John Peel, gone and forgotten

[stavros]

That rings bells!!!!!

I'd quite like Stewart Lee to be given his own radio show to play all kinds of random stuff, because I know he has a Peel-esque eclectic taste in music. Mark Lamarr has his show in Radio 2 which isn't bad, so maybe Stew could do something like that.

 

[starfish2000]

Isn't the John Peel thing a bit of a cool Myth anyway?

If the amount of people who claimed to have listened to him actually did listen to him, then surely he would have had more listeners than any other DJ on the planet?? Thats nhow it seems to me anyroad.

I used to tune in now and then when I was 18 and yeah it was fun listeneing to him playing Norweigan Death metal at the wrong speed, but theres only so many Fall records a man can take.

 

[butchersapron]

Not a myth no.

 

[danny la rouge]

Isn't the John Peel thing a bit of a cool Myth anyway?

No, he was real. I can distinctly remember him.

About the people who say they listened to him: he broadcast from the 60s right up to his death, so you only needed to listen to him in your formative years and that'd still be room for a lot of people.

I was still listening regularly when he died. While he was on holiday, I was looking forward to the guests filling in for him; Siouxie Sioux was one. I didn't expect him not to come back, though.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Hmmm well how come that humble page doesn't show on a search?

well largely because despite them spending nearly whatever millions on the face lfit of their site they still haven't worked out their search engine is shit. not only is it shit but it's actually one of the least useful searches on the fucking internet. due to their 'shared' umbrella branding the search is supposed to index the entire site something which on a site of their scale is nigh on impossilbe to do without huge impact to their servers....

sadly it seems there's no one person who has ever seen a usualbity guide let alone applied a fucking nano of it into their entire layout....

sadly as the web has progressed the usibility of the bcc's site is become increasing marginalised as they go for the you tube wizzy interface ajax over kill 'web .2' bullshit fashion...

fucking hate them for building something near perfect and then ruining it by not being standards compliant and not considering usiblity at all...

It's no longer a consumer facing site but one which is entirely designed for internal bbc useage and the rest of us are priviladged to be allow access to it... or so it seems...

 

[extra dry]

As for Radio One these days its presenters are little more than childrens entertainers.[/QUOTE]

I just got my realplayer fixed and tuned in to radio one...after about a three year break....and I have to agree the guy sounded like a pleb.

 

[stavros]

About the people who say they listened to him: he broadcast from the 60s right up to his death, so you only needed to listen to him in your formative years and that'd still be room for a lot of people.

OTM. It was his longevity and ability to move with the times that created this aura around him. I have him to thank for getting me into the Delgados, Th' Faith Healers, HMHB, PJ Harvey, Mogwai, Lee Perry, Squarepusher and obviously the Undertones, amongst others.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I don't believe that his critical faculties survived into the 90s. He'd play any industrial techno crap, however bad, for the whole of the decade.

 

[butchersapron]

Posh twat

 

[editor]

I was in FOPP on Saturday and there were a couple of John Peel compilations on the racks and I suddenly realised how much I missed him and how sad I was that he's gone.

No one even comes close.

 

[Fictionist]

I have to say that growing up John Peel never featured as a DJ I listened to. Can anyone point me in the direction of any of his shows (if they are available) so that I can listen to his work?

 

[editor]

Here's a good place to start: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/

 

[Fictionist]

Thanks Ed.

 

[isitme]

tangerinedream from this website is going to be on dandelion radio soon i think

oh and he makes podcasts john peel style digging for interesting music and rambling on rather than a lot of people on there who are into playing retro stuff that JP discovered 20 years ago

 

[Fuchs66]

Isn't the John Peel thing a bit of a cool Myth anyway?

If the amount of people who claimed to have listened to him actually did listen to him, then surely he would have had more listeners than any other DJ on the planet?? Thats nhow it seems to me anyroad.

I used to tune in now and then when I was 18 and yeah it was fun listeneing to him playing Norweigan Death metal at the wrong speed, but theres only so many Fall records a man can take.

Not a myth at all, he got voted most popular DJ in Germany for a few years for his show that was broadcast on BFBS which I thought was pretty impressive for a couple of reasons

1 it wasnt a German station

2 it only covered those areas where British forces were

 

[butchersapron]

...but theres only so many Fall records a man can take.

This is wrong as well.

 

[editor]

He was the first Radio One DJ to play my punk band. And he liked us!

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Here's a huuuge collection of Peel quotes:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41&threadid=34945

 

[albionism]

I have to say that growing up John Peel never featured as a DJ I listened to. Can anyone point me in the direction of any of his shows (if they are available) so that I can listen to his work?

There is a link on this page to one of his shows.
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/lwtua/vpost?id=3089302

 

[Clint Iguana]

I was in FOPP on Saturday and there were a couple of John Peel compilations on the racks and I suddenly realised how much I missed him and how sad I was that he's gone.

No one even comes close.

There is a lot of crap being published to make a buck off Johns name. Up until recently the only decent book was the one he started writing and his wife finished, Margrave Of the Marshes. Happily there is a new one out this month, the Olivetti Chronicles, which is a collection of articles he wrote for various publications. A reminder of what a talent we have lost.

 

[stavros]

I keep consulting this list and picking out random tracks that sound interesting and often it opens me up to stuff I hadn't heard of before (OK some stuff isn't that good but that was the point of Peel and his variety). I'm also in the process of downloading every track from the 1982 Festive 50 (the year I was born). I've got to 30 now but a couple are proving hard to find.

 

[ska invita]

Apparently, Zane Lowe is taking on Peel's mantle. Must have been severely off form the night I checked out his show.

I heard that ROb da Bank was meant to be the new peel - never checked out if thats true though

 

[dweller]

I only just realised that I'm listening to John Peel's sons who are in the studio with Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6 selecting some tunes.
Seem like nice guys and its only when I heard certain turns of phrase and when they started talking about
being taken to extreme noise terror gigs by their dad that I twigged.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Anyone catch ProgRock - Timeshift last night. Had some hilarious Peel commentary. Must've been filmed just before he died. Laid into the proggers somethin cronik

 

[High Voltage]

Apparently, Zane Lowe is taking on Peel's mantle. Must have been severely off form the night I checked out his show.

I heard that ROb da Bank was meant to be the new peel - never checked out if thats true though

I really hope not. Nothing against Messrs Low and da Bank but, somehow, no.

Now, on the brief "guest" hearing of Cerys Matthews recently, that young lady (and yes, I'm old enough to call her young), put on a very interesting, entertaining show indeed.

 

[skyscraper101]

Rob Da Bank's show isn't bad at all. It's definitely not Peel but it's a step in the right direction for Radio 1.

I won't even comment on the awfulness of Zane Lowe.

 

[toblerone3]

Just finished readin John Peel's "autobiography" Margrave of the Marshes - actually most of it was written by his wife.

He was quite a great man really much more than a DJ. On one of the links here there was somebody who said that he had spend much time trimming John Peel's voice off the end of the music that he played but in retrospect wished that he had cut out of the music and just left John Peel's links.

 

[metalguru]

Peel was great, of course, but it'd be good to have accessible archives of other shows as well, for example I have fond memories of the Annie Nightingale Request Show.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I'm sure just before he died that the listening figures for Radio 1 revealed that his show had the youngest age demography at of all of them.

 

[stavros]

Just finished readin John Peel's "autobiography" Margrave of the Marshes - actually most of it was written by his wife.

There was a new book out a few weeks ago which I got for Christmas called The Olivetti Chronicles which is a selection of columns he wrote over the years for all kinds of magazines/newspapers/etc about music and life in general. I haven't started reading it yet but looking forward to mentally reciting the text in a languid Scouse accent.