[peel] Christy Moore / After Peel DJ

[Ben Harrison]

Charles,

Thank you. That's ringing a bell. I'm afraid it sounds like a parody
too me. And at the very start I could believe it's Ivor Cutler!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT_ua50nJ1k

I would have heard all this hours after touching down in England after
a while away. There was a lightning storm too.


On 9/8/11, Charles Bottomley <squallyshowers@...> wrote:
> 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!

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> 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
>> often.
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>> 'Kinky Afro' from the Peel show before that still remains a favourite,
>> mind.
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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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>> > The first time I got to hear Peel in stereo was one such night. The
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>> > whoever's show was after Peel's. I may have been asleep -- but somehow
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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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>> >> https://rapidshare.com/files/2848502144/CM_Glasto_93.mp3
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