[peel] Re: Eddie Berlin BFBS Tapes

[MARK LUETCHFORD]

I still often listen to Unknown Pleasures so no surprise that you still found it to be a work of great intelligence but I do like hearing his comments on it too. 
Like you I too am increasingly bored with the DJness of many of 6music presenters and music selection is less dangerous and less diverse too! They have a bigger back catalogue to chose from too - for instance I don't often hear Joy Division apart from Love Will Tear Us Apart. Shadowplay and Interzone are still my favourites ...
Listening to Cerys at the moment and she still plays a good selection of stuff I don't hear elsewhere - so there are exceptions. Young Tom does a good job too ...
Seems to be a diktat to interact with audience, have guests and do "features" which takes up a lot of time. John Peel did this too but with the same style he did with everything else - eg Peelenium, competitions, reading our requests, faxes etc  - just to have accept we won't see his like again and continue with our self-appointed task of building a full record of his legacy so others can discover it too.
M


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 Sent: Saturday, 8 October 2016, 22:03
 Subject: Re: [peel] Re: Eddie Berlin BFBS Tapes
   
    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 round-color:#e0ecee;float:left;font-family:Verdana;font-size:10px;padding:197510398photos div label {color:#666666;font-size:10px;overflow:hidden;text