Obernkirchen Children's Choir Peel’s first-ever gig was seeing Obernkirchen Children's Choir at Liverpool Stadium in 1954, taken by his mother “with a great show of reluctance.” Founded in 1949 for war orphans, the German youth choir enjoyed a major UK hit with ‘The Happy Wanderer’ after a BBC broadcast … (read more)
Transmitters Transmitters were a post-punk band active intermittently between 1978 and 1989 who recorded two Peel sessions. They were notable for containing members of future groups: Sam Dodson and Dave Muddyman (Loop Guru), and Tim Whelan and Hammi Lee (Transglobal Underground) … (read more)
Transglobal Underground Transglobal Underground are a London-based music collective specializing in a fusion of western, Asian and African music styles whose first four albums featured Natacha Atlas as lead singer. TGU gained two lower-rung Festive Fifty entries and recorded two Peel sessions ... (read more)
John Peel is interviewed (between 42.44 and 45.22) on a 1996 German TV documentary on the Punk movement in East Berlin in the 1980s.
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Record Collection: Details of the first 100 LPs of each letter of John Peel's record collection were released over 26 weeks at The Space website in 2012. The site's pilot run came to an end in October 2012. All material is now available at John Peel Archive, with videos at YouTube. Latest:
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April 19
19 April 1973: Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Clifford T Ward, John Dummer's Ooblee Dooblee Band
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