Cheers Ken

[thebarguest]

Hi Ken.
        Quite surprised and pleased to see your book on sale
in an Asda superstore near Aintree (they do great microwavable
curries as well) ! Good luck with sales - I might get a copy
for Chrimbo if I'm lucky .....
        Some great Peely bands from Scotland - Altered Images,
early Simple Minds, Cocteau Twins, Skids ....... better than
Franz Ferdinand and Gavril Princip.



Cheers,
Jocky Little





--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
>
> Many thanks for those kind words Andrew. The guy to credit for the 
> design which you feel makes it "a thing of beauty" is not me, but 
> designer EstuaryEnglish, a Peel listener the publisher told me, and 
> the editor Steve Tribe. My wife said people were going to love 
seeing 
> the session sheets, scripts, wall charts and stuff, and although I 
> didn't believe her she was right, whereas I just take them for 
> granted because I'm drowning in them here in my office at home and 
> have been since 1992. The session sheet images are scans of my own 
> copies, and hence some of the image visible in some cases is, er, 
my 
> annotations. The writing on The Beat one on p107 saying "not 
keyed.. 
> his [bob sargeant's] writing (look for tell tale double quotes") is 
> me, using this one as an example to my keying helpers 15 years ago, 
> as i did for several, to id producers and engineers by their 
> handwriting when their names were left off, a frequent occurrence. 
> The Syd Barret and Bob Marley sheets are in Walters' hand; Dale 
> Griffin's capitals are unmistakeable on Napalm Death and Wedding 
> Present; the "SM? MR tick" on the siouxsie one on the back cover is 
> me. Sadly the romeo era from 88 onwards ended these adventures in 
> graphology, although some handwritten ones came in again at maida 
> vale from 98 onwards.
> 
> 
> One of the best bits of memorabilia which we strongly considered 
for 
> the book but didn't quite make the final cut, was my Walters wall 
> chart from 1990 showing the two solid weeks in August when every 
> session was a Fall repeat. The idea was to just show that bit blown 
> up big with a witty caption. In 92 I had borrowed and transcribed 
all 
> Walters' old wallcharts that were stuffed in a corner  of egton 
318, 
> before they were junked, from 86 thru to end 91 (nov 87-Feb 88 
> missing), but only ended up keeping a sample of a dozen or so. The 
> best one all round is the one on p114. Anyone spotted the red 
herring 
> in there, by the way? Tell you what , I'll post up that fall one as 
a 
> jpeg as a file in the site's photos section if i can...
> 
> Louise is not seven feet tall, and knows this picture is funny, 
taken 
> on some steps in Barcelona old town i think during the show's trip 
to 
> Sonar June 02.
> 
> ken
> 
> I'm rather dizzy with all this file sharing. I very nervously tried 
> and got one to work from yousendit - i liked that, it worked, i 
even 
> understood what was happening!
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Dean" <koogy@> wrote:
> >
> > book arrived from amazon yesterday and is a thing of beauty. love 
> the 
> > cassette theme running throughout (spent most of peel listening 
> years 
> > hearing the show a day late via a week's worth of C120s, 
siphoning 
> off the 
> > interesting bits as required, so it strikes a chord). loved the 
> little 
> > glimpses of bbc proforma even. great photos. first chapter still 
> hard to get 
> > through 3 years later. thanks for the mention(s) too, parents 
were 
> (vaguely) 
> > impressed. 
> > 
> > one question. is louise really 7ft tall like she appears in that 
> one 
> > picture? 8) 
> > 
> > ok, this list can now go back to file swapping on industrial 
> levels. wake me 
> > up when it's over. 
> > 
> > cheers
> > andy
> >
>