A quickie post for today.
Shared last month by dunelm61 at the Peel Newsgroup is this enjoyable archive piece…
In 1986 BBC Radio 1 made a series of programmes called Radio Radio, one of the programmes being devoted to John Peel.
First transmitted on 8 February 1986.
original single file link:
bite-size mirror links:
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The 2008 Festive Fifty - Vote Now!
John Peel’s famous end-of-year poll continues again on Dandelion RadioPlay your part in making musical history, by taking part in this year’s Festive Fifty! Each entry gets a chance to win CDs and copies of Mark Whitby’s book ‘The Festive Fifty’, with one winner also receving a signed copy of Ken Garner’s book ‘The Peel Sessions: A Story of Teenage Dreams and One Man’s Love of New Music’.
Vote for your three favourite tracks from the past year, in order of preference. In theory they could be anything, but tracks played on Dandelion Radio (including session tracks and live recordings) or on BBC Radio 1’s special interest shows are what you should have in mind. Visit our tracklists pages to see what DJs have played this year.
Voting ends at 23:59 on 30th November. A show featuring all the results and competition winners broadcasts from Christmas Day until the end of January.
• Dandelion Radio Festive Fifty 2008
P.S.
Did anyone get a clean recording of last year’s show? I have most of it but noticed too late to re-download, that part of the recording was fucked. Hope I’m not blinding anyone with science there. Otherwise I would have shared it. I forget which part exactly although It might have been Andrew Morrison’s section. It’s not too late to patch it together though if there are any willing contributors.
- gary (”;)
Should have added this the other day actual.
The Superfine Dandelion - Crazy Town (Move On Little Children) From 196? - anyone?
Peace children. Love and peace.
For those without a Peel gig to go to over the weekend, why not give BBC 6 Music a try?
Not a phrase I’d normally utter, but this weekend sitting in for Stephen Merchant is our old pal Jarvis Cocker. He’s on from 15:30 to 17:30, Sunday 26th October. Subsequent weeks will feature The Kaiser Chiefs and Cerys Matthews, thus offering further proof to support the ‘law of diminishing returns’.
*Hey there fellow UK residents, don’t forget the clocks went back one hour last night.
• Jarvis - MySpace
• Jarvis - BBC 6 Music
• Timothy Allen - Photographer
More from our Ken. Over to you Sir…
This weekend’s downpod from me, this time with no dolby on the original, so it’s a bit hissy, but I couldn’t seem to get rid of it without losing the presence. Also, as those who heard it will recall, the whole show was recorded on the floor of MV3, so the ambience during the Pop Quiz sections is quite echo-ey anyway. Name drop alert: I emailed David Gedge and Darren Heyman during the week to tell them I had this and would they like a copy, and they both said, `yes please!”, so you’d better race them to get it: my megadownload storage limit is getting full up pretty fast, so this won’t be up there for very long. Get it today. Big files, so download will take a while, but I hope you think it’s worth it in the end. k
Peel 2000-12-19 Part 1 (142.9 MB, 1 02′ 27″)
Peel 2000-12-19 Part 2 (137.9 MB, 1 00′ 14″)
Thank you Ken (”;)
The closest match I could find!
I discovered these tapes unlabelled a few weeks ago while undertaking an enforced clear out of my university office (to facilitate space for window repairs), where I moved part of my tape archive in the mid-90s, for what reason now escapes me. I had forgotten I had taped complete the two consecutive shows Peel had done live in October 1994 from BBC Scotland’s old studios in Queen Margaret Drive as part of the Glasgow City Council backed `Ten Day Weekend” music festival. So this week’s downpod from me is six hours of Glasgow-focussed musical entertainment, the highlights being perhaps Nectarine No 9’s session and the squeaky BBC Scotland chair (Friday), and the football match reports from the Glasgow Herald’s David Belcher, and John Williamson (Saturday). The Saturday show is clearly the better and more eventful of the two, with more interviews and jokes, though both are great musically, with the Frank Black and Teenage Fanclub session getting a deserved repeat, and a spin of the H Foundation. There is also a brief mention of me.
Listening to these over the past few evenings for the first time since that weekend, the social whirl of those 3 days all came back to me. Peel, Hawkes and Alison arrived on Thursday afternoon and after a meal in Long Fung we all went down to see Uresei Yatsura at the original 13th Note basement café venue at the top of Glassford Street. We all teased Hawkes for declaring without irony that he “really liked the chick on bass”. On Friday afternoon, I introduced and interviewed Peel at a packed GFT chat show, at which several old pals of his showed up and an unknown woman presented him with a tray of pot plants. On Saturday we went for lunch in Gandolfi’s in Albion Street (Peel had the Finnan haddock, still, I was pleased to note on a recent visit, a staple of the menu), and then a crowd of us went to the BBC studio for the show, where, as Peel rightly credits, only the BBC Scotland engineer Andrew stayed calm amid the mad onslaught of special guests and features. Afterwards we trooped down to Mother India for a curry, then saw AC Acoustics and Shriek at Nice N Sleazy’s. I will never forget Hawkes’ and Alison’s blank faced astonishment at emerging up the stairs onto Sauchiehall Street at midnight and, confronted by the sea of humanity, noise, ambulances, taxis and activity all over the street, asking “what’s going on? Has there been some incident”, and me and Stewart from the BBC saying, no, just a normal Saturday night in Glasgow, it’s ok. John was somewhat less surprised, I think.
1994-10-07a | 1994-10-07b | 1994-10-07c | 1994-10-07d
1994-10-08a | 1994-10-08b | 1994-10-08c | 1994-10-08d
Many thanks Ken (”;)
Photo credit: young team
The Fall are to play the opening night of the MTV Liverpool Music Week on Thursday 30th October.
Venue: Nation, Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool, L1 4JJ.
Tickets: On sale now - £16 + booking fee. Available from Ticketline Tel: 0151 256 5555
Please note, this venue has an age restriction of 18+
My only ambition was: this is fun, I hope we can make a living out of this
- Rick Wright 1942 - 2008
15 Sep 2008
The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with great sadness, that Richard died today after a short struggle with cancer.The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this difficult time.
Richard Wright
Born 28 July 1943 (65)
source: pinkfloyd.com
No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.
In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick’s enormous input was frequently forgotten.
He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound.
I have never played with anyone quite like him. The blend of his and my voices and our musical telepathy reached their first major flowering in 1971 on ‘Echoes’. In my view all the greatest PF moments are the ones where he is in full flow. After all, without ‘Us and Them’ and ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’, both of which he wrote, what would ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ have been? Without his quiet touch the Album ‘Wish You Were Here’ would not quite have worked.
In our middle years, for many reasons he lost his way for a while, but in the early Nineties, with ‘The Division Bell’, his vitality, spark and humour returned to him and then the audience reaction to his appearances on my tour in 2006 was hugely uplifting and it’s a mark of his modesty that those standing ovations came as a huge surprise to him, (though not to the rest of us).
Like Rick, I don’t find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously.
David Gilmour
Monday 15th September 2008
source: davidgilmour.com
John Peel’s involvement with The Pink Floyd and their Free Sound goes right the way back to the beginning. Notable moments include the time he played Dark Side of The Moon in it’s entirety and HMV in Oxford St. sold out of blank cassettes. Though this might be an urban myth!
In addition to playing with Pink Floyd, Rick also released two solo albums:
Wet Dreams (1978) and Broken China (1996)
There are a ton of sites out there catering to Pink Floyd including those that both list and share many unreleased live recordings, demos and out-takes, but if you’d rather hear the band in documentary form try this one from BBC radio made by 1992 Wish You’d Been Here - The History of Pink Floyd. You’ll even have a chuckle as Bob Harris continually refers to records as rekids! It’s a DJ thing - he’s always done it. Also read this Rick Wright interview from 1986.
• Fades in Slowly
• Teenage Kicks
• Kat’s Karavan audio: Top Gear including Pink Floyd session (1967)
• BigO audio: Peel’s in Concert (1971)
• Pink Floyd live at Madison Square Garden (1977) audio: 278.38 MB
Michael Redgrave with Hugo. Ealing Studios' classic Dead of Night from 1945
In this BBC radio documentary from 1991, John Walters relates a potted history spanning over 70 years of the BBC music session, with conributions from John Peel, Bernie Andrews, Dale Griffin, Peter Hooton, Robert Wyatt, Phil Collins, Nick Gomm, Siouxsie, Steve Severin, and erm, Jordan. Huh?
Audio demuxed by me from a DVD compiled by Alasdair via jah-peel. The detailed running order is also courtesy of Alasdair. Thank you sir.
While you’re fetching the link from the comments, you could thank Alasdair. Fair deal? :)
01. Intro
02. Jimi Hendrix : Radio 1 Jingle
03. John Walters narration / Hoovers interview (1991-01-29)
04. Alan Price Set : Barefootin’ 1966 Saturday Club
05. Narration / interviews
06. Bernie Andrews interview / Dave Clarke Five : Bits & Pieces
07. Narration / interviews
08. Jimi Hendrix : Get My Heart Together Again (1967-12-15) / narration & interviews
09. Narration / interviews / T-Rex : Ride A White Swan
10. Narration / interviews / Soft Machine : Moon In June (1969-06-10) / narration / interviews
11. Brand X : unknown (1976-02-26 or 1976-07-15) / narration / interviews
12. Narration / interviews / Gene Vincent : Be Bop A Lula (1971-10-01)
13. 2 Chimpanzees playing piano (1971, unreleased/unbroadcast) / narration / interviews
14. Narration / interviews / Carol Concert 1970 (Rod Stewart) / narration
15. Narration / interviews / The Damned : Stab Your Back (1976-11-30)
16. Adam & The Ants : Lou (1978-01-23) / narration / interviews
17. Narration / interviews / The Slits : Love And Romance (1977-09-19) / narration / interviews
18. Narration / interviews / Siouxsie & The Banshees : Hong Kong Garden (1978-02-06)
19. Narration / interviews / The Smiths : unknown
20. Narration / interviews / The Four Brothers : unknown
21. Narration / interviews / A Guy Called Gerald : unknown (1988-10-30 or 1989-08-06)
22. Narration / interviews / The Farm : No Man’s Land (1983-04-17) / narration / interviews
23. Narration / interviews / The Ukranians : unknown (1991-09-24)
24. The Hoovers : Big Time (1991-01-29) / narration / interviews
Total Time : [59:39]
CERN's Tape storage
source: flickr
John Peel Torrents John Peel's Record Box The Reggae Show
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