Get On The John Peel Train

Four years to the day since the shuffler...err...shuffled off this earth. » Saw the article below via the Beeb (who didn't do anything for John Peel Day) and for some reason it rang a bell.... Memorial sees Peel try new tracks http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7679157.stm "The late DJ John Peel is to have a train in Merseyside named a

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Peelie Celebrates

Usually around this time (October 10th-13th) there's the annual John Peel Day. But for some reason Radio 1 are not doing anything this year. They dare to dismiss a man who gave credibility to a station that also had Ed "Stewpot" Stewart, Alan "Fluff" Freeman and the "Hairy Cornflake" ?" But there are still many events taking place around

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There’s Me Jumper

The kings of weird lyrics and silly dances have made a return: The Sultans Of Ping FC will be releasing a new single on December 7th. Oh come on you know the Sultans. All right I'll give you one line and I bet you'll be singing - or be reminded of the song straight away: "Where's Me Jumper ?" See. Told you. The Irish band were footie mad

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Keeping It Peel

October 11th is the next John Peel Day. This post is to commemorate a man who was as passionate about his football as he was about his music. Peely was a hardcore Liverpool fan but in his later years and because of where he lived, John wandered down to Portman Road and watched them play too. (Don't know why, must have been punishing himself f

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