[peel] Re:[OT] [Altrok] Update #141: New Tracks and Unearthed Classics, As

[Sean Carolan]

Stuart,

Well, alrighty then - thanks for your understanding as well.

While I'm more aping the style of the late, lamented FM106.3 here on the
shores of New Jersey, it's no secret that our programming was in many ways
influenced by John Peel's invisible hand (like Adam Smith's, but far less
greedy.)  That's the only explanation I have for our little US station adding
Auto Da Fe's "All Is Yellow Hot Hot Hot", not to mention The Smiths' "Hand In
Glove" when that was all they'd released so far.  In fact, a mid-nineties
interview with our own eventual music director Matt Pinfield (who would later
become the odd man out among MTV presenters here in the states) pretty clearly
states that Peel was guiding our choices unknowingly, as tapes of his show
were getting over here and being listened to by all the right people. 

(Yeah, there was a time in the US when a small commercial radio station could
use John Peel as an unpaid "consultant".)

So, unlike Peel, I don't have nearly the resources of which he could afford
himself, and I'm probably less immune to "hype", though I do have my breaking
point.  But I've still got Hyper-kinako and Vive La Fete in my playlist, and I
feel pretty good about that.  (I've even had live webcasts from my home, and
it's a luxury my children definitely appreciate.)

Now to do a Christmas show of my own...

-Sean


On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:15:12 +0000, Stuart McHugh wrote
> hi
> thanks for your understanding Sean. It dies seem that your emails 
> aren't conventional spam (not my term, honest!) and I suspect that 
> it was more the size of the posting with playlist info etc that was 
> the problem. I can see that you do read the group mails and in fact 
> your response etc has sparked more debate here than there's been in 
> many a week! Perhaps the whole point of the group needs to be re-
> addressed, that's less for me to lay down (I am but  the conduit)
>  but I'd not want to stop people with a genuine interest and 
> genuinely useful info to be stopped contributing (especially as I 
> have my own webradio streams that I'd lie to plug ;-) Sean, I reckon 
> that the best bet might be to certainly continue to post 'reminders' 
> on the show, especially if there are highlights which are out of the 
> 'norm' (sessions and the like). How does that sound? Thanks
> 
> Stuart
> 
> >Not a problem - sorry to be a bother.  I agree it's little more than
> >tangentially related (hence the [OT] prefix) but I'd asked a while back if
> >it would be okay to post and got no complaints.
> >
> >However, for those who are interested, here's an audio file:
> >http://www.altrok.com/peel.mp3 - at least Peel knew I was trying to be
> >honest about the effort.  (There'll be a nice Peel Session track from
> >Elastica coming up on this week's show, by the way.)
> >
> >If anyone's interested, go ahead and join the "altrok" group here at Yahoo:
> >
> >http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/altrok/join
> >
> >Thanks for your patience.
> >
> >-Sean
> 
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