John Peel is dead, who will save Radio 1 now?
Posted by scrawny (Member # 113) on :
Sad. He was a game old fucker. Came from my home town too. Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by scrawny: Sad. He was a game old fucker. Came from my home town too.
The bloody Catholic Cathedral will be crammed to rafters within the hour! Er, says Boris Johnston, not me.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Fuck, that is awful - the only decent DJ left at Radio 1 has now gobne. The only man I ever heard use the word "Anal **** " on mainstream radio. A true maverick, a gent, a star. And a big loss.
RIP JP Posted by My Name Is Joe (Member # 530) on :
He was still finding musical gems right up until the end. I think some hillbilly rock stuff by someone called 'Moosejaw' was the last thing I bought (well downloaded) on his recommendation.
I can't think of anyone in British music with even a 10th of his credibility, especially since he's been broadcasting forever and a day.
And 65 isn't even old anymore.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Bummer for Thorn. From this day forward, his birthday will always be better known as 'the day John Peel died'.
Posted by My Name Is Joe (Member # 530) on :
guilty lol! Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
cripes. i rarely listened to his show because so much of it was (to my ears) unlistenable tripe, but at least it was the right kind of unlistenable tripe. i am very sad that there will be noone on radio 1 playing the right kind of unlistenable tripe any more.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by ben: Bummer for Thorn. From this day forward, his birthday will always be better known as 'the day John Peel died'.
Fuck's sake there's always someone doing this and stealing my thunder! Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
quote: Fuck's sake there's always someone doing this and stealing my thunder!
I know how you feel. My birthday is the 11th September.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
O right. Who died then, then? Jo Wiley or someone?
[ 26.10.2004, 09:35: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
That would be a and not a Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Oh man. I was thinking how I don't much listen to young people's music on the radio, but if I regained the urge that Peely would be on there somewhere.
If Stephen Fry could be my sleb uncle, I'd have John Peel as my sleb Dad.
And 65 is way not old.
Posted by I am not... (Member # 25) on :
Dang is 65 isn't he?
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Didn't Dang say Screamadelica was rubbish? You wouldn't have caught Peely sprouting nonsense like that.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
I'm not sure if A Life Of Grime will ever be the same again.
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
Sad indeed. Top geez.
He lent my friend a tenner at the train station once as she had no money and couldn't get home and was crying.
Thank the lord we won't have to listen to any Guatamalan rainforest world music played on the dried innards of buffalo anymore though!
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
A minute's unlistenable racket, please.
Posted by My Name Is Joe (Member # 530) on :
In between its usual diet of Eric Prydz and Robbie Williams, the dire local radio station that drones in work has just played Teenage Kicks (The Undertones version). Universally respected was Peely, it seems.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Hmpf. Since I first heard about this (from the showbiz reporter at the Press Association) I've descended into a worse and worse mood. I had actually mulled over "what will happen if John Peels dies" when I saw him in lachrymose form on Things I Wish I'd Known at 20. He has always been kind of like 'the father of the House' of alternative music in this country - a pretty much unique position of cultural influence and in a strange way reassuring to have there.
So. Even more depressing than the news that Thorn'll be 30 in just three years.
eta: Some great tribute images on b3ta.
eta2: Of Peel, not Thorn.
[ 26.10.2004, 11:27: Message edited by: ben ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Oh well. At least Chris Moyles is still alive.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Get out. Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Bye John.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
As a slightly ass-backwards tribute to Peel, you could do a lot worse than reading Mart's criminally unpropsed indie post that appeared just yesterday.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Thanks, John.
Posted by Sidney (Member # 399) on :
I propsed it ben! Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Late 80s: I used to listen to Peel in bed, half-asleep, on the grimy little clock-alarm my mum and dad got me for my O level results: one night, dazed on two halves of Guinness and one rum-and-black, it seemed I was receiving alien music signals from other parallels. Peel had been playing "You Trip Me Up" by the Marychain and "Birthday" by the Sugarcubes. Many teens, of course, will have the same story, but that's part of his legacy. As above, thanks John Posted by Keef (Member # 27) on :
Truly a sad day. As well as all the great things he's done for music I'll also miss his rambling, mumbling stories he told so well.
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Radio 1 has been fucking great this evening though. I am taping the tribute session (first tape I've made in maybe 5 years!) and will file it along with Peel's Festive Fifty from Christmas 1992.
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
oh! 1992 was when bang bang machine was number one! all day i have been trying to find geek love on the internet because it is the only time i can actually remember listening to peel and having the oh my god what the fuck is this? headswivel- openmouthed at the radio moment that everyone else is going on about. and its one of the best records ever made but i dont own it and i cant find it on the internet. if you record it onto tape for me kovacs john peel will smile down on you from heaven.
[ 26.10.2004, 18:15: Message edited by: discodamage ]
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
I'm sorry but when I said 1992 I was just being sketchy...it could have been 1991 I'm afraid I think the #1 in the Festive Fifty I taped was something pretty familiar to me (maybe the Fall, from the Extricate album? Does that date it more accurately?) and I have never heard of Bang Bang Machine.
I'm also sorry because I was misleading in another way, viz. I don't really know where the Festive Fifty tape is. I haven't seen it for years.
I'm sorry!
[ 26.10.2004, 18:24: Message edited by: kovacs ]
Posted by Bamba (Member # 330) on :
John Peel allowed me to know about Lamb and for that alone he's a God.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Pssst, DD. Geek Love was a rare as rocking horse shit record. It was a limited edition white vinyl and Peel liked it so much that he dubbed it 'awesome piece of musical history' apparently.
I met Bang Bang Machine after one of their gigs and was so drunk I fell off a chair as they signed a poster for me. Shame they didn't keep going really, but they started to sound a bit feeble as they progressed.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
To add to your frustration, I just had an e-mail pinged back at me, that I had mailed to a guy who knew the band and had the full version on MP3. Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Interesting how so many of the tributes to Peel strike the same notes... compare this from Dave Peschek in today's Guardian with my para above.
quote:Extreme Noise Terror, whose splenetic hail of gargling, garbled noise came, mercifully, in bursts of rarely more than a minute, making the unlistenable listenable; the Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, woozy and dislocated and alien and strange - sexual in a way I couldn't even comprehend as sexual then beyond simply feeling it.
Most extraordinary, and still - to this day - capable of inducing a tidal wave of goosebumps, was Birthday, by the Sugarcubes. Of course, they came from Iceland - of course! Where else would something this peculiar come from? Where else would you hear it? Number one in Peel's Festive 50 that Christmas and nothing could have beaten it. That sensual, overwhelming, wordless glide in the chorus; a singer called Byork or Byerk or whatever - who cared - she could make that sound! Oh, god. The sound of a heart being torn open in the best, most jubilant way. Rapture so intense it must surely be forbidden, heard under the covers, in the dark, alone.
One lonely teenage boy was never the same. Thanks, John.
Posted by My Name Is Joe (Member # 530) on :
Yes, I've noticed this as well. On a music board I frequent there are lots of 'John, you turned my life around. Thank You.' posts. For example:
quote: RIP John: thanks for making those lonely teenage nights a lot more bearable!
quote: I was 8/9/10 years old and listening to John Peel and he impacted my life. It's so strange to think that wqhoa, he's dead. Such an amazing miraculous man who did so much can actually be gone. I', shocked and stunned. i don't know how to react. I don't feel right to cry - I didn't know him, I don't feel obsessed or in love with him but I know that I feel sad and that I feel like i want to cry because I know something has been lost. It's so strange.
rest in peace. You did so much more than I think you'll ever know.
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: I'm sorry!
its alright. if you build it they will come; today i bumped into the only person ive ever met who actually owns said record on original vinyl- havent seen the fucker for about a year and a half so as you can imagine i was a bit chuffed. fate's a lovely thing innit.
eta: and i just found it on soulseek! give me ten minutes and ill be weeping like a fountain.
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