[peel] Peel - The Future

[Kybosh]

 I was thinking this myself Martin - and feeling selfish for doing so I have
to admit - but:



I would like to say some of the DJs from Resonance FM take the spots. After
all it was Peel who inspired them to start the station. In some ways they
lack the pop sensibilty that Peelie had but, better that than Zane.



Really, you need someone inhabiting the world between Lammo and The Mixing
It Team. But that gap is enormous and that's why the great man had so much
space to find the stuff he found.



 I'm trying to say I really can't think of anyone in the public eye to do
the job. I suppose I'll listen to Sean Rowley as the closest I can get, but
it's not that close :(

 

-------Original Message-------

 

From: peel@yahoogroups.com

Date: 10/27/04 09:14:00

To: peel@yahoogroups.com

Cc: zapsmart@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [peel] Peel - The Future

 

Yesterday we were quite rightly in shock but today we must

think of the future. Important decisions are going to be made at

Radio 1 and soon

 

There is a fundamental choice to be made here. It depends on whether

they see Peel as representing a type of music in which case he would

be replaced by someone similarly adventurous and eclectic or if they

see Peel now as a personality dj who can therefore be replaced in

the schedules by anything they choose. Another dance prog or a Zane

clone perhaps (after all Zane plays 'new music' doesn't he grrrrrrrrrrh)

 

It matters to me very much (and I hope to most on this list) that they

take the former view. We can influence this

The man making the decision will be Andy Parfitt at Radio 1 and he needs

to be bombarded with with e-mails telling him that we expect the legacy

of Peel to be continued and not lost in some slick rescheduling

I don know his e-mail (does anyone?) but a guess would be

andy.parfitt@...

 

Someone has to stand between real music and the forces of blandness and

mediocrity as represented by the likes of Simon Cowell and I don't fancy

Zane Lowe for the job

 

It matters folks and after the decision has been made will be too late.

 

martinw