Rob Da Bank takes John Peel's old slot

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Who signed the ace: Grand National
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FRIDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER

MAIN STAGE
The Bees, Lee Scratch Perry & The Mad Professor, Dub Pistols, RSL, Barry Peters Halifax Hospital Radio Live, Drew, Fake Bush, Subgiant, Band Competition winners, Raff Daddy

BIG TOP
VJ Mix & Mixmaster Morris, Mr Scruff, Diplo, Neneh Cherry, Pablo & Butch, Cassidy Sound System, Martin Morales, Balthazar

COCOMO BOLLYWOOD COCKTAIL BAR
Ashley Beedle (Blue Eyed Soul Set), Boris Horel & Greg Sonata (Foreign Muck), Lauren Laverne, Graeme Fisher & Rev Milo Speedwagon, Stick It On (Open Dex), Radio Slave, Giddy & Sombrero Sound System

SATURDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER

MAIN STAGE
Basement Jaxx, Laid Back, Grand National, Fatboy Slim, Ceux Qui Marchent, Debout, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Magnet, Roddy Frame, Mocky, Hot Chip

BIG TOP
VJ & Tom Middleton, Lottie, DJ Skitz & Rodney P, Stereo MCs, Different Strokes, John Peel, Banzai Republic, Max Sedgley, Mikal Telle

COCOMO BOLLYWOOD COCKTAIL BAR
Tayo's Tracksuit Party, Ross Allen, Justin Robertson, Gilles Peterson, DJ Yoda, Annie Nightingale, Colin & Luke Present Cosmic Soul, Zoe Ball, Chris Coco

SUNDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER

MAIN STAGE
Zero 7, Mylo, The Cuban Brothers, A Man Called Adam, Ori Jah Nal, Willis, Boomclick, Chas 'n' Dave, Kevin Mark Trail

BIG TOP
VJ Eclectic Method, Glint Sound System, Glimmer Twins, Annie, Frank Tope, Phil Mison, Rob Luis, Giddy

COCOMO BOLLYWOOD COCKTAIL BAR
Rob da Bank & Lazyboy, Bent, Giles Smith (secretsundaze), James Priestly (secretsundaze), Vinyl Tap (Sam Pow & Reetu), Bobby & Nihal, Fiona Maguire, Paul Armfield and the Four Good Reasons (live), Nick Luscombe

The following artists and DJs will be appearing in the TEMPLE COCKTAIL BAR over the course of the weekend:
Pete Lawrence, Ali B, Kid Carpet, David Laub, Different Drummer Sound System, Eddy Temple Morris, Graeme Fisher, Johnny Dirtbox, Johnno Presents Bugged Out Chilled Out, Pathaan, Paul Arnold, Stoppa, Wildcat Will, Hint & JO 90, Rob Wood, Lol Hammond, Rob Savage & The Breakin' Even Collective, Bill Brewster, Heidi (Phonica), Solid State Revival and Cagedbaby

im taking a month off the blue room (good ole chris coco will be doing 2 shows a week til then ) the restarting my saturday morning show at beginning of december

He will aided by John Peel Production: Louise and Hermeet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/index.shtml

Rob Da Bank will be presenting the show up till the end of the year - to get in touch you can e-mail RobDaBank@bbc.co.uk

From Tuesday 9th November all the planned sessions will remain in place. Rob Da Bank will be picking the rest of the tracks, aided and abetted by the Peel team. It'll be a broad selection of music in the spirit of the Peel show... technorockindiehardcoreglitchgabbacountry d&br&belectrodeathmetalgrime...

Above all, Keeping It Peel...

MAIN STAGE
Zero 7, Mylo, The Cuban Brothers, A Man Called Adam, Ori Jah Nal, Willis, Boomclick, CHAS 'N' DAVE, Kevin Mark Trail

John Peel is dead.

The Peel Show is dead.

I wish it were not. Whoever takes it on, in an ideal world, would play what John peel would have, and then over time, change it to make it different, as it would have anyway.

If John Peel had a mission statement for his show, then the new person should know about it, and make changes over time. That would be nice.

A session from Basement Jaxx would make everyone sad. Whether or not you like BJ.

Come on in and make yourself comfortable … but don’t sit down, you’ll be dancing in a moment. Towering high above Paris, romantic, cool, full of little surprises around each street corner, Montmartre is where the music booms out over the city. It’s not quite as hip as London, as dope as Amsterdam, quite so cosmopolitan as New York but sacre bleu (if you’ll pardon my French), the music sounds better in Paris.

Before we even open our ears and let the beats pour in, just look at the players… Cassius, Daft Punk, Air and Dimitri From Paris sound like labels we’ve worn or listened to for years, part of house music history. French music has indeed broadened its church since the days of Vanessa Paradis and the crusty folk of Les Negresses Vertes. When Daft Punk go to Miami they’re treated like gods, Roger Sanchez trembles with anticipation at shaking their golden hands and DJ Sneak curtsies in front of Dimitri from Paris as if he were the Queen.

If the USA invented house music, the British arrived to sell the pills in the corner and give birth to acid house, while the Italians chipped in with a piano and softened it up. But it took the French to snap the lightstick and make it funky again.

Listen to this CD and you hear not only synthesized music but the pop sensibilities that made us all like music in the first place. There’s no posturing or clever clever nuance here - it’s glorious house music for dancing to, singing along to and yes, THAT thing too if you fancy! Whether you’re smoking a spliff in a 2CV in the Parisian suburbs, shaving your bikini line in Bombay or jogging in Japan you’ll recognize this - cos it’s the real deal.

I don't think I want John Peel's replacement to be a ponytailed open-mouthed cretin who has a thing against "posturing" and "clever clever nuance."

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40501000/jpg/_40501697_rob_da_bank203_bbc.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40501000/jpg/_40501697_rob_da_bank203_bbc.jpg

He does look like a Goldie Lookin' Cretin tho.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40501000/jpg/_40501697_rob_da_bank203_bbc.jpg

'I'LL BRING THE BLING'

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Its an impossible job really. If you play exactly what Peel would have played you get accused of skulking in his shadow with half the charm. If you do something different, or more representative of what you want to play, you'll enrage the Peel fans.

I fail to see quite how RDB differs from Mary Ann Hobbs in terms of playlist, mind.

Rob Da Bank's already been doing some shows in the JP slot last week, apparently, though I didn't hear any of them. Hands up who did?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/blueroom/the_blue_room_archive.shtml?20041009

Also as RDB mentions the 11-1 slot will mean more scope for diversity.

I am prepared to give him a chance, it's for initially til the end of 2004, there should be enough scope for an intersting broad selection of music in the spirit of Peel.

shows made up of

+ listener input
+ all the recent music sent to Peel from record labels
+ input from Production team who are enthusiastic music listeners
+ plus new music coming in all the time from independent labels

but we need a show like his that'll still play all those bands that don't belong anywhere else. spent two hours this morning doing a track listing for his show from march 24th and it was full of stunning little records that i've never heard anywhere else. and every show was like this (apart from 26th august!)

dude if its anyuthing like the blue room, then i rpesume it will be a fucking abomination. when i hear his stupid vacous "crazy" chatter over shitty downtempo rubbish he plays then i just want to throttle him. some dude put it on at work every morning...FFS! he played a norah jones remix every fucking day
i fucking hate him
every minute he goes on about how all the tunes are so eclectic and weird, "ooh i played some squarepusher, that was noisy!" in his inoffensive dulcet tones
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrghhhhh this is a dark dark day for radio 1. seriously, if you havent heard him on the radio before, you REALLY dont know how depressing this news is.

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I'd agree with Matt DC in that he should be given a chance., The blue room strike me as a very function driven programme, when he's on late night I'd imagine he'd stretch out a bit.

The one time I heard the blue room he played a lovely tweepop version of 'Sweet child of mine', if he digs taht out again I'll be happy for a week or two.

PR Week
http://www.prweek.com/thisweek/index.cfm?ID=226943&site=1

Richard Cann on the legacy of John Peel, who refused to let agents 'plug' new acts at him.

shows made up of

+ listener input
+ all the recent music sent to Peel from record labels
+ input from Production team who are enthusiastic music listeners
+ plus new music coming in all the time from independent labels

-- DJ Martian (altmartinu...) (webmail), November 8th, 2004. (link)

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without the aid of pluggers, right?
-- mark grout (mark.grou...) (webmail), November 8th, 2004. (link)

Also, John Kennedy for permanent Peel slot kthxbye.

PR creates awareness, a good DJ should be in a position to evaluate the information/ music - however there is always the scope for bias towards a label/ artist/ pr agent etc

Many independent labels use plugger/ promotions companies to create awareness for their artists.

They had to keep the diverse/ experimental/ freeplay slot going not to disrespect the legacy of Peel and risk having a public/ media backlash.

Who else could they turn to?

Mary Ann Hobbs recently cut back her radio 1 slots [no longer does rock show] to concentrate on other media interests.
Lammo is too tied up with trad songs rock and has been shunted partly over to 6 Music.

Therefore step forward RDB who already had agreed to be a guest presenter for John Peel prior to his vaction.

Now he's gone forever and the whole ethos behind his show will disappear from the schedules. It's demographics and niche-marketing all the way from here, I fear.

ditch the whole idea of filling the show, and put wes and kash ex-TOTP in a joint show in that time slot. this is what the controller wants to do, why not just destroy radio 1 now? it serves no useful purpose now.

John Kennedy - biography
http://www.xfm.co.uk/article.asp?id=5192

Only two Radio 1 DJs ever with assumed names that have 'outlaw' associations.

John Peel.
Rob Da Bank.

It seems to continue the flow...

had a look at his show details the other day after his name came up for the second time and, well, i don't know whether it was because i was reading the xfm website but his show looked very white-bread indie. like the last thing of lamacq's i had the misfortune to hear.

radio 1, *BBC* radio 1, is exactly the place where the small bands should get a chance. commercial radio, well, the clue is in the name.

now playing a fantastic track roxxy from Brooks from this album:
BROOKS - Red Tape
http://www.juno.co.uk/IP/IF157679-02.htm

posted largely because of the picture which must've been taken earlier this year. (get Gedge in to do the FF, he'd be great)

in two minds about RDB as he keeps being enthusiastic about things he's not familiar with but that he's found in peel's box and that peel had marked for playing (enthusiasm is good). unfortunately one of these things was the ramones. he's meant to be taking over from peel and isn't familiar with the ramones?

When Peel started, there was only about ten yearse of pop music he was probably expected to be familiar with. To expect his replacement to now know 50 years or whatever is wrong, I think.

Not that I really think of Rob Da Bank as his replacement.

The BBC seems to have no problem employing people like Gambaccini, Radcliffe and Maconie, who do know their stuff, on Radio 2, so is Radio 1 supposed to be for stupid people only then?

Also, John Peel was 16 years old when rock 'n' roll happened, so why should he not be familiar with pre-rock 'n' roll music - as indeed he was, as you would have known had you bothered to pay any attention to anything he actually said or played.

Calm down, Marcello. I know perfectly well he played pre rock n roll records. That was part of my point. I just meant that, say, delta blues records were probably quite hard to get hold of in the Wirral, so his love of it came later on.

RDB doesn't have that excuse, no, but I'm just saying that to follow Peel, one shouldn't necessarily have to start out at the point he had reached at the age of 65.

I mean, wtf?

Remind yourself where the Wirral is, geographically, and then work out the answer to your question for yourself.

there were a couple of other things on the same compilation ('England's Dreaming') that he read out that made me wonder, well, i guess it comes down to how old he is: "for the uninitiated, like myself, it opens a whole new musical box of tricks really... iggy, buzzcocks, cabaret voltaire, siouxie sioux". otoh, he did seem quite clued up on the pre-history of trance...

(and peel was a hard act to follow, definitely. caught a bit of last year's christmas show this morning (it's still on the tivo), specifically the bit where he was unwrapping christmas presents from laura cantrell. some old, old rock and roll thing (jerry lee lewis? that ilk anyway) "oh, i have a copy of this already but the cover's worn in this corner". that's quite a memory.)

(Mind you look at that Playboy thing where musicians had to vote for their top ten songs of the millennium, and Richard Thompson took them at their word but his list was never published, presumably because the editors thought "hahah loony old folkie" and when they said "millennium" they really meant "things from 1963-now")

good god YES

Funnily enough, even when growing up I gravitated to music because of its quality as opposed to the recording date on the label. I suppose that makes me abnormal. I remember a History double period one Wednesday morning at school, after the exams and not long before the summer break (i.e. we were all idling about), and our History teacher came in with a copy of Songs Of Love And Hate (this was 1978) telling us that this was great music and we should all listen to it. About ten seconds into "Avalanche" the class erupted in hysterical laughter. "Sir he can't sing!" "Sir this is music to slash your wrists by!" etc. Cohen was about as unfashionable as you could get in 1978. But I kept on listening and asked Mr ********* about it/LC afterwards. He was surprised that I was interested. Something in that voice got to me.

Can we get Desmond Carrington to do Peel's show instead?

Does anyone know what that fantastic birdsong/whistling track which led into some excellent 1930's crooning was? It was after a sequence that went : Ramones, Loudon Wainwright III, Mercury Rev, I think.

Heck, even our Alice (four) knows who the Ramones are...

BBC Radio 1 has today confirmed that the late John Peel's week night show will be succeeded by OneMusic, three shows hosted by three DJs, dedicated to championing a diverse, unpredictable and non-commercial mix of new music.

It is widely accepted that John Peel can never be replaced. The challenge for the new show therefore is to keep his legacy alive.

OneMusic will do this through its support for new artists both signed and unsigned with an emphasis on UK talent.

It will seek out those making music for music's sake rather than for commercial success.

Above all it will provide support to emerging genres of music and styles that have not yet and may never reach the mainstream.

OneMusic already exists within Radio 1 as a website. It gives people advice and inspiration on all aspects of the music industry from how to record a demo to what to look out for when signing a record contract.

The OneMusic radio shows will focus on seeking out and playing the most innovative and unusual music that is being made today.

The new shows (11.00pm-1.00am) will be hosted by the following DJs:

Tuesdays - Huw Stephens
Wednesdays - Ras Kwame
Thursday - Rob Da Bank

They have been chosen for their depth of knowledge across a variety of musical genres.

Along with the production team, they will pool their expertise to ensure the most interesting music gets exposure three nights a week.

Andy Parfitt, Controller of Radio 1, said of the plans: "As a DJ, John Peel was unique. Supporting new music and seeking out the unusual was at the heart of what John was about.

"We have spent a long time debating how best to continue John's work and believe that by having a series of DJs hosting a selection of shows under the OneMusic title, we will ensure that his legacy lives on."

Huw Stephens added: "I grew up listening to John so it is a massive honour to be able to carry on the work that he did championing new music for so many years.

"No-one will be able to fill John's shoes but we can at least make sure his inspiration keeps us hunting out the next musical gem."

OneMusic will begin 1 February 2005.

Notes to Editors

Huw Stephens

Huw is currently one half of the Radio 1 Thursday night show Bethan and Huw in Wales.

Their show looks at the most exiting new music around with particular emphasis on up-and-coming acts breaking through in Wales.

Huw has a proven track record of finding some of the hottest talent to emerge in recent years. His discoveries include Goldie Lookin Chain and Funeral For A Friend.

Ras Kwame

Ras is the host of 100% Homegrown on Radio 1's digital sister station 1Xtra.

His show is dedicated to showcasing the best of UK black music.

As well as playing the tracks, the show also broadcasts live sessions giving many artists their first chance to perform live for a national audience.

Artists championed in recent months include Lethal B, Kano and Lady Sovereign.

Rob Da Bank

Rob has been hosting The John Peel Show since John passed away. In addition he is one of the hosts of The Blue Room, an early morning weekend show that plays an eclectic mix of electronic and dance, old and new.

Rob has received great support from the John Peel audience in recent times and has a great understanding of the essence of the show and what its audience expects from it.

The three DJs will continue to host their current shows.

OneMusic

OneMusic is a brand that already exists as part of Radio 1.

Primarily it is a website that provides in-depth information on all aspects of the music industry for those wanting to get a foot in the door from the experts already working there.

In addition it gives feedback on new music sent in by aspiring artists across the country.

Beggars Banquet A&R man Roger Trust and Skint Records founder Damian Harris are just two of the industry experts who have contributed to the site sharing their experiences as well as giving tips on how to get on in the industry.