[peel] Re: Arena Special - sunday, tonite

[RobF]

Watched this last night, was weird watching Peel when he was not much older than I am now - My favourite bit

1) Peel trying to be cool wandering into The Nightingales gig with a scarf nonchalantly tossed round his shoulders!

2) Amusing to see Robert Lloyd being all modest about his ambitions when he later went on to sign a major label deal with the New Four Seasons

3) The Virgin record company bloke explaining how the process worked - he'd tape John Peel every night and then listen to it the next day in the office and then go and buy the records he liked from Rough Trade. Can you IMAGINE that being the process these days? Do you think they tape Huw Stephens every week??? It's all fcked up..the Record Companies buy THEIR records onto these Radio 1 shows and then sit back and think it's job done. I have some friends in an unsigned band that did an absolutely BLINDING Maida Vale session on the Huw Stephens show and they didn't get a SINGLE call from a record label as a result. Sad days...


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