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John Peel: "Half an hour
ago I was talking to Radio 4 about the influence of narcotics
on popular music and now I'm being Jakki Brambles. Rum old
game, life - and you can quote me on that" |
"Hello fun seekers" |
The legendary weekday
lunchtimes in 1993 when John Peel covered for Jakki
Brambles...
LISTEN
AGAIN - 3 hours 7
minutes of contemporary songs interspersed with "grumpy fax
messages" such as "Please Stop". Ever heard John play Kylie
Minogue, Madonna, Whitney Houston or George Michael? You will now...
Quality: - FM broadcast recorded
on TDK D90 cassettes, encoded at 32kbps stereo for Real
Player.
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Comments found on the web
about these daytime programmes:
Courtesy of R1
adam-carlisle
keep the Peel sessions going-just because he ain't here no
more doesn't mean the name and music policy cant live on! my
fondest memory of him was filling in for Jakki Brambles one
afternoon, did he stick to the playlist did he s**te i
remember him reading out complaints from afternoon listeners,
PURE CLASS!
SOURCE:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/johnpeelday/2005/keepitpeeldoc
Andy
Does anyone remember the week John sat in for Jakki Brambles
on the lunchtime show in 1992? Incredible radio! Like all his
shows, in fact! As much as I loved Morcambe, Cobain and
Strummer, no other celebrity's death has ever affected me like
this. He stopped to mend my Dad's puncture once on a deserted
Suffolk B road. When my Dad called at Peel Acres with a bottle
of wine, John invited him in for dinner, and never once
alluded to his celebrity. Dad, being the conservative he is,
took 6 months to realise who John was, but I think today he
feels nearly as sad as me. God Bless you, John.
SOURCE:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/features/peel_tributes_page6.shtml
In 1993 Peel took over the lunchtime
slot for a week after then-controller Johnny Beerling was
challenged by someone at a conference. He'd obviously been
told "Look man, we don't want to compromise your show, but
remember there will be a different audience listening, and we
do have a daytime playlist to follow... just bear that in
mind, OK?" First record - "Why Are People Grudgeful?" by The
Fall, followed with the obscure reggae original version of the
same song. He then continued in the same vein, playing a lot
of hard-trance, the odd Beefheart classic and making snide
comments about most of the playlist. For instance, the Chris
Issak which included the line '...and you can't do a thing to
stop me' to which Peel retorted, "Yes I can, mate, I can take
your awful CD out of the machine and throw it as far away from
this studio as possible." For a brief moment, we thought we'd
won. Next week, he was back on the night-shift. Bet off.
SOURCE: radio Cream
http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/radiocream/arg1_jox.htm
John Peel in for Jakki Brambles in 1993
5:57pm | The John Peel Tape and File Project | RSS (0)
I LOVED it when John Peel took over the Brambles spot for a
week. He was compelled to play the A list, but was somehow
allowed to pepper the show with his own selections that were
usually found on his nightime show. Hate faxes abound from
disgruntled housewives; factory bosses and lorry drivers, but
John soldiered on unfazed. I get the feeling, had he done
this, in the last couple of years filling in for Jo Whiley or
Colin and Edith for example, the reaction would have been
different. But maybe that's just me. Enjoy... ...
Source: G o o g l e's cache of http://elbo.ws/2005/06/16/page/3/
as retrieved on 4 Jul 2005 21:30:18 GMT
The Mumbler wrote:
How about the marvellous week in April 1993 when he sat in for
Jakki Brambles on the Radio 1 lunchtime show? He opened one
show, possibly the first, with The Fall's cover of Why Are
People Grudgeful? That is in itself dazzling. Mark Lamarr
actually paid specific tribute to that week whilst sitting in
for Radcliffe the other night. He went on at great length to
Mark Radcliffe on the phone about the Brambles stint,
demolishing her spectacularly, praising Peel and then playing
50ft Queenie.
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John Peel (Ravenscroft) 1939-2004
At the helm of the Geronimo Starship,
1970, possibly at Phun City
Recent evidence* indicates that, around 1969/70, John Peel supplied Geronimo with copies of recordings that,
because of embargoes and copyright restrictions, he was not allowed to play on BBC Radio
1. This would have been typical of John's desire to champion
new music and make it available to listeners. Festive
50's, disinterred thirty three and a thirds, Dandelion,
Biscuit, The Pig, Home Truths...
There are so many ways to remember John Peel's championing of
new music. Here's just one of them. From 1967, the sleeve
notes for the Elektra album 'Select Elektra':-
"In these
days, often rancid, it is written in some plastic bound
handbook that recorded creations and love are to lie smothered
beneath the grasping need for 'Chart' records. New labels
spin, laden with good intentions, into the fringes of our
understanding with signs crying 'brave' and 'new'. Shortly
shattered and spent, they drift, senseless, into on of several
oblivions. Either they wither and die or, being bloated now,
find the equally frightful safe death of compromise and 'star'
artistes of cynical adaptability.
There are those
brave and beautiful companies feeding on miracles and devotion
which have struggled for years without fouling their
consciences. They have provided us with jewellery to scatter
in our minds - they deserve our salutes and whenever support.
Only one label
has discovered purity lying in the same elusive bed of
success. They sign few artists but those they sign find
themselves overnight on Olympus. They release few records but
those they release are honest and essential. They publicise
little, for the very excellence of their crafts is, in itself,
a cry from every discerning roof-top.
You know who I'm
talking about."
Teenage dreams,
so hard to beat
JOHN PEEL
*from recent interview with John
Lundsten, Geronimo sound engineer,
talking about John Peel's involvement in 1970:
"Harley Street, of course, is almost a stones throw away from
Broadcasting House where the wonderful Mister John Peel was. I
think it, it was either Barry or Hugh, it certainly wasn't me,
but they made contact with him. We, and he, were great
enthusiasts of the terribly obscure, who was then considered a
terribly obscure artist - Captain Beefheart. And Peel had a
whole load of acetates of sessions - a lot of them have been
subsequently released, as the 'Safe As Milk' album, for
example, and a lot of other stuff which he was absolutely
delighted with the idea that seeing that we didn't have the
copyright clearance hassles that he would have had, he
couldn't possibly play them. He gave us a copy of these. There
was quite a few things actually we got as well, like the
unmixed tapes of the Let It Be album, the early mixes without
the massive string overdubs..."
*Interview extract from forthcoming Geronimo television
documentary and book
Copyright 2004-2006
Mark Dezzani and Chris Bent, not to be reproduced elsewhere
without permission
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Pictures of John Peel in 1972, scanned from the
heavily textured sleeve for the Dandelion album "There Is Some Fun
Going Forward"
John Peel: “Finally our heartfelt thanks to the ruggedly
handsome man on our cover. Our girls have been literally panting to
find out who he is – but we’re not telling girls. Oh and we mustn’t
forget the anonymous lovely maiden (I peeked) who sat in the bath
with that gorgeous hunk of man. Thanks too to the Pig who said she
didn’t mind if it helped to sell the record.” |
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