Peel fans: If you can, get on BBC 6

[dolo amber]

They're doing a sorta impromptu Peel tribute thing. They're playing everything from VU and T-Rex to Joy Division to 808 State to James, reading emails, playing clips from his show etc...it's lovely. :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/

[jpgray]

1. He championed two of my all time favorite bands--the Fall and Soft Machine

I can still remember
The last time we played on Top Gear
And though each little song
Was less than three minutes long
Mike squeezed a solo in... somehow
And although we like our longer tunes
It seemed polite to cut them down
To little bits - they might be hits
Who gives an... after all?
Tell me how would you feel
In the place of John Peel?
You just can't please
all of the musicians all the time

Playing now is lovely
Here in the BBC
We're free to play almost as long and as loud
As a jazz group, or an orchestra on Radio Three
There are dancehalls and theatres
With acoustics worse than here
Not forgetting the extra facilities
Such as the tea machine, just along the corridor
So to all our mates like Kevin,
Caravan, the old Pink Floyd
Allow me to recommend 'Top Gear'
Despite its extraordinary name
Yes, playing, playing now is lovely
Here in the BBC
We're free to play almost as long and as loud
As the foreign language classes... and the John Cage interview...
and the jazz groups... and the orchestras on Radio 3

:)

(And a hello to DU from deadline-infested hell, by the way. :hi:)

[Wat_Tyler]

2. Kick for John.

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. The Fall had an open invitation to play the Peel show at any time.

Anyone who could put up with MES dropping by without notice is a SAINT.

[Wat_Tyler]

5. He put Blur on a couple of times because Damon's dad

managed the Soft Machine, but was not hugely keen of them because they had 'a worringly good ear for a melody'

[flamingyouth]

4. I am very, very sad today.

:cry: