Keeping it Peel
Tomorrow marks six years since John Peel died.
Keepingitpeel is being organised by Webbie, the guy behind the Football and Music blog, to mark six years since the legendary DJ’s untimely death.
My own radio show will be starting again soon on Fresh Air, and while it’s nowhere near as good as peelie’s were, I try and pay respect to him above all other DJs when I’m presenting it. The sessions people recorded for his show became legendary, and indeed many bands formed solely so that they could get a session -and then called it quits once they had achieved his aim.
As well as recording songs to promote the latest single or album, there were also some wonderful curios thrown up over the years, like this cover
Sisters Of Mercy -’Emma (Peel session).’ mp3
Yes, it really IS Andrew Eldritch and co. covering the Hot Chocolate hit.
I’ll be posting something different for tomorrow…
Eduardo! How are you? Nice precis of what the sessions were all about. I like this one particularly because first of all it got into the Festive Fifty (one of the first session tracks to do so), and secondly because I played it in the car to some of my kids and their guardian, and it was a joy to see her banging her head on the dashboard in frustration…love it.
Take care
Steve
heh heh!
Hope you’re well, Steve, must catch up soon, Ed
“The sessions people recorded for his show became legendary, and indeed many bands formed solely so that they could get a session -and then called it quits once they had achieved his aim.”
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Ed, This sentence left me a wee bit curious and wondering… which bands actually did this (formed -> session -> quit)? Any examples?
Very strange indeed!
This was something I remeber reading that he’d written himself…Steve is probably the best person I can think of to give examples
Hi Colin - this is where I’d picked that up from:
“Well, I liked the fact that some of the bands after they recorded the sessions – and of course it’s easy for me to say this, because quite clearly I’m not involved and as it were my career isn’t anything to do with this – but I mean what happened was that bands would come along, record a session, and then break up, feeling that having recorded a Peel session was as far as they wanted to go.”