[peel] Peel at Glastonbury

[steve lippert]

I think there are supposedly SOME decent acts playing this year, including Those 
Dancing Days, Fleet Foxes, Friendly Fires, The Joy Formidable, Everything 
Everything, Metronomy, Crystal Castles, Noah and the Whale, The Go! Team, 
Hercules and Love Affair, Two Door Cinema Club... All kind of keeping the Peel 
flame alive. But gosh yes definitely worth avoiding Beyonce and U2 (I doubt 
they'd play anything from Boy, but you never know). If I was there I'd be 
hanging out the small tents.

BTW anybody here see John play at Tribal Gathering in 1997? His set was, of 
course, ace, despite playing things at the wrong speed and even slightly messing 
up Teenage Kicks. But that's what you'd hope for isn't it!

Steve



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From: Alan Ford <ford.alan@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 25 June, 2011 16:33:33
Subject: Re: [peel] Peel at Glastonbury

  
Is it just me or ..
Did Glastonbury used to be mainly 'alternative' Peel-type acts that wouldn't 
normally appear on day-time radio, and now it just seems to consist of the same 
crap that you hear all day? 

I reckon that Viz joke would have been much funnier with Beyonce instead of U2 !

Rant over

Alan

PS I've never actually been. Would still like to go though - while I've still 
got control of most of my bodily functions



On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Dr Mango <dr_mango2004@...> wrote:

 
>  
>6 Music broadcast some more of Peel's contributions from a previous Glastonbury 
>Festival overnight. It's an hour-long show, undated. Here's the blurb:
>
>"The Godfather of Glastonbury John Peel became synonymous with the  festival 
>from the very start and the programmes he presented for both  radio and TV that 
>forever associated him with Glastonbury in the eyes of  the British Public.
>Many of the acts he championed in their early years on his Radio 1 show  soon 
>found themselves playing to the thousands on the Pyramid Stage. 
>
>6Music have been into the BBC archive and dug out one of John's classic Worthy 
>Farm shows for you.
>Tonight's show features sets from Cast and Echo and The Bunnymen and  Mary Anne 
>Hobbs is John's roving reporter talking to John Carter and  Mark Jones from Wall 
>of Sound."
>
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0124rgt
>
>DM
>