It’s a sign of how totally crazy life is at the moment that I totally forgot to plug today as John Peel Day! Luckily the Beeb will allow you to check out significant parts of their massive tribute show on-line for at least a week, so go check it out.
As a much less cool alternative you can listen to my Peel Day show on KUMM this Sunday, 16 Oct 2005, on KUMM from 9:30pm-Midnight. What a great excuse to try out the spiffy new 128K stream!
Unlike the Beeb, I’ll have no amazing live shows from bands who’s lives were totally changed by Peel, but I will have lots of great music I discovered through his shows, intermingled with my mumbling attempts to explain just why he was such an idol for me. He was very possibly the only person that I never actually net that I could seriously say I saw as a role model and someone to actively emulate. I can safely say that for a period of over 15 years I’ve always wanted to be like John Peel when I grew up (or at least got to be his age), and listening to the bands and DJs (but especially the bands) talk about how important he was for them just spins my head.
To quote the man himself:
No tag for this post.More of the same unpleasant and disorientating racket on tomorrow night’s program. Until then, from me, John Peel, good night and good riddance.
