[peel] Tom In Atlanta No More - but still has 300 tapes.

[Pete Conkerton]

I trust the big beasts of the group will stir into action directly (my electronic chequebook will stand a small contribution) - I'm very much looking forward to hearing Prince Far The First :-)
Bontemps roulez, Tom (as you probably never ever say)
Cheers aye, Pete 

    On Friday, 3 June 2016, 3:27, "Tom Roche troche2255@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

     Hello longtime PeelList friends,

It has been some time since I posted. Last year I began closing up 30 years in Atlanta and moved to New Orleans - which of course has the most music-rich history of any city in the US. Having a grand time; all the effort to get here (and whew it was a damn chore) was worth it.

As stated previously, I had UK friends in the 80s and 90s recording and shipping Peel BBC Radio One shows on cassette for me. Meanwhile I was recording his BBC World Service Shows both over the air (SW low-fi) and via a cleaner - but still mono - satellite link. My plan was to log all the dates of the shows I have - and post to this list - before making the big ATL to NOLA move, but life got complicated .... and I moved the all the tapes here in November still un-catalogued. 

(Somewhere I even have my own recording of the funeral service in Bury St Edmonds. I believe the only Yanks to drop everything and fly over were Jack White, Laura Cantrell and me.)

I want to inquire how your digitization of tapes is going. Are you ready for another large batch? Obviously I need to post a logging of all the FM shows I have... so that shows you have already archived are not shipped over. 

But what I have done this week is separated out all the BBCWS shows I have... it is between 75 and 80, and the parcel weighs 12-13 pounds. All the shows begin with an often-clueless continuity announcer intro-ing the show (the best intro is the BBCWS promising music from "Prince Far The First.") Then comes Grinderswitch and then an ever-changing clever greeting from JP, then basically a 30 minute condensation of the week's 6 hours of domestic shows, sans sessions. He would get maybe 4 letters a month and he'd read those out, sometimes even a letter from me. Then Grinderswitch again as the outro, later changed to any extendable techno track he liked.

For a time he was limited to playing UK tracks only, some BBCWS silly rule, then about 1990 that changed. My satellite dish friend probably recorded every show over 10 years, but we only saved the best ones and rolled over the rest, alas. So the surviving shows are good ones.

Anyway, shall we extend the Peel Wiki to the World Service shows? Who would like all these cassettes? And do we want to do a little funding-site thing to pay for the overseas shipping? I can contribute but can shoulder all of it.

Then I'll move on to logging the (plus or minus) 300 R1 tapes, yes?

Hello Martin Wheatley - still around? Hello Phil Edwards and the missus. Hello Ken Garner?  Is David Cavanagh on the list? Love love love the Good Riddance book.

If anyone on the list is passing through New Orleans and wants to re-define the term "pub crawl" please please get in touch. I buy the first 4 rounds. I am still doing film video editing.... here is a little taste of my new world.

https://vimeo.com/155266481

I urge you to check out our startlingly good R&B/jazz/heritage station here WWOZ-FM. Truly exceptional 24/7.

Let the good times roll ... and my best to all ya'll as we say 'round here.

Tom Roche


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