Tom De-Lurks

[Tom Roche]

Hello from over the pondŠ Yeh... I haven't posted in awhile. December 
was a really busy month. Even Phil Edwards (who graciously put me up 
when I traveled to Bury St Edmunds) claims I've been ignoring him, 
even though I sent a postcard from LA, and then a note later from 
Atlanta. Some people would pay handsomely to have me ignore them, but 
Phil rides for free, LOL.

Anyway, I am late with this but the article I wrote about Peel for a 
southeastern US music magazine was published a few weeks ago. In the 
next e-mail I will post the entire story. It is a lot of tales you've 
heard told before of courseŠ but it was written for a USA audience so 
I have to go into occasional explanations of obvious stuff, how the 
BBC works etc. A lot of friends here tell me they had no idea Peel 
had lived in the USA for a time, began in radio here.

I've written a few other articles over the years but this was the 
first time I got the cover story. See wot the cover looks like the at 
http://www.stompandstammer.com . In fact the whole story is there on 
the site but only for a few more days. It has a typo or two they 
never fixed, so read the version I'll post here.

Stomp And Stammer is a freebie mag, and I have a few dozen copies, so 
if anyone really wants to have and hold a copyŠ well I don't know 
just how I'd work that outŠ. Costs me about $2.50, a pound and a 
half, to mail you one. Write me offlist and maybe we can trade 
somethingŠ a home burned HMHB disc maybe ha ha.


So. A new year. No Peel. Sucks.



Tom in Atlanta