On my show this month:
Several Peel favourites cram their way into this month show. There's something from the new Cathal Coughlan album, something else from Arab Strap , a locked down version of a much loved tune from The Wedding Present and something from yet another of those very welcome live releases featuring The Fall . This month's featured compilation is a cracking Soul Jazz collection of rocksteady gems; there's an opportunity to hear half of the new Blanck Mass opus, new releases from Low Altitude, Bandicoot and Fatherfigures, plus classic reissues of Faye Adams and Memphis Minnie . And of course Peel Back... takes us back into the mists of yesteryear too, or more specifically to memories from the Peel shows of April 1981, 1991 and 2001.
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Biography:
My music-related activities over the years have been restricted to such peripheral activities as running a venue and attempting to manage a band to putting together radio shows variously named The A-Z of Punk, Idiot Jukebox and The Diamond Mine as well as masquerading as The Phantom Surfer to produce The History of Surf Music and unintentionally controversial hour-long documentary Surfin' East Kilbride, all of which have made appearances on various community radio stations over the years.
I'm the author of a book on John Peel's Festive Fifty called, with great imagination, The Festive Fifty. I edited a fanzine called The Backdoor in the late eighties, fronted a band called The Beached Whales that never got round to gigging and played amplifier lead and slides with a band who'd rather I didn't make my association with them public. I have what I believe is a healthy contempt for music journalism (even when it's good) and believe the best way to start a band is to put four people who can't play in a room with some second hand instruments, don't feed 'em and don't let them out until they've produced something great. I've tried it on several occasions and no one's died yet.
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