[peel] Re: A Perfect Storm

[Martin Wheatley]

At 20:19 23/01/2011, you wrote:
>
>
>As far as I can recall this was the only release through the pages 
>of NME as I never saw any other records offered which at the time I 
>thought was a real shame as the original intention seemed to 
>indicate this was going to be a series of records or was it just 
>wishful thinking ?
>perhaps there was too many obstcales in the way
>
>It does seem a shame that the BBC don't think along the lines of 
>issueing limited vinyl editions of peel sessions similar to the 
>original Strange Fruit editions as I'm sure this would be popular as 
>you only have to look at the Trojan Records website as they have 
>started a Limited numbered edition 7" series
>Just a thought !
>
>Alan

The problem as always is that the BBC don't have the rights to the 
material to issue them
The BBC just have broadcast rights and 7 day Internet rights
The actual sessions are owned by whoever was the artist's record 
label at the time
unless the artist wasn't signed in which case everyone on the session 
has to agree
Most of Strange Fruit's time was spent tracing musicians and getting 
their permission
and if you look at people whose stuff was issued on Strange Fruits 
it's almost always people
who weren't signed to major labels at the time

martinw