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Then Peel Died
And we thought we'd pack it in, but a vaguely famous person pointed out that interesting music didn't die with a man who played a lot of interesting music. We thought "she's quite famous and obviously very perceptive". We also liked all the free albums and getting into gigs for free, So we became Unpeeled and carried on.
Carried on welcoming all kinds of music and writing all sorts of things about it. We don't embrace fashion, can barely spell 'trend'
and still cling to the notion that an Opinion-Former is something that looks cool in a modern kitchen, but is never used.
The writing is done by an ever changing gaggle of young people who prefer to hide from imminent exams or unemployment by listening to artists they've never heard of. They're all told to write whatever they like. It seems to work. Contributors have gone on to work for the BBC, become a performance poet, write for Ricky Gervais and write for proper magazines.
It's all John Peel's fault.
He often mumbled and this made it difficult to get hold of
the records he played. You just try asking someone in
HMV to look up a yodelling death metal band whose name
might start with a 'T' or a 'Z'.
We began phoning Radio One, asking important questions
like "What 's the name of that band Peel played on
Saturday after he did the one at the wrong speed?" The nice
old dear on the switchboard soon got fed up and just put us
straight through to Peel. We asked for a
copy of his tracklistings. He asked us
to come up for a chat.
We did, Peel took us for a pint and a
snack and agreed to supply us with
his tracklistings.
We started a 4 page mag called 'Peel
Papers". It had the Peel tracklists and
a few reviews. Within six months we
were using the Job Club at Dingwall
Road, Croydon to produce a 16 page
fanzine. We pretended we were
photocopying cvs and posting job applications out.
Peel Papers relocated to a back garden shed when we got too cocky and a record label, trying to buy ad space, got all shouty and confused when the Job Centre switchboard insisted that they knew nothing about copy deadlines or the price of spot colour.
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