Peelgroupennium...

[Stuart Mchugh]

Rob said: 

> 20 odd years?? Surely not. I just looked on the Yahoo Groups profile and I
> was astonished to see that the group started in January 1999. I then
> figured I must have joined later, but nope I was there in the archive
> replying to the very first topic.

I should maybe have said 20-ish years, but it existed for… well, a while on a different setup - egroups (and I’d be surprised if you weren’t part of that). Unless Yahoo ported the old data over? Yahoo bought egroups anyway, and there was much moaning about the cumbersome ad-driven new boss.


> That implies I must have been made aware of the group starting up from
> somewhere? UK-Indie mailing list perhaps?

Probably. Everything goes back to uk-indie(or chugchanga or maybe grunge-l or the chem board… these were the only groups I was on

> 
> Who has a better memory than me? If you'd asked me I'd have been hard
> pushed to remember that the group even existed before John died..

Well, it was set up to discuss the music heard on the previous night’s show, pretty much. But I have trouble dating stuff from back then too. And there’s no evidence for a lot of stuff. Jockrock is 20 this year - probably. But I can’t actually put an exact date on it. (And am not expecting anyone else to be able to either!)