[peel] Re: Where's Peelenium? What happened?

[Riving Ton]

Hello Ken!
Wow! I am not knowing!
I was one of those guys who loved Peel for ages at one point then got older and lost track! I was working overseas on oil rigs from 1985 until Peels death and in that time only caught the odd show.
He was a formative part of my youth and upon his death I wanted to catch up on some of the shows I missed. Listening to Peel was an education! He really was humble and introduced you to a bunch of music that you would never have considered normally.
I always missed being able to tune in to his show. If I was working on an oil rig in the desert in Yemen for example, the world service was always crap reception on short wave (even with the flash Sony radio and external antenna I had) and I was usually on night shift which meant I needed to be sleeping when the man was transmitting!
I couldn't rely on my flat mates to tape Peelie for me so had to make do with the tapes I made (infrequently) on my days off in the UK. Then; I stopped coming back to the UK so often and just lost track of the music scene.
With the advent of the digital age and digital radio I was looking into the options of digitally listening to Peel but out in the desert (now in Saudi) - us rig pigs weren't seeing the advantages of internet yet (we didn't even have access to email when I left the rigs in 2005!).
I was tempted to write to Peel to say 'Hey! You're getting on now, you won't be around forever - are your shows being tape recorded? Perhaps you could answer that Ken? Did the BBC ever record his shows or were they launched into the ether and that's that?
I started trying to collect Peel shows using eMule but that was taking forever! I found more shows being shared by some of the cool websites on the 'net paying homage to Peel and that led me to install and use the BitTorrent program to download more shit.
I found the 'stuff' I'm uploading on a search off the 'net at 'goonerproductions.co.uk'. £40 for 17 DVDs. I'm just sharing the love as my contribution to 'Community Spirit' so I can't claim to be any kind of expert!
You might want to contact Darren at the aforementioned site to question him. Just don't tell him we're sharing the stuff he's trying to make money from! I presume he collected it off the 'net in the first place so I don't worry about passing it around!
I'd be really interested to know if Peel's shows were recorded by the BBC. I suspect not but can you confirm that?
Thanks on behalf of everyone and me!
Dee Dee



----- Original Message ----
From: ken garner <ken_garner@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:25:52 PM
Subject: [peel] Re: Where's Peelenium? What happened?


Dee Dee - I have not checked the whole list, but I could not help 
spotting that your Peelenium listing (are those the recordings of the 
actual sections of all the relevant nightly shows, from May 99 to Jan 
2000? Blimey!) had four records as usual for 1962 and 1985, when the 
master list Peel Producer at the time Anita Kamath had - which she gave 
me and which I used for its inclusion in my PEEL SESSIONS book - only 
had 3 for those years. I wonder if Peel simply added in a bonus one of 
his own on the nights in question without agreement? Or is it (groan) 
another error in BBC documentation? I heard quite a bit of the 
Peelenium going out but not all, and I was not taping...

ken garner




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