[peel] Re: Re: Re: Peel Day

[Martin Wheatley]

At 16:50 22/09/2005, you wrote:
 >
 >> From: Martin Wheatley
 >> Subject: Re: Re: Peel Day
 >>
 >> At 15:47 20/09/2005, Pete Flynn wrote:
 >> >
 >> >venetian snares "safe". heheh. let alone old/established..
 >>
 >> A dozen albums and many 12" and 7" is not my definition of a newcomer
 >> As to established I'd guess that to a Transatlantic audience with the
 >> exception of New Order they would be the biggest name on the bill
 >>
 >
 >perhaps, but that's only in the space of a mere few years, several
 >albums a year etc. And he's still pretty young too. Not so sure about
 >the 'biggest' thing either, he's still fairly niche in spite of how
 >his profile's picked up..
 >But hey this is getting a bit pedantic now, sorry ;)
 >
I was thinking in terms of people with maybe one album or a couple of 
singles - the sort of thing that occupied a significant portion of all of 
Peel's shows.   2 or 3 of those doing short sets on the bill would have 
hurt no one and it would have been more representative of what Peel was 
about and what the BBC claimed Peel Day was about
If we are going to stick to established artists that Peel helped what about 
Yes, Genesis and Mike Oldfield - he was just as significant in their 
careers early on!!
I agree that Venetian Snares are less in this category than the others 
since Peel didn't do that much for him but I suspect he is a kind of 
cop-out in that with him there they have an excuse not to include any grime 
or hardcore
The Peel Nostalgia Industry rolls on

martinw