John Peel Archives - Backseat Mafia

TRACK: Home Counties’ ‘Dad Bod’ – fantastically Peel show awkward squad

IT WOULD seem the Bristol underground scene is in rude health. Last week we had a new download-only only round-up from Dorset boys moved uptown with a whole clutch of…

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Feature / Playlist: Every track (on Spotify) for every John Peel festive 50

Over on our Spotify page, alongside all the playlists we’ve received from artists, albums of the year, our monthly playlists, psych playlists, classic DJ sets, not forgotten series and other…

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Playlist: John Peel Show 26.6.88 tracks

Whatever John Peel show you use, compiling a complete playlist, or even an accurate one, given the breadth of the music chosen, much of it remaining in obscurity, is nigh…

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From an old record box: The Wedding Present – 2, 3, go

“Ride white horses today ! Buy a red Chevrolet ! Let’s go swim the Zambezi Let’s do it just cos it’s easy !” Fans of Saturnalia and Wedding Present…

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From an old record box: Cud – Robinson Crusoe

This was an early glory of my burgeoning (or so I thought) record collection and indie cred. They’d been in Peel’s Festive Fifty the year before (I looked that up…

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From an old record box: Grant Lee Buffalo – Buffalondon Live

The early nineties: years of massive change in my listening habits and, really, a first proper awakening to music, fuelled by the powerful indie spirit of both UK and US alternative rock…

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