Pete Townsend on being invited to give the inaugral John Peel lecture

[ken]

may be. but to be honest, if anyone had asked me, I would have said they were definitely not his kind of thing. I could be mistaken, but I have a vague memory of mentioning them to him at the time, because I like many was swept along in admiration at their first appearances - it was around 87 i started doing freelance staff about him and radio - and recall a non committal, nay frankly silent response. If John said nothing, it was always a good sign he really was not interested!

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--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Colin" <colin_ellis@...> wrote:
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> I can't remember whether JP played them either, but their "Letter From America" was about emigration resulting from unemployment and redundancy in Central Scotland ("Linwood no more, Bathgate no more"...references to closures of car factories) so the theme might have struck a chord with him then.
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken" <ken_garner@> wrote:
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> > to be fair i think it was janice long and her then producer Mike Hawkes who picked up on the proclaimers first - see IN SESSION TONIGHT pp. 154-55. Their first session was for her in Jan 87, and they signed to chrysalis a few weeks later. Before that they had only had a demo tape doing the rounds, no indie single releases, and peel at that time did not broadcast demos, so I have to wonder if Townsend's memory is correct. In my mind, and I was a regular listener in 86-87, they were always an evening show band. It is always possible peel played their first single on chrysalis once or twice in summer 87, but I do not recall it. We need more show tapes from these years!
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> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, MARK LUETCHFORD <M.Luetchford@> wrote:
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> > > i think I first heard the proclaimers on Peel but no evidence on tape - definitely remember seeing  them on the tube - wild 
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> > > From: Alan Ford <ford.alan@>
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> > > Subject: Re: [peel] Pete Townsend on being invited to give the inaugral John Peel lecture
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> > > Maybe he meant The Pretenders ??
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> > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:20 PM, RobF <robfleay@> wrote:
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> > > >The Proclaimers?? Is he sure?
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> > > >No mention of The Proclaimers in the wiki tracklists but can anyone categorically confirm/deny?
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> > > >On 4 October 2011 13:44, Ben Harrison <abcdetc@> wrote:
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> > > >>The Jesus And Mary Chain: ‎"Through John's shows I first heard artists like the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Undertones and the Proclaimers before they had record contracts." - Pete Townsend on being invited to give the inaugral John Peel lecture -http://tinyurl.com/townshendjplecture
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