Peel Archive

[ken]

I knew nothing about this and it's very welcome of course. However, the more detailed BBC and NME stories (links below) reveal it's very much only a start, and they do not anticipate ripping more than a sample of the vinyl collection under the funding support they have won, over the next year or two. I do not even know if the family were able to complete a proper digital catalogue of the collection, though both one private individual and staff from the British Library have been advising on this (I reckon that would take someone a couple of years, at least!), I know that. The BBC is going to support and help, through Archive Development. In short, it's  a great start, but do not anticipate being able to hear streams of rare or lost official peel sessions from the BBC archive through it anytime soon!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17139449
http://www.nme.com/news/john-peel/62216

ken

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, MARK LUETCHFORD <M.Luetchford@...> wrote:
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> looks like great initiative to me - I can remember some sort of campaign to secure funding for this centre. If it does take off it may be another path to find some missing shows.
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> Mark
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>  From: RobF <robfleay@...>
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Friday, 24 February 2012, 14:00
> Subject: [peel] Peel Archive
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> A lot of trumpeting in the media the past couple of days regarding the new public archive of Peel's record collection
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> http://eyeforbusiness.co.uk/blog/press-release-contents-of-john-peels-record-collection-to-be-made-public-2/
> http://thequietus.com/articles/08073-john-peel-record-collection-archive
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> A couple of the articles state that  "there will also be access to audio of the Peel session archive".
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> Does anyone know how true this is, or have any more concrete details? Lots of the Peel Sessions have been officially released as we know, but the chance to hear good quality versions of the more obscure and less taped sessions would be golden
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