[peel] Christy Moore / After Peel DJ

[Charles Bottomley]

The Van Morrison track is "The Days Before Rock 'n' Roll." Lots of muttering
about "wireless" and "knobs". You and I must have been listening to
Peelie/Campbell at around the same time!

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Ben Harrison <abcdetc@...> wrote:

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> Thanks to this I found the tune I was remembering on my first try!
> Simply typed 'Nicky Campbell' and 'Christy Moore' into Google and took
> a chance. It's 'Welcome To The Cabaret'
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQk99UMUyU
> Not quite Babes in Toyland or Happy Mondays, but at least now I know.
> Thanks for the clue DM.
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> The other tune from that show I recall: I don't remember really except
> it had Van Morrison namechecking 'John Dunne' possibly a little too
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> 'Kinky Afro' from the Peel show before that still remains a favourite,
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> On 9/8/11, Dr Mango <dr_mango2004@...> wrote:
> > Nicky Campbell followed Peel in the 10 - midnight weekday slot from
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> > 1988 - 90, until late September 1990 when Peel moved to the weekends.
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> > --- On Thu, 8/9/11, Ben Harrison <abcdetc@...> wrote:
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> > From: Ben Harrison <abcdetc@...>
> > Subject: [peel] Christy Moore / After Peel DJ
> > To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 5:19
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> > What was/is the name of the DJ who -on a weeknight in September 1990-
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> > is likely to have come on air, on Radio 1, after John Peel's show?
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> > The first time I got to hear Peel in stereo was one such night. The
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> > show included a brand new Happy Mondays single (how hi-fi it sounded)
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> > 'Kinky Afro'; and a charming interview with Babes in Toyland -- which
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> > was the first attempt or first in what was planned to be a series of
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> > And after that was the first time I heard Christy Moore. I think. On
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> > whoever's show was after Peel's. I may have been asleep -- but somehow
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> > I recall a wry, stream-of-consciousness song that I thought I'd be
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> > played what they're plugged. But I've tried all sorts of googles --
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> > and probably will again now -- but on the offchance someone might know
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> > what the song it might be: I'm making mention of it here.
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> > As I recall, it made a virtue of its Irishness with a load of
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> > On 9/7/11, haze_harrison <haze.harrison@...> wrote:
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> >> About 25 minutes of Christy Moore at Glastonbury 1993 with a little
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> >> between JP and Johnny Walker at the end. Sadly the recording fades out
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> >> mid conversation. How was I to know that nearly 20 years later we would
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> >> more interested in recordings of John than of the musicians.......
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> >> https://rapidshare.com/files/2848502144/CM_Glasto_93.mp3
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> >> Enjoy, Haze
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