↓ update: Friday 24th October @ 20:29
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Singapore 2008
Date:
Thursday October 9th
Venue:
The Prince of Wales, 101 Dunlop Street, Little India, Singapore
Details:
The Prince of Wales, in association with Sod Your iPod, is proud to present Keeping It Peel: John, But Not Forgotten – a tribute concert to mark John Peel Day 2008.
Keeping It Peel: John, But Not Forgotten maintains this tradition with live music from a selection of bands in the Peel-spirit, including Etc., We GANG and Jon Fong (of The Karl Maka). And a story about Peel written by an Etc person.
From 9pm.
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Date:
Friday October 10th
Venue:
The Buffs in Runcorn
Details:
Featuring Calvin Party, with support from The Loves and DJs from Dandelion Radio.
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Date:
*Please Note Change Of Date* Monday October 13th
Venue:
Jogja National Museum, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Details:
Various Performance from : Oh Nina!, Risky Summerbee & the Honeythief, Cranial Incisored and many more.
*Now Starts 1 Hour Earlier* 7pm Free Admission
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Date:
Sunday October 12th
Venue:
Catch 22, Shoreditch, London. 5PM-12.00
Details:
This is a celebration of the wonderful work and life of John Peel, the greatest DJ there ever will be. Tickets are £6.00 via This special gig will be an all-dayer and will have John Peel shows played throughout and his favourite tracks played at the nights end in a John Peel Wingding disco!
P.W. Long (Wig/Mule/Reelfoot) genuine legend (Southern) ‘P. W.’s music has always come from the heart, and on Remembered, the blood pours. The lyrics resonate with the voice of someone who knows he’s made mistakes, but underneath it all, there’s a faint hope of redemption.’ (wikipedia entry).
Joanne Robertson: She plays drums, writes songs, plays guitar, sings and has supported Franz Ferdinand and is soon to gig with Howe Gelb. Her debut album came out on Textile which is home to Jackie O’ Motherfucker/Telescopes.
M.J. Hibbitt: king of Optimistic Pop and Steve Lamaq/Radio6/XFM favourite who had 3 million downloads of his recent smash hit Hey Hey 16K and had a sell out run at the Edinburgh festival with his ‘my exciting life is show business’ show.
Dredlunadare: A John Peel day would not be complete without a super loud and scary act so we have these Barking based shellac’ish noizeniks who stir up a crazed angular ruckus which is several orders of magnitude more interesting than many of the Math Rock clone acts currently hogging London stages. Lower Slaughter North London’s Arty answer to Sonic Youth. Expect Pomo NoWave Postskackerism from this Alt 3 piece who explode with beautiful noise invention. The band features the more attractive members of Huw Stephens favourites ‘fantaplastic’ and ’smallgang’ and sound like Robert Wyatt crossed with the Swirlies.
Russ and the wolf Choir: Romford’s only poet who sits snugly in-between Jason Molina/Geoff Farina and Kevin Devine and deals in the lovelorn lullabies for the lonely, loveless or just a bit heartbroken.
Former Utopia Possibly: The only indigenous cockney still remaining in East London and an iconoclastic genre hopping intellectual sombre song smith. As down to earth and utopian as Billy Bragg, as haunted as Bill Callahan, as prolific as The Mountain Goats and on occasion as furious as Shellac. He has the manic obsessive inventiveness of an atheist Daniel Johnston but balanced with the insight and height of George Orwell. ‘Smog on holiday in shellac’ DIS
More information about the event from Damnably Presents. Also, try damnably.com : “home of the bi-weekly Podcast radio show dedicated to John Peel”.
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John Peel Day Scarborough Event
Date:
Thursday 16th October
Venue:
Vivaz Venue, Huntriss row, Scarborough, UK
Details:
Us folk in Scarborough are putting on a mass local original music event on Thursday 16th October 2008 in John’s Honour. This year we’ll be raising funds for OXFAM as this will be an OXJAM event. Doors open 7:30pm first act on 8pm event continues until 2am. Over 22 acts. More info plus previous John Peel Day events at gurilla.tv
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The third annual John Peel Festival. A two dayer in Germany.
Date:
Friday October 24th and Saturday October 25th
Venue:
Blue Shell, Luxemburger Strasse 32, 50674 Koeln
Details:
They fade in silence, Testcard (UK Liverpool), Festland (Germany – Essen), Except the General (UK), Spraydog (UK), Marlowe – Slack Elvis (UK)
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Date:
Friday October 24th
Venue:
Pravda Bar, via Vittadini, 6. Milan. From 8 pm
Details:
JOHN PEEL DAY IN MILAN, ITALY
It’s been four years since John Peel departure, so we we’d like to celebrate this massively influential figure of our time. In the last 3 years we organized dj sets, podcasts & radio shows to remember our teacher as he’d wish: playing and staying together. This time we decided to play in one of the settings John Peel liked the most: the bar, with the “one dish” technique.
“Unpiattosolo* Guerilla Style– Special John Peel Day 2008”
Starring : Francesco Roccaforte (Unpiattosolo – Radio 2), Luca de Gennaro (Whatever – Radio Capital), Fabio De Luca (Weekendance.com) Stefano By Night (Punto Radio – Roma – 1970’s and 80’s), Luca Scotto di Carlo (Metal LSD), Bartenders Frog & Andrea.
Free entry
Italiano:
RICORDANDO JOHN PEEL
Domani, 24 ott. a Milano, un bar e 5 Djs per onorare il mitico speaker. Il 25 ottobre 2004 si spegneva prematuramente una delle voci radiofoniche più influenti della storia dell’ umanità.
John Peel, il leggendario d.j. di BBC Radio One, che per più di 30 anni attraverso il suo “John Peel Show” e le storiche “John Peel Sessions” ha contribuito più di chiunque altro a divulgare il verbo della musica di qualità, educando le orecchie e i gusti di intere generazioni, ogni anno viene ricordato in tutto il mondo nell’anniversario della sua scomparsa.
Anche in Italia, da 4 anni, si organizzano, in occasione dell’anniversario dj set, jam sessions, podcasts e programmi radiofonici per ricordare il maestro come lui avrebbe voluto: suonando e stando insieme. Quest’anno aggiungiamo agli studi radiofonici e ai club un altro tra i luoghi più congeniali per John Peel: il bar, e soprattutto uno dei suoi oggetti preferiti: Il giradischi.
Venerdì 24 ottobre:
“Unpiattosolo – Speciale John Peel Day 2008″
Dj set con un solo giradischi e vinile originale, nell’intima cornice del Pravda Vodka Bar di Via Vittadini 6, Milano. A partire dalle 20 e finchè si chiude la saracinesca.
Djs: Francesco Roccaforte, Luca de Gennaro, Fabio De Luca, Stefano By Night, L.S.D., (5 djs, 1 piatto solo)
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Date:
Saturday 8th November 4.30pm to Midnight
Venue:
King William IV Pub, in Cottingham near Hull, East Yorkshire
Details:
‘Better Late Than Never’ John Peel Charity Day – Unplugged.
Featuring 13 local acts: JAMES DEAN SYNDROME, THE FAVOURS, AFTERGLOW, KARL CULLEY, ABBIE LAMMAS, STICKPIN, NOCTURNAL FLOWERS, DENNIS CARUANA, EMMA RUGG, CREEK CATS, PIGSTY, UKULELE BILL AND MARTIN.
It’s a FREE entry concert and the pub is making a substantial donation to the British Heart Foundation. There will be a fantastic raffle prize – an oil painting of John and a couple bottles of red wine of course.
I also found this link that should be of interest: Cottingham Festival
– Gary
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Check with the venue before travelling just in case I’ve made a typo!
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Sill no official word as yet from the BBC Radio 1 website concerning John Peel Day 2008, but that won’t prevent us from pushing on regardless.
If you have a gig coming up that forms part of John Peel Day and want some free publicity, email me with the details and links and I’ll add them to this post. Keep it Peel!
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• Update: 21:43 2008 September 18th
“John Peel Night will debut in the legendary DJ’s spiritual hometown of Liverpool, featuring punk electronica outfit 2 Hot 2 Sweat, experimental grime producer Milanese and Sheffield-based quintet Rolo Tomassi.”
• Update: 07:09 2008 September 18th
The Electric Proms 2008 from the BBC, runs from 22nd to 26th October, and this year’s event has added value folks. It’s to be staged in London, oh yes as usual, but also for the first time, in Liverpool. Bearing in mind Liverpool’s status this year as European Capital of Culture, I think we can expect big things for John Peel Day 2008 don’t you? Why are you making that face? Oh look at you, you’re so cynical. I’ve despatched emails to each relevant press office, so we should have some news shortly. Jolly good.
Did you make that banner? It’s really cool.
Cheers Adam, yes I did :) The right hand side is the logo from the Radio 1 site obviously, I just updated it with the speaker and date motif. Feel free to use it if you want.
Sorry you had to await comment approval by the way. You should have pre-approved status. I’ll have to look into that!
Just stopping by to say cheers, and pay the proper respects. This is an outstanding tribute to a great guy. I keep trying to spread the joy that was John Peel over on this side of the pond…site like this can only help! Congrats.
Thank you Jim.
Be sure you check out the John Peel Website links. The best of them, in alphabetical order: A Peel a Day, Fades in Slowly, John Peel Torrents, John Peel Wiki, John Peel’s Record Box, Kat’s Karavan, Peel Newsgroup, Perfumed Garden, Right place, right time, wrong speed, Teenage Kicks.
hi
love the site man..
love it!!!
me and some friends are going to put a peel do on in croydon.
will give you a shout with the full details after this weekend.
glad to have found you
jay
@jay: Thanks jay :) Look forward to getting your email.
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@everyone else:
Any John Peel Day events going on in the Portsmouth or Southampton areas? Would be nice to attend an event in my area, and possibly do a ‘full story & pics’ review.
Thank you so much for posting that Gary and come along for free if you can
xgeorge
Thanks for the offer George I’ll see if I can manage it. I’m overdue some live unpleasant noise (”;)
And in Singapore: “Keeping It Peel: John, But Not Forgotten”
JOHN PEEL DAY 2008 Tribute Concert
Thurs 9th Oct., from 9pm
The Prince of Wales, 101 Dunlop Street, Little India, Singapore
The Prince of Wales, in association with Sod Your iPod, is proud to present Keeping It Peel: John, But Not Forgotten – a tribute concert to mark John Peel Day 2008.
Keeping It Peel: John, But Not Forgotten maintains this tradition with live music from a selection of bands in the Peel-spirit, including Etc., We GANG and Jon Fong (of The Karl Maka).
Here’s the poster:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/polkadotcom/2898178192/in/photostream/
And a story about Peel written by an Etc person
http://tajmall.livejournal.com/137558.html
Can’t believe it will be 4 years since the Great man passed over. Even if the BBc seem to have forgotten, no official word or publicity for John Peel Day this Year. But this will be the 4th Annual Tribute to John Peel in Hartlepool.
Ahoy All!
John Peel Day Scarborough Event 2008
Tonight 21 performers and a packed and vibrant Vivaz Venue pay tribute to the spirit of John Peel and raise funds for Oxfam…
Doors open 7:30pm first act on 8pm
Performances from the following….
Alistair James
Chris Hod’ + The Jaw-Line of Julianne Moore
Locust Hotel
Abe Dargue
Stray Scene
Billy Neilsen
The DTs
Death to The Disco
The Demimondaines
Dr Foster
Manfat Voodoo
Fuzzgun Sniper
Sam Bartle
Property of Dave
Grod Groddler
Dave Dark and The Sharks
Station
Snake Style
Digga
Luke Keegan
Mum Locked in Castle
Get there nice and Early!
entrance = 8pm – 9pm = £2
after 9pm = £3
all profits go to Oxfam
Cheers!
Captain Ants
Anyone interested get along to the Clarendon in Tower Street in Hartlepool, the 4th annual JP day, 3 bands + DJs playing songs from the Festive 50s. Proceeds to Shelter.
Ahoy All!
Cheers for everyone who turned up, performed, took part and help make this year’s John Peel Day 2008 + OXJAM Scarborough Event a most enjoyable affair! :)
Video Highlights of the event will be streamed LIVE and interactively on http://upforit.tv and http://mogulus.com/upforit
tonight (friday 17th Oct) at 7pm.
tune in 7pm and ask via the chat facility for your repeats!
Cheers!
Captain ANts
More highlights of this year’s John Peel Day Scarborough Event
to be streamed on http://upforit.tv and http://mogulus.com/upforit
Tune in Sunday 19th and Monday 20th at about 8pm
there is a chat facility so feel free to comment during the LIVE & interactive broadcast showing highlights of Thursday’s John Peel Day Scarborough Event.
Cheers!
Captain Ants
JOHN PEEL DAY IN MILAN, ITALY
It’s been four years since John Peel departure, so we we’d like to celebrate this massively influential figure of our time. In the last 3 years we organized dj sets, podcasts & radio shows to remember our teacher as he’d wish:
playing and staying together.
This time we decided to play in one of the settings John Peel liked the most: the bar, with the “one dish” technique.
“Unpiattosolo* Guerilla Style– Special John Peel Day 2008”
Date:
Friday October 24th
Vanue
Pravda Bar, via Vittadini, 6
Milan
from 8 pm
Starring :
Francesco Roccaforte (Unpiattosolo – Radio 2)
Luca de Gennaro (Whatever – Radio Capital)
Fabio De Luca (Weekendance.com)
Stefano By Night (Punto Radio – Roma – 1970’s and 80’s)
Luca Scotto di Carlo (Metal LSD)
Bartenders Frog & Andrea.
Free entry