on any comparable list I might make would be the Golinski Brothers' 'Bloody' and Roy Buchanan's version of 'Lonesome Fugitive', but I've never seriously attempted in-depth analysis of these songs as songs. For me, it is enough that the Golinski Brothers' obscure but, trust me, unforgettable record includes the lines: 'Still you gotta have a laugh [pause] ha ha ha ha' and: 'Send my Giro to Cairo', and 'Fugitive' the couplet: 'I raised a lotta cane back in my younger days. My momma used to pray my crops would fail.' I mean, come on. Beat that. And there's a bit in another Gene Vincent song, 'Gonna Back Up Baby', which is completely unintelligible, yet I love it. It sounds as though Gene is singing: 'Well, I'm gonna cuckmer cuckmunter you gahdin.' When I was younger and, frankly, a little crazy, I would play this bizarre extract to acquaintances and offer them my entire record collection if they could, without consultation, decipher the words. No one took me seriously and, of course, when I played them the track, they started talking about tops and other leisurewear within seconds of its starting anyway. I don't think 'Gonna Back Up Baby' lends itself to being 'solved', at least not by anyone outside protective custody. But let's look now at Nick Hornby's 31. (By the way, I've forgotten why he picked 31 rather than the more conventional 20 or 40 or even 100. I think he just did.) His reasons for choosing each record are laid out at some length, otherwise there'd be no book, and if you don't like the songs yourself then his sophistries are not going to persuade you that you should. I'm going to have to step out of the closet here and confess that there are 11 records listed that I simply don't know at all, and at least three I don't like. It would be a bit fatuous to list these, especially as one is by Bruce Springsteen and it seems to be Hornby's absolute all-time favourite and he has harsh things to say about people who don't like Springsteen (we're smart people who are dumb, it seems). Then there is, by a pretty coincidence, one artist and song listed - Rufus Wainwright and 'One Man Guy' - that I'd replace with the artist's father, Loudon, and 'Father and Son'. This song I always imagine to be about me and my son William, because the words fit so well. But there are four tracks here that would at least make the Final Eliminators of any comparable list I might make. These are by Richard and Linda Thompson, OV Wright, Jackson Browne and, finally, the Velvettes. The last named is probably the only one that would be in my final 31. I think Nick Hornby and I would agree that you should hear it as soon as you possibly can. Trust us. And don't talk while it's playing. Nick Hornby's 31 songs 1. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road 2. Teenage Fanclub - Your Love is the Place That I Come From 3. Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird 4. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker 5. Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy 6. Santana - Samba Pa Ti 7. Rod Stewart - Mama Been on My Mind 8. Bob Dylan - Can You Please Crawl Out of Your Window? 9. The Beatles - Rain 10. Ani DiFranco - You Had Time 11. Aimee Mann - I've Had It 12. Paul Westerberg - Born For Me 13. Suicide - Frankie Teardrop 14. Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough 15. J. Geils Band - First I Look at the Purse 16. Ben Folds Five - Smoke 17. Badly Drawn Boy - A Minor Incident 18. The Bible - Glorybound 19. Van Morrison -Caravan 20. Butch Hancock & Marce LaCouture - So I'll Run 21. Gregory Isaacs - Puff the Magic Dragon 22. Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 23. Richard and Linda Thompson - The Calvary Cross 24. Jackson Brownee - Late For the Sky 25. Mark Mulcahy - Hey Self-Defeater 26. The Velvelettes - Needle in a Haystack 27. O.V. Wright - Let's Straighten it Out 28. Royksopp - Royksopp's Night Out 29. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist 30. Soulwax - No Fun/Push It 31. Patti Smith Group - Pissing in a River The Guardian Front page Story index 31 songs that changed my life In a new collection of essays writer Nick Hornby reveals the 31 songs that have provided a soundtrack to his life. So we asked 31 music fans, including authors, musicians and artists what song is guaranteed to make their spine tingle Kirsty de Garis Sunday January 19, 2003 The Observer 1. J.G. BALLARD - novelist The Teddy Bears' Picnic by Jimmy Kennedy When I was a young child in Shanghai, during the Thirties, I was given a gramophone and that one record. I loathed it until I was about 50. Now I could listen to it forever. The song holds all the mystery and magic of childhood, and I can't get enough of it! 2. PAUL MORLEY - rock journalist Being Boiled by the Human League I remember hearing 'Being Boiled' by the Human League about a quarter of a century ago - a mix up of glam Sheffield steel, Dali melt, Fausty distortion, Meek DIY sound effects, dinky Kraftwerk electronics and the deadest of pans (it advocated a ban on the cruel abuse of silk worms) and Johnny Rotten dismissed the group as 'trendy hippies'. I felt that this was the sound of the future, and hoped that by, say, the year 2003, songs like this were filling the charts. In some ways that prediction might be coming true. 3. JOSEPH O'CONNOR - novelist Big Brother Theme Music by Oakenfold and Grey I'd prefer if I actually liked the song that had the deepest effect on me because, objectively, I can't stand it. But Big Brother began on the night my son was born, and somehow the tune got mixed up in my consciousness with the happiness of becoming a father. I really wish this bit of my soundtrack was by Elvis Costello or Bessie Smith. But when I hear those grimly portentous synthesiser chords, I can't help but feel an ache of helpless love. 4. GURINDER CHADHA - director, Bend it like Beckham Gangsters by The Special AKA I saw the Specials on the first two tone tour and they and their music blew me away. It was a time when second-generation Asian and black kids were not putting up with what their parents had, but at the same time the NF and BNP were rising steadily and this idea of black and white singing together drawing from old ska sounds, reggae and punk was liberating as a soundtrack to my political awakenings at that time. 5. JONATHAN WILKES - star of The Rocky Horror Show Angels by Robbie Williams My most memorable song is also my favourite song and is by my best mate. My memory of it is the feeling I got standing backstage and watching 125,000 people singing back to him; it just sent shivers down my spine. Every time I see him on tour and he sings it the reaction is always amazing. 6. MARK WALLINGER - artist Madame George by Van Morrison The sense of desire and loss expressed in this song is so sad because it dares one to try to hear it again as if for the first time. It describes our exile from our past. Radical, allusive, heartbreaking, and the ultimate three-chord trick. 7. NEIL SPENCER - writer What's So Good About Goodbye? by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles When Bob Dylan dubbed Smokey Robinson 'America's greatest living poet' he was only half fooling. Robinson's lyrical dexterity equalled that of a previous generation's maestros such as Cole Porter, and framed romance in less knowing, more idealistic terms. The Beatles, Stones and Costello were among many who covered and took inspiration from songs like this heart-acher and its dazzling falsetto vocals. 8. JEAN PIERRE - cashier at Tower Records, Piccadilly Circus Imagine by John Lennon I know it's a cliché, but I love this song simply for Lennon's vision of the world: What he thought the world should be like. As soon as I heard it, it had an enormous effect on me. It's one I never tire of listening to. And I listen to music absolutely all day! 9. GEOFF TRAVIS - founder of Rough Trade This Charming Man by The Smiths I was fortunate enough to be in the studio when this track was recorded. It's one of the most sublime songs. A great thing about it is there is a stop in the record: I love that. It shows supreme confidence to have silence in the middle of a song, and it increases the drama of the track. This song slides down your sensibilities. And the first line is a wonderful Oscar Wilde moment. 10. TOBY LITT - novelist Whispering Pines by The Band Sitting in a tiny white Lancia, surrounded by fog, in the car park at Calais, having just missed our ferry, 18 hours after setting out from the South of France, at least four very-near-death incidents behind us, my best friend, J, put on 'Whispering Pines' by The Band. 11. JAMIE BYNG - publisher, Canongate Books We People (Who are Darker then Blue) by Curtis Mayfield Depends when and where, but a record that never fails to knock me sideways physically and emotionally is this one. Recorded live in 1970 this combines sublime vocals, searching lyrics and many melodic moods. Same could be said of Stevie Wonder's 'As'. Both anthems. Two geniuses. 12. STEVE SUTHERLAND - editorial director, NME Mr Tambourine Man by The Byrds I heard this on a transistor radio in 1965. I was nine. Even today when I hear the opening chords chime I'm instantly transported back to that place and I can see the sunlight pouring through the window. It sounded - and still sounds - like the language of handsome, golden gods. I didn't understand a word of it, and I still don't, but I knew that it meant there was another life out there beyond my parents' understanding, a luxurious, lawless life of glamorous freedom, and I knew I wanted a part of it. I still do. 13. NORMAN JAY - DJ Living For the City by Stevie Wonder I love the story this song tells about a small-town black kid in America, moving to the city, and all the trials and tribulations that go with it. I bought the single after hearing it on the radio. It's a truly harrowing tale, unforgettable, that is just as relevant today as it was in the early Seventies. 14. BARNEY HOSKYNS - editorial director www.rocksbackpages.com That's the Way Love Turned Out For Me by James Carr James Carr's soul ballad is one I return to again and again. I think he was the greatest soul singer of them all. The song is about harrowing loss, a deep resignation to suffering, and he uses wonderful metaphors throughout, about doors closing. It seems to work as a companion for one, when in a blue funk, pain and gloom. I can listen to this song and relive that perfect expression of hopelessness. 15. IAN RANKIN - crime writer Midnight Rambler by The Rolling Stones I have chosen this from my favourite Rolling Stones album: I'm obsessed with them, and have used many titles of their songs as titles for my short stories and novels. 'Midnight Rambler' was the first time I'd ever heard a rock group sing about a serial killer - it's about the Boston Strangler. It was the end of the Sixties, and when The Beatles were singing 'All you Need is Love', The Stones, who were a good, liberal, rock group, were a bit more realistic. 16. CARLOS ACOSTA - dancer Te Doy Una Canción (I give you a song) by Silvio Rodríguez It's a very romantic song that I grew up with in Cuba. Every time I hear it it reminds me of those years when I was a student in Pinar del Rio with a group of composers, musicians and painters, living together and playing football. Just guitar and voice, a very simple song. The language is great. He's a symbol in Latin America but it's all the memories that come with that song. 17. TREVOR BEATTIE - chairman TBWA Advertising I've Been Loving You Too Long by Otis Redding This is the sound of every heart that's ever been broken. Sung by the greatest soul voice the world has ever heard. Otis puts more naked emotion into the words 'I've been...' than Will Young could expend in a thousand lifetimes. And don't be fooled by the title. The man sings 'I've been loving you too long... to stop now.' And one day I'll use this song to change my life forever. 18. JEREMY VINE - journalist and broadcaster Lipstick Vogue by Elvis Costello I love it because it harnesses musical, lyrical and emotional power: 'You wanna throw me away, well I'm not broken...' The drumming is stratospheric. The album (This Year's Model) managed to take all the anger of punk but channel it through music that still sounds fresh today, and Elvis staked his claim to be the most important British songwriter since Lennon/McCartney. Amazing. 19. JOHNNY MARR - Smiths guitarist Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones This song is pretty much perfection. It's a beautiful mix of rhythm, sex and street poetry, with some of the coolest guitar ever caught on tape. Born of attitude, spirit and magic. Electric Voodoo. 20. WAYNE HEMINGWAY- designer Sunshine by Roy Ayres It makes me happy, it makes me think of sunshine, families, nice things. I first heard it when I went to see Roy Ayres live at Blackpool Mecca. I'd just passed my driving test and although the M56 to Blackpool was officially closed because of snow, I was determined to get there. It was amazing when we arrived because there were about 30 people in a venue meant for 2,500. 21. PAUL CROUGHTON - MTV VJ Jump by Van Halen Of course, I tried to think of a timeless track that people with imported Japanese jeans would nod sagely and agree with, but tragically I can't escape this one song. When I was 15 I stood at the back of Wembley Arena while 12,000 sheep dressed in tight denim and tassled leather - myself and all my mates included - leapt a foot up in the air everytime David Lee Roth screamed the word 'Jump'. 22. DAVID HOLMES - DJ and soundtrack composer 'Till I Die by The Beach Boys Because it sums up what's going on inside the mind of a genius holed up in his bed for two years - complete despair, loneliness and frustration.This song should be at Brian Wilson's funeral. The sparseness and beauty in the instrumentation is stunning! 23. MAGGIE O'FARRELL - author I Want You by Elvis Costello I first heard this in a café. I was in love with a man I couldn't have and was sitting there wondering what to do about it when it started playing. It's beautifully dark and discordant, with the repeating refrain of the title. I went straight out to buy it. 24. SUZI QUATRO - singer Half Heaven, Half Heartache by Gene Pitney I was 11 or 12 and visiting my extremely rich girlfriend's house for a sleepover. I ended up in her basement kissing her older brother for seven hours - nothing else, honest, just kissing - and in the background, over and over again on repeat, was... yes, you guessed it , Gene Pitney. Years later I met Gene at a TV show, told him the story and his reply was: 'You wouldn't believe how many times I've heard that story. 25. MICHAEL MORRIS - co-director Artangel Lust for Life by Iggy Pop 1977 was my first year out of school. Two contrasting tracks cut that year have never lost their impact. 'Lust for Life' straddled the Atlantic ocean and the worlds of glam, punk and metal whilst Holger Czukay's 'Persian Love' heralded what must have been the first use of sampling (an unidentified Arabic voice picked up on short-wave radio) in a world-music crossover that was 25 years ahead of its time. 26. JULIE BURCHILL - columnist Free by Ultra Nate I cannot hear the opening notes without starting to snivel. Both personally and politically it says it all for me. A few years ago it was used in a Wall's ice-cream jingle at cinemas and even then it made me blub. 27. ALAIN DE BOTTON - writer Reading, Writing and Arithmetic by The Sundays This transports me back to the early Nineties, when I left university and was having a terrible time romantically and professionally - getting rejected all around; and spending a lot of time in cafés in the sadder parts of London. The Sundays captured the spirit of those days for me: a particular kind of English pessimistic sensibility I'm drawn to. 28. SEAN O'HAGAN - journalist Take Me (Just As I Am) by Lynn Collins and the JBs I was torn between 'I See A Darkness' by Bonny Prince Billy because it could make a dead man cry, then I remembered To Be A Lover by George Faith and Lee Scratch Perry because it could make a dead man dance, then I remembered Take Me (Just As I Am) by Lynn Collins and the JBs because it could make a dead man come. Enough said. 29. VICKI BLUE - ex-bass player of the Runaways, filmmaker 48 Crash by Suzi Quatro I must have been 13 or 14 and was at the record store when I saw a b&w cover of a chick wearing a leather motorcycle jacket. I bought the album, ran home, slammed the needle down on '48 Crash' and haven't been right ever since. Fast forward 30 years - I am now directing a film on the life of glam babe Suzi Quatro titled Naked Under Leather. 30. BENJAMIN PELL - aka Benji the Binman Never Ever by All Saints (Nicole and Natalie Appleton, Melanie Blatt and Shaznay Lewis) The record I liked so much, I decided to get the artists to sue me six months later. 31. KITTY EMPIRE - Observer pop critic You Trip Me Up by The Jesus And Mary Chain Underneath The Jesus & Mary Chain's heroic feedback lurked a perfect pop song. And the intoxicated, lovesick words seemed so resonant that I had some of them tattooed on my back as a teenager. They're covered over now, but the shivers remain. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 From sete.colinas@... Sun Mar 2 23:52:02 2003 From: sete.colinas@... (Leo Gilbert) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 22:52:02 +0000 Subject: Crimea Message-ID: <95462CE6-4D01-11D7-AABA-000A956B4CF8@...> Saw Crimea on Friday night at The Borderline in central London, and they were magnificent. Really doubleplusgood. I'm not into describing bands by comparing them to others, as this always seems specious (just checked the meaning of that in the dictionary, and it does mean exactly what I want to say: plausible on the surface, but not in reality), so I'll just say that they have a great mixture of the assurance of a band who know exactly what they are about, along with the edgy awkwardness of newcomers. Great melodies and unearnestly passionate. Can't wait for the LP. Leo From troche@... Sun Mar 2 04:21:43 2003 From: troche@... (Tom Roche) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:21:43 -0500 Subject: Nottingham Evening Post 3/1 SCAN TUNE IS NO SICK NOTE Message-ID: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=66056&command=displayContent&sourceNode=65583&contentPK=4432827 SCAN TUNE IS NO SICK NOTE 12:00 - 01 March 2003 The sounds Paul Glover and his colleagues make are piercing and shrill... But they are music to John Peel's ears. So much so that the veteran DJ has aired them on his BBC Radio 4 Home Truths programme. It all began when Peel told listeners of a routine medical scan he had had - and complained how noisy the machine was. That struck a jarring note with Dr Glover, a lecturer in the school of physics and astronomy at the University of Nottingham. He and his colleagues had just combined the sounds from the three MRI scanners at the university's magnetic resonance centre as the soundtrack for a video on the centre's work. The three scanners each emit a shrill constant tone as the patient lies inside. But each sounds a different pitch as the electrical current passes through the machine to scan parts of the body. These tones were recorded and mixed, resulting in what Dr Glover thought rather a tuneful effort. So the regular Home Truths listener e-mailed the show's presenter and was asked to send the tape in...and much to his delight it went out over the airwaves. Dr Glover said: "John Peel told listeners that he didn't find our scanner sounds that unpleasant - in fact they sounded not unlike some of the stuff he played years ago on Radio 1. He said that we were trying to plug the gap in the market for scanner music!" The team were delighted their music was played, especially as the show receives about 500 hours' worth of demo material a week. The DJ, who was given the all-clear after his routine scan, told the Evening Post: "I have just this minute received the bill for the scan I had. I'm sure my shrieks were louder than the noise the scanners make. "The demo was certainly different and it's been well received on the show." The foray by Dr Glover and his colleagues into the music world stems from a serious project. Researchers at the centre eventually hope to create a much quieter MRI machine. Patients who need scans have to wear ear guards and are usually played music from CDs or the radio, to disguise the shrill noise the scanner makes. Dr Glover said: "The MR scanners are magnets containing coils of wire and can be viewed basically as very inefficient, but loud, loudspeakers. "The sound is created by an electrical current through the wires which is needed for the scanning process. "If we can reduce the amount of vibration then we should be able to decrease the noise produced." back to list | print article | email to a friend From nopassingphase@... Tue Mar 4 20:17:23 2003 From: nopassingphase@... (James Moore) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:17:23 -0000 Subject: the crimea References: <1046688542.171.27135.m12@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <005a01c2e282$b2377540$af0a3c3e@oemcomputer> leo: << Saw Crimea on Friday night at The Borderline in central London, and they were magnificent. Really doubleplusgood. >> well you might be interested in this... drownedinsound vs. dosomethingpretty night antihero + the crimea + cheerleader + the broken family band 20th march @ the soundhouse, colchester �4 j a m e s http://www.dosomethingpretty.com From alan@... Mon Mar 10 21:27:34 2003 From: alan@... (Alan Ford) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:27:34 -0000 Subject: Peelie References: Message-ID: <002c01c2e743$d1fae0e0$6fcb87d9@pb1996> The Observer: Book Review: "31 Songs" by Nick HornbyI'm aware that John is the longest-serving BBC DJ, but does anyone know where he ranks against the rest of the world? Cheers Alan From alan@... Mon Mar 10 21:38:21 2003 From: alan@... (Alan Ford) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:38:21 -0000 Subject: [peel] Peelie References: <002c01c2e743$d1fae0e0$6fcb87d9@pb1996> Message-ID: <004501c2e745$011af9e0$6fcb87d9@pb1996> Sorry, the gremlins got at my last message. It should have just read: I'm aware that John is the longest-serving BBC DJ, but does anyone know where he ranks against the rest of the world? Cheers Alan From stuart@... Tue Mar 11 11:27:18 2003 From: stuart@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:27:18 +0000 Subject: Peelie In-Reply-To: <1047377799.171.72344.m12@yahoogroups.com> References: <1047377799.171.72344.m12@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: >I'm aware that John is the longest-serving BBC DJ, but does anyone know >where he ranks against the rest of the world? this is a bit vague but I read somewhere a couple of weeks ago that it's widely believed that the guy who does 'Letter From America' for the BBC is the oldest broadcaster in the world. However this isn't true, there is someone older than him (in which case they must be in their 90's). I'm sure the other broadcaster is a DJ in a weekly music show. Helpful, eh? Stuart -- From alan@... Tue Mar 11 11:36:13 2003 From: alan@... (Alan Ford) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:36:13 -0000 Subject: [peel] Re:Peelie References: <1047377799.171.72344.m12@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <005901c2e7ba$0c3c31c0$b78287d9@pb1996> The LFA bloke is Alistaire Cooke. Is the 'DJ in a weekly music show' you referred to American? Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: Stuart McHugh To: peel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:27 AM Subject: [peel] Re:Peelie >I'm aware that John is the longest-serving BBC DJ, but does anyone know >where he ranks against the rest of the world? this is a bit vague but I read somewhere a couple of weeks ago that it's widely believed that the guy who does 'Letter From America' for the BBC is the oldest broadcaster in the world. However this isn't true, there is someone older than him (in which case they must be in their 90's). I'm sure the other broadcaster is a DJ in a weekly music show. Helpful, eh? Stuart -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. From martinwheatley@... Tue Mar 11 13:13:59 2003 From: martinwheatley@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:13:59 +0000 Subject: Peelie Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030311121101.00c44a80@...> Alan Ford said >I'm aware that John is the longest-serving BBC DJ, but does anyone know >where he ranks against the rest of the world? Longest Radio 1 DJ There are at least two current Radio 2 DJs (Brian Matthew and David Jacobs) who precede him by a number of years martinw From alan@... Tue Mar 11 13:25:44 2003 From: alan@... (Alan Ford) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:25:44 -0000 Subject: [peel] Re : Peelie References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030311121101.00c44a80@...> Message-ID: <003901c2e7c9$5a01b7e0$cac387d9@pb1996> >> There are at least two current Radio 2 DJs (Brian Matthew >> and David Jacobs) who precede him by a number of years Of course. Cheers Alan From stuart@... Wed Mar 12 11:42:57 2003 From: stuart@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:42:57 +0000 Subject: Peelie In-Reply-To: <1047465075.225.29890.m12@yahoogroups.com> References: <1047465075.225.29890.m12@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: >The LFA bloke is Alistaire Cooke. >Is the 'DJ in a weekly music show' you referred to American? think so, he's certainly not from the UK. I'd imagine that Jimmy Young was the longest-serving BBC Dj until his ejection a few months ago! Stuart -- From martinwheatley@... Wed Mar 12 14:29:24 2003 From: martinwheatley@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:29:24 +0000 Subject: Peelie Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030312130100.00c47370@...> Stuart McHugh wrote >this is a bit vague but I read somewhere a couple of weeks ago that >it's widely believed that the guy who does 'Letter From America' for >the BBC is the oldest broadcaster in the world. However this isn't >true, there is someone older than him (in which case they must be in >their 90's). I'm sure the other broadcaster is a DJ in a weekly music >show. We have to distinguish between the oldest and the one who has been broadcasting longest - not necessarily the same thing The 'Letter From America' guy is Alistair Cooke and he has quite likely been doing it longest but he is not a dj of course. The 90 year old is Alan Keith who does '100 Best Tunes' on Radio 2 which Google tells me started in 1959 (probably after David Jacobs and Brian Matthew started with the BBC). Like a number of the early djs he was previously an actor - it's like Radio 3 continuity announcers now - they were originally hired to read a script between records Before they brought in all the pirate djs at the start of Radio1 and 2 there was just the Light Programme (along with the Home Service (later Radio 4) and the Third Programme (later Radio 3) The main Light Programme djs I remember were Brian Matthew, David Jacobs, Pete Murray, Sam Costa and Jack Jackson and Alan Freeman martinw From martinwheatley@... Tue Mar 18 17:37:15 2003 From: martinwheatley@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:37:15 +0000 Subject: Peelie Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030318163635.00c84e68@...> As a follow up to my mention of him last week Radio 2 DJ Alan Keith died today aged 94 martinw From sete.colinas@... Wed Mar 19 15:39:34 2003 From: sete.colinas@... (Leo Gilbert) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:39:34 +0000 Subject: dj rupture mp3s Message-ID: <9A6273B8-5A18-11D7-9125-000A956B4CF8@...> Free, legal and brilliant http://www.negrophonic.com/ Leo From adam.bruderer@... Fri Mar 28 13:31:58 2003 From: adam.bruderer@... (Adam) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:31:58 -0000 Subject: Skater boy Message-ID: On Tuesday, amongst all the plinky-plonky shite which Peelie was playing, he played an electro version of Sk8r Boi (is that how the kids spell it?). I think he said it was by someone called Knife Hand Chop. Can anyone confirm this? I've looked on the track listing on the BBC website, but can't find Tuesdays. TIA Adam From adyfoley@... Fri Mar 28 15:26:21 2003 From: adyfoley@... (=?iso-8859-1?q?ady=20foley?=) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:26:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [peel] Skater boy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030328142621.11402.qmail@...> i missed it but knifehandchop was in session on tuesday but it sounds like his thing so it's likely it was him. he's currently on tour too... http://www.gabber.org/~knifehandchop/ march 29 - Leeds, UK April 2 - Cambridge, UK April 5 - Oslo, Norway april 9 - brighton, UK April 10 - High Wycombe, UK White Horse April 11 - Manchester, UK April 12 - Newcastle, UK sorry, i only know the venue for the wycombe date. ady --- Adam wrote: > On Tuesday, amongst all the plinky-plonky shite which Peelie was > playing, he played an electro version of Sk8r Boi (is that how the > kids spell it?). I think he said it was by someone called Knife Hand > Chop. Can anyone confirm this? I've looked on the track listing on > the BBC website, but can't find Tuesdays. > > TIA > > Adam ===== vacuous pop presents... a kosmische event, featuring... sunnyvale noise sub-element, they came from the stars i saw them, portal & the modern plus kosmische dj's the cellar, frewin court, cornmarket street, oxford wednesday 16 april doors 8.30 til late / �4 / 18+ more info: www.vacuouspop.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com From les_miller@... Fri Mar 28 16:04:12 2003 From: les_miller@... (Les Miller) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:04:12 +0000 Subject: [peel] Skater boy Message-ID: <80256CF7.0052CE36.00@...> Yes - it was Knife Hand Chop with a live mix. "Adam" on 28/03/2003 12:31:58 Please respond to peel@yahoogroups.com Sent by: "Adam" To: peel@yahoogroups.com cc: Subject: [peel] Skater boy On Tuesday, amongst all the plinky-plonky shite which Peelie was playing, he played an electro version of Sk8r Boi (is that how the kids spell it?). I think he said it was by someone called Knife Hand Chop. Can anyone confirm this? I've looked on the track listing on the BBC website, but can't find Tuesdays. TIA Adam Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ From martinwheatley@... Sat Mar 29 11:52:20 2003 From: martinwheatley@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:52:20 +0000 Subject: Skater boy Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030329104524.00c5ce30@...> It was part of the mix knifehandchop did for Peel If you are doing a search note that it is just one word Such a search will throw up http://knifehandchop.gabber.org/samples.htm where there are a bunch of MP3s for download It includes the Dance Mix2000 track that Peel listeners will probably best remember him for I have found it to be worth routinely doing searches on Peel's session guests A surprisingly large proportion have MP3s for download to supplement your session enjoyment! martinw