[peel] Re: Eddie Berlin BFBS Tapes

[thebarguest@...]

Just played a show from 79-08 where he played several tracks from "Unknown Pleasures". I'd forgotten how good the album was. It's really weird that something from 37 years ago that I knew so well but had forgotten to a degree, still excites and proves the artistic value of intelligent music (no, sorry NME, not "popular" music as the snobby broadsheets used to call all this stuff). Abba was popular music. When I saw JD at Erics in August 79 the small club was half full. Peely's inserts and command are perfect, the right mix of info and anecdote and humour, within the right 20 second-ish time slot. I can't listen to BBC6 Music because of the prominence given to the DJs who often waffle on and on with quizzes and phone-ins etc. It's sad because they seem like nice guys. OK, its Radcliffe and Maconie - I know they worship Peely so why can't they follow their hero? Maybe its the management's fault...