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
― Kenchie, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
and there was the John Walters quote "If Peel ever reaches puberty, the show's in trouble"
― Joe Kay (feethurt), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― disco violence (disco violence), Thursday, 13 October 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nick Judd, Thursday, 13 October 2005 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Dear All
I would be grateful if you would do two things for me to mark one John Peel’s passing:
1)As in the spirit of the original Festive Fifty, please send me your top three tracks (singles or LP tracks) in order 1 2 3. Please ensure you send both name of track as well as artist/group.
2)Send this email to a bunch of people, asking them to send their top 3 to me at festivefifty@hotmail.co.uk by midnight 17th December.
I will collate the answers and put out a definitive Festive Fifty at www.festivefifty.net on 24th December this year.
I know this sounds a little…….but my love of music was fuelled by Peelie and having read the Mick Wall book, it brought it home how much he gave us and I would like to give a little back myself. If you think this is bollocks, then please do not reply but do me a favour, send it on as there are plenty of people who will not feel that way.
Cheers
― Festive Fifty, Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd told him my name was "Steven with a v", so, of course, that is what he'd written
― Steve Warner, Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd told him my name was "Steven with a v", so, of course, that is what he'd written!
― Steve Warner, Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kenchie, Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― David Frater, Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, if that doesn't get to number 1, I'm going to shave off DLT's head
― Aboodi Shabi, Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Scott, Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― David Earlam, Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I still have this on tape - one of my most cherished recorded moments. To be precise, it was Kylie's "Put Your Hand On Your Heart" which was pummelled out of the way by a track by Japanese thrash band SOB.
Oaf
― Oaf, Friday, 14 October 2005 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link
(btw, peel's last show was 14th October last year, not the 13th - it was the thursday but this year the 14th is a friday so they've moved it forward a day - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/tracklistings/peel_archive.shtml?20041014
the bbc don't seem to link to the tracklisting archive anymore. they are still there, just not linked to from anywhere that i can see. a pity)
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roy Goulbourn, Friday, 14 October 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.cubanboys.co.uk/
― everything, Saturday, 15 October 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mariemarie, Sunday, 16 October 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
"...I believe thats referred to as intelligent drum and bass, which obviously means there's a genre of stupid drum n bass out there...."
Genius. What a guy...
― Dave Justice, Sunday, 16 October 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle, Monday, 17 October 2005 07:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Clarke, Monday, 17 October 2005 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul Slade, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link
btw... never have i seen so many records and cd's....!!
― fuztownsend, Friday, 21 October 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Richard Price, Saturday, 22 October 2005 08:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Richard Price, Saturday, 22 October 2005 08:11 (eighteen years ago) link
(with a sense of awe in his voice)"...... welll I liked to see you do that electronically chaps!" to the audience.
Beautiful man were Peel.Since his passing, I trully haven't listened to Radio 1 since. There trully is no one that can hold a light to him.FACT!
― Phil Vickery, Saturday, 22 October 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
If anyone has anymore links to mp3's etc, t'would be massively appreciated.
:o>
― Davy G, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― ally may, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vince G, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Peel's biography, Margrave of the Marshes, is currently being read by an actor with totally the wrong kind of Liverpool accent on Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. Peel's syntax (which often worked well in short journalism) is tortuous and laboured; he strains too hard for effect. As a result, you need to concentrate hard to follow the story, and the final impression is of someone protecting himself from any real revelation (and vulnerability) by quirky faux-jovial humour and a rather forced attempt at "breezy charm". I know Peel admired Vivian Stanshall's variety of dry, eccentric English humour, but he isn't quite able to pull it off himself. Perhaps he just wasn't feeling the necessary joie de vivre for this style during his last couple of years.
― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark Stanfield, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link
one of my favourites:
...after playing a record....
"Mmm..think I played that at the wrong speed.......sounded better for I think"
― James S, Friday, 28 October 2005 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Unfortunately I cannot remember the name of the band, but after the track finished he dryly remarked.
"A somewhat disappointing track there, on an otherwise flawless album."
― Jon T, Friday, 28 October 2005 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alan Treacy, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Richard Thompson, Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
anyway, sheila must have read this thread as my 'fades in gently' quote gets a mention, as does my nom de plume - stirmonster. how queer!
btw, ilm is referred to as a dimly lit corner of the internet. ha!
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Opening gambit circa 1987: "Sit back and unravel your jumpers to the limpid beauty of A Witness".
We need an archive of the shows, people.
― Jeff Jepson, Monday, 7 November 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daanko, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link
'This one's dedicated to anyone doing their O levels at the moment. Ah, don't worry about it. I only got 4 O levels and I did OK. If I got a few less I could have got a daytime radio job...'
― rob clarke, Saturday, 12 November 2005 10:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Saturday, 12 November 2005 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link
JP... "Oh. Well, er, I've got a Scratch Pervert here. Is it broken? Oh. OK. Er, hang on. You mess about with that and I'll see if I can find something to... er... play. Right. OK, here's something to listen to and we'll see if we can get this fixed. I've no idea what this is, by the way. Are you OK?".
He was just brilliant.
― Dan K, Friday, 18 November 2005 10:04 (eighteen years ago) link
'i cant believe we ve been on air for 12 minutes and i ve not yet played anything by the white stripes'
― TedMaul, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
song ends... "And that's Any Trouble and it's called Yesterday's Love. Was is Coventry you said, was it, Ian? The other day apparently they were playing one of these tapes in Coventry and people were just standing there listening to them and not buying any records. And, of course, the message in any shop -- and in the Virgin stores no less than in any other -- the message is CONSUME! CONSUME! Buy! Buy! ...and then fuck off out of the shop."
― mcnichol, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link