[peel] Keep It Peel

[Andrew Morrison]

Yeah, Coxon was great - his guitar playing can make it sound like two acoustics going at once sometimes - chordal strummings plus picking out melodies.  He spent some time hanging around in the studio that was serving drinks and snacks, but Damon (like Polly) didn't really seem to hang out before or after their sets - if they did, I didn't see them.

The Shelia/Amsterdam dedication was very poignant, as that was the song I most associate with John (even more so than 'Teenage Kicks') and I've been tryingto track it down for ages.  Amsterdam are now signed up to a new label called Beat Crazy Records, and 'Does This Train...' will finally be released as a single next year (as John had hoped, for such a long time).  A classic song, and a real tear jerker when played through Maida Vale's loud speakers on the night - everyone stopped and went silent when Sheila spoke and the record got played.  We were all really listening to the lyrics.  I got Rob Da Bank to play it on air in the weeks following John's death, and it was unsettling that Sheila picked the same track to sum him up.  I only hope the song gets the success it deserves in 2005.

Andy

Regards,
Andrew Morrison
Email: morriso@btinternet.com
Website: http://www.AndrewMorrison.co.uk 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jan Buxton 
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [peel] Keep It Peel


On Friday, December 17, 2004 5:28 PM [GMT+1=CET],
Andrew Morrison <morriso@...> wrote:
> For those unable to cram into the smaller Studio 4, three video
> screens relayed the sound and pictures of the performers set up in
> there.  In the larger studio we had acoustic, minimalistic
> performances from PJ Harvey (still singing - and looking - as great
> as she ever did),

I though she was good as well listening at home. Clearly not everyone 
did though, this is from someone from the Hefner list (who got to go 
because he was the only person with the wit to email Darren),

<quote>
The other funny thing I remember came at the end of PJ Harvey's set. 
Darren
lent over to me and said "What did you think of her then?", to which I
replied "Really good. I've never seen her before." His response?

"I think it's all complete bollocks!"
</quote>

> Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon

In the same room? Any interaction? I thought Coxon was very good BTW.

-- 
Jan 


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