That's crazy talk. I personally don't find the Tings Tings as offensive as others (ask twentynine about them), but that's a pretty brave statement made by the Sun.
They quoted some old git
who introduced them as 'This is a band that John Pell would be proud to introduce 'The Ting Tings' then half of DiS died.
they didn't make it
the guy compering at glastonbury did.
Maybe he would
He liked a good pop tune as well as everything else. Who can really say?
It's doubtful, admittedly.
I doubt he'd have a problem with them.
But he wouldn't play them, because they don't need his support. Peel would basically champion bands until they reached a certain level of success and then move on to something else.
eg, he was very instrumental in the early careers of acts such as disparate as Siouxsie and the Banshees and Def Leppard, but he certainly didn't feel duty bound to play them once they'd gone mainstream.
He played the White Stripes consistently
That's not the point anyway - famously he was a fan of I Should Be So Lucky, and he had Kelis in for a session when she was taking off.
That's the thing
i'm more annoyed that people think they can second guess what he'd like now. For someone who liked Sheena Easton as much as Bogshed it's ridiculous to think people can plot some sort of graph from then to now.
I'd like to think he wouldn't.
however i guess the peel taste-buds did on occasion throw up an anomaly. (I'm thinking Kelis, Who Let The Dogs Out and Bis)
bless 'em
after reading their bio on wikipedia and watching whatshername desperately trying to impress in 2001 fashion...
become tabloid shorthand for 'indie'. I think that a lot of writers who write about "the late, great John Peel" assume that his show was pretty much like Jo Whiley's show, but, like, for old people, yeah?
wat?
that's a piss take right?
This was what the compere (Gandalf) said
in the brief highlights I saw of it.
What do the Sun know about anything?
That's crazy talk. I personally don't find the Tings Tings as offensive as others (ask twentynine about them), but that's a pretty brave statement made by the Sun.
They quoted some old git
who introduced them as 'This is a band that John Pell would be proud to introduce 'The Ting Tings' then half of DiS died.
they didn't make it
the guy compering at glastonbury did.
Maybe he would
He liked a good pop tune as well as everything else. Who can really say?
It's doubtful, admittedly.
I doubt he'd have a problem with them.
But he wouldn't play them, because they don't need his support. Peel would basically champion bands until they reached a certain level of success and then move on to something else.
eg, he was very instrumental in the early careers of acts such as disparate as Siouxsie and the Banshees and Def Leppard, but he certainly didn't feel duty bound to play them once they'd gone mainstream.
He played the White Stripes consistently
That's not the point anyway - famously he was a fan of I Should Be So Lucky, and he had Kelis in for a session when she was taking off.
That's the thing
i'm more annoyed that people think they can second guess what he'd like now. For someone who liked Sheena Easton as much as Bogshed it's ridiculous to think people can plot some sort of graph from then to now.
I'd like to think he wouldn't.
however i guess the peel taste-buds did on occasion throw up an anomaly. (I'm thinking Kelis, Who Let The Dogs Out and Bis)
bless 'em
after reading their bio on wikipedia and watching whatshername desperately trying to impress in 2001 fashion...
my heart goes out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ting_Tings
John Peel has
become tabloid shorthand for 'indie'. I think that a lot of writers who write about "the late, great John Peel" assume that his show was pretty much like Jo Whiley's show, but, like, for old people, yeah?
Joe - www.anewbandaday.com
^ and should be
burned at the stake accordingly
i'm pretty sure
most people on both sides of the argument rarely listened to him.
Irk The Purists
John Peel would have loved them being introduced like that