Keeping It Peel 2012
It's very late... and I've missed the deadline but here goes anyway!
Buffalo Tom - Sunflower Suit - my definitive 90s band Devoto's Magazine doing their version of Boredom Velouria from the Pixies The Monochrome Set with Love Goes Down the Drain
7 years ago this very night we were in Dewsbury hospital welcoming our youngest daughter into the world so undertandably I was in quite an emotional place.
As we drove home on the 26th, full of joy for our newborn, I heard the news on the radio of John Peel's passing - never before nor since have I experienced simulaneously, such opposite extremes of emotion.
So for Lily's birthday & in memory of my much-missed, musical mentor...
John introducing White Riot by the ClashBuffalo Tom - Sunflower Suit - my definitive 90s band Devoto's Magazine doing their version of Boredom Velouria from the Pixies The Monochrome Set with Love Goes Down the Drain
Breaking Point from Paul Quinn's Bourgie Bourgie
And finally (incoherently...and out of season!) the Undertones
