Artist: john peel

Being invited to participate in a live studio session with the late, great John Peel (a revered and highly influential BBC Radio1 DJ who championed indie music) was one of the best bits of street cred a band in Britain could ever hope to receive. So if you consider that Camera Obscura , an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland that initially formed in 1996, was invited to do five separate Peel Sessions, this band is deemed pretty special in their home country. On June 21, the [...]

Inspired by the likes of Noam Chomsky and Crass, British band 70 Gwen Party (a duo of Victor N'Dip and Lurgin Pin) used their music as a platform for dissemination of their political views. Their distrust of the press and overall non-friendless toward media earned them as much reputation as their music. They started out in [...]

Move over Star Trek. Echo & The Bunnymen ’s mighty 1984 album 'Ocean Rain' will boldly go to the International Space Station on June 13, 2009 courtesy of astronaut Colonel Timothy L. Korpa . Korpa, who has been a Bunnymen fanatic since his teens recently contacted the band via their website about his upcoming three-month mission on the ISS. Though 'Ocean Rain' is Korpa’s favorite, he gave the choice to the band to pick which of their albums they would like him to take on his mission, saying that he would snap [...]

New York, NY, May 13 – Move over Star Trek. Echo & The Bunnymen’s mighty 1984 album Ocean Rain will boldly go to the International Space Station on June 13th courtesy of astronaut Colonel Timothy L. Korpa. Korpa, who has been a Bunnymen fanatic since his teens recently contacted the band via their website about his upcoming three-month mission on the ISS. Though Ocean Rain is Korpa’s favorite, he gave the choice to the band to pick which of their albums they would like him to take on his mission, saying that he would snap photos in [...]

Der Schein trügt. Das ist kein Entsetzen, sondern die pure Vorfreude. Das Lineup für den 7. November in der Kuturfabrik Löseke in Hildesheim steht nun. Den Hamburgern Nihiling wird Hermelin zur Seite stehen und die altehrwürdige Kulturstätte rocken. Hermelin passt mit ihrem Post-Rock, deren Klangwelten an die großen Vorbilder Isis, Pelican oder Explosions in the Sky erinnert, zu Nihiling wie die Faust aufs Auge. Hermelin - Autograph Unknown | mp3 Download audio file (Hermelin_04_AutographUnknown. mp3) Warum auch [...]

Legendary BBC radio DJ John Peel (born John Robert Parker Ravenscroft) was solely responsible for exposing the world the artists that wouldn't get a chance to be heard otherwise (although he also recorded popular/mainstream acts, such as 10,000 Maniacs, AC/DC and A Flock Of Seagulls). With his passing in October of 2004, the world lost [...]

The title of Camera Obscura's third album My Maudlin Career hints at the lyrical themes and melancholic subject matter that have helped this Scottish band garner fans in their native Scotland and abroad. Ahead of their Dublin gig in Andrew's Lane Theatre on the 30th of April and the Stiff Kitten in Belfast the night before, State had a wee chinwag with Carey about honest lyrics, laughing at yourself and John Peel. Lyrically, is there a key song-writer and are your songs autobiographical? If so, how do you deal with putting your [...]

Filed under: Around the World The Ukrainians still aren't. Ukrainians, that is. Closing in on 20 years from its beginning, the band remains what it has always been -- a compelling English folk-rock ensemble, spun off from the Leeds post-punk phenom the Wedding Present to give some boisterous rock-informed treatment to tunes with Ukrainian roots and/or inspiration. And still, with a new album, 'Diaspora' (released by the band's Zirka Records and in the U.S. on Omnium Recordings ), quite good at it, as you can plainly hear in [...]

photo credit: nevbrown Rund ein Jahr nach ihrem letzten Auftritt kommen die John Peel Lieblinge, die  Nightingales, und ihre steten Begleiterinnen Violet Violet diesen Samstag zurück ins St.Galler Palace . Wer das letzte Mal dabei war erinnert sich sicher noch an den fabelhaften Schlagzeuger Daren Garratt , der, kaum war ein Song verklungen, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste schon Hals über Kopf den nächsten Song antrommelte und damit das ganze Konzert zusammenhielt , wie man [...]

Can anyone tell me about this - John Peel was a UK hero for many of us, this was his signature tune

It's been the day of the Radio Academy radio and music forum, and somewhat impolitely Andy Parfitt turned up and talked about television . In particular, he focused on the question of if the Christmas and Comic Relief successes of Top Of The Pops suggested there might be life in the corpse yet: "It has come back in those event-driven moments and that's the way to go," he added. "It's got a mythical status ... but I don't think we should get hung up on that one programme. We are a long [...]

the last time i saw mono was in the sweaty basement of nice n sleazys.  i remember it being so loud i feared my head might burst like an overpuffed balloon.  thankfully it didn't.  what the fuck would i do with my hats? so tonight squeezed into the bigger yet still sweaty basement of stereo for [...]

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Are you using Spotify ? If not you really need to beg an invite. I think I have two left if anyone really needs one.The playlist function is cool as mud and I have been playing about with it. Thought I should create something we could all could share. So I created one for the John Peel 1988 Festive 50. I picked 1988 as it was one of the years that I remember listing to loads of Peel as I left work and went back to college to do my "A" Levels. Lots [...]

«[Sheila:] His memory was selective. He could list every incarnation of The Fall on demand, but he couldn't always remember where his underpants were.»(in "Margrave of the Marshes", John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft, ed. Corgi Books, 2006)

«Sadly John never raised the funds necessary to finance the 101 Sharons, his pet Dandelion [o selo criado por Peel] project for which he planned to gather 101 women named Sharon, lock them in a studio and refuse to release them until they'd recorded an album.»(in "Margrave of the Marshes", John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft, ed. Corgi Books, 2006)

«[Sheila:] I was preparing for my chemistry finals around that time (...). I remember one night when I couldn't sleep because John was downstairs with Marc Bolan and they were playing an advance copy of Tommy by The Who over and over again with the volume cranked up (...). Traditionally their late-night sessions revolved around a mutual passion for Scalectrix. John and Marc had set up a sprawling

"Margrave of the Marshes", a auto-biografia de John Peel da qual tenho aqui citado algumas passagens, muito pela combinação incendiária de humor e de relevância para o conhecimento da vida de um homem que, não sendo um músico, marcou com a sua paixão pela partilha a evolução da música popular ao longo dos últimos anos, é uma auto-biografia diferente das outras. Pelo menos, daquelas que li até

"They [a multidão de ouvintes que se reunia à volta dos road shows da Radio 1] seemed to think that we all [os radialistas] lived together in some nightmarish commune and that my claim to be unable to reveal details of Gary's [estrela dos microfones da Radio 1 nos anos 70] plans for the day was a lie. Odd though this belief was, it was as nothing when compared with that of a woman who was

"Apart from the Devil's music, the principal consolation in the young Ravenscroft J. R. P.'s life came from football. (...) I had supported Liverpool since the 1950 Cup Final, which they had lost 2-0 to Arsenal, in recognition of which I allowed no Arsenal supporters into our house except Robert Wyatt and Alfie until the mid-1990s. I'm still not convinced that I did the right thing in reversing

Thanks almost entirely to DFA Records , the term dance punk has become synonymous with compositions based on disco-heavy electronics and post-punk vocalizations. While I adore all things DFA, their rise to popularity has audiences forgetting that dance is not limited to electronica and punk is not limited to the tentacles of Joy Division's influence. Chicago transplants Coltrane Motion make dance punk the way you remember it in high school—fuzzy pop with attitude, awash in head-nodding drumloops and laptop antics. Their most recent [...]

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