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Drum And Bass
Drum And Bass is a style of electronic dance music played at speeds of 150-180 bpm. JP's odyssey through the various genres of dance, from funk to hip hop and house had always originated in the States, but drum and bass was a UK phenomenon on which he avidly seized ... (read more)

Secret Hairdresser
The Secret Hairdresser was a band from Bury St Edmunds who formed in 1999. Always keen to champion local bands, Peel played tracks from their demo CD "Top Ten Conditioning Tips" at the end of 2003 and was impressed with what he heard ... (read more)

Christians In Search Of Filth
"Ever since I first saw the name on a poster, Christians In Search Of Filth, I've been curious to know what they sounded like, and I discovered a demo tape of theirs about a month or six weeks ago, and we got them in to record a session" ... (read more)

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Old Grey Whistle Test feature on a Peel session by Tools You Can Trust, 1985.

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(April 2015): Don Letts Record Box

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-|'''Mieskuoro Huutajat'''<br />Mieskuoro Huutajat (Men's Choir Shouters) is a shouting choir from Oulu, Finland. They were established in 1987 and originally comprised 20 shouting men, since expanded to 30. Peel probably heard the group through his work for Finland's Rockradio ... [[Mieskuoro Huutajat|(read more)]]
+|'''Secret Hairdresser'''<br />The Secret Hairdresser was a band from Bury St Edmunds who formed in 1999. Always keen to champion local bands, Peel played tracks from their demo CD "Top Ten Conditioning Tips" at the end of 2003 and was impressed with what he heard ... [[Secret Hairdresser|(read more)]]
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-|'''David McCallum'''<br />"You'll find this extraordinarily hard to believe … I used to look a bit like him. So much so that when I lived in Oklahoma City, I used to rather work at looking like him and was occasionally stopped in the street by young girls who'd say, 'Are you that Ilya Kuryakin off the television?' ..." [[David McCallum|(read more)]]
+|'''Christians In Search Of Filth'''<br />"Ever since I first saw the name on a poster, Christians In Search Of Filth, I've been curious to know what they sounded like, and I discovered a demo tape of theirs about a month or six weeks ago, and we got them in to record a session" ... [[Christians In Search Of Filth|(read more)]]
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 |[[Record Collection]]: Details of the first 100 LPs of each letter of John Peel's record collection were released at [http://thespace.org/ The Space] website in 2012. All material is now available at [http://www.johnpeelarchive.com/ John Peel Archive] and [http://www.youtube.com/user/johnpeelarchive YouTube]. Since Sept. 2014, a new [http://www.johnpeelarchive.com/boxes.html Record Boxes] series features selections from the collection by key music figures. Latest:<br>
-* (Dec 2014): [http://johnpeelarchive.com/mala/ Mala Record Box]
+* (April 2015): [http://johnpeelarchive.com/don-letts/ Don Letts Record Box]
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