A quick glance around the schedules

[johncorrigan]

Is that the feller Paul Sherratt hangs out with now on the r6 boards? It's someone like that. I must admit I've
Never bothered, & you haven't encouraged me. Whereas Cerys does play some good music. Wonder if Oilrig's sent r6 her CV?

He talks over the tunes Global, which would be fine if he had something interesting to say - I listened to a few BEATS and GROOVES, and then searched out the Tony Allen ( about an hour and a half in ) . He's punting Rocket Juice and the Moon, a collaboration with Damon Albarn - anything DA is involved with always has a bit much of DA in it for me (not surprising I suppose). Fab couple of Koola Lobitos tracks with Fela, followed by Tony's fave drummer Art Blakey and some fine tunes with Ginger among others; but Gilles still annoys the hell out of me, especially when he tells me he's giving me my 'audio vitamins'. Mary Ann would never use language like that now, would she?

I think PS does indeed like him - so that's where he's hangin' aboot these days, is it.

[Globaltruth]

May be worth keeping an eye on this. Or should it be an ear?

http://johnpeelcentreforcreativearts.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26:contents-of-john-peels-record-collection-to-be-made-public&catid=9:news&Itemid=13

[johncorrigan]

That looks interesting, Global - haven't seen or heard anything about the Space so far. Must give it a check out.

I'm thinking about this which looks intriguing, for later in the month, relatively locally.

http://www.perthfestival.co.uk/event/john-peels-shed/

[Globaltruth]

Just been on r4 too (you read it here first tho). I think the Today programme should play CB & the Four Brothers every day...not quite clear how they're proposing to do this - will it be free? Don't see how it can be which is a shame.

[Lateralthinking1]

Erm, among the first artists are Abba, ABC, AC/DC and Adam & The Ants. Just before the Angelic Upstarts presumably.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17894985

[handsomefortune]

thanks (but no thanks) lateralthinking1!

what a shame! within a couple of patronising sentences, the 'introduction' to john peel, from a rebecca jones, makes numerous errors.

since the beeb is lately positively obssessed with 'value' and 'simple math' - look how flexible the math is on this occasion...! is it stretchy, cheesy 'mozarella math' perhaps?

apparently, 'jp influenced A generation' ...is she nuts?

jp influenced several generations - from 1967 - to 2004.

of which ONE generation was interested in late 70s punk, though it wasn't JUST this music genre alone, that jp MAY have influenced his listeners with, (other way round more like)? and OBVIOUSLY punk was quickly commercialised by the major labels, and maclaren/westwood clothes shops.......'instead' another strand emerged, from burgeoning independent muisc labels of the era, which peel championed. after which, commercially (only) followed maunufactured, major label new wave, new romantics, played on daytime radio 1 etc ....the great chumps! which definitely leaves out, huge quantities of other music genres that peel played - from 'save the last gherkin for me' at the beginning, to the dance tunes he ended with.....and everything in between, ...............bar punk. (arguably a comparitive low point, if anything imo)

i find the increasing problem of attempting any participation in the 'official' beeb version of so many cultural things - is that 'they' don't even bother to get their facts right, before they start the irritatingly smug, extremely over generalised beebburble.

(jc - hope the shed thing is good, it came here, but i missed it ... on purpose really, just in case it was as dire as the casual garbage i've outlined above).

rant over

roger

[Globaltruth]

This is the place for a rant HF, & at the very least you've saved me the trouble of reading this stuff..and from Lat's List someone is going to have to sort out some serious wheat from some burdensome chaff....

[johncorrigan]

(jc - hope the shed thing is good, it came here, but i missed it ... on purpose really, just in case it was as dire as the casual garbage i've outlined above).

rant over

roger

Thanks roger - might still have a wee shot at the Shed - it's only an hour long - about my attention span; though I did manage two and a bit hours of Avengers Assemble wi' the weans last night - I like the concept and don't expect to hear Adam and the Ants in the mix - whew!

[Lateralthinking1]

Well now, did Adam have an early session? He is, at least, "arty". JP's liking of the absurdity of Eurovision has been documented on many occasions, hence Abba. ABC were not wholly removed from all that cutting edge stuff from Sheffield - very early Human League etc. It is the AC/DC album that I find wholly unfathomable! It must be removed immediately by the folks involved!

hf - I do agree with your comments. It was several generations. DLT didn't really take on board much in the perfumed garden or the Manchester of Mark E Smith (although he probably did play those hits on Dandelion Records by Medicine Head). I can't quite take in all that is being said about the Shed at the moment. It needs to be renamed as it sounds too much like Chelsea but I am sure it will be good. I did respect him but will, I think, wait for all the adulation to settle again. It is what he would have preferred.

[johncorrigan]

Cerys was doing her stuff on R4 today with a programme commemorating Mahalia Jackson, who died forty years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gvn23

[johncorrigan]

Really enjoyable Folk on 2 this evening with a cheery chat between Paddy Moloney and Mike celebrating 50 years of the Chieftains - they deserve wall-to-wall on R3 for a few days. Some great music from their back catalogue - great to hear them with Van doing Star of the County Down - hadn't heard it in a while.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01glx4s

[johncorrigan]

I see John Cooper Clark is on in place of Jarvis for the next month - usually good for a laugh.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hbg3d

[Globaltruth]

I see John Cooper Clark is on in place of Jarvis for the next month - usually good for a laugh.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hbg3d

Well spotted - I rarely look to see what's coming up on r6...Beasley St is already on the JP playlist;maybe we magicked him up?

[zola]

Tomorrow on Radio 4 at 1130 is a programme about two 1950s initiatives to stop classic Irish folk songs from being forgotten, one from the BBC and the other from Alan Lomax.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r

[johncorrigan]

Tomorrow on Radio 4 at 1130 is a programme about two 1950s initiatives to stop classic Irish folk songs from being forgotten, one from the BBC and the other from Alan Lomax.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r

Thanks zola - those 11.30am R4 programmes are always so easily missed, and they do stick some good ones in there. Wonder if they've a theme going. Cerys' very good programme about Mahalia Jackson was in the same slot last week.