[peel] Digest Number 683

[Stuart McHugh]

anyone else getting a message bounce when they try to vote in the 
F50? I got an 'out of office reply' and then a disk full message - 
for some reason the votes were forwarded to John'home email account!
Can't think why the Beeb didn't just set up a new email address to 
send all the messages to rather than  to john.peel@....

>  During the early stages of the vote,
>he made comment about "a band beginning with D and a band beginning with A".
>It soon became obvious that D were The Dawn Parade, but who were A?  Was it
>The Aphrodisiacs, who had a link on their Website urging people to vote for
>"This is a Campaign" - which coincidentally appeared just 1 place above the
>demoted Dawn Parade?  or was it Antihero?  They obviously have quite a few
>fans, but ... 5th best song of 2002???
I always think that if a band has the Peel 'stamp of approval' i.e. 
if he declares a liking for it himself, then their chances are 
enhanced. The Aphrodisiacs had their demo played a few times before 
last year's 50. Couldn't say if Antihero did, but their considerably 
higher placing is I'm sure the 'A' he was referring to.

>I thought one of the strangest results was Nina Nastasia in 4th place.  I
>like Nina, and I bought her album last year, but I couldn't nominate any one
>song on the album as being particularly outstanding.  And yet, enough people
>apparently liked "Ugly Face" to vote it into 4th place, but not one of the
>other songs received enough votes even to get into the Top 50.  Odd?
Odd that you couldn't choose one track but other people decided one 
track was 'standout'. Where F50 voting is concerned people will often 
choose a track  they feel will be chosen by other fans of the band, 
that's clear. Maybe it was again the one Peel played most? Or  as 
simple as it being the first track on the album.

I suppose a vote for 'favourite band/act' rather than 'top 3 songs' 
might make for a good poll...

Ob: Black music: I was never surprised that Public Enemy got into the 
charts in the past as their rebellious rap was cool for many WBWGs, 
and Dreadzone were making dance music, broadly,with an indie 
crossover - what I'm getting at is the 'colour' of the music or the 
music-makers was irrelevant.
reggae has always been sorely under-represented - and that's despite 
John's playing of tracks almost incessantly. Seems that the audience 
just aren't that keen (The Naturalites 'Picture on my Wall' is one 
example of a Peel-endorsed track that was played to death at the tie 
- rightly IMO)
As for the Bhundus, I voted for 'Manhenga' - I guess there was no 
Scottish borders rigging conspiracy that I knew of on the go - more's 
the pity!

Stuart

PS - on the subject of rigging - Bang Bang Machine's 'Geek Love'???
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