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prefixmag (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
These New Puritans boast their influences in a way that would be feable pastiche in lesser hands. The British outfit was named after a track from The Real New Fall LP , and what John Peel said about Mark E Smith’s band may prove equally apt when describing These New Puritans : Always the same, always different. Thunderous tribal drumming and ominous keyboards give “We Want...
Rich Batsford (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The Irresistable Force I think of Mixmaster Morris as the John Peel of the digital age – he has an incredible, insatiable enthusiasm for new music and tho for me, Peel’s taste was, well, a bit on the noisy side, Morris leans…
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... in your callow youth might not have been the shining beacon you imagined. Peter Sellers and John Lennon come to mind and although I was never an admirer of Marc Bolan, stories of his attitude toward John Peel once Bolan achieved some sort of spurious fame rather tarnished his image. I'd be interested to know about what the news of the death of other artists meant when you heard...
uncarved.org blog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... AR Kane I can’t remember anything about. We were more excited at the prospect of having seen both John Peel and Coil lurking about the venue. With hindsight I should have payed more attention. My cassette version of The Shamen ’s debut LP “Drop” (official release, not TDK business!) hasn’t aged well, so I can only check out the first two tracks on each side before terminal tape wobble...
Dispatches from the cat (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
I've reached the never to be surpassed peak of my Twitter life: I received a direct message from the legendary music journalist and comedy writer David Quantick. Like me, he's orginally from Devon, and after John Peel and Stuart Maconie, probably did more to influence my taste in music in the 80s than any other person. Of course I told him nothing of this - the tweet was a minor exchange...
intheboatshed.net (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
I’ve raved about Channel 4’s Classic Ships series before – but this episode on the go-betweens – pilot boats and other boats serving the old sailing ships – is even better than anything we’ve seen so far. Narrated by the lugubrious-voiced John Peel, it includes footage and informative discussion of a personal barge built in 1740 [...]
The Devil Has The Best Tuna (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Keys Genre: Healing & EasyListening / Psychedelic / Garage From: Wales, United Kingdom One of the better of the christmas themed songs to find it's way into the Devil's inbox over the past couple of weeks is 'Queueing Up For Christmas' by Welsh wizards The Keys. Born from the ashes of John Peel favourites, Murry the Hump (once dubbed by Alex James of Blur as “the best unsigned...
The Devil Has The Best Tuna (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... the Dodo Fightback are living proof that true indie music, the indie of Rough Trade, the indie of John Peel, the indie that I grew up with is not quite as extinct as their namesake. Go Try MP3 - The Dodo Fightback - Petrochemical Lullaby MP3 - The Dodo Fightback - Make Sympathetic Noises But Do Nothing If anyone from the IFPI is reading these tracks are linked direct from the Dodo...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
I've just bought, on eBay, the Flying Burrito Brothers album The Last of the Red Hot Burritos. Vinyl - I've never seen it available in digital format. This is an album from which I've only ever heard one track once - on the radio nearly 40 years ago (on John Peel show actually), which in my memory was a blistering version of 6 Days on the Road. It's been in my mind to get hold of this...
Bearded Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... With their choppy guitars, strangled synths and metronomic rhythms, Trans Am won the patronage of John Peel, and their krautrock-informed mutant disco is present in abundance on this record which spans the decade and a half between 1993 and 2008. Their slightly schizophrenic sound perhaps explains why they’ve toured with electronic acts like Zombi as well as supporting metal heavyweights...
