John Peel Night on Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 will pay tribute to the late John Peel through a night of live music to be broadcast on Thursday 16th December from 7pm.
The night will be hosted by Steve Lamacq and come from the BBC Maida Vale studios, where every studio will be taken over as bands perform, and talk about John and the music he loved.
The schedule for the night will run as follows:
7pm — 8pm
Teenage Dreams So Hard To Beat
Kicking off Peel night, Radio 1 takes a look back at the career of the great man with a one hour documentary celebrating his extraordinary life. The show will feature tributes from The Undertones, Orbital, the Cure, New Order, Supergrass, Robert Plant, Underworld, Siouxsie Sioux and the Buzzcocks.
8pm — 11:30pm
Live music from bands that John championed including the Wedding Present, Nina Nastasia, Hefner, Trencher, Melys, Steveless, Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian), Special guests tbc. Steve Lamacq will be introducing the bands and linking it all together.
11:30pm — 1am
The DJs take over with sets from Underworld, Hixxy, Coldcut, Shitmat, Grooverider plus Dynamite MC on mic duties.
He played shit, including shitmat (not bad), but as many have said you’d wait for that gem, and he would deliver! Time and time again he’d play stuff that ran number 1 with me while the charts were bogged down with vacuous shite. God I miss his contribution. Great personality, didn’t always agree, but so few with an insight like his. Self affacing giant, John Peel. Catalogue the Peel sessions someone. Such an extensive work of superb selections must be known for the future.
radio.plus.com is worth a look; it contains free and legal mp3 downloads of songs that John Peel featured on his Radio 1 show recently. All these tracks have been made made available by the bands or record labels themselves.