7 October 1999

[thebarguest]

Hi Ken.
       Thanks for that - should be great (6 hours) !

I tried to tape it on a tiny mono radio/cassette in an Oxford
hotel room but something technical went wrong .....

      I remember a Fall connection to the event, which is confirmed
by the extract below from the BBC website. The Fall seem to have
played ; I can't remember whether they were broadcast.

www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/images/pdfs/John_Peel_Biography.pdf

"John's 60th birthday in August 1999 coincided with the many 
retrospectives and celebrations surrounding the end of the 
millennium. The Radio Times put him on its front cover with a 
headline that read `Do You Think I'm Sixty?',BBC Two televised 
a `John Peel Night',which included a Peel documentary with 
contributions from anyone who was anyone in music. John's actual 
party was not televised, but it was a cracker nonetheless. The 
Fall,Cinerama and Dave Clarke all performed live.Perhaps the most 
magical part of the nightcame when John was presented with a gift 
from The Undertones' Damian O'Neill.As legend has it, Damian was in 
his loft one day and found the original hand-written lyrics for 
Peel's all-time favourite song `Teenage Kicks'. As it was John's 
birthday soon, and as he loved the song so much, Damian framed the 
lyrics and gave them to John at his party.John was suitably moved, 
yet another rock `n' roll circle was complete, and the world of music 
looked on approvingly."

Bye
tbg



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
>
> 
> I am currently working through ripping all 6 hours of what was 
deemed Peel Night, for his 
> 60th birthday, 30/8/99, long job, hang on a few weeks, ok? 
Alternatively I could start 
> issuing it in one hour installments! I am not sure The Fall are 
featured, though... They 
> were in the 50th Birthday show, which is here:
> 
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4ZGSLF9E
> and
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G5ACOJ6D
> 
> k
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thebarguest" <thebarguest@> wrote:
> >
> > I seem to remember Peely's 60th birthday bash show being a
> > nice one, with some live bands, like The Fall ....
> > 
> > Thanks in advance if yourself (or anyone else) can share !
> > 
> > Regrads,
> > Adam Chance
> > 
> > 
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "andrewthezmore" <AndrewThezmore@> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Doc
> > > 
> > > I've got that show in the loft - I'll add it to the next (long 
> > > overdue) batch to 30242. Any other requests for midJune99 to 
> > > earlyJan00 shows? Be specific and you might be pleasantly 
> > surprised...
> > > 
> > > Keep up the good work on the wiki - much appreciated
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > Andrew
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Dr Mango <dr_mango2004@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi everyone.
> > > > 
> > > > Here's a 22 minute segment of the show from Thursday 7th 
October 
> > > 1999, which featured live recordings by Lonnie Donegan and Half 
Man 
> > > Half Biscuit, recorded the previous Friday (1st October) at the 
> > Queen 
> > > Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank. I can't remember the reason 
for 
> > the 
> > > event, but I'm sure somebody can enlighten me. This is a 
recording 
> > of 
> > > Half Man Half Biscuit's 7 songs, with Peel bookends. There's 
also 
> > the 
> > > start of the next track in the programme after the live music, 
but 
> > > this fades off. Note that the fade is on my original tape! I 
had no 
> > > memory of recording this, so was pleasantly surprised to find 
it on 
> > > an unmarked tape in my collection a little while ago. I do 
remember 
> > > hearing Lonnie Donegan's set though, and being rather 
impressed. 
> > > Naturally, I'm disappointed that I didn't record all / more of 
this 
> > > show. What's galling now is to point out that I started 
recording 
> > at 
> > > the beginning of the tape and promptly stopped after HMHB, when 
I 
> > > could at least
> > > >  have left it running until side A ran out... So it goes.
> > > > 
> > > > "Can you hear Telvin Singh..."
> > > > John Peel 1999-10-07.mp3 (31.1 MB) 192 kbps
> > > > http://sharebee.com/8a2448e2
> > > > 
> > > > Dr M.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>