[peel] [Peel} It snowed...

[Eddie Duffy]

It was by Stylus and was called 'Pluen Eira', the last record played on 
the 2003 Christmas show on 23 December 2003.

Incidentally, that whole show's currently available for download on Jon 
Horne's Peel site:

http://www.jonhorne.co.uk/jptapes/jptapes.html

Eddie.

rockerq@... wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I'm trying to locate a record Peel played in one or another of his 
> Christmas shows in maybe 2000 or later.
>
> It consisted of a bed of spooky analogue synth whooshes and squawks, 
> overlaid by a looped sample from Dylan Thomas' "A child's Christmas in 
> Wales", read by a plummy voiced actor, thus:
>
> "It snowed and it snowed - It snowed last year, too. I made a snowman 
> and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then 
> we had tea."
>
> It's one of my favourite Christmas records of all time (I hate Christmas).
>
> I edited it onto a CDr to play out at some jolly xmas gig, but 
> neglected to note down its title or who it was by - if it ever came 
> out I'd like to get hold of it!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Rocker
>
>