US Public Radio report

[Tom Roche]

The American public radio network NPR did a 6 minute report on John Peel this afternoon. Melt-Banana is mentioned in the same breath as Extreme Noise Terror. A BBC suit is interviewed, and there is funny soundbite of JP nearly screwing something up


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4127533







I have been in touch with Yako from MB...

She says:" I feel really sad and got shocked......
It is too early since he was still 65 years old.
I hope I could see him once more and say thanks."






Also, there's one last chance to still hear a current archived Peel show, at the World Service site. The RealPlayer link is

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/rpms/ws_johnpeel.rpm

Starts with Grinderswitch and is just another great show.

WorldService archives are mono and only 16k streams, still worthwhile. It will be taken down Friday at 830 UTC

He would have had another WS show or two in the can, I hope they decide to run them.


tom