[peel] Re: Who Am I?

[Christopher Keep]

The detail that always stayed with me was the first encounter with Peel:


"I was down in London seeing The Birthday Party and so was he [John Peel] so I plucked up courage and went up to him 'here's a tape for you mister.' I had to make two tapes. We didn't have it about us to make one tape and copy it. We had to play all the songs twice! I gave one to Ivo and one to John Peel. Quite a lucky combination." [Rorschach Testing, 1983].



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Christopher Keep has got it. It's the Cocteau Twins

The Cocteau Twins refused to do Top Of The Pops in 1984, because according to Cocteau Twins bass player, Simon Raymonde, "We should have done TOTP [Top of the Pops] when "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" was a hit. We were offered it but we said no. It was too scary. We didn't talk about the fear, but the bravado side of it was, 'This is bollocks—people dancing with balloons.' We just weren't comfortable in that world."