[peel] Tommy Vance (off topic?)

[Martin Wheatley]

At 16:27 22/10/2005, you wrote:

>I was never sure exactly what John thought of Tommy Vance.  I have two 
>contrasting memories which have got lodged in my brain cells for some reason.
>
>The first was of John warmly praising his professionalism - particularly 
>with respect to his timekeeping.  If you were taking over from Tommy, you 
>just knew that he would time his closing track and his comments to the 
>exact second.
>
>The other memory is that he used to deliberately mispronounce his name as 
>Tommy Vn'ass.  I was never sure whether this was just a bit of 
>good-natured banter, or whether it was said with a degree of bitterness.
>
>Mostyn

Most people in show business have to be to some extent egotistical (even 
Peelie had his sensitive areas)
I think that in later days Vance became increasingly bitter because he 
didn't get offered the big jobs he thought his seniority deserved
He wasn't the only old-school DJ to think that

martinw