Peel away the shell for a sweet fruit is hidden inside
Published 28 Oct 2010 12:30
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Beeb towers, have long been the number one source for finding new talent. Ever since they found John Peel hiding under the set of Ready Steady Go, there has been a plethoranium of music heads glued to their radio each night.
You have to give it to them, it really has been the first stop on the new music front for decades.
John Peel Day, (October 13) has just passed for another year, but the fine man which brought the world some of the great bands of our time, would be proud of the effort still being made to ensure new bands, weird and wonderful, stay represented.
Look at the support which finally made the heads of the beebeesee recoil from their initial madness of scourging 6Music and the Asian Network. Would the same support really apply for other seminal music press? Would the NME command this uprising of justice for music? Or are they really anything other then a tabloid of the music media, a slurp of gossip, bullying and lads mag style writing?
But peel your head away from the radio for a minute there, its not all on air. Video might have tried to kill the radio star, but it didn’t have the balls to mess with the live stuff, and sure enough the BBC are not faulting in their quest to carry the torch for Duke Peel.
You should feel privileged too that their vibrant calendar of events includes a weekly live show in Reading. If you liked the days of digging through the stellar and strange mix of music on The John Peel Show, then you will find the same satisfaction in the ever-changing line up of acts at the BBC Introducing LIVE event every Wednesday at the Oakford Social Club in Reading.
November brings together Reading Festival performers Peers alongside October Game and Toodar for a show on Wednesday.
The Quotes headline on November 10, while Dry The River and Ben Marwood front a fine show for your pleasure on November 17, Dry The River receiving some of the most promisingly tipped music press from across the nation after a summer of festival highlights including the Big Chill Festival.
But really, we needn’t tell you who is playing, as the point of any Peel show was to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty, for some you will love and some you won’t, some will be strange, and some simply sane. You decide.
This article appeared in Reading Chronicle 28 Oct 10
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