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A lovely party and top xmas album... it's something to do this Friday!
Almost guaranteed more star studded than the première of "Ali", and the smash hits christmas party combined...
Friday 14th December
The Bull and Gate, Kentish Town, in that London.
Admission £5. Doors 7:30 pm - late
Plus mince pies, party paraphernalia, and DJ Paul from that Track and Field spinning Christmas hits past and present, and maybe even future
STARRING:
THE LOVES' live show is a full on rock 'n roll assault, with occasional drunken outbursts, a heady mix of 70s new wave stomp mashed with the Phil Spector wall of sound. John Peel loves them and, having already recorded two Peel sessions this year, they are also scheduled to play at Peel Acres on Valentine's Day 2002.
THE WOUND-BE-GOODS. The return of the legendary el records popstars with their beguiling, sophisticated pop. Now featuring Pete Momtchiloff (Tallulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research) on guitar. New album 'Brief Lives' out on Fortuna POP! in 2002.
Plus Special Guest DARREN HANLON, he's Australian, you know, and we've flown him in from Sweden especially...
Also... wiaiwya has joined up with our American friends once more to bring you "50,000,000 elves fans can't be wrong", a transatlantic pop christmas, available in the uk by mail order only (£10 (incl p+p and a free poster) payable to wiaiwya, from 1 bankside, 10 brock lane, maidenhead, berkshire, sl6 1lp, uk... order early to avoid disappointment, etc etc etc)... it
includes all of the delights below, only in song form:
- menswear endowment "the loneliest snowman"
(along the lines of the lilac time, at closing time)
- seks bomba "double-o santa"
(pun-laden loungecore in a Bacharach stylee)
- mj hibbett and the validators "give us a kiss (for Christmas)"
(blustering charm laden sing along from Leicester's leonard cohen
antithesis)
- nixon "anorak christmas"
(cute swedish synth-pop-indie that'll have you spinning like a helicopter)
- the Rory McBrides "(we like) eggnog!"
(JTQ meets "tequila" from our england obsessed american cousins)
- Sool "spicing the christmas cake"
(1 minute 3 seconds of Bavarian waltz-time-bliss)
- the pines "chalet"
(gorgeous female fronted folk pop acoustica that actually smells of
snowflakes)
- velodrome 2000 "christmas sucks"
(joey ramone, pete Shelley, Joan jett and stephen pastel couldn't have done
better)
- the waistcoats "(i wish you could be more like) santa Claus"
(a sentiment we all agree on, and expressed as only a Dutch garage (as in
garage) group can)
- weevil "Coventry carol"
(like monks with a vocoder singing garage (as in UK))
- the professor "thank you"
(the professor thanks, among others, tuna belt... with words)
- the weisstronauts "silent night"
(yeah, right... like you can't guess... it rocks)
2001 :: Comment / reply
Oct15
There's a new John Peel bootleg of a forty year old pirate radio show, I didn't realise the Folkestone connection before:
As he signed off his final late-night Perfumed Garden show, pirate DJ John Peel was convinced it was the end of his brief, subversive radio career.
Now, almost 40 years later, listeners will once again experience the dying murmurs of his show when the BBC puts his last Radio London programme back on the airwaves later this month.
Peel was forced off air when pirate stations - at the time the only outlet for pop music in the UK - were outlawed in 1967, leaving him high and dry. Luckily, within days he was rescued from obscurity and signed as a launch presenter for Radio 1 and became one of Britain's best-loved and respected broadcasters.
Peel would spend two of every three weeks aboard the Galaxy, moored off Folkestone, presenting his midnight show. Because the boat was in international waters, it was beyond the reach of British broadcasting restrictions until offshore stations too were outlawed in August 1967.
2006 :: Comment / reply
Events:
John Peel Day - Charity Fundraising Concert The Brewery Tap 11 Oct 2007 Admission is: £2 on the door and all proceeds are being donated to Cancer Research. featuring: Gaijin; Springtide Cavalry; Red Light Runner. Venue: Brewery Tap, Tontine Street, Folkestone.
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John Peel Tribute Day The White Lion Hotel 13 Oct 2005 Could be interesting, so long as it's not twelve covers of "Teenage Kicks" and then some unlistenable techno
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John Peel Day Southcliff Hotel 13 Oct 2005 Beamer + A Thousand Leagues Below + The Chase Scene + Lenny + Craig Hammer. All proceds to The Briths Heart Foundation
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Leatherface The Metronome 18 Jul 1992 They played London Marquee the day before and the John Peel show the day aftetr - Folkestone, slap in the middle of music.
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