Author Archives: soitgoes2512

About soitgoes2512

Still 40-something, still teaching English, and still obsessed with John Peel.

All The UK Christmas Number 1s: 2008

Posted on December 15, 2012

This was the year of Obama, the Irish pork crisis, and talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme (again). Come the twelfth month, we said our goodbyes to Woolworths, Eartha Kitt and Oliver Postgate. Muntadhar al Zaidi threw his shoes at George Bush, … Continue reading →

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The Spirit Of Christmas Present: Part Eight

Posted on December 11, 2012

Christmas Eve came, slowly and thickly on the tails of a freezing wet December. Sarah awoke early in the morning to see the dream of so many children: a thin veil of snow covered the land, and more was falling … Continue reading →

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The Drum Is Everything

Posted on August 5, 2012

BPM. Where would we be without it? It first came to my attention when, as an avid reader of Smash Hits during the mid 80s, all the new dance releases had to have this information appended, although what anybody except … Continue reading →

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Re: Master

Posted on July 24, 2012

The term “remastering” crept unbidden into our consciousness sometime in the early 1990s, if my memory serves me right. Lazy and  greedy record companies, who had rushed to get their albums onto the new CD format from the mid 80s … Continue reading →

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Follow The Leader

Posted on January 20, 2012

Time for you all to listen to a voice far more productive than mine. Click to be entertained. Great job, Stuart!

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Let’s Hope It’s A Good One

Posted on December 24, 2011

A merry Christmas to all, and a brief reminder of a classic return to form from Peel alumni Andy Kershaw.  After his well-publicised public meltdown and brushes with his ex-partner and restraining orders, he found a new home on Radio … Continue reading →

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You Get Orange

Posted on May 11, 2011

The band Read Yellow (Jesse Vuona, guitar; Paul Koelle, drums; Evan Kenney, guitar; and Micheller Freivald, bass, with vocals shared between the three guitarists) recorded one Peel session, and they were noisy sods.  They formed in 2001 in a basement … Continue reading →

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Teenage Kicks went on holiday for five months and all he brought back was this pile of shit

Posted on May 10, 2011

Happy Talk is a weird song for a start off. It’s clear the matchmaking lady by the rock pool isn’t doing this purely for unselfish reasons, but the musical as a whole is underpinned by colonialism and as usual makes … Continue reading →

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Christmas….

Posted on December 24, 2010

…didn’t really happen for the Kickster this year, did it? I had no time due to pressures of work and family to get anything together. Still, you don’t want my excuses. I’ll just wish you all a merry Christmas for … Continue reading →

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Jailhouse Rock

Posted on December 7, 2010

Few people in recorded music history can have met such an ignonimous end as Phil Spector. He is currently serving 19 to life for the murder of Lana Clarkson, and yet the fairytale beginnings of the lower middle class Jewish … Continue reading →

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