― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― neil tacus (tacit), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― neil tacus (tacit), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Sunday, 7 November 2004 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― neil tacus (tacit), Sunday, 7 November 2004 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link
The programme that was on BBC4 at midnight, featuring archive footage of Peel faves in session for the BBC was aces as well. I wish Peel didn't have to be dead to get a programme featuring live music by the Bonzo Dog DooDah Band, Billy Bragg, Half Man Half Biscuit and the Fall on telly.
We were also wondering if the Undertones are secretly rubbing their hands in glee at the royalties flowing in from the liberal usage of Teenage Kicks as a byword for Peel at the moment. They played it at half-time at the Celtic match last week, FFS!?!?
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 November 2004 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Coffee Cake, Sunday, 7 November 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 7 November 2004 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― bum click, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
bit in observer at the weekend about the autobiography and suggesting sheila could finish it (the precedent for this being the John Shaw book earlier in the year) but from the numbers it looked like it might end up being 1/3 peel and 2/3s sheila. 1.6 million pound advance(?) for the book too, would hurt like hell to have to pay that back on top of everything else. and there's an unauthorised biography planned too.
the peel / datsuns thing on bbc website is a great little interview btw. and the Lock Up tribute show was great too, lots of punk and ska.
> "I told you I was sick"
not funny and not true. reports are that he was feeling fine right up until the attack.
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 8 November 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 8 November 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
During the mid-90s, when he was on late on Saturday afternoons, he passionately read out a snippet from a fanzine where the band (from Australia/New Zealand?) had told the interviewer all about Peelie. 'He was a pirate DJ and brought down the government', possibly connecting him with the Sex Pistols sailing down the Thames along the way and making him to be about 80.
That's one thing I would love to hear again. And how I wish he had made it well into his 80s...
― v, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Go to BBC & vote the undertones for the festive 50.
My abiding memory of JP is not the time I actualy met him but Reading 1977 when having played a track at the wrong speed he said "ah well it's your last chance to annoy the neighbours & we all chanted "John Peel's a C**t"
As my Dad is now in Sumatra I'll tell his story - my half brother was in school with JP's son & when my dad met Mr. Ravenscroft (who he recognised) he said what do you do for a living & JP replied "I'm John Peel" my Dad said "yes but what do you do?" wound JP up but he later said it reminded him where he stood.I met JP once in Batisford & he was so kind it didn't feel like hero worship.
― carl_W, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link
why's he wearing two watches in that one picture? i'm sure i remember him explaining it before but can't quite recall the reason.
"No three things go quite as well together as a Trio" 8)
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― paperwerewolf, Thursday, 11 November 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
...and his mum used to teach me at primary school!
― Simon Green (fatmancunian), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
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― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― TheFly, Friday, 12 November 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trevor Smith, Sunday, 21 November 2004 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
"You might thing those are bronzed adonises from California, butinstead they're acne-scarred teenagers from Sheffield."
― Jay Novello, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Maher, Friday, 26 November 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pinko_Palinko, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link
"it starts off quietly, throbbing, as you may be doing yourselves...i certainly hope so"
classic! i've got some more good'uns on the same disk...
there's one where he's talking about seeing a band in europe (spain i think)it goes along the lines of...
"and you can see them in spain on the 12th, if you can afford it. and which of us in Blair's Britain cannot!!!"
the way he sed it is ace! i really miss him still...h
― cheeseinspace.co.uk, Monday, 31 January 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
amazing! :) And I never got tired or failed to laugh at hearing " Sorry, seemed to have played that at the wrong speed". I miss John, i always thought of him as my grandad :)
RIP Grandad!you're greatly missed
― m0th, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jon Active, Saturday, 7 May 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Also many cases where he would read out some disgruntled letter or email, and finish with "There's only one 's' in disgraceful, by the way" or something akin to that.
― David Jennings, Monday, 20 June 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― kerri tyler, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy Smith, Saturday, 8 October 2005 12:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trevor Bendell, Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
"They sound a bit like...a sortof folk band, you'd imagine a folk band would be called Crispy Ambulance because they're always called things like '2,000 Megaton Turnip' and things like that."
― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― jiji, Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
"Bob Harris is preparing himself for later frenzied acitivityon Radio One FM after the 10:30 newsand I'm sure he's probably listening to the show at this VERY MOMENNT."
― jiji, Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― rae robinson, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link
'That was Hank Williams though, with 'when god comes and gathers his jewels' and I suspect that in popular newspaper parlance that probably these days means testicles but I don't think thats what hank williams had in mind when he wrote the song'
Priceless
I think the thing about John as a presenter was that he wasn't 'a radio presenter'. He was still himself on the radio, not some kind of watered down, anodyne version. Death to profesionalism.
― Willow, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― trevor smith, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Best one I remember was, during a Festive 50 in the early 90s, John announced that our local transmitter was going to be out of action for a few minutes. The signal duly went dead and crackled to life again halfway through the next record. After it had finished, John remarked "The transmitter should be back on again so, if you still can't hear us, there's something wrong with your radio!!"
― Pete McCosh, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― ivan todd, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link
When they opened the show with it I sobbed uncontrollably. I haven't been the same since.
I honestly still think about him every day.
― Paul Gowers, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Thread to contain the John Peel quotes from the Observer so that we can still look at it when they take the article away in 2027
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr_Mango, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link