Sinister: peel and b&s

[Andrew Dean]

must chime in with stuff about peel and b&s. yes, radcliffe did get behind the
band first and did a good job (strangely he played 'you're such a baby' first
before playing 'state...' to death) with the sessions and all. but when peel
had to play 'state...' during last years festive fifty he said something about
having to borrow the radcliffe show's copy which he'd sent to them in the first
place. and no, b&s aren't really a peel band, they're a bit too soft for him i
think.

yep, peel plays a lot of stuff that some people won't like. but you get used to
it and end up liking it in the end. also, if you look at radio 1 these days
you'll find a lot of specialist shows (the rap show, the jungle show, andy
kershaw's thing, the evening session to some extent) that are there to showcase
music that was formerly only available on peel's show.

also, there's a lot more to peel than the music he plays...

oh, and try the 'breeze block' section of mary ann hobbs' show (12 til 1
weekdays).

(all these things are available via real audio on the radio 1 web page for you
curious foreigners, www.bbc.com/radio1 )

um, and two blocks down from the nyc gig there were murals on the walls
eulogising diana. i thought i'd done good skipping the country the day before
elton john was due to sing and missing the 4 channels worth of funeral coverage
only to get to america and find that all 7 channels that i had access too were
full of it. and did jeffrey archer appear as much on english tv as he did on
the american coverage? arsehole. (almost as bad as the american presenter
speaking to somebody from coventry 'which is in the north of england'.)

andy
who did actually think of shouting out 'candle in the wind' but luckily only an
hour after the gig in the car home.
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