John Peel RIP

Keep It Peel
John Peel Night on Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 will pay tribute to the late John Peel through a night of live music to be broadcast on Thursday 16th December from 7pm.

The night will be hosted by Steve Lamacq and come from the world famous BBC Maida Vale studios, the scene of many a Peel Session.

Throughout the evening every studioat Maida Vale will be taken over as a whole host of bands perform and talk about John and the music he loved.

The schedule for the night will run as follows:

7pm - 8pm
Teenage Dreams So Hard To Beat
Kicking off Peel night, Radio 1 takes a look back at the career of the great man with a one hour documentary celebrating his extraordinary life. The show will feature tributes from The Undertones, Orbital, the Cure, New Order, Supergrass, Robert Plant, Underworld, Siouxsie Sioux and the Buzzcocks.

8pm - 11:30pm
Live music from bands that John championed including the Wedding Present, Nina Nastasia, Hefner, Trencher, Melys, Steveless, Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian), Special guests tbc. Steve Lamacq will be introducing the bands and linking it all together.

11:30pm - 1am
The DJs take over with sets from Underworld, Hixxy, Coldcut, Shitmat, Grooverider plus Dynamite MC on mic duties.

Teenage Dreams So Hard To Beat

Aldo, did you actually do this? I've just been asked to play a six-hour Festive 50 set in Hamburg next week, to commemorate the first anniversary of the lovely chap's untimely demise, and I could really do with, ummm, lots of songs.

Of course, if anyone has the whole blimmin' lot on CD and is prepared to lend them to/born them for me, for a small fee, I would be VERY interested INDEED!

Anyone else?

I guess I should probably get me hence to the YSI thread with a hefty list...

that's not how you spell cocteau. you're thinking of 'gateaux'...

er, so that's three weeks from now then... 8) he died on the 25th, not the 13th. nobody at the bbc seems to have realised this though.

Koogs, if you can perhaps YSI any of your Top 10s as zipped folders or something, that'd be unfathomably amazing - depending on which years they are, obviously...

that said, if anybody knows of anyone who's done a cut-up/mash-up of Peel's voice and made it into a track - Carter's "Rubbish" excepted - I'd love to hear it!

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

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)

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)

http://www.nme.com/images/82_151005_johnpeel_cover.jpg

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.]

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...)

Where's Barry Davies when you need him?

(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.)

"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...

I still can't believe he's gone.

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.

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(

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.

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"

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)

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.

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).

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