[peel] RE: Charlotte Fucking Church

[MARK LUETCHFORD]

 Johnny come lately here - you know I'd be quite interested to hear what she has to say about women in music business and the culture of celebrity but the link with Peel is so tenuous that I don't think its worth calling it after him- maybe if it had been Sheena Easton, or Clare Grogan. Or maybe a better choice would have been Viv Albertine, Siouxie ... 

However I never really remember John Peel pronouncing on feminism/gender politics/women in music business. He obviously had a soft spot for women led bands and seemed to attach his flag to particular ones throughout his career - Siouxie, Slits, Dolly Mixture, Altered Images, Girls at our Best, Helen Love spring to the top of my mind.  I think his role in the sixties cultural revolution was more on the cultural/recreational drugs/sexual side!

As has been said before we are predominantly (exclusively?)  a male group. That may be very relevant to this!

Mark

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 From: "so_it_goes_2512@..." <so_it_goes_2512@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 23:18
Subject: RE: Re: [peel] RE: Charlotte Fucking Church
 


  
Started his broadcasting career at Radio London....cheerfully ignoring his years in the States.
Mind you, the Net is littered with erroneous crap about John. Alexander Laurence's interview with the Delgados that I used for their page on the Wiki contains a couple of howlers that I can't believe nobody spotted, to wit:
The Delgado's first album Domestiques (1996) immediately caught the attention of the late John Peel. (He was playing them more than a year before that.)
They even played a show at John Peel's house for his 5
0th birthday party. (Sheila's, actually. John was already 59 at the time.)
Anybody else seen comparable nonsense to share with us?
Steve (TK)



---In peel@yahoogroups.com, <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Actually, having read the article properly now
, the most amusing bit is right down at the bottom:
 "John Peel started his broadcasting career at pirate station Radio London 
before joining BBC Radio 1 for its 1967 launch.
He was famous for championing new talent on his late-night music programme, 
including Pink Floyd and White Stripes."
 
 
Pink  Floyd & White Stripes?? Who the hell do they get to write this stuff?? An unpaid intern, presumably.
 
 
From: "so_it_goes_2512@..." <so_it_goes_2512@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 20:03
Subject: [peel] RE: Charlotte Fucking Church
 
  
Sorry, what isn't? Sounds to me like a physical impossibility, as John would have said......

Steve (TK) 
---In peel@yahoogroups.com, <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Tell me it isn't so.