Another Peel Blog

[ken garner]

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" <insessiontonight@...> 
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
> <http://insessiontonight.com/>  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
>