25/26th October 2004: John Peel, veteran radio DJ and legendary music afficiando, died from a heart attack whilst on a working holiday in Peru, aged 65.

He had been working in broadcasting for over 40 years, and presenting an extremely highly-regarded show on Radio1 for over 30 years.

During this time he championed all genres of music from the mildest and most accessible to the most esoteric and extreme. He brought a huge number of influential bands to the British public's attention including New Order, The Smiths, The Fall, Pulp, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, and many others, and in recent decades became one of the earliest promoters of electronic music on national radio. He also presented a listener-orientated show called Home Truths on Radio4, and as well as his unparalleled love of music, his warm, intelligent, and "fatherly" nature stood out in an era of brash, arrogant presenters falling over themselves to be cool. No-one who heard his show could underestimate just how good it was as a genuine and true music show.

I've been a fan of Peely for many years, from when I was into metal and he introduced me to the delights of Carcass and Bolt Thrower as well as many good indie bands, to when I got into dance music and ended up recording no less than 26 cassettes absolutely packed with brilliant drum'n'bass and techno he played. At any time I always appreciated his open-minded and ultra-broad music tastes. I met him when I won a place at a live Lab4 set played on his show, and he was a genuinely nice and witty guy. Unfortunately I'd lapsed from listening to his show in the last couple of years....and now I no longer can.

RIP to a true music legend. 

I have a great amount of respect for Peely and all he achieved, and I was really quite upset when I heard the news.

You really can't overestimate the amount he single-handedly affected the music scene; just looking at the tributes that bands and artists have been sending in shows how much he and his shows were respected and loved.

RIP indeed, I really will miss his show 

I have very fond memories of the Peel Sessions.

...missed indeed. Let's hope at least another as good steps into the breach. 

The show is finally up:

http://www.subfm.org/integrityofmusic 

Gonna check it out now...I finished that tune you wanted for your next show...

http://blitz.circa1984.com/Blitz%20-%20Soul%20of%20a%20Parasite%20(In%20Memory%20of%20Vlad).mp3

Enjoy. 

...I'll run that under the third leg of the discussion. That way it definitely won't be edited out of the archived show. 

I listened to the whole show but it got cut out? Oh well. 

...I asked Simon not to cut it. Bleh! Heads will roll.

Was the reference to it in there at least? 

How did Blitz get away with a super long url? 

No, no reference either. If it's not too much trouble, is there anyway you could get the clip of it + some before and after talk just so I could see the context in which you were playing it?

I really enjoyed the show and the topic of conversation...and allthough I accepted that it was cut out of the archive that's there, I couldn't help but wonder how my song played into the inegrity debate. 

1. If a new artist, or a familiar artist that maybe you haven't gotten into - released a DVD that in theme essentially was a collection of music videos but with a central focused theme... (basically a DVD album), in surround-sound or not, would you buy it?

2. What if it was a re-release of the original album, but with video content, and you had the original CD? 

I have The Wall on Cd, but I didn't find the movie to be interesting, so a no in that case.

I have soundtracks to several movies but not the movies themselves. I often find one viewing of a good movie per decade enough so I dont see the point in buying them.

There are of course exceptions to that if the movie has a complex plot like Momento, Blade Runner, Usual Suspects, or Goodfellas or the like where multiple viewings reveal greater detail.

The musicaly oriented film that I most liked was Igmar Bergman's version of The Magic Flute. Don't be put off if it sounds too artsy fartsy, compared to Japanese anime it is not at all pretentious. It is just a simple story with good music and very likeable characters and that is all. 

1. Probably not. Especially not if it was "a familiar artist that maybe you haven't gotten into." I'd be more likely to do it for a new artist if I heard/saw some sort of preview and liked it.

2. That depends entirely on the band, album, etc. I own several CDs that I haven't listened to in years. But if it was some album that I'm totally into, then sure. 

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PRODUCT&PROD_ID=567919&cid=25608&fp=F 

For me, The Wall as an album makes no sense at all without the movie. Mother and Run Like Hell are good enough songs on their own, but the movie adds a sense of progression to it and turns it into a cohesive work. Without it songs like Young Lust come out of left field and make no sense at all.

Interstella 5555 adds a progression to Discovery where I didn't think one was needed. It's a cool movie of course. I think the difference is I associate Pink Floyd with concept albums more than Daft Punk.

I do have a few concert dvds (Pink Floyd, Underworld, Fatboy Slim, DJ Shadow) and documentaries (Scratch), but Chemical Brothers is the only collection of music videos I own. Though I would consider getting The Works Of Michel Gondry. I think this just represents the esteem in which I hold the concerts and music videos of these people. For the average group I like I probably wouldn't want to pay for a collection of their music videos. Also, what I like doesn't get played on Much enough for me to possibly get sick of it. Especially now that Much Music is a 24/7 Pimp My Ride station. 

That enitre series should definately be viewable, although I've only got the Chris Cunningham one.
http://www.directorslabel.com/ 

...and anyone else who might be interested.

http://www.subfm.org/vampiresdeathandburial 

I never liked Pantera, but anyway:
http://www.wral.com/news/3983737/detail.html 

Serious shit, sounds nasty.

I was a big Pantera fan some years ago (when Dimebag was still called Diamond, no less).... 

you just know the gunman is going to be a fan of another band or something. Shame that news story didn't explain what happened very well. It says he shot some people, then a bouncer tackled him. But a policeman turned up a couple of minutes later, and it says he had a hostage??

I guess it was probably complete chaos so we don't really know the details yet. Shocking though; I was never much of a Pantera or Damageplan fan, but if i was i'd appreciate knowing which other band member is dead. 

it looks like noone knows which other band member(s) died.

But i just found out this sick fuck decided to shoot Dimebag on the anniversary of John Lennon's murder. 

So, now that (uk)hardcore has climbed out of the filthy hole that was "happy hardcore" and into the "fucking storming hi-nrg acidized fecking awesome" seat it currnetly occupies, I was wondering if anyone else here listens to it? For anyone wanting to check it out may I suggest you have a look around for some of these great artists:

the CLSM
Plus System
Scott Brown
Dougal & Gammer (recent stuff only tho!)
Kevin Energy (Again recent only) 

But as I said on IRC I'm going back to mid-skool happy hardcore - Bonkers, Force&Styles, and all =). 

http://morecore.net/

hardcore mixes in mp3 format with no fuss downloads, enjoy shambler :) 

is that the shooter was angry because Pantera is no more. (Apparently he was a hardcore fan)

now the irony was that it wasn't dimebag that chose to break up the band, t'wad their singer.