John Peel RIP

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)

As a rule, if any band have this:

http://cyberai.com/peeltribute.jpg

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".

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

Happy 70th.

Thread still makes me ;_;

sad stuff indeed.

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

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.