From ken_garner@... Fri Jun 1 11:35:54 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:35:54 -0000 Subject: Keep those specific listener stories coming... Message-ID: Just a reminder there is still time - a week or two, must be in by 15/16 June really - for you to pitch in a 130-word 'A Listener writes...' year-specific memory of Peel for possible inclusion in my Peel Sessions Book. Thanks to all those that have responded, some really great stories there (one or two will need a bit of editing, sorry). Remember, what we're after is something as specific as possible, relating to something that happened on the show which you heard that related to or triggered something in your own life: "If I hadn't listened to Peel that night..." is the idea (I can help you date things, as some of you know). Your story might have been triggered by a session track, a record, an odd-event mistake or accident in the show, something peel said or read out, whatever. Perhaps unsurprisngly, I've got most in from 80s and 90s, and I could really do with more from 67- 69, 69-75, and 76-82. If you can think of someone you know beyond this community who might have something to say, please forward this. Many thanks ken ps. remember to specify the year, and at the bottom give your name and location (a town or county) as you would wish it to appear in the book if included From koogy@... Sat Jun 2 12:00:06 2007 From: koogy@... (koogy@...) Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:00:06 +0100 Subject: [peel] Purely Peel - BBC 7 (Radio) In-Reply-To: <0d0a01c79d05$dfccd990$0202a8c0@...> References: <0d0a01c79d05$dfccd990$0202a8c0@...> Message-ID: <46613FA6.8060300@...> Paul Webster wrote: > This 3 hour documentary is being repeated on 2nd June on BBC 7 (digital > radio channel). > > Paul heard a bit of this this morning (is repeated twice more over the next day or two). it appears to be the same 3 hours of interview that he did with walters some time ago and that were re-aired in 6 bits on six music and were available on the website for a while. worth listening to, if you haven't already heard it, for the range of accents that appear over the years. andy From ken_garner@... Sun Jun 3 21:41:55 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:41:55 -0000 Subject: Peel on Radio 3 in 1976! Message-ID: John Bra... your email is clogged up and I can't get through to you, but are these the programmes you had in mind? Just found these in a trawl through BBC archive index: 1976 F 23/4 – F 28/5 on R3 John Peel presents 'Where It's At' 6-part personal documentary series about the present and possible future of popular music: 1 How did it get here? – beginnings, 2 Rock Art and Rock Folly (Dylan, Beatles, ELP, Mike Oldfield), 3 The Supreme Sacrifice (blues & gospel), 4 From Highlife to Dub and Skank, 5 Is there rock on the moon – rock spreads around the world, 6 It Gives Me Great Pleasure – tax exiles and the music Peel currently likes ken From alan@... Mon Jun 4 22:51:14 2007 From: alan@... (Alan Ford) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:51:14 +0100 Subject: Colorblind James Experience Message-ID: <003f01c7a6ea$179c5d30$0201a8c0@fordyidkviebja> Hi, Are there any CbJE fans out there? More specifically, anyone with recordings of their BBC sessions? They did 2 for JP, 2 for AK (one as the Death Valley Boys), and at least two live sessions; all between 88 and 90. The first JP session was released on Strange Fruit, but does anyone have any others? Cheers Alan From john.bravin@... Wed Jun 6 19:51:15 2007 From: john.bravin@... (John Bravin) Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:51:15 +0200 Subject: [peel] Peel on Radio 3 in 1976! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4666F413.9000003@...> Hi Ken Sorry I've been off travelling and just got back. This program sounds about right. I used my reel-reel recorder until about 1976 when I switched to cassettes (all my punk stuff is on cassettes) so it is quite possible I recorded these documentaries. As is common I must recorded over most of them leaving just the bit about Bob Dylan. Another pointer is his voice was more 'normal' and less 'effete hippy' than I recall from the very early days. And clearly from the way he phrased it, it sounds like 'of course every knows Bob Dylan now, but in these early days no one knew who he was'. Hope this helps. Every time I hear Desolation Row on the radio I think of 'button down Madras shirts'.....And also of how timeless the lyrics are Cheers John ken garner wrote: > > John Bra... your email is clogged up and I can't get through to you, > but are these the programmes you had in mind? Just found these in a > trawl through BBC archive index: > > 1976 > F 23/4 -- F 28/5 on R3 John Peel presents 'Where It's At' 6-part > personal documentary series about the present and possible future of > popular music: 1 How did it get here? -- beginnings, 2 Rock Art and Rock > Folly (Dylan, Beatles, ELP, Mike Oldfield), 3 The Supreme Sacrifice > (blues & gospel), 4 From Highlife to Dub and Skank, 5 Is there rock on > the moon -- rock spreads around the world, 6 It Gives Me Great Pleasure -- > tax exiles and the music Peel currently likes > > ken > > From hubcity@... Mon Jun 11 13:33:31 2007 From: hubcity@... (hubcity@...) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:33:31 -0400 Subject: [OT] [Altrok] Update #161: Support Your Local Web Station! Message-ID: <0JJG00APQYRV3IH0@...> Firstly, the important stuff: Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us. Now then, in addition to the outstanding Altrok Radio music mix that got us an Editor's Pick nod at Live365 and at About.com, we've added features we know you'll like... Thursdays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm), you get to hear Sean Carolan (often referred to in these dispatches as "me") showcase the new music we've added this week on the Altrok Radio FM Showcase. New stuff, classic stuff, and Jeff Raspe with his Altrok Radio Underground Pick Of The Week... And on Friday, it's Altrok's Eighties Friday: music from the eighties that mattered then AND now. An eight hour playlist that features some of the best that decade had to offer, drawing from all the music that was available at the time (yes, even from the seventies.) But for now - we've got songs to let you know about... This week, our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from: - Art Brut - CSS - LCD Soundsystem - Viva Voce - The Maccabees - Field Music Plus we've got newly-added music: - The Answering Machine - Silent Hotels - Bloc Party - We Were Lovers - Datarock - I Used To Dance With My Daddy - Esiotrot - Emily Scott - Good Shoes - Morden - Juliana Hatfield - Get In Line (Live) - Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - Mystery Jets - Zootime - Candie Payne - All I Need To Hear - Polytechnic - Won't You Come Around - Seems So Bright - Red Letter Box (Paper Chalk Mix) - White Rabbits - While We Go Dancing - The Wombats - Kill The Director Our Featured Classics: - The B-52's - Party Out Of Bounds - Gas, The - Ignore Me - Husker Du - Friend, You've Got To Fall - The Replacements - Kiss Me On The Bus - The Selecter - Cellebrate The Bullet - Squeeze - Up The Junction - Talking Heads - Crosseyed And Painless - Violent Femmes - Prove My Love - Visage - The Damned Dont Cry - We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - Love Is The Slug As always, thanks for listening! - Sean Carolan Altrok Radio On your computer right now at http://www.altrokradio.com On the radio Fridays at 10pm, at 90.5 The Night From martinw@... Mon Jun 11 13:39:36 2007 From: martinw@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:39:36 +0100 Subject: XFM Player Message-ID: XFM have just added a 7 day Play again player Page describing it is http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?b=onair&id=418763 The player can be accessed at http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/player/default.asp?s=59 Its a Windows Media transmission Users of NetTransport can find URLs by starting the prog playing on the player and then right clicking on the bar and choosing Properties Presumably the XFm deal is the same as the BBCs with a 7 day limitation, no MP3s and limited quality (although that will be hard to tell with XFM martinw From festive50@... Tue Jun 12 00:17:59 2007 From: festive50@... (Phil Edwards) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:17:59 +0100 Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: These files have finally be converted to MP3 by John and have been uploaded to the Peel Server. Phil -----Original Message----- From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of hills1902 Sent: 15 April 2007 14:18 To: peel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear programmes that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following bands: 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo Dog Band Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John Dummer Blues Band Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat Khan 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at 1 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I seem to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so some of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes also have various LPs of that era on them. Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing to send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. From stelloyd@... Tue Jun 12 08:57:43 2007 From: stelloyd@... (Steve Lloyd) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:57:43 +0100 Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From tonydonaghey@... Tue Jun 12 10:01:13 2007 From: tonydonaghey@... (tony donaghey) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Jonny Rotten on Tommy Vance Capital Show 1977 Message-ID: <305445.57762.qm@...> On the comments section of the Kevin Coyne myspace page a guy has posted a link to the Rotten radio programme in which he plays his favourite tunes - Coyne's Eastbourne Ladies was one. Well worth a listen and some interesting choices. Tony www.myspace.com/kevincoynebookscom From tonydonaghey@... Tue Jun 12 10:15:00 2007 From: tonydonaghey@... (tony donaghey) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: That Rotten Link as it should be Message-ID: <656826.50371.qm@...> Sorry about that - Tony www.myspace.com/kevincoynebookscom From thebarguest@... Tue Jun 12 11:52:41 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:52:41 -0000 Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Many thanks to everyone involved ! Cheers, Micky Tutte --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Edwards" wrote: > > These files have finally be converted to MP3 by John and have been uploaded > to the Peel Server. > > Phil > -----Original Message----- > From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of > hills1902 > Sent: 15 April 2007 14:18 > To: peel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 > > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > programmes > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following > bands: > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo > Dog > Band > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John > Dummer Blues Band > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat > Khan > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at > 1 > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I > seem > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so > some > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes > also have various LPs of that era on them. > > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing > to > send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity > if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. > From pentachromatica@... Tue Jun 12 11:56:47 2007 From: pentachromatica@... (pavlos odee) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:56:47 +0100 (BST) Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <555126.31651.qm@...> Hi there, How do you access the Peel Server? Thanks, P --- Steve Lloyd wrote: > Thanks Phil, > whats the address ? > Steve > > > On 6/11/07, Phil Edwards > wrote: > > > > These files have finally be converted to MP3 by > John and have been > > uploaded to the Peel Server. > > > > Phil > > > > -----Original Message----- > > *From:* peel@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]*On Behalf Of * > > hills1902 > > *Sent:* 15 April 2007 14:18 > > *To:* peel@yahoogroups.com > > *Subject:* [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and > 1970 > > > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of > eight Top Gear > > programmes > > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions > from the following > > bands: > > > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, > Eclection, Family > > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, > Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo > > Dog > > Band > > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake > Paddle Steamer, John > > Dummer Blues Band > > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third > Ear Band > > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, > Pretty Things, Imrat > > Khan > > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, > Cochise > > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per > second and some at > > 1 > > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete > programmes, though > > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on > most of them. I > > seem > > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the > time so quality is > > not brilliant, but they were recorded by > connecting to the speaker > > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). > Also the tape recorder > > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up > to full speed so > > some > > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 > mins or so! The tapes > > also have various LPs of that era on them. > > > > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in > them ? I'm willing > > to > > send them by post in return for the postage (plus > donation to charity > > if there's a lot of interest), and would be > interested in > > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to > do with them. > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html From festive50@... Tue Jun 12 12:52:38 2007 From: festive50@... (festive50@...) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:52:38 +0100 (BST) Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2380.82.152.179.245.1181645558.VFQUQ2xaQUp3Rw==.squirrel@82.152.179.245> Sorry! I should've added. Any queries, please reply OFF LIST. Phil > These files have finally be converted to MP3 by John and have been > uploaded > to the Peel Server. > > Phil > -----Original Message----- > From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of > hills1902 > Sent: 15 April 2007 14:18 > To: peel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 > > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > programmes > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following > bands: > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo > Dog > Band > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John > Dummer Blues Band > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat > Khan > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at > 1 > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I > seem > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so > some > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes > also have various LPs of that era on them. > > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing > to > send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity > if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. > > > > > From willowct@... Tue Jun 12 13:38:26 2007 From: willowct@... (willow) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:38:26 -0000 Subject: song help Message-ID: on an uncut cd a while back there was this song with a chorus that goes "it doesnt matter if your all fucked up" i think the song is called "i never wanna see you again" ive lost the cd and the magazine i think. any clues? MERCI From tomb242@... Tue Jun 12 13:29:03 2007 From: tomb242@... (Tom Bartlett) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:29:03 +0100 Subject: [peel] That Rotten Link as it should be In-Reply-To: <656826.50371.qm@...> References: <656826.50371.qm@...> Message-ID: <466E837F.2090009@...> Pretty good find! If you download the playlist files and open them up in notepad you can find the links to the mp3's and download them if you want to keep them rather than stream the shows. tony donaghey wrote: > Sorry about that - Tony > www.myspace.com/kevincoynebookscom > > > > From koogy@... Tue Jun 12 14:40:04 2007 From: koogy@... (Andrew Dean) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:40:04 +0100 Subject: song help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: willow writes: > on an uncut cd a while back there was this song with a chorus that goes > > "it doesnt matter if your all fucked up" > > i think the song is called "i never wanna see you again" > > ive lost the cd and the magazine i think. > > any clues? list of uncut cds and tracklists on musicbrainz: http://musicbrainz.org/label/4fd8d115-5173-419d-8c2a-422563406ae1.html andy From philip.gh@... Tue Jun 12 15:26:51 2007 From: philip.gh@... (phil) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:26:51 -0000 Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks a lot Phil(and John!)I look forward to listening to these. Phil From thebarguest@... Wed Jun 13 00:16:36 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:16:36 -0000 Subject: That Rotten Link as it should be In-Reply-To: <466E837F.2090009@...> Message-ID: Thanks Tony, Tom ! Sounds pretty OK for 32/16 mp3 quality ! A bit sad to hear Lydon lie that he dislikes virtually all previous music. Thank God that Maoist punk attitude only lasted a year or so ! Apparently Lydon was a longhair into Hawkwind in 1975 ! His choice of sounds here is surprisingly eclectic and mature, however. --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Tom Bartlett wrote: > > Pretty good find! If you download the playlist files and open them up in > notepad you can find the links to the mp3's and download them if you > want to keep them rather than stream the shows. > > tony donaghey wrote: > > Sorry about that - Tony > > www.myspace.com/kevincoynebookscom > > > > > > > > > From ali_kuzan@... Wed Jun 13 13:35:53 2007 From: ali_kuzan@... (ali karan) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:35:53 +0100 (BST) Subject: NO GASIONALIZM @ GOTEBURG ,PRAG , BERLIN ,... 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Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html From insessiontonight@... Thu Jun 14 15:07:13 2007 From: insessiontonight@... (catinnaflat2000) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:07:13 -0000 Subject: Another Peel Blog Message-ID: Apologies for my first post to the group being to plug my own blog, particularly as I realise that for most people the enthusiasm for being told about yet another Peel blog is probably by now ranking alongside finding out that Howard Wilkinson has just been appointed manager at your football club. I initially tried to get In Session Tonight going a couple of years ago, with the intention of running through the sessions alphabetically, and sharing what I had - frankly the scale of the undertaking rather made me freeze (I got as far as Aavikko, which tells it's own sad story). Anyway, I'm having another stab - as originally planned the blog will share what sessions I have (most recently AC/DC's 1976 session), and it also now features a podcast to make sure that where sessions aren't available that as far as possible all the bands that recorded Peel sessions get an airing. I'm obviously heavily dependent on the wonderful work of Ken Garner. Any help that list members can give with some of the more obscure artists would be hugely gratefully recieved - in the short term, Bill Aitken (any information that adds to his work as a session engineer would be great) and Ahmad Al-Khlail & Hamid Mohammed (anything!) are my biggest headaches. Cheers Steve From eddie.duffy@... Thu Jun 14 16:10:19 2007 From: eddie.duffy@... (Eddie Duffy) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:10:19 +0100 (BST) Subject: [peel] Another Peel Blog In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4319.83.104.185.49.1181830219.QVVGFWgAQUt7.squirrel@83.104.185.49> Hi Steve, Yes, I recently noticed that your blog had started up again: good stuff! All the best with it, and here's hoping I live long enough to download that Zion Train session! ;-) So you must be catinnaflat off SoulSeek, then? I remember getting a whole bunch of Festive 50s from you, so a belated thanks! Eddie / DuffPaddy > > Apologies for my first post to the group being to plug my own blog, > particularly as I realise that for most people the enthusiasm for being > told about yet another Peel blog is probably by now ranking alongside > finding out that Howard Wilkinson has just been appointed manager at > your football club. I initially tried to get In Session Tonight > going a couple of years ago, with the > intention of running through the sessions alphabetically, and sharing > what I had - frankly the scale of the undertaking rather made me freeze > (I got as far as Aavikko, which tells it's own sad story). > > Anyway, I'm having another stab - as originally planned the blog will > share what sessions I have (most recently AC/DC's 1976 session), and it > also now features a podcast to make sure that where sessions aren't > available that as far as possible all the bands that recorded Peel > sessions get an airing. > > I'm obviously heavily dependent on the wonderful work of Ken Garner. > Any help that list members can give with some of the more obscure > artists would be hugely gratefully recieved - in the short term, Bill > Aitken (any information that adds to his work as a session engineer > would be great) and Ahmad Al-Khlail & Hamid Mohammed (anything!) are my > biggest headaches. > > Cheers > > Steve > > From bingoandsnork@... Thu Jun 14 16:13:28 2007 From: bingoandsnork@... (dean coster) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:13:28 +0100 (BST) Subject: [peel] Another Peel Blog In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <187052.7615.qm@...> I remember you. I posted a link to your site a couple of years ago via this very forum. And then you did nothing. I was beginning take it personally. I still think this is a fantastic if totally impossible idea, but good luck. If you've only just joined I suggest you trawl through the archive and look at the posts about the soon to be re-released In Session Tonight book. This wonderful just-in-time-for-christmas re-release (and updated with the help from some good people here) may help you find out what you're missing. catinnaflat2000 wrote: Apologies for my first post to the group being to plug my own blog, particularly as I realise that for most people the enthusiasm for being told about yet another Peel blog is probably by now ranking alongside finding out that Howard Wilkinson has just been appointed manager at your football club. I initially tried to get In Session Tonight going a couple of years ago, with the intention of running through the sessions alphabetically, and sharing what I had - frankly the scale of the undertaking rather made me freeze (I got as far as Aavikko, which tells it's own sad story). Anyway, I'm having another stab - as originally planned the blog will share what sessions I have (most recently AC/DC's 1976 session), and it also now features a podcast to make sure that where sessions aren't available that as far as possible all the bands that recorded Peel sessions get an airing. I'm obviously heavily dependent on the wonderful work of Ken Garner. Any help that list members can give with some of the more obscure artists would be hugely gratefully recieved - in the short term, Bill Aitken (any information that adds to his work as a session engineer would be great) and Ahmad Al-Khlail & Hamid Mohammed (anything!) are my biggest headaches. Cheers Steve --------------------------------- All New Yahoo! Mail � Tired of unwanted email come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. From paul@... Thu Jun 14 22:34:01 2007 From: paul@... (Paul Webster) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:34:01 +0100 Subject: Peel cameo in Five Seconds to Spare on TV Message-ID: <064101c7aec3$5835b900$0202a8c0@...> As featured in one of the Peel documentaries (at least I seem to remember it) ... I think he was in a record library chatting to one of the band members. "Five Seconds to Spare" on BBC 2 on Sunday 24th June 2007 at 02:00 to 03:40 Thriller based on Jonathan Coe's best-selling novel The Dwarves of Death. Opening with a bizarre murder witnessed solely by the lead singer of a rock band, the story then jumps back three weeks as the band moves to London in search of stardom. Here, they meet their drug-crazed producer whose involvement with a 1970s punk band increasingly appears to hold the key to the murder. Featuring a cameo by the late John Peel. Director: Tom Connolly Starring: Max Beesley, Valentina Cervi, Gary Condes, Anastasia Hille, James Hooton, Ronny Jhutti (Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 12, 3 Star) Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=17774 Copyright GipsyMedia Ltd. From michael.jennings42@... Sat Jun 16 19:24:16 2007 From: michael.jennings42@... (Michael Jennings) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:24:16 -0000 Subject: honours Message-ID: All this hullabaloo about the queen's honours. I'm reminded that Peel when referring to his own said laconically that it could be seen as a reward for doing the same thing over many years, and therefore it was an accolade for his own spectacular lack of ambition! From eddie.duffy@... Sun Jun 17 19:26:42 2007 From: eddie.duffy@... (Eddie Duffy) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:26:42 +0100 Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: <2380.82.152.179.245.1181645558.VFQUQ2xaQUp3Rw==.squirrel@82.152.179.245> References: <2380.82.152.179.245.1181645558.VFQUQ2xaQUp3Rw==.squirrel@82.152.179.245> Message-ID: <46756ED2.8060400@...> Many thanks to hills1902 and all those involved bringing us these gems! To save the load on Phil's server, I'll be putting these up on Kat's Karavan over the coming weeks. The first's up now. Eddie / DuffPaddy http://kats-karavan.blogspot.com/ Festive50@... wrote: > > Sorry! > I should've added. > Any queries, please reply OFF LIST. > Phil > > > These files have finally be converted to MP3 by John and have been > > uploaded > > to the Peel Server. > > > > Phil > > -----Original Message----- > > From: peel@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com ]On Behalf Of > > hills1902 > > Sent: 15 April 2007 14:18 > > To: peel@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 > > > > > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > > programmes > > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following > > bands: > > > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo > > Dog > > Band > > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John > > Dummer Blues Band > > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat > > Khan > > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at > > 1 > > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I > > seem > > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is > > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker > > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder > > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so > > some > > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes > > also have various LPs of that era on them. > > > > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing > > to > > send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity > > if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. > > > > > > > > > > > > From hubcity@... Mon Jun 18 13:31:20 2007 From: hubcity@... (hubcity@...) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:31:20 -0400 Subject: [OT] [Altrok] Update #162: Support Your Local Web Station! Message-ID: <0JJT00AE5XCACSV0@...> Folks, Firstly, the important stuff: Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us. Now then, to be clear: Altrok Radio is free to listen to, and will be for as long as I can manage it. But if you'd like to listen without advertising (we'll interrupt occasionally to tell you what's coming up on the station) there's a VIP program run by Live365. When you're a VIP, you get access to the commercial-free version of the station, plus all the ads on their website go away. Cost is actually pretty reasonable; the roughly-$15-every-three-months plan seems to be the most popular option. Here's the link if you're interested: http://www.live365.com/rewards/pm?tag=muddychannel And yes, we get a small kickback on that - $1.50 when you sign up, and a penny or so about every three hours you listen. Not much, but we're a pretty lean operation; we'll take what we can get. All that said, bet you're wondering what those new songs we've added are... This week, our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from: - Cribs - Holloways - Calvin Harris - White Rabbits - Maximo Park - Los Campesinos! Plus we've got newly-added music: - Architecture In Helsinki - Heart It Races - Cajun Dance Party - The Next Untouchable - Club 8 - Whatever You Want - Datarock - The New Song - Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors - Frank Smith - Throwin' Rocks - The Go! Team - Grip Like a Vice - The Long Blondes - Once And Never Again - The Monolators - Strawberry Roan - The New Pornographers - My Rights Versus Yours - Reverend And The Makers - The Machine - Spoon - The Underdog - UNKLE - Burn My Shadow (feat. Ian Astbury) Our Featured Classics: - The Bangles - The Real World - Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone - The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night - The Jam - A Town Called Malice - Primal Scream - Loaded - Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust - The The - Dogs Of Lust - Tones On Tail - Twist - Yazoo - Nobody's Diary As always, thanks for listening! - Sean Carolan Altrok Radio On your computer right now at http://www.altrokradio.com On the radio Fridays at 10pm, at 90.5 The Night From douglas.fisher@... Mon Jun 18 23:53:49 2007 From: douglas.fisher@... (df100179) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:53:49 -0000 Subject: Play about John Peel at the Edinburgh Festival in August Message-ID: Just been flicking through the programme for this year's Edinburgh fringe festival and noticed that there is a play about John showing for 3 weeks during August. Has anyone heard anything about this? It says it is a world premiere, so I assume no one will have seen it? The details are as follows: Teenage Kicks A funny, touching journey through the life of Britain's best-loved broadcaster John Peel as he transforms from a well-spoken idealistic hippy into a down-to-earth DJ. An ordinary bloke with an extraordinary love for music. venue: Assembly Universal Arts group: Home Truths present category: Theatre From mar.celle@... Tue Jun 19 13:45:25 2007 From: mar.celle@... (Marcelle) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:45:25 +0200 Subject: Today and this week on Another Nice Mess Message-ID: <001e01c7b267$56c9a660$9900000a@PC154981710422> Hi there, today (live) and this week (listen again) on Another Nice Mess as always 3 hours of the most exciting, new and forthcoming underground music from all over the world: Special: The Black Paths: live Plus amongst others: Tall Pony, On/Off, Jack-Jack & De Wandelende Feedback, Nadja, Zea, Retina.it, Sub Version feat. Paul St. Hilaire, Beatnik Filmstars, Kemialliset Ystävät, Goddess Of Disaster, Timeblind, Gatundu Boys, Warlock, Windmill, Malcolm Middleton, Shut Up And Dance, Shackleton, Slop Cake, Hu Vibrational, Nina Nastasia and Jim White, Black Dice, The Haddenham One As always there is room for REQUESTS/oldies. For REQUESTS mail Marcelle at: info@... She broadcasts from home, so she might play your requested song (almost) instantly! ANOTHER NICE MESS ‘’Indispensable listening’’ ‘’If you’re missing Peel, allow this to feed you’’ ‘’Marcelle could have been a great teacher in a class of (Mick Patrick, Scotland) (Sarah Nelson, England) ‘curiousity’!’’ (Peter-Max Jacobsen, Denmark) DFM Radio, 19th June 2007 Hostess: Marcelle van Hoof LISTEN LIVE online: www.dfm.nu every Tuesday between 19-22 hours CET (Dutch time) / 18-21 hours GMT (UK time) LISTEN AT ANY OTHER TIME via www.anothernicemess.com WEBSITE: www.anothernicemess.com (For PLAYLISTS, LISTENING AGAIN, DOWNLOADING PREVIOUS SHOWS, REVIEWS, INFORMATION, CONTACT ADDRESS and more) MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/djanothernicemess [You are receiving this Another Nice Mess message because you either subscribed to the mailing list and/or we have something in common - Good Underground Music! If you no longer want to hear from Another Nice Mess then please reply with the words 'Unsubscribe' in the subject box]. From ken_garner@... Thu Jun 21 02:19:18 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:19:18 -0000 Subject: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 Message-ID: Here's a nutty Q for you all. The myth is that Peel played Tubular Bells in its entirety. Mike Oldfield says so himself: "Someone said John Peel was going to play Tubular Bells. I switched on the radio to listen and he played the whole thing – both sides of it, an hour's music. I sat there completely stunned. After he played it people started to believe in it. It went on to sell millions and topped the charts for nearly two years. So really I owe him my life." But I can only find in the scripts one play from it, on 29/5/73 (4 days after release) and timing the rest of the records listed in the show plus allowing say 8 minutes for his total links between 23 items (I remember Peel telling me once that he set an absolute limit of 11 minutes for himself in a two hour show; normally aiming for 7/8 minutes, or an average of about 15 secs per link), leaves a max of 25 minutes in the show, time for side one only. The Tubular Bells item says it's only '15 minutes', which is clearly intended to be diplomatic. Is the script correct? Do you know? Did anybody hear or even tape it? KG From ken_garner@... Thu Jun 21 02:27:05 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:27:05 -0000 Subject: Your artwork wanted for Peel Sessions book Message-ID: Damned cheek, you say. Well, if you happen to have one or two of those original typed Festive 50 lists that Peel would send out afterwards if you sent in an SAE (I know I had some once upon a time but I can't find them); or a particularly amusing / specific session-related postcard from Peel; or one of those signed Kid Jensen postcards he'd send out; or a ticket or pass from a Peel Radio 1 show event (Meltdown, Glastonbury, going along to a Maida Vale session with a band or as a guest at one of the lives from there, One Live, birthday or christmas shows - I have one or two I'll chuck in) we'd love to consider it. Scan it and e-mail it to me as a jpeg. All contributions gratefully acknowledged etc. Please specify the year and context in covering e-mail ken From ken_garner@... Thu Jun 21 02:41:42 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:41:42 -0000 Subject: Another Peel Blog In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Now there's a thing: I have just been trying to track down Bill Aitken. I asked Bob Conduct, who knows everyone. He said last he heard (which must be about ten years ago I would guess), after he left the recording studio manufacturer SSL, and after working at Mercury in the UK - where incidentally he helped found the Mercury Music Prize back in the early 90s - "he got a very high-powered job setting up telecomms networks for Mercury in Germany, and moved to live in Germany at that time. I lost touch with him after that, but there is evidence that he came back to live in Oxford - but none of my contact details now work, so who knows?!!" By the way, don't bother googling him: he is NOT the Scottish Tory MSP for Glasgow of the same name! The new book, by the way, is not a reprint of IST, as someone sort of suggested, it is a complete Peel Sessions book, 67-04, of which about half the text is edited/corrected chapter chunks from IST. The new sessions database for Oct 92- end 04 is now almost done, amazingly (though merging it with the edited-down & corrected old one for 67-92 is going to be a barrel of laughs), as is the show by show index. I have even got the Peelenium from Anita and Lynn. So it's coming together. All I have to do now is write the 3 new chapters... ken --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "catinnaflat2000" wrote: > > > Apologies for my first post to the group being to plug my own blog, > particularly as I realise that for most people the enthusiasm for being > told about yet another Peel blog is probably by now ranking alongside > finding out that Howard Wilkinson has just been appointed manager at > your football club. I initially tried to get In Session Tonight > going a couple of years ago, with the > intention of running through the sessions alphabetically, and sharing > what I had - frankly the scale of the undertaking rather made me freeze > (I got as far as Aavikko, which tells it's own sad story). > > Anyway, I'm having another stab - as originally planned the blog will > share what sessions I have (most recently AC/DC's 1976 session), and it > also now features a podcast to make sure that where sessions aren't > available that as far as possible all the bands that recorded Peel > sessions get an airing. > > I'm obviously heavily dependent on the wonderful work of Ken Garner. > Any help that list members can give with some of the more obscure > artists would be hugely gratefully recieved - in the short term, Bill > Aitken (any information that adds to his work as a session engineer > would be great) and Ahmad Al-Khlail & Hamid Mohammed (anything!) are my > biggest headaches. > > Cheers > > Steve > From paul@... Thu Jun 21 09:21:07 2007 From: paul@... (Paul Webster) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:21:07 +0100 Subject: [peel] Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <02b601c7b3d4$bc787cc0$0202a8c0@...> Here is what Richard Branson had to say about it in his autobiography (Losing My Viginity - ISBN 978-0-7535-1020-9 - pages 125-127 in paperback) For the first two weeks, sales of Tubular Bells were stillborn. Then I invited John Peel over to Alberta* for lunch. We had known each other since I had interviewed him for Student**. He had also started his own record label, Dandelion. He was the only person who played serious rock music on the radio, and his show was our only chance of winning air time for Tubular Bells. We all had lunch on Alberta and then settled down on the sofas. I put on Tubular Bells. He was amazed. 'I've never heard anything like it.' John finally said. Later that week we listened to John Peel's laconic voice coming out of the radio. I was sitting on the deck of the houseboat with Mike Oldfield and everyone from Virgin. 'Tonight I'm not going to play a whole lot of records. I'm just going to play you one by a young compose called Mike Oldfield. It's his first record and it's called Tubular Bells. I've never heard anything like it in my life. It's released by Virgin, a brand new record label and it was recorded at Virgin's own studios in Oxfordshire. You'll never forget this.' With that, Tubular Bells started. I was lying on the sofa. Everyone was lounging around in deep armchairs or on the rug, and we passed round beer and wine, cigarettes and joints. I tried to relax. I could see everyone else lying there totally spellbound by the music. But I kept worrying. I find it impossible to stop my brain from churning through all the ideas and possibilities facing me at any given moment.. I wondered how many people were listening to The John Peel Show, how many of those would go out and buy Tubular Bells the next day; whether they would wait until Saturday or would have forgotten about it by then. ... But Tubular Bells was extraordinary; something must happen from tonight's broadcast. Virgin would never be able to afford to buy such a length of radio time to advertise it. ... All the next day the phones rang with orders from record shops for Tubular Bells. As well as choosing to break all traditions by playing it in its entirety, John Peel reviewed Tubular Bells for The Listener. "On the all too frequent occasions when I'm told that a record by a contemporary rock musician is a work of 'lasting importance' I tend to reach for my hat and head for the wide open spaces. Today these experts would probably tell you that in twenty years time collectors will still be enthusing over the records of such weighty bands as Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I'm ready to bet you a few shillings that Yes and ELP will have vanished from the memory of all but the most stubborn and that the Gary Glitters and Sweets of no lasting value will be regarded as representing the true sound of the 1970s. Having said that, I'm going to tell you about a new recording of such strength, energy and real beauty that to me it represents the first breakthrough into history that any musician regarded primarily as a rock musician has made. Mike Oldfield ..." *Alberta - Branson's houseboat **Student - Branson's magazine Paul Webster > -----Original Message----- > From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of ken > garner > Sent: 21 June 2007 01:19 > To: peel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [peel] Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 > > > Here's a nutty Q for you all. The myth is that Peel played Tubular > Bells in its entirety. Mike Oldfield says so himself: "Someone said > John Peel was going to play Tubular Bells. I switched on the radio to > listen and he played the whole thing � both sides of it, an hour's > music. I sat there completely stunned. After he played it people > started to believe in it. It went on to sell millions and topped the > charts for nearly two years. So really I owe him my life." But I can > only find in the scripts one play from it, on 29/5/73 (4 days after > release) and timing the rest of the records listed in the show plus > allowing say 8 minutes for his total links between 23 items (I remember > Peel telling me once that he set an absolute limit of 11 minutes for > himself in a two hour show; normally aiming for 7/8 minutes, or an > average of about 15 secs per link), leaves a max of 25 minutes in the > show, time for side one only. The Tubular Bells item says it's only '15 > minutes', which is clearly intended to be diplomatic. Is the script > correct? Do you know? Did anybody hear or even tape it? > > KG > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > From Phyll@... Thu Jun 21 11:46:54 2007 From: Phyll@... (Phyll@...) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:46:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [peel] Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 Message-ID: <645539.168901182419214363.JavaMail.www@wwinf3003> One thing i do remember is the 25th Aniversary of TB in 1987 Mike Oldfield do a session version of TB truncated to 15-20 mins, with John Peel as MC in recognition of his contribution to it's popularity, though the track (or rather Oldfield) was deemed to be 'too important' to be broadcast in Peel's late night spot and it went out in a staurday afternoon show instead - possibly the resurected Johnny Walker show, Peel mentioned it and some of the history re him and TB on his own show at the time and was bemused by the whole thing being moved to Walker's show (it might have even been used as part of the launch of Walker's afternoon show and the 'new R1 line up' - but i could be making that up). From martinw@... Thu Jun 21 17:03:18 2007 From: martinw@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:03:18 +0100 Subject: [peel] Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 In-Reply-To: <645539.168901182419214363.JavaMail.www@wwinf3003> References: <645539.168901182419214363.JavaMail.www@wwinf3003> Message-ID: At 10:46 21/06/2007, you wrote: >One thing i do remember is the 25th Aniversary of TB in 1987 Mike >Oldfield do a session version of TB truncated to 15-20 mins, with >John Peel as MC in recognition of his >contribution to it's popularity, though the track (or rather >Oldfield) was deemed to be 'too important' to be broadcast in Peel's >late night spot and it went out in a staurday afternoon >show instead - possibly the resurected Johnny Walker show, Peel >mentioned it and some of the history re him and TB on his own show >at the time and was bemused by the whole >thing being moved to Walker's show (it might have even been used as >part of the launch of Walker's afternoon show and the 'new R1 line >up' - but i could be making that up). Mathematics are a bit out here 25th anniversary of Tubular Bells would be 1998 Oldfield did do a session version for Nicky Campbell in 1989 (he had the late night midweek spot then when Peel was at the weekend) By the late 80s I think you'd need a machine gun to make Peel play anything by Oldfield - times and tastes change martinw From thebarguest@... Fri Jun 22 10:36:27 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:36:27 -0000 Subject: BBC humour Message-ID: Last night, as part of a wildlife "birds season" on BBC4, they played a "A Flock of Seagulls" concert from 1983 ! The band did a great Peel sesh in 1981 but sadly their quirky brand of electro-future-pop has since been ignored in favour of comments about their haircuts ...... From willowct@... Fri Jun 22 12:03:09 2007 From: willowct@... (Willow) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Nicky Campbell Message-ID: <493508.98541.qm@...> He's had a strange career. what do people make of him? Simon Mayo is good on five live. He's moved on quite a but hasn't he? --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your freeaccount today. From michael.jennings42@... Fri Jun 22 17:54:04 2007 From: michael.jennings42@... (michael.jennings42@...) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:54:04 -0400 Subject: [peel] Re: Nicky Campbell Message-ID: <380-22007652215544832@...> Campbell? He's a bit of a chameleon, but I did like the banter between him and the Man Ezeke when Nicky's show followed ezeke's on Radio 1 in the late eighties/early nineties. Original Message: ----------------- From: Willow willowct@... Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:03:09 -0700 (PDT) To: peel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [peel] Re: Nicky Campbell He's had a strange career. what do people make of him? Simon Mayo is good on five live. He's moved on quite a but hasn't he? --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your freeaccount today. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com – What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint From guyanthonybrown@... Fri Jun 22 19:33:09 2007 From: guyanthonybrown@... (GuyAnthonyBrown) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:33:09 -0000 Subject: Peel Sessions 1967-70 new batch of 202 sessions... Message-ID: Two or more years ago I completed, and traded with a few souls for a bunch of UK sessions from my own collection, well I have now completed a further 9CD set extracted from reel tapes preserved by a generous fellow in Edinburgh. There are some splendid moments in these tapes and wanted to let you guys and gals know about these. Email me back, off list, if you are interested and I'll send you an Excel spreadsheet that has all the tracks listed from both Set 1 and Set 2, and their dates etc. The 44 artists involved on Set 2, with the count of songs are listed below. In total across the 16 CDs of UK Sessions there are almost 350 separate sessions from these early years of Radio 1 preserved. Cheers GUY Artists in UK Sessions Set 2: Al Stewart 3 Arthur Brown 4 Bee Gees 1 Blossom Toes 2 Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 26 Brian Auger's Trinity with Julie Driscoll 2 Brian Patten 1 Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band 4 Chicken Shack 2 Cream 6 Denny Laine And The Electric String Band 4 Duster Bennett 2 Eclection 4 Fairport Convention 4 Fleetwood Mac 9 Honeybus 4 Incredible String Band 19 Jeff Beck 2 Jethro Tull 3 Jimi Hendrix 2 Jimi Hendrix Experience 5 Joe Cocker 1 John Fahey 6 John Mayall 2 John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee 1 Led Zeppelin 4 Moody Blues 6 Nick Drake 2 Pentangle 9 Pink Floyd 1 Procul Harum 7 Ralph McTell 2 Savoy Brown 3 Skip Bifferty 1 Spooky Tooth 3 Steeleye Span 8 The Hollies 4 The Kinks 6 The Nice 2 The Who 9 Tom Rush 1 Traffic 8 Tyrannosaurus Rex 3 Yardbirds 4 From thebarguest@... Sat Jun 23 00:49:41 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:49:41 -0000 Subject: Peel Sessions 1967-70 new batch of 202 sessions... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I wonder what year the Peel show went from AM to FM (unless it was always FM / VHF but I think in the 60's it was AM - most of the pre-75 shows are quite "low-fi")? Plus, sad to see the current Glastonbury coverage without JP to add some generation-balance ....... Cheers, Toby Richmond (aka Shane Scalley) --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "GuyAnthonyBrown" wrote: > > Two or more years ago I completed, and traded with a few souls for a > bunch of UK sessions from my own collection, well I have now > completed a further 9CD set extracted from reel tapes preserved by a > generous fellow in Edinburgh. There are some splendid moments in > these tapes and wanted to let you guys and gals know about these. > > Email me back, off list, if you are interested and I'll send you an > Excel spreadsheet that has all the tracks listed from both Set 1 and > Set 2, and their dates etc. The 44 artists involved on Set 2, with > the count of songs are listed below. > > In total across the 16 CDs of UK Sessions there are almost 350 > separate sessions from these early years of Radio 1 preserved. > > Cheers > > GUY > > Artists in UK Sessions Set 2: > Al Stewart 3 > Arthur Brown 4 > Bee Gees 1 > Blossom Toes 2 > Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 26 > Brian Auger's Trinity with Julie Driscoll 2 > Brian Patten 1 > Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band 4 > Chicken Shack 2 > Cream 6 > Denny Laine And The Electric String Band 4 > Duster Bennett 2 > Eclection 4 > Fairport Convention 4 > Fleetwood Mac 9 > Honeybus 4 > Incredible String Band 19 > Jeff Beck 2 > Jethro Tull 3 > Jimi Hendrix 2 > Jimi Hendrix Experience 5 > Joe Cocker 1 > John Fahey 6 > John Mayall 2 > John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee 1 > Led Zeppelin 4 > Moody Blues 6 > Nick Drake 2 > Pentangle 9 > Pink Floyd 1 > Procul Harum 7 > Ralph McTell 2 > Savoy Brown 3 > Skip Bifferty 1 > Spooky Tooth 3 > Steeleye Span 8 > The Hollies 4 > The Kinks 6 > The Nice 2 > The Who 9 > Tom Rush 1 > Traffic 8 > Tyrannosaurus Rex 3 > Yardbirds 4 > From thebarguest@... Sat Jun 23 01:02:18 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:02:18 -0000 Subject: Mother's Club, Birmingham Message-ID: If I didn't love Peel, I could send this to "Private Eye" for "Pseuds Corner", ha ha ....... Pink Floyd recorded part of their album Ummagumma at Mothers on 1969-04- 27. John Peel, who was present, was moved to say, "In a moment they unfold sonorous layers one on the other in a sinfonico bang; to another block, incredibly melancholic sounds that are intersected between them as plants of dying galaxies lost in time corridors and space." (from www.erdington.org) Toby Scalley From thebarguest@... Sat Jun 23 01:39:50 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:39:50 -0000 Subject: Nicky Campbell In-Reply-To: <380-22007652215544832@...> Message-ID: NC ? I like him. Apparently he was adopted as a child. Like "Ming" Campbell and Gordon Brown he does at least indicate to us Englishers that some folk north-of-the-border can be "middle class", oh shit, what have I done ..... Yours, Hymer Loafer --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "michael.jennings42@..." wrote: > > > Campbell? He's a bit of a chameleon, but I did like the banter between him > and the Man Ezeke when Nicky's show followed ezeke's on Radio 1 in the late > eighties/early nineties. > > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Willow willowct@... > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:03:09 -0700 (PDT) > To: peel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [peel] Re: Nicky Campbell > > > He's had a strange career. > > what do people make of him? > > > Simon Mayo is good on five live. He's moved on quite a but hasn't he? > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up > for your freeaccount today. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com – What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint > From thebarguest@... Sat Jun 23 02:15:20 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:15:20 -0000 Subject: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 Message-ID: I think the Maoist punk/new-wave exclusionism may have affected JP in the late 70's, but I remember hearing "Tubular Bells" for the first time as a 17-year-old in 1978 and being "blown away", even though I was into punk/new-wave as well as old stuff like BJH and Yes. Class will always out ....... Cheers, Gerald Sinstadt --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley wrote: > > At 10:46 21/06/2007, you wrote: > > > >One thing i do remember is the 25th Aniversary of TB in 1987 Mike > >Oldfield do a session version of TB truncated to 15-20 mins, with > >John Peel as MC in recognition of his > >contribution to it's popularity, though the track (or rather > >Oldfield) was deemed to be 'too important' to be broadcast in Peel's > >late night spot and it went out in a staurday afternoon > >show instead - possibly the resurected Johnny Walker show, Peel > >mentioned it and some of the history re him and TB on his own show > >at the time and was bemused by the whole > >thing being moved to Walker's show (it might have even been used as > >part of the launch of Walker's afternoon show and the 'new R1 line > >up' - but i could be making that up). > > Mathematics are a bit out here 25th anniversary of Tubular Bells > would be 1998 > Oldfield did do a session version for Nicky Campbell in 1989 (he > had the late night > midweek spot then when Peel was at the weekend) > By the late 80s I think you'd need a machine gun to make > Peel play anything by Oldfield - times and tastes change > > martinw > From pbryant98@... Sat Jun 23 06:59:20 2007 From: pbryant98@... (Paul Bryant) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:59:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [peel] Peel Sessions 1967-70 new batch of 202 sessions... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <79925.30882.qm@...> This may be entirely irrelevant but most of the Incredible String band sessions have now been released officially : http://tinyurl.com/2bs8vq cheers pb --- GuyAnthonyBrown wrote: > Two or more years ago I completed, and traded with a > few souls for a > bunch of UK sessions from my own collection, well I > have now > completed a further 9CD set extracted from reel > tapes preserved by a > generous fellow in Edinburgh. There are some > splendid moments in > these tapes and wanted to let you guys and gals know > about these. > > Email me back, off list, if you are interested and > I'll send you an > Excel spreadsheet that has all the tracks listed > from both Set 1 and > Set 2, and their dates etc. The 44 artists involved > on Set 2, with > the count of songs are listed below. > > In total across the 16 CDs of UK Sessions there are > almost 350 > separate sessions from these early years of Radio 1 > preserved. > > Cheers > > GUY > > Artists in UK Sessions Set 2: > Al Stewart 3 > Arthur Brown 4 > Bee Gees 1 > Blossom Toes 2 > Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 26 > Brian Auger's Trinity with Julie Driscoll 2 > Brian Patten 1 > Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band 4 > Chicken Shack 2 > Cream 6 > Denny Laine And The Electric String Band 4 > Duster Bennett 2 > Eclection 4 > Fairport Convention 4 > Fleetwood Mac 9 > Honeybus 4 > Incredible String Band 19 > Jeff Beck 2 > Jethro Tull 3 > Jimi Hendrix 2 > Jimi Hendrix Experience 5 > Joe Cocker 1 > John Fahey 6 > John Mayall 2 > John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee 1 > Led Zeppelin 4 > Moody Blues 6 > Nick Drake 2 > Pentangle 9 > Pink Floyd 1 > Procul Harum 7 > Ralph McTell 2 > Savoy Brown 3 > Skip Bifferty 1 > Spooky Tooth 3 > Steeleye Span 8 > The Hollies 4 > The Kinks 6 > The Nice 2 > The Who 9 > Tom Rush 1 > Traffic 8 > Tyrannosaurus Rex 3 > Yardbirds 4 > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222 From paul@... Sat Jun 23 10:21:26 2007 From: paul@... (Paul Webster) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:21:26 +0100 Subject: Bhundu Boys documentary Message-ID: <045701c7b56f$7f2fe0f0$0202a8c0@...> The Boys from the Bush on BBC Radio Four on Tuesday 26th June 2007 at 13:30 to 14:00 Robin Denselow tells the story of The Bhundu Boys, who brought their infectious hybrid of traditional African music to the UK in the 1980s. Paul From colin_ellis@... Sat Jun 23 12:02:11 2007 From: colin_ellis@... (grang354) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:02:11 -0000 Subject: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 In-Reply-To: <02b601c7b3d4$bc787cc0$0202a8c0@...> Message-ID: I'm not usually inclined to believe anything R. Branson says - but I wonder if there's some truth in this? At first I thought it was another version of the myth that JP in his early days "played albums all the way through" if he liked them - he never did, of course, due to needletime restrictions - but by 1973 there wasn't so much interesting new stuff around. I do remember hearing JP play Tubular Bells, but can't remember if it was just one side of the album or both. I wasn't very impressed, but it was a piece of music that demanded to be "taken seriously", so Peel may well have played all of it for that reason alone! I also have a tape from 1975 with Oldfield's little song "On Horseback" followed by JP saying, "And that's Mike Oldfield's new album Ommadawn - both sides of it..." And he did play Dylan's "Desire" in full in Jan. '76, so who knows... Colin --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Webster" wrote: > > Here is what Richard Branson had to say about it in his autobiography > (Losing My Viginity - ISBN 978-0-7535-1020-9 - pages 125-127 in paperback) > > For the first two weeks, sales of Tubular Bells were stillborn. Then I > invited John Peel over to Alberta* for lunch. We had known each other since > I had interviewed him for Student**. He had also started his own record > label, Dandelion. He was the only person who played serious rock music on > the radio, and his show was our only chance of winning air time for Tubular > Bells. We all had lunch on Alberta and then settled down on the sofas. I put > on Tubular Bells. He was amazed. > 'I've never heard anything like it.' John finally said. > Later that week we listened to John Peel's laconic voice coming out of the > radio. I was sitting on the deck of the houseboat with Mike Oldfield and > everyone from Virgin. > 'Tonight I'm not going to play a whole lot of records. I'm just going to > play you one by a young compose called Mike Oldfield. It's his first record > and it's called Tubular Bells. I've never heard anything like it in my life. > It's released by Virgin, a brand new record label and it was recorded at > Virgin's own studios in Oxfordshire. You'll never forget this.' > With that, Tubular Bells started. I was lying on the sofa. Everyone was > lounging around in deep armchairs or on the rug, and we passed round beer > and wine, cigarettes and joints. I tried to relax. I could see everyone else > lying there totally spellbound by the music. But I kept worrying. I find it > impossible to stop my brain from churning through all the ideas and > possibilities facing me at any given moment.. I wondered how many people > were listening to The John Peel Show, how many of those would go out and buy > Tubular Bells the next day; whether they would wait until Saturday or would > have forgotten about it by then. > > ... > > But Tubular Bells was extraordinary; something must happen from tonight's > broadcast. Virgin would never be able to afford to buy such a length of > radio time to advertise it. > > ... > > All the next day the phones rang with orders from record shops for Tubular > Bells. As well as choosing to break all traditions by playing it in its > entirety, John Peel reviewed Tubular Bells for The Listener. > "On the all too frequent occasions when I'm told that a record by a > contemporary rock musician is a work of 'lasting importance' I tend to reach > for my hat and head for the wide open spaces. Today these experts would > probably tell you that in twenty years time collectors will still be > enthusing over the records of such weighty bands as Yes and Emerson, Lake > and Palmer. I'm ready to bet you a few shillings that Yes and ELP will have > vanished from the memory of all but the most stubborn and that the Gary > Glitters and Sweets of no lasting value will be regarded as representing the > true sound of the 1970s. > Having said that, I'm going to tell you about a new recording of such > strength, energy and real beauty that to me it represents the first > breakthrough into history that any musician regarded primarily as a rock > musician has made. Mike Oldfield ..." > > > *Alberta - Branson's houseboat > **Student - Branson's magazine > > Paul Webster > > -----Original Message----- > > From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of ken > > garner > > Sent: 21 June 2007 01:19 > > To: peel@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [peel] Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 > > > > > > Here's a nutty Q for you all. The myth is that Peel played Tubular > > Bells in its entirety. Mike Oldfield says so himself: "Someone said > > John Peel was going to play Tubular Bells. I switched on the radio to > > listen and he played the whole thing – both sides of it, an hour's > > music. I sat there completely stunned. After he played it people > > started to believe in it. It went on to sell millions and topped the > > charts for nearly two years. So really I owe him my life." But I can > > only find in the scripts one play from it, on 29/5/73 (4 days after > > release) and timing the rest of the records listed in the show plus > > allowing say 8 minutes for his total links between 23 items (I remember > > Peel telling me once that he set an absolute limit of 11 minutes for > > himself in a two hour show; normally aiming for 7/8 minutes, or an > > average of about 15 secs per link), leaves a max of 25 minutes in the > > show, time for side one only. The Tubular Bells item says it's only '15 > > minutes', which is clearly intended to be diplomatic. Is the script > > correct? Do you know? Did anybody hear or even tape it? > > > > KG > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > From colin_ellis@... Sat Jun 23 12:05:08 2007 From: colin_ellis@... (grang354) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:05:08 -0000 Subject: Mother's Club, Birmingham In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Didn't this appear in Pseuds' Corner at the time anyway? --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thebarguest" wrote: > > If I didn't love Peel, I could send this to "Private Eye" for > "Pseuds Corner", ha ha ....... > > Pink Floyd recorded part of their album Ummagumma at Mothers on 1969-04- > 27. > John Peel, who was present, was moved to say, > "In a moment they unfold sonorous layers one on the other in a > sinfonico bang; to another block, incredibly melancholic sounds that > are intersected between them as plants of dying galaxies lost in time > corridors and space." > > (from www.erdington.org) > > Toby Scalley > From martinw@... Sat Jun 23 11:47:45 2007 From: martinw@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:47:45 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: Peel Sessions 1967-70 new batch of 202 sessions... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: At 23:49 22/06/2007, you wrote: >I wonder what year the Peel show went from AM to FM (unless it >was always FM / VHF but I think in the 60's it was AM - most of the >pre-75 shows are quite "low-fi")? Plus, sad to see the current >Glastonbury coverage without JP to add some generation-balance ....... > >Cheers, >Toby Richmond (aka Shane Scalley) When Radio 1 started Top Gear which soon had Peel as sole presenter was on Saturday or Sunday afternoons in AM It was when the show moved to the late evening that it went to FM For some years Radio 1's mid evening show started in AM and added FM halfway through There was only one FM frequency allocated for Radio 1 and 2 and Radio 2 had the use of it until about 9PM According to Ken's book 6-10-71 was when Top Gear went to the evening and I think all subsequent Peel shows were after the AM/FM switchover An additional complication is that I don't think that FM transmissions were initially stereo and I don't know when that started and whether that had happened before Peel went to the evening. Of course not many people had stereo equipment to start with anyway martinw From martinw@... Sat Jun 23 12:20:50 2007 From: martinw@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:20:50 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 In-Reply-To: References: <02b601c7b3d4$bc787cc0$0202a8c0@...> Message-ID: At 11:02 23/06/2007, you wrote: >I'm not usually inclined to believe anything R. Branson says - but I >wonder if there's some truth in this? At first I thought it was >another version of the myth that JP in his early days "played albums >all the way through" if he liked them - he never did, of course, due >to needletime restrictions On the contrary Needletime restrictions were exactly why he could do it. 'Reviewing new records' was one of the needletime exemptions (film soundtracks was another). Playing large chunks of a new album (once only!) was quite common martinw From stuartlt2003@... Sat Jun 23 14:22:02 2007 From: stuartlt2003@... (Stuart Troutman) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:22:02 -0000 Subject: BBC humour In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Oh, come on...A Flock of Seagulls?..."Their brand of electro-future-pop" is the very reason people are reduced to talking about their dumb haircuts. Their music was a bore even then. Their records sound very dated and stale now. And really, were they ever truly all that significant in any music terms? - stuartlt2003@... --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thebarguest" wrote: > > Last night, as part of a wildlife "birds season" on BBC4, > they played a "A Flock of Seagulls" concert from 1983 ! > The band did a great Peel sesh in 1981 but sadly their quirky > brand of electro-future-pop has since been ignored in favour > of comments about their haircuts ...... > From douglas.fisher@... Sat Jun 23 15:38:04 2007 From: douglas.fisher@... (df100179) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:38:04 -0000 Subject: Nicky Campbell In-Reply-To: <493508.98541.qm@...> Message-ID: Reminds me of a classic Peel moment from around the late eighties, when having just returned from a trip abroad he was talking about a truly awful quiz show he had the misfortune to see on foreign TV, called "Wheel of Fortune". He was blissfully unaware that Nicky Campbell, who at that time was presenting the show following him, was the host of the UK version of "Wheel of Fortune"!! If I remember correctly, someone must have pointed this out to him afterwards, and he mumbled a vague sort of apology on the following nights show! --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Willow wrote: > > He's had a strange career. > > what do people make of him? > > > Simon Mayo is good on five live. He's moved on quite a but hasn't he? > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your freeaccount today. > From ajcauk@... Sat Jun 23 16:42:17 2007 From: ajcauk@... (cannon alan) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:42:17 +0100 (BST) Subject: [peel] Re: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 Message-ID: <812541.4205.qm@...> I think by this time at the tender age of 19 i instinctively had made the step of deciding what to listen to off my own bat and bought Tubular Bells on the strength of Oldfield's work with Kevin Ayers and the Whole World plus the fact that Viv Stanshall had a cameo role on it. Also i actively (even then) sought long pieces with classical pretensions. I subsequently played the album in it's entirety to the student household in which i resided; within a week or two it was big hit and instantly uncool thereby. Evenso having paid good money it wasn't going stop me playing it to death. There are very few records that don't pall after a while and that are truly timeless; doesn't mean i have to sneer at them in retrospect. I still like to hear that Flock of Seagulls photograph song every now and then for instance; not bad as 3 minute ditties go and for the life of me i can't hear the haircut part on it. alanjc --- Martin Wheatley wrote: > At 11:02 23/06/2007, you wrote: > > >I'm not usually inclined to believe anything R. > Branson says - but I > >wonder if there's some truth in this? At first I > thought it was > >another version of the myth that JP in his early > days "played albums > >all the way through" if he liked them - he never > did, of course, due > >to needletime restrictions > > > On the contrary Needletime restrictions were > exactly why he could > do it. 'Reviewing new records' was one of the > needletime exemptions > (film soundtracks was another). Playing large > chunks of a new album > (once only!) was quite common > > martinw > > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html From eddie.duffy@... Sat Jun 23 18:26:40 2007 From: eddie.duffy@... (Eddie Duffy) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:26:40 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: Mother's Club, Birmingham In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <467D49C0.7060201@...> The site of Mothers now the top floor of two very nondescript shops. And if you know Erdington, you'll know it's hardly a rock 'n roll Mecca these days. In fact, the High Street is only "the place to be" if you happen to be a fan of pound shops and Cash Converters. So it was the ideal location for that TV series 'Skint'. Right opposite the old Mothers is The Roebuck, where Jasper Carrott recorded one of his live albums. The Roebuck's client�le these days comprises unshaven hardcore dunks with several teeth missing. (Insert obligatory "and the men aren't much better" punchline here.) Erdington, there. grang354 wrote: > > Didn't this appear in Pseuds' Corner at the time anyway? > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com , > "thebarguest" wrote: > > > > If I didn't love Peel, I could send this to "Private Eye" for > > "Pseuds Corner", ha ha ....... > > > > Pink Floyd recorded part of their album Ummagumma at Mothers on > 1969-04- > > 27. > > John Peel, who was present, was moved to say, > > "In a moment they unfold sonorous layers one on the other in a > > sinfonico bang; to another block, incredibly melancholic sounds > that > > are intersected between them as plants of dying galaxies lost in > time > > corridors and space." > > > > (from www.erdington.org) > > > > Toby Scalley > > > > From colin_ellis@... Sun Jun 24 10:54:12 2007 From: colin_ellis@... (grang354) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:54:12 -0000 Subject: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 Message-ID: Point taken. But I was thinking more of the early R1 days (pre-1971) when he'd often say that he wished he had time to play the whole of an album, but could only play one track, as he only had 3 hours of programmes per week. And even on the Perfumed Garden, where he had plenty of time and lots of new music to enthuse over, he never - as far as I can remember, at least - played albums uninterrupted, from start to finish - with the possible exception of "Sgt. Pepper" when Radio London first got hold of a copy. Colin -- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley wrote: > > At 11:02 23/06/2007, you wrote: > > >I'm not usually inclined to believe anything R. Branson says - but I > >wonder if there's some truth in this? At first I thought it was > >another version of the myth that JP in his early days "played albums > >all the way through" if he liked them - he never did, of course, due > >to needletime restrictions > > > On the contrary Needletime restrictions were exactly why he could > do it. 'Reviewing new records' was one of the needletime exemptions > (film soundtracks was another). Playing large chunks of a new album > (once only!) was quite common > > martinw > From stuart@... Sun Jun 24 11:24:13 2007 From: stuart@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:24:13 +0100 Subject: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 In-Reply-To: <1182670287.367.69442.m41@yahoogroups.com> References: <1182670287.367.69442.m41@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <22745F2A-8A05-43EF-9EE6-237F39021B69@...> > I'm not usually inclined to believe anything R. Branson says - but I > wonder if there's some truth in this? am still laughing at this comment, is Branson so untrustworthy (or prone to dope-induced false memory syndrome) that he would make up such a lengthy and detailed anecdote about the Tubular Bells airplay? Ok, maybe he is! Stuart McHugh stuart@... From stuart@... Sun Jun 24 11:28:44 2007 From: stuart@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:28:44 +0100 Subject: BBC humour In-Reply-To: <1182670287.367.69442.m41@yahoogroups.com> References: <1182670287.367.69442.m41@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <7EE840F2-665A-4C62-9C2C-FF3E334374BC@...> > Posted by: "Stuart Troutman" stuartlt2003@... stuartlt2003 > Date: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:22 am ((PDT)) > > > Oh, come on...A Flock of Seagulls?..."Their brand of > electro-future-pop" is the very reason people are reduced to > talking about their dumb > haircuts. Their music was a bore even then. Their records sound > very dated > and stale now. And really, were they ever truly all that significant > in any music terms? Well, Peel did see fit to give them a session, though this might have been partly due to their being produced or 'mentored' by Bill Nelson. I agree they sound pretty darn dated now, but they were probably among the best of a bad bunch during what was a pretty sparse time for British music. S Stuart McHugh stuart@... From martinw@... Sun Jun 24 11:38:41 2007 From: martinw@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:38:41 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: At 09:54 24/06/2007, you wrote: >Point taken. But I was thinking more of the early R1 days (pre-1971) >when he'd often say that he wished he had time to play the whole of an >album, but could only play one track, as he only had 3 hours of >programmes per week. The restriction there was that he had more records to play than he time to play them (when was that any different!) Even up to the late 70s he was occasionally playing whole sides of albums - I remember one by Elvis Costello >And even on the Perfumed Garden, where he had >plenty of time and lots of new music to enthuse over, he never - as far >as I can remember, at least - played albums uninterrupted, from start >to finish - with the possible exception of "Sgt. Pepper" when Radio >London first got hold of a copy. > >Colin One tends to forget that Perfumed Garden wasn't on for that long and it took him a while to realise that no one from the station was listening and he could get away with doing what he wanted It was a commercial station with rules and Kenny Everett was famously fired for playing the whole Of Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands Through his career Peel has always been careful not to take too many risks with his employers - that's why he survived at Radio 1 when people like Andy Kershaw didn't. He was always too insecure about his position martinw From pbryant98@... Sun Jun 24 13:03:52 2007 From: pbryant98@... (Paul Bryant) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [peel] Re: BBC humour In-Reply-To: <7EE840F2-665A-4C62-9C2C-FF3E334374BC@...> Message-ID: <104062.98853.qm@...> --- Stuart McHugh wrote: > > Posted by: "Stuart Troutman" > stuartlt2003@... stuartlt2003 > > Date: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:22 am ((PDT)) > > > > > > Oh, come on...A Flock of Seagulls?..."Their brand > of > > electro-future-pop" is the very reason people are > reduced to > > talking about their dumb > > haircuts. Their music was a bore even then. Their > records sound > > very dated > > and stale now. And really, were they ever truly > all that significant > > in any music terms? > Well, Peel did see fit to give them a session, > though this might have > been partly due to their being produced or > 'mentored' by Bill Nelson. > I agree they sound pretty darn dated now, but they > were probably > among the best of a bad bunch during what was a > pretty sparse time > for British music. Can someone explain the concept of something sounding "dated" ? I mean, I myself listen to a lot of stuff from the 1920s and 30s. Are the Beatles dated? Is everything dated? pb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ From rockerq@... Sun Jun 24 16:10:15 2007 From: rockerq@... (rockerq@...) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:10:15 EDT Subject: [peel] Re: A flock of seagulls Message-ID: > < in any music terms?>> > Or haircut terms for that matter? From guyanthonybrown@... Sun Jun 24 18:11:30 2007 From: guyanthonybrown@... (Guy Brown) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:11:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Peel Sessions 1967-70 new batch of 202 sessions... Message-ID: <265666.28986.qm@...> Toby Richmond (aka Shane Scalley): >I wonder what year the Peel show went from AM to FM (unless it >was always FM / VHF but I think in the 60's it was AM - most of the >pre-75 shows are quite "low-fi")? Plus, sad to see the current >Glastonbury coverage without JP to add some generation-balance ....... Martin Wheatley: >When Radio 1 started Top Gear which soon had Peel as sole >presenter was on Saturday or Sunday afternoons in AM >It was when the show moved to the late evening that it went to FM >For some years Radio 1's mid evening show started in AM and added FM >halfway through >There was only one FM frequency allocated for Radio 1 and 2 and >Radio 2 had the use of it until about 9PM >According to Ken's book 6-10-71 was when Top Gear went to the evening >and I think all subsequent Peel shows were after the AM/FM switchover >An additional complication is that I don't think that FM transmissions were >initially stereo and I don't know when that started and whether that had >happened before Peel went to the evening. Of course not many people >had stereo equipment to start with anyway My recollection of this is similar to Martin's but I seem to remember it being 10PM to midnight only after 1971. 'Radio One with Sounds of the Seventies'. The other issue was that stereo FM took a long time to roll out across the country. The shires having to put up with mono only on FM for quite a while. I lived in a tall tower block at Essex University and built a dipole antenna which could be rotated to maximize the capture from the various transmitters, so as to find the stereo one. BUT...I did capture some 1968-69 Top Gear extracts on FM, how can this be? well BBC Radio Brighton, just starting - a local radio station - a novel concent and another fallout from the legislation whacking the pirates, appeared to have nothing to broadcast on a Sunday afternoon, so for a while they simulcast Radio 1. Based on these recent tapes I've just restored it must have also been true for my internet mate in Scotland. Some, maybe 15%, of these new 200 sessions are also seemingly from FM. btw - I sent a batch of these new CDs to another fellow, unsolicited, because I know he has reel tapes of Peel et al from this vintage, but has never agreed to loan them to me. Well yesterday he said OK, so the guess is that about 20 hours of recordings c.1971-74 will be coming my way for a possible extraction of set 3 of these 'UK Sessions'. Trouble is he won't ship them, he wants to deliver them personally, 'cos they're so important to him. He lives in NYC, I live in Calif....sigh. Might be a wait. GUY ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news From pbryant98@... Mon Jun 25 01:44:50 2007 From: pbryant98@... (Paul Bryant) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [peel] Re: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 Message-ID: <177875.87413.qm@...> --- Martin Wheatley wrote: > Through his career Peel has always been careful not > to take too > many risks with his employers - that's why he > survived at Radio 1 > when people like Andy Kershaw didn't. He was always > too insecure about > his position I can't now remember - what did Andy Kershaw do to get fired? Or "let go"? pb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow From stuart@... Mon Jun 25 11:36:58 2007 From: stuart@... (Stuart McHugh) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:36:58 +0100 Subject: A flock of seagull In-Reply-To: <1182756803.234.91910.m41@yahoogroups.com> References: <1182756803.234.91910.m41@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: > Can someone explain the concept of something sounding > "dated" ? I mean, I myself listen to a lot of stuff > from the 1920s and 30s. Are the Beatles dated? Is > everything dated? fair point - though in the case of 80s synth-based music I reckon it sounds dated because the keyboards and effects and whatnot do sound rather technologically naive - to varying levels (Kelly Marie syndrums, anyone?) Plus the 80s (synthpop division, not The Smiths etc) had a distinctive 'sound' which isn't looked upon very fondly now (my comment about best of a bad bunch puts AFoS ahead of Howard Jones, Duran Duran etc). Whereas Leadbelly does sound dated, but in a good way. Off that topic, saw Devo last night. Can't decide if they sound dated in any way, you can hear their sound in many current bands. Something which Devo are acutely aware of! S From so_it_goes_2512@... Mon Jun 25 11:51:41 2007 From: so_it_goes_2512@... (Steve) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:51:41 -0000 Subject: Ian Curtis' death: what was the tribute song? Message-ID: Hi, I have a question I hope you can solve. I have a blog dedicated to the Festive 50 called 'Teenage Kicks' (http://festivefifty.blogspot.com) and I recently did a post about Joy Division. On at least two websites, it stated that John played 'Atmosphere' on his Monday May 19 1980 show as a tribute to Ian who had died the day before. However, two other blog members say it was 'New Dawn Fades' that was played. Can any body shed any light, indeed does anybody have a recording of that show? I would love to know. Cheers! From markbursa@... Mon Jun 25 13:47:30 2007 From: markbursa@... (markbursa@...) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:47:30 EDT Subject: [peel] Ian Curtis' death: what was the tribute song? Message-ID: >>On at least two websites, it stated that John played 'Atmosphere' on his Monday May 19 1980 show as a tribute to Ian who had died the day before. However, two other blog members say it was 'New Dawn Fades' that was played. << Definitely New Dawn Fades. Remember it as if it was yesteday. Mark From hubcity@... Mon Jun 25 14:26:35 2007 From: hubcity@... (hubcity@...) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:26:35 -0400 Subject: [OT] [Altrok] Update #163: The Day Of Silence Is At Hand. Message-ID: <0JK600JYWYKOOOY0@...> NOTE: Tomorrow, we - and almost all of the Internet Radio community - will participate in a protest over the record industry's attempt to shut down our station. The Day Of Silence will last pretty much all day, and you'll hear what the issues are and what you can do to help. ------- Folks, Firstly, the important stuff: Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us. Now then, to be clear: Altrok Radio is free to listen to, and will be for as long as I can manage it. But if you'd like to listen without advertising (we'll interrupt occasionally to tell you what's coming up on the station) there's a VIP program run by Live365. When you're a VIP, you get access to the commercial-free version of the station, plus all the ads on their website go away. Cost is actually pretty reasonable; the roughly-$15-every-three-months plan seems to be the most popular option. Here's the link if you're interested: http://www.live365.com/rewards/pm?tag=muddychannel And yes, we get a small kickback on that - $1.50 when you sign up, and a penny or so about every three hours you listen. Not much, but we're a pretty lean operation; we'll take what we can get. All that said, bet you're wondering what those new songs we've added are... This week, our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from: - The Go! Team - White Rabbits - Reverend And The Makers - Mr. Hudson & The Library - The Answering Machine - Spoon Plus we've got newly-added music: - Autokat - Seven Years - Chemical Brothers - Do it Again - The Dance Party - Lipstick - Dirty On Purpose - Car No Driver (Cassettes Won't Listen Remix) - GoodBooks - The Illness - Its A Buffalo - Somewhere In Range - James - Who Are You - Brendan O'Shea - Smoke - Jack Penate - Torn On The Platform - The Rumble Strips - Motorcycle - Sahara Hotnights - Cheek To Cheek - The Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It - Trembling Blue Stars - November Starlings - Washington Social Club - Bigger Than Your Boyfriend Our featured Classics: - B-Movie - Nowhere Girl - Bjork - Hyper-ballad - The Church - Almost With You - The House Of Love - I Don't Know Why I Love You - Paul Kelly - Dumb Things - Medium Medium - Hungry, So Angry - Mission Of Burma - Academy Fight Song - New Musik - They All Run After The Carving Knife - The Vapors - Trains - The Wedding Present - I'm From Further North Than You As always, thanks for listening! - Sean Carolan Altrok Radio On your computer right now at http://www.altrokradio.com On the radio Fridays at 10pm, at 90.5 The Night From martinw@... Mon Jun 25 09:30:22 2007 From: martinw@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:30:22 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 In-Reply-To: <177875.87413.qm@...> References: <177875.87413.qm@...> Message-ID: At 00:44 25/06/2007, you wrote: >--- Martin Wheatley ><martinw@...> >wrote: > > Through his career Peel has always been careful not > > to take too > > many risks with his employers - that's why he > > survived at Radio 1 > > when people like Andy Kershaw didn't. He was always > > too insecure about > > his position > >I can't now remember - what did Andy Kershaw do to get >fired? Or "let go"? > >pb Kershaw would loose his temper anytime Radio 1 wanted to make any changes to his prog. He'd do things like write aggressively anti-BBC articles in the Guardian and Observer and threaten to resign. Eventually they got fed up and called his bluff The irony is that he's ended up at Radio 3 in exactly the sort of time slot that he complained about so much at Radio 1 Peel was much more softly softly. When he had any trouble with the hierarchy he mobilised friends behind the scenes at the BBC who would start letter writing compains from famous people to the NME and so on. He was always afraid that if he threatened to resign they'd just say 'yes please' martinw From koogy@... Mon Jun 25 17:15:09 2007 From: koogy@... (Andrew Dean) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:15:09 +0100 Subject: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73 References: <177875.87413.qm@...> Message-ID: >>I can't now remember - what did Andy Kershaw do to get >>fired? Or "let go"? > Kershaw would loose his temper anytime Radio 1 wanted to > make any changes to his prog. He'd do things like write > aggressively anti-BBC articles in the Guardian and Observer > and threaten to resign. Eventually they got fed up and called his bluff > > The irony is that he's ended up at Radio 3 in exactly the sort > of time slot that he complained about so much at Radio 1 kershaw did strike me as antagonistic at times, especially this, which probably didn't go down too well at the beeb: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/johnpeel/story/0,,1590948,00.html When Peel died, Kershaw gave Channel 4 News an interview recounting their last conversation. "I said to him [that] he didn't look too good. And he said, 'No, I feel terrible.' He had been diagnosed diabetic a couple of years ago, and he was also finding it really hard that Radio 1 had moved him even later into the night. Marginalised is the correct word. [It] pushed him from 11pm to one o'clock in the morning and he actually said, 'It's killing me.'" Yesterday Kershaw stood by the comments. "I'm not going to go down that road again," he said. "But it's all on public record. I don't retract a word of what I said because I was merely reporting what he said to me." andy From sdmaclean@... Mon Jun 25 18:17:13 2007 From: sdmaclean@... (Stuart Maclean) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:17:13 -0000 Subject: A flock of seagulls In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I have to concur that they were bloody awful, even at the time. I have a Tube DVD that they are on. The summary of it is "if you don't have any good songs, try pink sunglasses". Drivel. Irony is that I think I bought a 7" or two back in the day, impressionable age and all that, trying to be obscure, blah blah. BTW, here in the US they are definitely better known that in the UK. I think they may have featured on early MTV. That Rip It Up book (heartlily recommended) suggests same. Stuart From martinw@... Mon Jun 25 16:49:39 2007 From: martinw@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:49:39 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: A flock of seagull In-Reply-To: References: <1182756803.234.91910.m41@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: At 10:36 25/06/2007, Paul wrote: > > Can someone explain the concept of something sounding > > "dated" ? I mean, I myself listen to a lot of stuff > > from the 1920s and 30s. Are the Beatles dated? Is > > everything dated? and Stuart replied >fair point - though in the case of 80s synth-based music I reckon it >sounds dated because the keyboards and effects and whatnot do sound >rather technologically naive - to varying levels (Kelly Marie >syndrums, anyone?) Dated carries bad implications. A better distinction would be 'of it's era" and 'Not of it's era" An of it's era record is one where you need the context to appreciate it - Flock Of Seagulls would be an example of this. 'Not of it's era' is a record that is timeless and can be played anytime without context martinw From thebarguest@... Mon Jun 25 22:07:00 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:07:00 -0000 Subject: A flock of seagull In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I remember hearing the "Mongoloid" single in Erics on huge speakers - the bass went right through you ! Great song but I'd be surprised to hear it on the radio in these PC days ; maybe it is insulting to Downs Syndrome people ....... --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Stuart McHugh wrote: > > > Can someone explain the concept of something sounding > > "dated" ? I mean, I myself listen to a lot of stuff > > from the 1920s and 30s. Are the Beatles dated? Is > > everything dated? > fair point - though in the case of 80s synth-based music I reckon it > sounds dated because the keyboards and effects and whatnot do sound > rather technologically naive - to varying levels (Kelly Marie > syndrums, anyone?) > Plus the 80s (synthpop division, not The Smiths etc) had a > distinctive 'sound' which isn't looked upon very fondly now (my > comment about best of a bad bunch puts AFoS ahead of Howard Jones, > Duran Duran etc). Whereas Leadbelly does sound dated, but in a good way. > > Off that topic, saw Devo last night. Can't decide if they sound dated > in any way, you can hear their sound in many current bands. Something > which Devo are acutely aware of! > > S > From thebarguest@... Mon Jun 25 22:20:39 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:20:39 -0000 Subject: A flock of seagulls In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The very early stuff ie Peel sesh and first LP is good - good enough for Peely and the great Bill Nelson (the latter's "Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam" album is better electro-pop than anything AFOS did though). About 'dated'. The Sex Pistols album sounds dated but most other punk/new wave (eg Ruts, Ultravox, Magazine, Buzzcocks, JD) sounds fresh. I think the stuff you like in adolescence always feels 'new' ('16 Again' by the 'Cocks is a great song). Cheers, Shughie McFee --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Stuart Maclean" wrote: > > I have to concur that they were bloody awful, even at the time. I > have a Tube DVD that they are on. The summary of it is "if you don't > have any good songs, try pink sunglasses". Drivel. Irony is that I > think I bought a 7" or two back in the day, impressionable age and all > that, trying to be obscure, blah blah. > > BTW, here in the US they are definitely better known that in the UK. > I think they may have featured on early MTV. That Rip It Up book > (heartlily recommended) suggests same. > > Stuart > From mar.celle@... Tue Jun 26 14:26:44 2007 From: mar.celle@... (Marcelle) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:26:44 +0200 Subject: Today and this week on Another Nice Mess Message-ID: <002901c7b7ed$45105960$9600000a@PC154981710422> Hi there, today (live) and this week (listen again) on Another Nice Mess as always 3 hours of the most exciting, new and forthcoming underground music from all over the world: Special: Bertin: exclusive mix Plus amongst others: Handbag/Abba, Nitwood, The Treecreepers, On/Off, Ambivalent, Shackleton, Mohammed ‘Jimmy’ Mohammed, The Gore Vidals, Digital Mystikz, Dave Swain, Ectogram, Rosamunde, Black Dice, Crescent, Itty Minchesta, Kemialliset Ystävät, Bulgor Brothers feat. Big Bully, Herbert, Ammoncontact, Panda Bear, Nyabingi, Cyrus, Graf + Zyx, Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid As always there is room for REQUESTS/oldies. For REQUESTS mail Marcelle at: info@... She broadcasts from home, so she might play your requested song (almost) instantly! ANOTHER NICE MESS ‘’Indispensable listening’’ ‘’If you’re missing Peel, allow this to feed you’’ ‘’Marcelle could have been a great teacher in a class of (Mick Patrick, Scotland) (Sarah Nelson, England) ‘curiousity’!’’ (Peter-Max Jacobsen, Denmark) DFM Radio, 26th June 2007 Hostess: Marcelle van Hoof LISTEN LIVE online: www.dfm.nu every Tuesday between 19-22 hours CET (Dutch time) / 18-21 hours GMT (UK time) LISTEN AT ANY OTHER TIME via www.anothernicemess.com WEBSITE: www.anothernicemess.com (For PLAYLISTS, LISTENING AGAIN, DOWNLOADING PREVIOUS SHOWS, REVIEWS, INFORMATION, CONTACT ADDRESS and more) MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/djanothernicemess [You are receiving this Another Nice Mess message because you either subscribed to the mailing list and/or we have something in common - Good Underground Music! If you no longer want to hear from Another Nice Mess then please reply with the words 'Unsubscribe' in the subject box]. From superherostore@... Wed Jun 27 09:47:07 2007 From: superherostore@... (superherostore) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:47:07 -0000 Subject: A flock of seagulls In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This is so weird. I put a lot of my LPs onto MP3. As a result, I was listening to A Flock of Seagulls for the first time in years. Get home and look up the band on Wikipedia. I then switch on BBC4 only and find whilst I was looking them up, I was missing a concert by them. What a coincidence. Anyway, their first two LPs were pretty fun. I mean, it's not Joy Division or whatever, but great stuff. Chris From alan@... Fri Jun 29 20:25:52 2007 From: alan@... (Alan Ford) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:25:52 +0100 Subject: Joni & James Message-ID: <001c01c7ba7a$ee1af8f0$0201a8c0@fordyidkviebja> Mitchell & Taylor, introduced by Peel, 1970 http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities/ARjmjtroyal.html Cheers Alan