[peel] Re: Who Am I?

[Stuart Brooks]

Pretty sure I have that edition of RT up the loft

On 9 March 2018 22:18:08 GMT+00:00, "Christopher Keep ckeep@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>The detail that always stayed with me was the first encounter with
>Peel:
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>"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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>Subject: [peel] Re: Who Am I?
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>Christopher Keep has got it. It's the Cocteau Twins
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>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."