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Very sad news: John Peel dies

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20:10 / 27.10.04

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00:05 / 28.10.04

the only person I'm aware of ever slagging him off was Julie Burchill... Oh, and Momus.

You may find this interesting...

I have a few Festive 50s and other bits (mainly from the early 90s and the past few years) which I'd happily contribute to any 'Barbelith Salutes John Peel' type venture. Which perhaps could begin with something like this:

Delia Derbyshire v John Peel MP3

07:19 / 28.10.04

Boy, I wish I could listen to that.

09:27 / 28.10.04

There should be some Festive Fifties on Soulseek - some people at ILM say they have selections up.

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:51 / 28.10.04

Ah, Momus...

Why should I grieve for a man who spurned me -- the arbiter of taste, the champion of everything obscure yet worthy, who rejected me?

Well, at the risk of appearing obvious, because he's dead. That's what you do when people die.

09:56 / 28.10.04

ILM's favourite John Peel Quotations

13:04 / 28.10.04

My radio is now on ebay...

First they cancel Mark and Lard and now this.

Bugger.

13:14 / 28.10.04

great peel quote link! Made me laugh and sad...

Sadly soulseek doesn't work on macs (bugger!) so if anyone finds anything do let me know- I forgot to check what I have on tape- but i will post up a show/ track listing when i have it...

Anybody else with festive 50 stuff?

Its very depressing realising that he's totally irreplaceable- please shoot the first BBC exec that mentions whiley/ lamac/ radcliffe/ zane in the peel slot...

13:26 / 28.10.04

Nothing on Soulseek, as far as I can see.

14:49 / 28.10.04

Thank you Kit Cat Club, that link was fabulous - really cathartic.
Bloody hell, I'm not someone who gets upset about celebrities, what's happened to me?

Brigade du jour

17:48 / 28.10.04

You know what? John Peel may be dead but he's going to live forever.

Oxymoronic but true.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:14 / 28.10.04

Yeah, thanks for the link, KCC. A lot of that made me laugh out lioud. And then feel really sad when I remembered there aren't gonna be any more of those. Ever.

Who else could have come out with this:

"At number 10, it's the multi-talented Tina Turner."
"At number 9, it's the multi-talented Prince."
"At number 8, it's the multi-talented Frankie Goes To Hollywood"
and so on and so forth until he got to:
"and at number 2, it's the...er...it's Nik Kershaw."

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:34 / 28.10.04

Oh McBollocks - am listening to his last World Service show, and thinking that even the tracks I don't like are interesting. I think I may have to track down everything on that playlist...

08:04 / 29.10.04

One of my favourite Peel moments;

(obscene black metal dirge fades out)

"I believe it was the boy Keats who said 'a thing of beauty is a joy forever'.. that was Impaled Nazarine and 'Humble Fuck of Death'.."

08:35 / 29.10.04

First and foremost, it's the loss to his family and friends that outweighs anything we could say about him.

Secondly, speaking for large numbers of my friends, this loss is completely intolerable. That so many people depended so much on one man to provide an outlet for their music is a ridiculous situation, and it strikes me that the best way we can honour him is to do everything we can to decentralise that kind of power. To many of us that involves doing nothing more than what we're already doing, with an added realisation that by circulating music that doesn't regularly get played - if it gets played at all - we're throwing new ideas at people who may take them totally to heart. Sometimes those ideas will stick, sometimes they won't.

Peel so very nearly played Hunting Lodge before he died. He had our single, and played at least one of the Mugstar tracks on the split. Maybe he didn't like us. Maybe he hadn't got round to it yet. Maybe he just listened to the side from the band who'd done a Peel Session. There must be so many people in the same position as the five of us in the band. That there are so few advocates for us is an appalling state of affairs, but thankfully it's something we can attempt to do something about.

Want to honour the memory of John Peel? Then if you can make music, and if you want to make music, make as much music as you can. Make it the best you can, and make it as brilliant and as individual as you are. Make music for the sake of making music, nothing else. If you want to play it to people, then do it. If you don't feel you can make music, help out the people who can.

The world is full of outstanding musicians, full of exciting bands. Ask not what music can do for you... X

11:20 / 29.10.04

Damn fucking straight, and well said!

If you'll allow me to shamelessly quote a passage from my Peel eulogy..

And on a more practical level: this one death has totally torn out a whole layer of the British music 'scene'! I mean, everyone in the country who's in a half-decent new band must be waking up this morning thinking "right then, we're completely fucked". There's now NOBODY left who's prepared to play new bands on the radio until they've got a PR and are NME-approved. What else have a group in this country playing weird or uncommerical music got to aim for, now that they can't get played on Peel?

One of the saddest things in the pub last night was sitting around and saying - where are we going to hear the next Bearsuit?, the next Mclusky?, the next Herman Dune?, the next [insert your favourite Peel-championed band here]? It's terrifying to realise that Peel won't be there anymore, clearing the wheat from the chaff for us, and that there are going to be loads of great, weird records being made, and we're just NOT GOING TO GET TO HEAR THEM, apart from by lurching into a record shop and blindly spending money we don't have. Literally every time I'd listen to him, there'd be at least one track that would completely blow my mind, and I'd have to scribble down the name and track it down.. and now I won't even get to hear that stuff, and neither will most of the other people that these bands rely on for an audience. It's really bad.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:31 / 30.10.04

Did anyone just hear the Roger McGough-presented Home Truths Peel tribute? I literally laughed out loud, then cried a bit. It was beautiful.

08:48 / 30.10.04

Yeah me too Stoat. The bit by Brian Gallagher (always my favourite contributer to the show) was beautiful and I thought it really captured what was wonderful about Peel. The few seconds of silence they left at the end of the show were touching but difficult to endure.

21:07 / 30.10.04

Here's the BBC McGough Tribute

00:41 / 31.10.04

At the wonderful Duckie, gay muso Heaven, appropriate tribute. When they pretended about to play their traditional Readers Wifes' favourite record of all time tonight, they played Teenage Kicks and then, when they actually did play their formally announced favourite record of all time, they heralded this is for John Peel and played Love Will Tear Us Apart. Cheers echoed to the drunken, drugged, suddenly sentimental rafters. Felt like me and Ganesh and Cherry Bomb were shaking our booties in a good cause. God, it still so sucks that lovely, irreplaceable man is gone. It's also quite hard to evoke that level of respect and sentimentality in the environment of the Readers Wifes-driven Duckie. Requiescat in pace.

08:44 / 01.11.04

Did anyone just hear the Roger McGough-presented Home Truths Peel tribute? I literally laughed out loud, then cried a bit. It was beautiful.

Yes I did, and yes, it was indeed.

Tryphena Absent

17:41 / 04.11.04

Just in case you haven't caught this:

"The funeral of the DJ, who died last week after a heart attack while on a working holiday in Peru, will be open to members of the public."

17:42 / 16.12.04

Damn. Just turned on the radio to realise that I've missed half of a Jarvis-narrated documentary about Peelie being broadcast as part of the "Keeping It Peel" night-long tribute. It's followed by a bunch of guest musicians championed by John over the years live at Maida Vale... sounds like it might be good. Hopefully the documentary will be available again online shortly for anyone that missed it, me included.

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