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John Peel has died of a heart attack while on holiday in Peru. Apparently

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh man.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

It has just been confirmed. BBC apparently running stories on TV and radio, nothing as yet on the website but that should soon change.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/altnews/041026_john_peel.shtml

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Stood next to him at a gig once, glad now. RIPJP.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

This is fucking terrible news.

― Venga, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

This is the first time I've joined oin on an RIP thread ... this is utterly devastating - the man behind the music and Home Truths :-(

RIP indeed.

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh no. RIP.

(4 threads too, this is heavy)

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

RIP

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

I was just in the bath when this came on Radio 1, really awful news. After the news report they played the Undertones, and I got a bit teary. RIP

― Patrick Allan (adr), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

one thread now. which makes it easier to get my head around it, i suppose.

fuck. that is devastating news. we (not me personally) interviewed him about six months ago: above and beyond the sheer wonders he's worked getting good music heard, he also appeared to be a genuinely decent bloke.

RIP john: thanks for making some lonely teenage nights a lot more bearable!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

the BBC online radio player is struggling with demand. i just have this urge to listen to his voice.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

Man, I've never actually listened to him and I'm sad. I've only heard good things and all the 'Peel Sessions' cds I have are great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

That's awful. That man was a real inspiration.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

RIP definitely. Like a lot of British posters on this board, I'd be listening to music a hell of a lot less if it hadn't been for Peel.

― Chairman ROFLMAO (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

Like so many other people of all ages - but I suspect my generation even more than nay other - John was reponsible for introducing me to so much great music through his radio show.

Met him 2 or 3 times and had the pleasure of interviewing for our 'zine back in the early '80's.

He was a very quiet, private, modest and self-effacing man and I really don't think he'd have been able to cope with all the praise that's going to be flooding in over the next few weeks.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

The sound of my adolescence in the early '80s was Peel in my headphones. He was talking to me as I lay in the dark keeping myself awake until the midnight shut down. His likes and dislikes framed so much of my thinking then and subsequently. It's easy to remember his championing of Beefheart and The Fall; seeing Peel as the godfather of indie - which in many ways he was; but at that time it was his interest in dub & hip hop that really opened my ears. Radio 1 was very rock and pop in those days, and Peel wasn't.

A few years later I got to know him a bit through a friend and spent a number of evenings drinking with him before the show and sitting in the studio watching him broadcast. He was exactly the same in the flesh as he'd seemed on my headphones. He had that ability to be affable with everyone - in many ways he was a benevolent sociopath.

By the time I met him my tastes had diverged from his and have never really got totally back in sync, but I know my record collection, my listening, and therefore my life would not have been the same without his guidance. A true Reithian and a teacher of the old school...

― Guy Beckett, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

RIP John

― Damn Yankees- High Enough (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm scared MES'll be next now

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

Terribly, terribly sad news. I cannot begin to encompass how much ear-opening music he introduced me to. You always imagined he'd be there forever, playing whatever he liked regardless of any playlists or dogma. A beer or two and plenty of records in his memory tonight, that's for sure.

― marco (marco), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

if anyone deserved to live into his dotage it was him :(

― martin (martin), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

RIP. I just worked out that I'd been listening to his show since I was 11.

― jimet, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

RIP.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

Damn.

RIP, John

― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

Another great man gone too soon. RIP.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

Man...I was really sad to hear this. The first vinyl album I ever owned was 25 years of the Peel Sessions. I always imagined he was an interesting, friendly person. RIP.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

sad news. it's like losing your favourite uncle.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Fucksocks
RIP Peely

― coco, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

Terrible Terrible Terrible. As Martin said the lovely thought of the man listening to Gabba, The Fall and and all sorts of extreme music into his 90s seemed like a wonderful thought. A huge loss to music in the UK and all over the world.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

All arguments about John Peel point to one inescapable conclusion: He was Important. And will be missed.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

The sound of my adolescence in the early '80s was Peel in my headphones. He was talking to me as I lay in the dark keeping myself awake until the midnight shut down.

Change 'early' for 'late' and that's me.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

I never thought of myself as a fan and am surprised by how upset I am by news of his death. Other public figures I thought I admired much more have passed away without my being so deeply affected.

― frankiemachine, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

I owe my longest overseas friendship to Mr. Peel, who read the address of my dorky, "cheeky" fanzine not once but twice over the air back in 1987, which led to my friend writing me, me writing back, etc. A few years later, I was honored and flattered when he ordered records from me, even calling up once or twice and fumbling with his wallet to get his credit card number. A surprisingly regular guy whose impact an ocean away has been monumental. RIP.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

I am really teared up here at work. Music owes him so much. I owe him so much. My thoughts are with Sheila and his family.

The last time i met him he showed me around maida vale and where the radiophonic workshop used to be. And told me that he didn't know Delia Derbyshire but he did know Delia Smith. This will be an everlasting memory of a celebrity who actually contributed something to my life.

May you have teenage kicks all through the night John.

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

fucking devastated...

peel guided me musically during my impressionable youth more than anyone else...

RIP

― jack batterypack, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

Absolutely lost for words still. Had a profound effect on me and is a huge loss.

RIP.

― 3underscore (___), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

I keep trying to think of something to add, but I'm struggling.

Like most Brits, Peel entirely shaped how I thought about music. Yes, we fell out slightly when he became techno-obsessed, but that's to be expected.

I'd been compiling a Festive Fifty archive on slsk, I feel compelled to put it on when I get home.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

ooh that'd be great

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

This put a smile on my face:

"After announcing Peel's death on Radio 1, the station played his favourite song, Teenage Kicks, by the Undertones."

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'd love to browse that Aldo, what's yr username?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

no one I've respected more over the years. For his championing of Beefheart alone, he's a true giant. But so much more. RIP, Mr. Peel.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

I don't think I've ever been more saddened to read of someone's death. My first thoughts on reading this thread title were "Ah no, he was supposed to be we us for a long time yet."

RIP Peelie.

― Graeme (Graeme), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

I've not posted on here for months, yet it was the first place I thought of when I heard about Peelie's death.

A great loss as a man, a great loss to music.

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

This breaks my heart.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

Like so many here, I am greatly upset by this. I can't express how much admiration and respect I have for John Peel.

Peel did deserve to go gently into old age. He contributed uncalculably to British culture. Many famous people are indebted to Peel. He was very important. But he never let that importance go to his head. He was always that affable endearing shambolic cove with whom you would love to share a pint or two. The world is a poorer place for his passing.

Sincerest condolences to Sheila and the family. But also a hearty thank-you. John was unique.

― paul c (paul c), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

I heard the news about a half hour ago and i'm still struggling to take it in. I mean, this was John Peel - I sort of thought of him as immortal. A heart attack is an awful way to go. I'll be digging out my copy of "Teenage Kicks" for him tonight.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

Are teenage dreams so hard to beat
Everytime she walks down the street
Another girl in the neighbourhood
Wish she was mine, she looks so good

I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night

I'm gonna call her on the telephone
Have her over cos I'm all alone
I need excitement, oh I need it bad
And it's the best, I've ever had

I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night

xxx

Blasting this repeatedly right now is so cathartic.

RIP Peelie. I'll always remember the Festive 50s, the endless championing of bands I'd never of -- or heard of again -- and, most of all, the deep, abiding love of music.

― The Cricklewood Massive (The Cricklewood Massive), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://www.rocklist.net/festive50.htm

― Chairman ROFLMAO (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

It's even brought Guy Beckett, decent ILM veteran, out of the woodwork (unless perhaps I have missed his appearances elsewhere).

As said on ILE, devastating, shocking, unfair; it is all casting a jagged black shadow of incomprehensibility and unassimilability across the bright London afternoon.

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

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The Echo in Los Angeles is having "John Peel Day" this Thursday - DJs spinning stuff from Peel Sessions. Yay.

― Lukas (lukas), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

We've made http://gabba.cc a peel tribute for the week, so feel free to upload your files ..

― jk_ (jk@gabba), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

Cocteaux is the plural of Cocteau obv.

And here is a lovely Peel/Down Down mash thingie by the Cuban Boys

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

ok. i redid 1985 top 20 as individual tracks. plus i have my cocteau singles box and fall peel sessions box with me if there's anything you need from those. bbc website has ff listings in full.

as for mashups, there's one on the 'listen with sarah' site but i don't know whether it's suitable for public viewing 8)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

ok. i redid 1985 top 20 as individual tracks. plus i have my cocteau singles box and fall peel sessions box with me if there's anything you need from those. bbc website has ff listings in full. (and it's in your email)

as for mashups, there's one on the 'listen with sarah' site but i don't know whether it's suitable for public viewing 8)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

Charlie, I'll check tonight if I've still got them and if so send a DVD of the mp3s (they should all fit on one, I think).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 08:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

This week's NME features John Peel on the front cover. "Special John Peel Tribute Issue"

Are they using the image of John Peel as a pseudo icon brand for street cred? [when the NME in 2005 doesn't match the diverse ethos of John Peel.]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

THE BAND WHO MAKE BABYSHAMBLES LOOK LIKE JAMES BLUNT

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

the telegraph, of all places, is serialising his book at the moment

http://telegraph.co.uk and then click on his face...

(firefox users may want to add http://*NetGravity* to their adblock lists beforehand - the page kept crashing out on me...)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

Martian, you do amuse me, with your one-track devotion to your enemy, your NME.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Click on his face, just click on his face"

Where's Barry Davies when you need him?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

Charlie, would vinyl rips do? If so, I may possibly be able to help you with a few, esp from like the last half of the 80s. Mail me if interested.

(Apart from ensuring there are no skips + setting the levels to avoid clipping, I can't do any postprocessing or give guarantees re quality, though.)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

thanks, folks, you've been most helpful. what i'm going to do is whittle down the whole gigantic list of everyfestivefiftytrackever down to 200, then 100, then 50 - my co-DJ and I have worked out we get 45-50 tracks each, so there'll no doubt be some serious horsetrading at the 11th hour...

"ok, you can have 'razzmatazz' but only if i can have 'everything's gone green'" etc

then, when i've got my dream list, i'll figure out what i'm missing. i know already that i'm in serious need of a lot of HmHb and Cocteau action, but a lot of the latter is hardly dancefloor material...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

I dunno, I think maybe all that Kershaw stuff about him being the single most important figure in British music for the last number of x decades was actually true.

I still can't believe he's gone.

― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

Are they using the image of John Peel as a pseudo icon brand for street cred? [when the NME in 2005 doesn't match the diverse ethos of John Peel.

If they were ignoring the anniversary you would be complaining Martian. Although, yeah, it's clearly much easier for the NME to deal with Peel as part of the past now than it was when he was still challenging their orthodoxy.

― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Two years ago today.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

Tomorrow actually.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

it was still the 25th in Peru.

and the news was embargoed until 2pm on the 26th here, to let his family know i guess, so who knows the exact time...

(have just been puzzling over this myself. do deaths all occur in GMT?)

still, 8(

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think for history, the local time counts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_peel only mentions the 25th.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

6music are broadcasting his last show on Radio London (1967?) all this week. It sounds like it's been whizzing round the cosmos for 30 years and has JUST arrived at your radio - terrific stuff.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

No doubt Colin Murray will be commemorating the occasion with exclusive tracks from Kasabian and The Automatic.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

Biography Channel page (which is showing something at 21:00 tonight if anyone gets it) says 26th (which is what got me puzzling in the first place)

was on a train (on way Home for a funeral) when the news broke and i didn't find out until i got there about 4:30ish. spent rest of the day glued to the radio.

that last show is 5.5 hours long in total and oddly mainstream. has been available on web for a while (if it's the one i'm thinking of). a lot of it's patched together - new recordings with his links put back in. it's also the show where he reads out that bit of winnie the pooh. worth a listen.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 years ago it was on announced via the media on a Tuesday afternoon circa 1.30pm, so yesterday my thoughts were connected with John Peel

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

No doubt Colin Murray will be commemorating the occasion with exclusive tracks from Kasabian and The Automatic.
-- Marcello Carlin (marcellocarli...), October 25th, 2006. (nostudium) (later)

QFT.

"As we all know, John was a great supporter of the kind of music that, perhaps for time reasons, we just don't get the chance to give our full backing to on Radio 1. He was the first to play both reggae and punk to a British mainstream audience, and his death was mourned throguhout the indie, rock, dance, rap, and pop press. So, in a tribute to that, here's "Californication" live at the Reading Festival. Godspeed John"

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

(this year Peel Day on Radio 1 seemed to take back seat to Beck in the studio. they played the top 10 of the Millennium Festive Fifty (all time, voted by fans) interspersed (often interrupted by) phoned-in comments from the likes of Annie Mack)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'll never forget how much I hated the egotistical woman in my office who was once again chattering away about nothing when I found out Peel was dead. She wouldn't have known who he was. I could have yelled his name in the street right then and no one would have known who he was. I was devastated.

― Dugga Dugga Dugga (Bimble...), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

I must say the biography Margrave of The Marshes has turned out to be quite a treat. His sense of humour caries it along beautifully.

― Dugga Dugga Dugga (Bimble...), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

(autobiography says the 26th btw)

Peel Box being broadcast throughout the day on radio6 (about 20 tracks i think, spread throughout the day. some are listener choices, some are chosen by his family)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 26 October 2006 07:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

i bought that "right place, wrong speed" compilation the other day, but i guess that's a lazy-ass way to remember the great man. what i need to do is find something absolutely unheard-of (and brilliant, natch) somewhere on the interweb and listen to it at full volume.

two years! wow. i don't believe in any kind of afterlife, but if i did then i hope JP would be rocking bells out of it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've said it elsewhere, but the Tom Ravenscroft channel4radio website shows are excellent, and very in keeping.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

So they're still beating Peel's corpse in order to promote the same ol' rubbish indie bands then?

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've said it elsewhere, but the Tom Ravenscroft channel4radio website shows are excellent, and very in keeping.

i'd second that. i listened to the last two driving down the treacherous A9 in torrential rain the other night, and they were absolutely great. true, he's not yet played anything that's made me go "JESUS CHRIST THAT'S AWESOME" but then i guess his dad only did that, ooh, twice a week :)

he's funny, nasal, self-deprecating and enjoyable, and plays all manner of stuff i'd never hear anywhere else. egg plus meat equals man, for fuck's sake! (who were shit, but never mind).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

it doesn't have to be unheard of, just new to you is enough. peel would play things from the 1930s if he felt they were worth hearing.

try dandelion radio too. (myspace.com/dandelionradio)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

So they're still beating Peel's corpse in order to promote the same ol' rubbish indie bands then?

As a rule, if any band have this:

Pass along this small tribute, copy this code.

on their Myspace, then they always certainly never listened to a Peel show in their life because the music was a "bit weird".

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Holy shit look at this site (am I the only one who didn't know of it?)! It's got a fucking track from the Nick Drake Peel Session!! *faints* Can I please go home from work now?

http://www.jonhorne.co.uk/jptapes/jptapes.html

― Dugga Dugga Dugga (Bimble...), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

I didn't know about it, but thanks for the link. I'm now listening to 11th Feb 1980 with sessions from the undertones and delta 5!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

Never thought I'd find shows from that time period either. I'm really excited.

― Dugga Dugga Dugga (Bimble...), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Happy 70th.

― James Mitchell, Sunday, 30 August 2009 13:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

Thread still makes me ;_;

― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Monday, 31 August 2009 01:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

sad stuff indeed.

― sam500, Monday, 31 August 2009 01:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Six years ago. There's still an obvious void left behind.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 October 2010 16:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

I've been reading "John Peel: A Life in Music." The haphazardness of his early years makes it clear that the music world was very lucky to have John Peel end up doing what he did for so long. I can't imagine the stars ever aligning again to let a dj tenaciously investigate and promote and record new music, yet have the continuity of decades and the platform of a national radio broadcast.

― bendy, Monday, 25 October 2010 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

Wow. Six years. Still missing Peel big time.

Of course there are enough shows ripped by kind people on the internet that I could probably still spend the next decade or so listening to him as much as I did in my teenage years (still sometimes find bits of paper I scrawled misheard song titles on to look up on Ceefax the next morning), but for some reason I've done very little of that. Partly not knowing where to start, partly the sadness of a show so forward-looking trapped in amber.

― what is he like? the guy's a juggalo, man (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 25 October 2010 21:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

I listen to his shows all the time. God bless the internet.

― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Monday, 25 October 2010 21:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

where are some good places to get old Peel shows?

― tylerw, Monday, 25 October 2010 21:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

I found a bunch of Festive Fifty episodes on P1rate B4y.

― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Monday, 25 October 2010 21:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

there's an entire internet group dedicated to preserving and archiving those sessions... a friend of mine is in it and tyler I can try to hook you up if you fail to find other sources.

― sleeve, Monday, 25 October 2010 21:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

I have a bunch of "Peel out in the States" CDs, and a couple of C90s where I hadn't edited out JPeel from the songs (I did this once, tape lost anyway)

― Mark G, Monday, 25 October 2010 22:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Er...this is impressive. 254 shows from '67 - '04:

http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/john-peel-show/

― millmeister, Friday, 7 September 2012 21:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

― Jaap Schip, Saturday, 26 January 2013 20:23 (3 months ago) Permalink

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