User talk:So.it.goes.2512

Hi Steve,

Thanks for opening up your User page. Hope you don't mind me adding in the User Talk on as well, otherwise known as the User page Discussion section. High tech, huh?

Many thanks also for pushing on with the F50s. It's much appreciated (and needed!). I know just sorting out lists like this is not so immediately exciting, but think it can be quite restful relaxation from more taxing stuff, with a Peel show on in the background to keep the spirits up.

On a related subject, think what I need to do is press ahead and type up Ken's 1976 date sheets (as I did the other day for 1977). Also, finish up the 1985 dates with proper links and stuff). Once we get the basics of the F50 done, we can have more fun with it and flesh the whole thing out in terms of links, writeups, checking out just what the hell is in torrents 1 & 2, etc, etc.

Incidentally, do you have a copy of Mark Whitby's book on the subject? A fine work, indeed. I got a copy direct from him (via the Newsgroup) a while back. It doesn't seem to be available from Amazon UK right now, but you could probably pick it up from one of the secondary sellers on their page (one for your Christmas present requests list?). Maybe we need a Books page on here at some point (uh, let's not think about that right now). I'm still waiting for the Olivetti Chronicles from Amazon Japan, but think they put it on a slow boat or something.

Cheers.

Steve W 04:25, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

The Goodies
Thanks for the comments, the Youtube video is playing fine for me on the page. But here's a direct link if you still can't get it to work. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cree8WhtuJk Jimbo100 03:56, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Cheers Jimbo! Great stuff. [SIG]

moment of clarity on a Friday night
OK, got the basics of this clips business sorted out. Simple really. Need to work on the look of the player a bit, though. See what you think: Spoken Clips. How to do thing is at the bottom of the page.

Cheers,

Steve W 15:52, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Steve! Looks easy...now it's just finding the time to do it!!

so.it.goes.2512 16:12, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

time
Yeah, time is the problem. This seems to be the season when your double blog efforts go into overdrive as well, but at least there's scope for potential Wiki overlap with TK (especially the current most excellent F50 series with Adam).

Steve W 03:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

more clarity on a friday night
Hi Steve,

Just worked out how to do RSS feeds. Seems really easy when you know how (like everything). Hope you don't mind me adding one to the Teenage Kicks (blog) page.

Think I'll try and add them for all the blog links. Getting sidetracked again...

Cheers,

Steve W 17:30, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Steve: I don't know what an RSS feed is, but it looks impressive.

so.it.goes.2512 18:32, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease
Great work on that page. I transcribed John's closing words for 31 July 2001 when I did the track listing, but didn't paste them into the page. Here they are:

"I always expected that John Walters, despite his illness, would out-live me because he was absolutely determined to be at my funeral in order to deliver the eulogy which would have been enormously long but very, very funny and I suspect would have reflected a great deal of credit on him and not nearly so much on me. But one of the things he was determined to do was to play at some stage of the ceremony Roy Harper's record "When an old cricketer leaves the crease". I'm sorry you didn't have the much longer innings you deserved old pal."

It brings a lump to your throat, hearing that.

Incidentally, I'm sure that Rob da Bank played the song in one of the shows he did, either when he was sitting in when JP was supposed to be back from Peru, or in a later tribute show.

Thanks for that, Doc, I have included those final words in the piece. If you can come up with a definite show date for the Rob Da Bank play (and I have a sneaking suspicion you are correct), please let me know. [SIG]

Hi Steve, Doc. Just to add something to this -- we have the technology! -- through the awesome power of a browser search on the viewing window of Phil's mighty database on the 2004 page, found out that the song led off the 11/11/04 show (presumably with Rob Da Bank at the helm). The (BBC, I guess) listings carry on through to the end of the year.

Steve W 15:12, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

hi steve
Fancy having a go at a few of the backlog of 400 Box shows if you fancy a change from all the F50s and Christmas shows? (Many thanks for all the ones so far, incidentally!)

Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the numbers (already!) and I've got to work tomorrow.

I've fairly much got Bill's latest bunch listed in terms of basic pages, links, etc -- but tracklistings still missing on many of them, although the inset cards were a help (these need checking and expanding at some point, though).

Cheers,

Steve W 15:09, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Yo Steve

I haven't had time today because I've spent all day on another show from the 500 Box, but I will take your suggestion to heart. Thank you for the compliment on the work I put in over Christmas: the Wiki's certainly a good time filler when you've nowt to do! Take care, buddy.

User:So.it.goes.2512 13:02, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Steve, Thanks for the encouraging message. Still messing around with it a bit. At work now so can't really do anything. Cheers, Steve W

Banshees
Great stuff on the Siouxsie & The Banshees page, Steve! Reckon that's exactly the kind of thing we want on the Artist pages.

Cheers,

Steve W 06:14, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

great minds...
Hi Steve,

Many thanks for your message here. Weird, just this moment send you an email.

Better get on with some work myself.

Cheers,

Steve W 06:15, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

1976 F50
No worries, Steve. The F50's your baby. It was just an idle thought.

Cheers,

Steve W 16:56, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, Steve: now I feel really mean and nasty!! ;-)) Seriously, I'm planning to get on with the 1984 FF as soon as, but my wife is starting to resent my Peeling time, so I'll have to fit it in as and when. Brilliant work on the Beefheart by the way.

so.it.goes.2512 11:05, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Cheers, Steve. Just had some free time at work earlier so thought I'd sort out a couple of things. Was thinking earlier that there are something things we really need to have up (eg, session details of the Captain).

Can't really blame your wife for her priorities. No problem with me if you just do what you can when you can. Probably ther best approach anyway.

On the F50 front, and related to earlier point, was thinking that I'd really like to bang out the main pages for the F50s we don't have up yet. This would just be the main pages, with lists of the tracks (in reverse order!), together with show dates, if these are to hand. If possible, you could come along later and sort out the show pages and other stuff to polish them up. Would that be OK?

Steve W 11:41, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

new front page thing?
Hi Steve, What do you reckon on adding a new "On this day" section on the front page, as I've been messing around with on my "Test Table" page? (It's at the top.) Would like to have a bit more of an auto-adjusting front page (among other things!). If you're good with it, will bang it out pronto -- January 23 just around the corner (for Scottish celebrations). Cheers, Steve

Can't wait to see it!!! Brilliant idea. Go for it. Mr. Wizard Of The Keyboard!

so.it.goes.2512 15:54, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

OK, done it. Actually, maybe it would be better top left rather than second right. What do you think? Next problem is a show for tomorrow (January 21). The only one we seem to have is an upcoming 400 Box show. Maybe could add a couple of details (session etc) to whet the appetite.

Incidentally, just so you know, this is going to entail a whole new calendar (no year, month first). I'm thinking initially just have shows we have writeups on (or at least files). Can always be expanded later -- also to include landmarks in the life of the great man, etc.

Steve W 16:14, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

PS OK, done the one for tomorrow. Also, did you ever spot my inconveniently located comment from the other day on the "Old Cricketer" thread above?

Steve W 16:37, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

On This Day
Hi Steve,

Thanks for the offer on the OTD pages. Here's my completely unscientific method at the moment:

Start typing the following in the search imput box on the left of the page -- "Template:January" (this is only for this month obviously).

Under the box should come up a list of the ones done so far. Make a note of the next day we don't have.

Now imput that date in the same search box in our usual order -- ie DD-Month -- but without a year. Hopefully a show or two will come up. Check out the pages, add any missing details you can, note who the session artist or artists are.

Now create a new page to imput the date link and session details. This page should be called "Template:Month Day" (with appropriate month and day details, obviously -- eg, January 23).

Note this is the reverse order to our usual date style (and without any year). Also, for the automatic front page updates to work in the slightly longer term, we need to have single digit dates for numbers under 10 -- ie, 7 rather than 07.

At the top of the new page, just stick in the info, then save the page. You should be able to check out the ones I've done so far if you look for them.

Please feel free to do as many as you want. I'll try and sort out some kind of page to show clearly which ones we've done and which ones we haven't (ie, blue and red pages) in an organized way.

Thinking to start this off with shows we have at the moment. Later we can expand it to things from Peel's life (birthday and dates of mariages, death, etc are obvious places to start), every show ever, etc.

For dates where we don't have a show at the moment, either sort out a new page with a show from one of the later torrents (ie, 21st century), one with tracklistings available from Lorcan or wherever, or look in Ken's book for a show on that day.

Steve W 07:40, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

just to make sure
Hi Steve, Many thanks for cracking on with the OTS date template pages. Might have been a bit unclear before -- the page names need to be on the pattern Month Day (eg, January 23) -- opposite to our usual style -- otherwise they won't be picked up for the front page. Cheers, Steve W 17:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry Steve, a bit tired, have corrected mistakes.

so.it.goes.2512 17:35, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Steve, No problem, many thanks for working on these and everything else. I'm all tied up with work this week. Horror story. Cheers, Steve W 17:54, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

23 August 2001
Thanks for sorting out my blunder with the page name ... I'll try to remember next time !

Thanks for all the effort you're putting into the Wiki, it is very much appreciated (by me at least). You seem to be on-line all the time, don't you ever work, eat, sleep etc. ????

Hiya, you're more than welcome. Because I live in South Korea, I'm nine hours ahead of you in time, so it probably looks like I'm online all the time: just wish I could do more, but I have a new job which is keeping me very busy...I also added the page to the 'One For Ken' category, since you noted a missing session track. Excellent work on your part!

so.it.goes.2512 05:27, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

You're only one hour ahead of me in time, Steve ... I live in Hong Kong !

late night
Hi Steve,

Thanks for the listing on the latest mixtape from Mike. Haven't downloaded it yet, but pretty exhausted after a mad day of non-stop work and perhaps I should go to bed soon.

Have put up a forum link on Colin's Artist page idea as per your suggestion on the "mailing list". Sounds great if people are interested in doing it. Maybe your buddy who has never heard his own session has a few stories.

Cheers,

Steve W 18:45, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

18 May 1981
Steve

Do we have a convention on tracklistings or are these just your personal preferences? I noticed you corrected some errors on my part on the above show (thanks - shouldn't listen to 2 shows at once both playing Joy Division tracks) but I was surprised that a lot of the formats were changed e.g. removal of "the" in band names, singles changed to 7", hyphens after LP/before LP name, label in brackets etc.

Would be nice to send me a message asking for reformatting (if we do indeed have an agreed convention) rather than just overwriting what I had done a few hours earlier. That's what Steve W has always done and I think it's only polite to do so.

Pash

Edits
Steve

I may have sounded more slighted than I am! Take the point on band names but still not sure changing single to 7" etc is worth doing - I always specify if something is an EP or 12" if I know. Certainly don't want things changed back but maybe it would be worth specifying a tracklisting template for others to refer to e.g. in the help wanted section. Also a referral page for unknown details would appeal to the completist nature of many users who (if they are like me and a number of others) take some pleasure in deciphering the name of a German single JP doesn't attempt to announce. Setting those kind of things up would, I respectfully suggest, be better use of time than some of the changes you made (I'd do them myself if I knew how to!). We are all in it together I agree and the key to not frustrating contributors is clarity and a certain level of standardisation. Don't want to sound negative though, the Peel Wikia is a great achievement and has clearly taken a huge investment of time by peeps like you and Steve W, so thanks.

Cheers

Pash

Thanks very much for the input Pash! I'm with you and Steve all the way on this one.

so.it.goes.2512 16:28, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi folks
Hi gents,

Hope you don't mind me joining the discussion.

Think the above suggestion by Pash for some kind of style guide would be good, but I've always kind of left it for another day on the basis that there was plenty of more enjoyable stuff to be getting on with. Thus, it's probably my fault that this has come up.

I used to have examples on the template page for new tracklistings, but it seemed like these were fairly much ignored and people came up with their own variations. Didn't seem like a big deal to me as long as the basic information is there with the same basic layout.

Problem with a fixed style is deciding what it should be, then making sure everyone sticks to it -- which seems to me probably more hassle than it's worth. And then there's all the pages that have already been done.

Perhaps I could have a ponder about this. Any suggestions are welcome of course (on this or anything else). Perhaps a few pointers on basic stuff would be worthwhile. Don't want to frighten off any newcomers, though.

Sorry for any confusion. Good to know what the problems are and to try and sort them out. Think the reason I eventually got the User pages together was because Pash couldn't find anyone to ask about something.

We're only making this stuff up as we go along, so it's good to know what works and what doesn't. Hopefully, things are getting better as time goes on.

Anyway, many thanks to both of you for all your tracklistings and other contributions in these parts so far. Great to have you both here.

Cheers,

Steve W 12:22, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

PS. Unknown
Good suggestion by Pash! I'll set up a category and then hunt down example pages to add to it. Had a forum thread for similiar, but it kind of fell apart. Front page link would be good.

Steve W 12:50, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

PPS. OK, we now have an Unknown category! Will put up a front page link.

Steve W 15:49, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Good job as usual, Steve! Must have taken you ages to hunt those down.

so.it.goes.2512 16:26, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Steve, Thanks for kind words. Nope, just did a search on "Unknown" and discounted the ones that came up "Unknown Pleasures". There's actually tons more around -- think I usually just put question marks (which don't come up) -- so just add the category if you come across such pages. Time for bed I think, having been up until 7am watching Liverpool last night (if that still counts as night). Cheers, Steve W 17:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Steve/Steve - just looked at the Unknown Page - quick work! However found it difficult to find where the edits were required. So an idea - I went throught the first listed show with Unknowns and added bold to the relevant section so the gaps jump out at you more. Do you think this works OK? If so we could work through the shows and call all gaps unknowns? At the moment the only auto find is where someone has put unknown or maybe a question mark. Would take a while but I'm happy to do some of this. Perhaps when we have completed this first step a message to the user group from you guys challenging the group members to solve the mysteries might be in order (would be too early now without cataloguing the unknowns more fully). Is this madness or right up our obsessive/compulsive street?

Cheers guys

Pash

Bloody superb idea. A lot of work involved, it's true, but worth it for a more complete record. I will start doing this for all the track listings I do from now on. so.it.goes.2512 15:20, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi guys - I see there has been a lot of work on unknowns already - top stuff. Even managed to crack a few myself. Are you going through shows in any particular order? I have looked at all the shows from 1967 to 1977 so far but obviously things hot up in terms of volume from 1979 onwards. Do you want to take a year each and keep each other updated on who is doing what?

Regards Pash 90.199.248.142 17:48, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

late night
Hi Steve,

How's it going? Think I need to crash after far too many hours in front of a computer today.

Just wondered what you thought of my experiment with mega outside links for albums etc. Like anything else, this started innocently, doing one of the 1968 shows -- mostly sessions -- where it was just a matter of looking up a few on Wikipedia. Interesting reading and good to see the strange artwork of olden times. Think it might be going a bit far doing everything for al shows, but it's kind of cool in a way. Was thinking that if we're looking this stuff up anyway...

But might look a bit daunting to new folks, and seems like more work somehow. Maybe just a matter of doing stuff we feel like. I was thinking the 60s ones would be good to start, because lots if the Perfumed Garden shows, etc, feature things that are kind of classic, but kind of relatively little known to later generations (including me).

Anyway...

Steve W 18:36, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey bro

I was going to congratulate you on doing this: did you notice I've been doing it for a while, but not on your mega scale? I mainly use it for linking to noteworthy releases or compilations (as you say, we're looking it up anyway, and it only takes a few seconds to copy and paste a link), but yeah, your idea is "groovy, man"! Run with it.

Laters

so.it.goes.2512 03:10, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Steve,

Yeah, I did a few odd ones along the way for interesting releases. Quite cool if the urge strikes. Also, something I can do during free time at work when I have no access to music (or at least, can't just plug myself into an mp3 player sitting at the computer).

Seems like spring has sprung over here and cherry blossoms due soon.

Steve W 03:36, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

American TV Cops
Hi Steve,

Just reading the story. Great stuff! Thanks for this!

Steve W 03:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

foreign shows
Morning Steve!

Saw you were sorting out one of the Radio Eins shows on torrent comp 17. On the Planet Peel page I put the link for Radio Eins tracklistings. Thinking it might be a good start to at least open up all the pages and stick the linked page at the top of the tracklisting. Later on we can sort out exactly what the files cover and have full on embelished listings, but could be good to at least get the pages up.

Another "cheap" set of stuff we could do is the Finnish show listings, as the original torrents came with tracklistings attached (I think I have most of them). For these it would be just a matter of opening up the pages and pasting them in. Think they're now all up on Gary's server as well -- as discussed the other day.

Always good to start up a new front or two... Wish there was more time in every day.

Thanks as ever for continuing F50s and Mike's Best of Peel comps.

Cheers,

Steve

Yo, gat

I did that one because the track listing was already done but totally unformatted and with no template: but absolutely, the Radio Eins shows had track listings too, so something else it wouldn't take too much effort to action. I visited their homepage yesterday, and they had an interview with Peel for download...well, most of it's in German, but I'll mp3 it and add it to the Radio Eins page, OK? Cheers bro

so.it.goes.2512 00:31, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

11 July 1990
Hi mate.

I've had this mp3 for a while, so thought I'd stick up the track listing. Some of tracks are on volume 9 of the ongoing "best of" compilations too. I'm pretty sure I got this from Jon Horne's tape sharing page a couple of years ago. The page seems to be down / removed at the moment, so I can't double check. So the status may have to be altered to "currently unavailable". Dr Mango 19:03, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Hey Doc

Thanks for the heads up on this: I've checked and sadly you appear to be right. I've made the relevant adjustments to the page that you suggested. Seems like we might need to re-up Jon's stuff on another server, because there was a lot of good material on there (if he doesn't mind, of course).

so.it.goes.2512 01:35, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi gents,

Trying to get in touch with Jon to find out what the situation is. If the site is down permanently, maybe we can sort out some other arrangement.

Cheers,

Steve W 06:52, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Email bounced back from the old address. Maybe a message to the mailing list would do the trick.

Steve W 07:12, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Regarding re-ups, many of the shares on his page from 1979 / 80 made it onto the DVD torrent series (I noticed).

Dr Mango 12:56, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

You're right of course, Doc. Was thinking it might be good to list them all up on the Peel Tapes page we have here and on the date pages as well maybe, so credit where credit is due. (Have always been thinking to do a tracklisting of Jon's fave 1984 LFC European Cup victory show -- as I'm a hardcore Scouse LFC fan and all -- at some point. Still haven't got round to my own favourite show yet, though -- the White Stripes at Peel Acres. One day!).

Half Man Half Biscuit
Hello! Now then, Half Man Half Biscuit. I think it's about time we had a couple of pages on the Wiki for them. A band so important to Peel surely needs the deluxe multi-page treatment that the Fall got, ie separate pages for an overview, F50 entries, sessions and other tracks played. If you set the templates up, I'll get stuck in and start putting in the detail.

Dr Mango 19:44, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Doc. Indeed, you have a point, and I will get on it as soon as I can. Thanks for the suggestion!

so.it.goes.2512 02:34, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

tracklistings
Hi

is it possible to move the '12 June 2003 (Radio Eins)' page to put in the bbc show tracklistings? Also the end of january 2003 on torrent 13 seems to have an extra show? Any idea about this as i dont have all the shows to check. Cheers. --Thesummerproject 19:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Brambles
Hi Steve.

Can you rename / move the "Peel is Brambles" file for 09 April 1993? At the moment it's called "09 April 1993 (John Peel Is Jakki Brambles)", which isn't consistent with the others. :-)

Dr Mango

Doh! Of course... that would be why the Friday lunchtime show had a different name. I did wonder...

Dr Mango 13:15, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

09 April 1981
Re: 9 April 1981 show. It's a bit large this one. These shows were encrypted at 320 kbps so the file is something like 250 MB in size. It's not the best quality either, so doesn't really warrant that. I could have a got at tweaking the sound a bit, convert it to 128 kbps and then upload that as a compromise?

Dr Mango 19:50, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

lost
Hi Steve, For some reason, I can never get the reference function working properly. Want to include one on the just-made Calexico page, but can't seem to get it showing on the actual page (you can see what I want to put if you open the editing window). Don't suppose you could sort it out and tell me where I'm going wrong... Cheers, Steve W 09:23, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

9 April 1981 (slight return)
Looks like someone beat me to it. *goes red in the face*

Dr Mango

Hi Doc, sounds like a cue for a song....;-) Don't be embarrassed, we all have stuff we mean to do but there just don't seem to be enough hours in the day (looks at final 500 Box tapes in shame). If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have been aware of this recording's existence in the first place!!! Cheers

so.it.goes.2512 03:04, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Jack Pleasants
Hi Steve, Was wondering about the Jack Pleasants plays. On the Peelenium page, there isn't an artist listed for "Twenty-One Today" and on the actual show Peel says something about the artist being unknown. But noticed there's a version of the song on the CD you linked - is this the same one that's played on the show? Cheers, Steve W 04:02, September 18, 2009 (UTC) PS Brilliant to do a Jack Pleasants page!

Hi Steve

Yes, I did my homework: a couple of days later, Peel gets a communication from someone who claims to be related to Jack, and confirms that he sang the song. Quite a guy, it seems!

All the best so.it.goes.2512 15:04, September 18, 2009 (UTC)

Hi Steve,

Thanks for getting back to me on that. Ah yeah, I remember the write in by the relative. Should have noted it on the date page og whenever it was (will do next time I hear it). Will update the Peelenium page anyway.

Cheers,

Steve W 15:25, September 18, 2009 (UTC)

PS Could add a mention of the letter from his relative on the artist page too. Now just to try and find this here letter.

PPS OK, found the Jack Pleasants identification on 15 June 1999 (just after the Peelenium is played). But don't think the listener is a relative. Think that may be another show (another artist?). Think that's also in one of the June shows, though.

PPPS OK, found the Peelenium artist relative easily enough, as I actually did make a brief note on that - on the show with Flossie & The Unicorns session. Then one thing led to another, including a new Flossie & The Unicorns page, and thoughts of Jethro Tull (re comments on flutes on 08 June 1999) ... The world of Peel is a wide and varied place.

one more for Peel On Record?
Yesterday saw mentioned that Dandelion Records band Tractor had a track called Ravenscroft's 13 Bar Boogie (I think). Apparently some kind of nod to Peel (not sure if he produced the record, but think he did give/lend them the cash to start their studio in Rochdale).

Might be one to check out, although haven't yet myself.

Cheers,

Steve W 02:49, September 19, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks again Steve! Page duly updated.

All the best

so.it.goes.2512 03:18, September 19, 2009 (UTC)

Typo
Hi Steve,

Thanks for sorting out the typo on the Gandalf's Garden heading. I've deleted the forwarding page as well as this isn't really needed - unless someone makes the same misspelling I did.

All kinds of interesting bits and pieces from the late 60s era and into the 70s. Hopefully the Gigography, Perfumed Garden shows and International Times pages give some rough idea. Much indebted to Colin for his help on these.

Will add the Magazines category to the Reference menu. Think what might be good at some stage is to have is a Bibliography section, so we can have a list of books as well (those by Peel himself, including ones he did the forewords for, as well as standard references such as Ken's, the Festive 50 book, etc).

Cheers,

Steve W 03:29, October 4, 2009 (UTC)

Peel's Pleasures
Hi. I've recently discovered 3 TDK C90 tapes I made of these broadcasts. I appear to have. 17th July 1982 broadcast - First 45 minutes. 7th August 1982 broadcast - Whole hour. 14th August 1982 broadcast - First 45 minutes. Unknown date broadcast - 25 minute section. The sound quality seems OK, would anybody like them and in what format? David L--David L 09:30, December 8, 2009 (UTC)

01 June 1991
Hi Steve,

Mailing group member bbrbr57 made mention of files being uploaded to a server in message number 11228. This server contains a number of shows I didn't have, which appear not to have been circulated. I wanted to transcribe 1 June 1991 as it's a date of special significance for me. However, I didn't think it appropriate to add a link to the server without first seeking the permission of bbrbr57 or the server owner. Not sure the best way to go about this.

Cheers,

Pad

Hi Steve

Just to let you know I am the same Kevin who recently uploaded 3 files to the group. I have just made a few corrections to the transcript of the punk prog from 10/12/06, based on my recording, though I have not reinstated every hesitation or stumble.

You will see that I have included a [?] in JP's closing remarks. The missing word sounds like "Wilson" to me, but this would not obviously make sense unless this was the name of Alan Freeman's producer.

Regards Kevin Kevin1956 10:42, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Kevin for your courtesy in alerting me to your edit! I couldn't get what Peel says either, but it could be a reference to Tony Wilson.

Best wishes Steve

TOTP
Hi Steve, hope Christmas and New Year treated you well.

I've recently come across a load of JP and Kid J TOTP show listings and want to stick them here.

I've done one...

http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/05_January_1984#Show

I'm guessing from the way JP worked that there won't be many, if any, occasions when he did a radio show on the same night as TOTP, so there shouldn't be any overlap.

Take a look at the page I did and tell me if I should proceed as though they were radio shows, or adopt a different format.

More TOTP
Will keep plugging away and will try to have every show JP presented documented withing the next few weeks. Any advice / input / changes welcome!

Adam

TOTP
All Adam's doing, as he had/has a bunch of TOTP tracklistings and all I did was whip up an index page. Love the show pages, though. Hope he's got a big load more to come. It's a whole side of Peel that he's really well known for and that had been fairly much neglected until now.

The Festive Fifty has been a true epic on your part and hearty congratulations on approaching the end of the ride. I'm sure there's all kinds of stuff you can be pressed into action for if you're looking for stuff to do.

One I'd really appreciate is if you or someone else could keep the Mailing List page up to date with new shares and stuff. I used to try and at least put new pages with links up (and even the odd tracklisting), but just lose track every time I start a little project and end up trying to do everything at the end of the month - it's madness.

But no worries if you don't fancy that. Anything in particular you'd like to have a go at?

Cheers,

Steve W 17:22, January 13, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Steve,

Nice idea for the In Memorium page! (Wondering if you have any suggestions where to link it on left menu - maybe "Reference" section somewhere. People?)

One that sprung to mind immediately was Malcolm Owen and the three Ruts sessions played on 22 July 1980.

Cheers,

Steve W 07:00, January 18, 2010 (UTC)

STOP I've just fixed that rogue page!
Just copied in a different day and fixed the listing, most of it anyway

Rogue
yeah I figured if a new poster hasn't come across how the wiki works then they would be unlikely to find the talk pages and I think the IPs of anonymous users may well change a lot!

Not sure what the funny embedded email thing is in the track listing, I'll go back to the original version and try to figure that one out.

Cheers

Stuart

TOTP done
Well, that's done and dusted, what can I do to keep myself out of trouble now!!!

well spotted
tx for deleting that page, I couldn't find out how to do that, guess you have to be an admin? There are quite a few show date pages without a tracklisting or link to a real file, in the forthcoming 400 box especially, but probably its best to not have a page until there's something worth putting into it.

Cheers and looking forward to further CB shows! Stuart

Hi Steve,

The other Steve recommended I contact you about 2 shows I'm looking for (27th/28th October 1995) as I was there and met JP (see my message on the other Steve's talk page). Is there any chance these might be in the 500 Box yet to be mp3'd? Check out my list at My John Peel Show/Session list as I'd love to trade to get these.

Kind Regards

RazorBladeAlley

Seconded
Yeah, with you on that. Steve W 06:40, April 1, 2010 (UTC)

front page tester
Hi Steve,

Just to check before I change the actual front page. What do you reckon - Test new front page?

Your blog search machine seems excellent, but not sure where to put it. Actually, could do with some kind of proper "Peel Web" guide page at some point, and would be fine for that.

Cheers,

Steve

Misdated show
Thanks Steve, that was one of the earlier shows I tracklisted, before I had my copy of Ken's second book!

Weatherman22 19:22, April 6, 2010 (UTC)

further to stuart's suggestions
Had a further mess around with the possible front page look. Results: Test new front page alt. Maybe further rebalancing needed, but I kind of like it. What do you think?

Cheers,

Steve W 04:55, April 7, 2010 (UTC)

snowman?
Hi Steve,

Many thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I like having the featured articles pulled up as suggested by Stuart and think the balance with Peel TV on the right is better.

Hard to resist messing around with this stuff, though. You may have seen my latest "Snowman" effort, perhaps slightly more radical, but kind of like it somehow. A atep too far? Maybe I should start a category for these, before I lose track of everything.

Cheers,

Steve W 16:51, April 7, 2010 (UTC)

friday
Hi Steve,

Many thanks for the latest Austrian show. Yeah, Geek Love's a bit of a classic. Whatever happened to those guys?

Got the assorted test front pages listed up at User blog:Steve W/Front page reshuffle, blogs added if you've got any more comments.

Cheers,

--Steve W 04:12, April 9, 2010 (UTC)

PS Answering my own question:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Bang_Machine

hi steve
Just about to do some work, despite the hour, but just to drop a line to say thanks for the Austrian show today (yesterday?), which I've just listened to twice. Most excellent. Good quote on the Strange Fruit releases and the new Fall single. Yeah, and I like a big of Digaredoo as well, even if I don't know how to spell it.

Front page dragging on as I try and work out how to avoid Google ads turning up in the middle of the layout if you're not logged in. Most annoying, but think I now have a crafty plan. Doc M likes the white and grey version. Me too, actually. Any preferences?

Better crack on with this work now, as it needs to be done by tomorrow...

Cheers,

Steve

Hi Steve
Just to let you know my crafty plan for getting rid of the ads in the middle of our new front page for non-logged in people didn't work. Scratching my head a bit really. Does seem to be another option, but it's a bit tricky. Will try tomorrow maybe.

Cheers,

Steve W 15:56, April 15, 2010 (UTC)

thanks
Hi Steve,

Just to say many thanks for the latest Nachtexpress and 500 Box show. Excellent Saturday morning listening. Never realized Hank Williams was always #1 in Liverpool. Back in the day, I guess.

On the front page front, think I've nailed the assorted problems, although not as easily as I'd hoped. Haven't checked it on all browsers yet, so shouldn't be too confident just yet. Hope it should be ready to roll for next month.

Cheers,

Steve W 03:12, April 17, 2010 (UTC)

John Peel's Music on BFBS
Hi Steve,

here in Germany, we had to rely on BFBS, and so I have recorded many "John Peel's Music On BFBS" over the years. Im am currently in the (slow) process of digitizing from VHS. Since I found only sparse mentioning of his BFBS shows here on this wiki... is anybody here interested in full mp3 recordings and tracklistings?

Ciao Carlos

errr...how can I put this, Carlos? Would a very big "YES PLEASE" be enough? Please get in touch as soon as possible on either here or direct to my email: so.it.goes.2512@gmail.com. Many thanks for getting in touch, and I hope to hear from you very soon!

so.it.goes.2512 14:47, June 7, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Football
Good work so far! Don't forget about the Liverpool names Peel gave to his children. I know of a few shows where matches and suchlike are referenced, but I don't want to tread on your toes so I'll wait for a few days to see what you come up with first.

Dr Mango

slight return
Hi Steve,

Hope all is well. Great to see the new Football page, which I look forward to helping out with a bit if there's anything left to do when I get back.

Just back here briefly while away to add a front page link for Ken's survey.

Cheers,

Steve W 09:11, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Andy Kershaw shows 1985
Hi Steve

I was wondering if we should have some redirects put in place so that on occasions when someone is filling in for JP in his regular slot (like Muriel Gray, Andy Kershaw, Mark Ellen etc) then the shows appear to be blue on the calendar. Obviously I'm thinking of this now due to Roger's newly available Box 400 shows in late May 1985, where the page will have (Andy Kershaw) after the date. If a page was created as 27 May 1985 with a simple redirect to 27 May 1985 (Andy Kershaw) then I assume the calendar will show up as blue on that date.

Is that something that is easy to do, or is it an administrator task?

Best wishes and thanks for all the good work on the 500 Box

Stuart

Weatherman22 20:55, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Stuart

Done! I think you can probably do it yourself: just create a blank page with the date but not the other presenter's name, click the REDIRECT markup at the bottom of the page, enter the name of the page you want to redirect to in the double brackets, save, and it's done. Something I didn't think about when I was wrapped up in all those shows...

Best wishes

so.it.goes.2512 01:40, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

27 July 1999
Hi Steve,

Sorry to report that I'm having further problems with Megaupload here in Hong Kong. Your recommendation to use JDownloader worked for a couple of weeks, but no longer. I get an "API Limit reached" message which loops in ten minute cycles (and has done so for a week !). I won't pester for a re-up of every Megaupload file shared, but I am enjoying the Peelenium shows more than any other at the moment. Any chance that 27 July 1999 could be shared somewhere other than Megaupload?

Thanks in anticipation,

Pad

Dirty job but someone had to...
Hi big man,

left a message with t'other Steve about starting the 'bad' DJ pages (Travis, Bates et al), your input will be invaluable!

Adam

comps
Hi Steve,

Just saw the picture additions to the Peel On Record page. Looks cool, but what struck me was that actually fairly much all the posthumous compilations also feature his pic on the cover fairly prominently, by name and with pic. Maybe you could have a separate (gallery linked to Discogs details?) section (or linked page) featuring these. Not sure if including these is straying beyond the original purpose of your page.

Of course, it's also true that every album bearing some variation of the title "Peel Sessions" also kind of includes him (by name) on the cover. Maybe this is just worth mentioning somewhere (rather than trying to work out a list, which would probably be a mad thing to attempt).

Cheers,

Steve

PS Not sure if I mentioned this one - http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1537740. Linked competition mentioned on here somewhere (on the Smash Hits page).

Looking good!
Remembered another - "John Peel Bought Us A Studio" by Tractor

waits
Hi Steve,

Just to say nice one on the new Waits page. I was always surprised Peel didn't warm up to him a bit once TW became a bit more "Beefheart-like". Maybe it seemed too much of a rip off, or just seemed like an inferior version of the master - or maybe Peel was too fixed in his disapproval after so many years.

Re your message yesterday, yes indeed, many thanks for the second sessions page. Seems great. Think we need some kind of menu section (could also throw in the Session Arists link page), but not sure where it should go. Any suggestions? The new covers gallery one also looking very lovely - nice name for the page too.

On the menu front, wondering if you have a plan for the foreign shows. There's a couple linked up now, but wonder if it was simpler in a way when we just had the Planet Peel page as a kind of base for non-UK shows. The ones without their own link are kind of lost now in a way.

Finally, had a bit of a go at rearranging the main Football page yesterday, as I'm sure you've seen. Still other things to add - as well as all the other linked pages to sort out - but hope it seems OK generally. Always a bit wary of making too large-scale changes to pages started by other people, but hard to resist getting stuck in on this one. A subject close to my heart... And still Liverpool FC and city to have a go at as well at some stage soonish - two more I feel a bit of a connection with. Cool.

Think I need a bit of a chill out tonight, though. Talk about boiling hot in these parts (and that's inside my flat at night, with the air-conditioning on).

Cheers,

Steve W 16:13, August 23, 2010 (UTC)

snot quote
Highlight of my day!

Too hot, too late, have to get up too early....

Wish it was actually Fall (fall) in August.

Steve W 17:58, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Beta Wikia
Hi Steve(s). Just wondered if you had signed up to the Beta Wikia, to check out how the new mandatory skin will affect peel.wikia.com? Weatherman22 23:16, September 2, 2010 (UTC)

20th March 1992
this looks new, so i want to say many thanks for putting that up. Anything between the years 1990-1995 is particularly welcome!

Cheers,

Baz.Peter tron 04:41, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

11 July 1992
I just want to say many thanks for this new upload, much appreciated Isector/Steve!

Cheers,

Baz.Peter tron 15:39, September 10, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for this, Peter, appreciation is always good to hear!

so.it.goes.2512 23:13, September 10, 2010 (UTC)

16th December 1990
Hi Steve,

The megaupload link have expired for the above show. I would address all re-up requests to the peel mailing list, but my account hasn't been verified with them yet.

Cheers,

BazPeter tron 01:37, September 12, 2010 (UTC).

changes, etc
Hi Steve,

Thanks for your message. Yeah, Patti Smith one is really great and hope Bruce S will work his way to the top of your list at some point as well. Good to keep mixing things up a bit - a bit boring to run straight down a list of the obvious 100 artists. Had long thought of doing Zappa and Barbara Cartland pages myself - and may even do so one day. Famous last words. At least I got around to doing a 101 Sharons page, following on Rancid Cyril & His Mighty Balloons, as well as your Flying Cream Shots one.

Mind you, also thinking might be time to put up some kind of New Order page before I'm too much older...

Thanks for the free hand on the navigation and other changes. I'll check back in when it all seems impending and we have to pick a max 28 menu items. Hoping can keep everything accessible and relatively simple.

Cheers,

Steve W 16:55, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

29 December 1990
Hi Steve,

I am a tad baffled by the link at the bottom of the page for IAP's Tapes, as I can't locate the file with the name 'F50_1990_3010b'.

All his festive 50's links deal with 1992, none of his individual show links deal with the 29th Dec 1990, while his 'best of' files are from 1992 onwards.

Can you help, as I was keen to get the IAP file for this show as it mentions on the file section that it is 'excellent quality'.

Cheers,

Baz.

Rangelov 20:19, September 16, 2010 (UTC)Hi,

I just edited the 'Mostly Peel September 1983 mixtape' by adding the previously unknown New Age (don't know how to make it red coloured), changed the title of Portion Control's track and Groovalax track (also I don't know why text appeared tilted and after 7 there is no .''

Regards.

23 Sept 1994
I'm uploading as I type. Check back at http://www.mediafire.com/?bsvvmop9q039l in a while, it should be there.

Yes I did wonder why it was called part 2, I take it your part 1 is from the same set, in wma? Can you remember the origin?

atb

Stuart

btw I've just ripped a mixtape from the festive period 1989-1990, which sounds fantastic after the lo-fi 400 Box tapes. Will upload soon, nothing new in there apart from the fact that it is much better SQ than any of the complete shows that are available and may be a useful upgrade for some of the session tracks.

Weatherman22 06:22, September 27, 2010 (UTC)

April 1995 (BFBS)
Hi Steve,

I noticed that the file link for this leads to a page where the relevent link for the show leads straight back to the main wiki entry page. I'm assuming there is no download link, but then again, i'm not sure.

Cheers!

Baz.

Hi Steve,

I'll have a crack at the torrent and see how it goes. Normally I hate those things, but it has to be done.

Cheers!

Baz. Peter tron 12:53, October 9, 2010 (UTC)

WS mp3's
Hi Steve,

Thank you very much. I will upload all mp3s, so these will be file names.

Boris Rangelov 14:24, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

BFBS
No probs, I can do that.

Yeah, I will say some of the afrobeat/world music has given me considerable trouble when it comes to adding track/artist names. When discogs fails, it's time to hit google. Sometimes I have to alternate words/letters until eventually I get the relevent artist.

There were also tracks where JP forgot to mention the track and format and label, so that was a mission and a half!! There was a track by Dave Angel with no info, so I looked on discogs for releases within the show year [1992] and searched youtube by typing in those relevent releases to locate the actual track, and so far this approach is working! Obviously some tracks have eluded me, but it seems to going quite well.

Baz.

P.S:-max mentioned having to re-digitize Dat 002, as the file that was titled dat 002 was infact a duplicate of the dat 003 show[s].

Radio Eins shows
Hi Steve

I did manage to find the index page of the shows on the archived version of the Radio Eins website. The discrepancies between that and the list of confirmed numbers of shows were, firstly one or two dates mismatched by a day or so, and secondly, counting the listed shows (on the Eins page) between confirmed numbers showed that it was a slightly different number!

The latter may be explained IF when accessing the date page on Radio Eins led to a link such as "no show on this date" but as it is only the index page that is available on the archive, not the tracklistings, it is now impossible to say.

I'll put out a request on the mailing list to see if anyone did download the tracklistings.

Stuart

Weatherman22 10:41, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Steve, I've been thinking about my idea when I first published videos on youtube - to give people instant access to music without having them download anything, that is why I chose youtube, although mine are not videos. Apart from the shows that I published on wikia so far in mp3 format, there are only those few shows on youtube which I think is better to remain linked to youtube only, if possible. (in fact, it was Steve W, who suggested to me using youtube windows on pages and before I did it, for quite a long I had been thinking if that wouldn't be viewed as advertising one's stuff - which wasn't the idea at all). I myself generally hate downloading, especially torrents, so I like e.g. Bill from North Wales Archive where Peel shows are available on one click as audio stream. Please let me know if the youtube pages are in some conflict with the general pattern.

Regards, Boris Rangelov 11:44, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

Finnish Shows
Hi Steve

Thanks for message on Radio Eins shows. I've moved onto Radio Mafia now, as I try and finish tracklistings for 2001.

The Torrent Contents pages look like they need updating, with some available shows not yet referenced, as well as the individual pages dedicated to each set of Finnish shows.

I thought that the original formatting as seen on the Finnish Radio Part 2 section of John Peel Torrent Compilation 16 of 17 (2004 & Shows from Finnish Radio) looked a little confusing. What do you think of the formatting on

John Peel Shows From Finnish Radio Pt. 2

I don't propose going through all 17 torrent listings changing them to that format, but I thought perhaps for the Finnish sections of Torrent 16 it might make things clearer what shows have a wiki page created for them so far.

Stuart

Weatherman22 11:05, October 15, 2010 (UTC)

Rockradio Snippet
D'oh! Just did a duplicate tracklisting. Fortunately it was the Rockradio show from 1987 with only two tracks! I've combined the two tracklistings into my new page, 1987 snippet (Rockradio) purely because I added that page to all the other reference pages such as the Finnish Torrent Page and the main 17-DVD Torrent page, so would you mind deleting the original page at Unknown date 1987 (Rockradio) (making sure I got all the content from it).

Then again, maybe we could move the show to the date of the first Rock Radio show, as like you, I thought that the comments clearly pointed to that possibility.

Stuart

Weatherman22 00:06, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

Tables
I already had the data in a spreadsheet, and I was looking for a way to put it into a Wikia table without having to embed a Google Docs spreadsheet or typing the whole thing out again.

What I did, was save the spreadsheet as a webpage (an option from Excel). The code looked quite different to the code resulting from inserting a table from inside Wikia, even so I just tried inserting the html source of the table exported from Excel, and pasted it in to the page using Source view. Surprisingly this worked first time! Even some of the Wikia table editing tools come alive if editing in standard view.

I had to tweak some things like column and table width in source view, that was easy once I worked out which bit to edit.

The table editing in standard view works fine as long as you are editing a cell that already exists, and don't select the cell borders by mistake. Adding rows and columns needs to be done in Source view.

As far as I can see there were no included tracklistings for the second Finnish torrent, so wikifying these shows will have to be done the slow (but pleasurable) way!

Stuart

Oh my God! They killed Kenny!
Hi Steve,

Nice page on South Park!

I always kind of wondered if Peel heard "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" and immediately noted that the South Park character shared the first name of his all-time favourite Liverpool player (Mr K. Dalglish), adding a kind of secondary joke meaning to the song.

Not that anyone had killed Kenny D or anything.

Struck me the first time I heard it anyway. Probably just my imagination.

Cheers,

Steve W 04:42, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

css
Hi Steve,

Not sure if I'll catch you, but saw you were on and thought I might draw your attention to my recent messages to Stuart re css stuff (adjusting look of the new look), as well as his replies to me. We're not allowed to make serious changes to the basic Wikia features of the whole site (although this is technically possible), but you can do for yourself stuff like make the page wider and kick the right menu stuff out to the sidelines.

Stuart's done a few more things than me, including make the viewable area much wider (I think he must have quite a wide monitor). Colours and things are also changeable on an individual basis.

Anyway, I know you were unhappy with the squashed look of the new skin, so thought it might be something you want to check out as well. I'll add a brief help page at some point, although the mysteries of css are something I've never really looked into too much (might be for the best). But something you might want to tinker around with to get the look how you like it.

Cheers,

Steve W 03:42, November 6, 2010 (UTC)

bold headers
Hi Steve,

Many thanks for your message. Glad it seems like an improvement. I'll get around to doing a help page for the adjustments sometime soon. Was going to do it today, but have now got caught up in work bigtime - having spent most of the evening on the wrong thing. No immediate disaster, as nothing has to be in until Monday, but it's a bit of a drag.

On the oasis adjustments, I was thinking the bold headlines would make for easier reading on the whole site, especially long pages with subheads, so if you're good with that I can quickly add that in for everyone (don't think it would break any guidelines).

Cheers,

Steve W 16:15, November 6, 2010 (UTC)

PS Think you can knock out the following pages thing on the preferences somewhere if it's getting in the way.

Best Of Peel Vol 37
Hi Steve,

Just listened to this, and what a great tape it is - three complete sessions that I didn't have previously. The Gore track you've labeled "Waste Taste" appears to also contain "Treat" (JP announces the track as "Waste Taste" at the beginning and "Treat" at the end). I think the join is approximately 5m54s into the track, but it could be elsewhere, it's hard to tell. Anyway, thought you'd like to know.

Cheers,

Pad

Thanks very much Pad! I had a feeling one track was adrift. I have corrected the page. Glad you liked it: there's another one in the pipeline. All the best Steve

front page dec
Hi Steve,

Hope the front page for the new month seems OK. I made a slight adjustment with the layout too, to try and compensate for all the wikia junk now at the top. Can change it back easily if you like. What do you reckon? I maybe like the previous version better actually (more white space).

Cheers,

Steve W 00:14, December 2, 2010 (UTC)

Radio Luxembourg
Steve,

I've just completed edits for Radio Luxembourg Tracklistings 1 and got a save conflict. It would appear you are also editing it. I did put an 'Update In Progress' flag on the page. How do we resolve this ... I've just spent two hours on this !!!!! (I have my edits saved elsewhere)

Regards,

Pad

Cheers, Steve,

Hope you've had a really good one.

Forgive me for neglecting to drop you a seasonal best wishes before now. It was in my mind this morning, but suddenly realized I had to rush out to do festive stuff, having decided to bang out a few pages of 1972. Still getting distracted after all these years.

Anyway, have a great holiday.

Cheers,

Steve W 16:02, December 25, 2010 (UTC)

Hi ...with Madness starting the show here, just thought I'd include a wee animated gif file(madness) but then noticed it doesn't seem to be supported(only as a photo).Not to worry.But hey, what a great sight....found stuff here that I thought I'd never hear again.....what absolute treasures..........keep up the good work.....best regards...Elvisweathercock

haha.....just noticed the gif file does run after all

Elvisweathercock

Visitors Wiki
Hi Steve

Yes Colin from the band. Thanks for your work on the Visitors page. I will try to put some more stuff on there when I get time and also will see if I can get John to do so

I don't understand the 4 tildes thing. Does it add my name at the bottom or something? Hope I've done it right

Al the best

Colin

Colin Craigie 13:40, February 23, 2011 (UTC)

Hi

Sorry for not getting back sooner, I've updated the BFBS 26 June 1993 page, under my name. Hope that it now shows up. I'll be adding to it at some point over the weekend.

Great site by the way.

Best wishes

David

Camille Howard
Great idea for an artist's page! I've been coming across her a lot in my wikifying duties but had also been impressed enough back in the day to record her on my 1993 era Peel mixtapes.

Weatherman22 22:59, April 15, 2011 (UTC)

21 January 1994
Hi Steve,

I have DJ Lebowitz: Holiday In Cambodia on one of my peel mixtapes. I can upload it and send it to you Sunday sometime?

Baz. Peter tron 17:37, April 16, 2011 (UTC)

dj Lebowitz
yep, no probs.

it really is a top track to have, i must say!

Peter tron 01:23, April 18, 2011 (UTC)

KMEN/KOMA
Hi Steve,

Not sure if there's confusion between KMEN and KOMA (the latter was in Oklahoma City).

Cheers,

Steve

KMEN/KOMA & JPS links
Hi Steve,

Many thanks for the rapid response last night. OK, cool on the links front, will get started today.

Cheers,

Steve W 03:34, May 7, 2011 (UTC)

SL Tapes
Hi Steve

As mine is just a little tiddler at 14:40 I've uploaded it to my folder on the Mooo. (it's around 26Mb so don't go in too quick after this message or it won't all have uploaded!) What I will be doing is uploading show portions as separate files unless I know for a fact that they follow on from each other, and keeping them separate from the AK shows. That will make stitching together shows easier.

I guess we won't know what other segments might materialise from the SL tapes (the numbering is a bit random when looking at all the show dates) so to avoid repeating efforts, if it was me I would wait until all of the SL tapes have been shared and then see what stitching together might be possible.

Stuart

Weatherman22 14:28, May 22, 2011 (UTC)

many thanks
Cheers for the Oct 2000 re-up, Steve.

Steve W 14:32, June 5, 2011 (UTC)

Hello Steve,

I've just added the Stereolab tracklistings for 28 October 1999...and a heads up, the direct link to the file on the Moo Server needs to be changed (currently links to 'Peel Show 1999-12-28.mp3).

Cheers for all the time spent with the many Peel projects, much appreciated.

Dan

That's fantastic work Dan, and I've changed the link (doh!!!) It was a late night...

so.it.goes.2512 23:27, June 10, 2011 (UTC)

Just registered, long time listener (NL)
Maartens 03:11, July 11, 2011 (UTC)maartens

Hi,

I first tuned in to Peel's show on Forces FM at the border of, then, West-Germany and the NL, around 1976 when he played the Max Romeo single on Black Ark which had no clear label, so he called it Sipple Up Day. I had just bought the entire Max Romeo LP, a 'major' release on Island. A mate at the cricket club mentioned "He is on Radio1!" and I soon climbed on the roof to manoeuvre an antenna picking up the signal some 200 miles away. The weather often interfered. Cold winter evenings proved the best weather conditions. The absolute horror was the International Anthem coming from some radio station in Italy at midnight, 11 'o clock London time, blasting over Radio1.

Later we had cable, followed by satellite broadcasts of the BBC radio stations. Around 1980 John Peel played his 'record of the week' for the Vincent van Engelen show on KRO, Hilversum 3 (now 3FM), Netherlands, around 15.30 local time on a Wednesday. Usually recorded after lunch and sent from London to Hilversum by telephone. Sometimes, we heard something new first. Britain would only hear this track in the Evening.

I have gone as far as listening to his Radio Eins shows at the exact same time as the Thursday shows went out, and yes, once there was a record he played almost simultaneously, live from Peel Acres and pre-recorded on RadioEins (from the webcast). Occasionally his World Service shows coincided with shows on Radio1 and BFBS.

As for the tracklistings; whatever happened to the Videotext files, page 657? They can't have gone! Another contribution to the archives would be him compering the Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, Limburg NL. Once he got the thousands to shout after him: 'John Peel is a **** (think Jeremy Hunt)'. Perhaps the BFBS kept the tapes of his shows. They went out on Friday or Saturday, late at night and were repeated very early on a Tuesday morning. BFBS was quite sloppy, playing the wrong tapes or when something went wrong at the start. Or play the second hour first.

Radio1 shows and World Service shows, from the moment the BBC entered the digital world, must be somewhere. For a long time, the servers weren't closed off properly and in a playlist file I could time code a running order from his show - listening on-line! And when I played back those sequences from his shows, my computer started to save those parts. Yet I had a rather slow computer and just 1Gb of space.

Ah, great website this. I shall spend many hours here I'm afraid.

30 Aug 84
Hi,

I added a complete show list to this date. I'd like to know if I did anything inaccurately.

Thanks.

F50 #1s
Hi Steve,

Nice subject for a list! Stuck me that MES would go into the lead on an all-time basis as an individual if the collaboration with Inspiral Carpets is taken into account. Sound right?

Cheers,

Steve W 11:03, August 16, 2011 (UTC)

Hi Steve, you are so right! Amended and you credited! Take care.

so.it.goes.2512 11:15, August 16, 2011 (UTC)

Hi,

I'm very new to this wiki stuff, so bare with me!

- Hi, Adam (is that right?)

Aadam actually.

-Many thanks for your completion of the track listing. Any information like this is always valuable (I don't suppose -you have the complete recording as well, please??)

I do, but I don't know how to upload stuff. I spent my 17th summer, in '84, in Edinburgh. I recorded Peel as much as possible.

-The only changes I can see that need making are formatting to make it more in line with normal Wiki standard -(which I'll do now) and some kind of acknowledgement of your work (I'll add that too). Gratefully received!

Thanks. I really don't know what I'm doing, but as I go through my old tapes, I'll have more to offer.

Trips to the UK were infrequent, but I always brought a radio and a tape recorder, so I'll eventually have plenty to add.

Aadam

Hi Steve,

Great idea to have a video series for the Peelenium! After doing the Record Box ones, I didn't really have the energy to start another one - could be an epic! Hope there's a good number from the early years, although you seem to be off to a good start with 1900.

One thing that struck me is it might be better to split the whole thing by year rather than decade. That way we could link (at least the latter ones) to year pages and would keep the maximum number of videos per page to four - makes the loading easier.

Cheers,

61.125.253.15 02:36, October 17, 2011 (UTC)

Above was me forgot to sign in...

Other thing is that you can prevent the videos from looking crunched up when not being played if you make the size 320 rather than the 300 default when adding them to the page.

Cheers,

Steve W 02:43, October 17, 2011 (UTC)

Hi Steve,

Many thanks for your message. Great to have all the new pages!

On the layout front, I found the easiest thing when doing the Record Box ones was to start with a table and use that to stop things jumping up to the right of the page.

My advice is to start with a new page, then use the visual editing to get a table of one column and four rows. Imagine you should be able to take it from there. Check out one of the Record Box pages if you get stuck and maybe switch to source once you see what goes on.

Once you've got one done, copy a source version onto a Word document or something to use as a template for new pages.

If you like, I'll retrofit the ones you've done so far when I get home later.

Cheers,

Steve W 08:23, October 17, 2011 (UTC)

table and vid coding
Hi Steve,

Got to go to bed in a sec, but had a quick go at Peelenium 1911 in an (invisible) table format, with a few zeros at the top. Think it's roughly in line with what is wanted.

Maybe you could check out the latest changes and then copy the 1911 source coding somewhere as a basic template. Keep in mind that you need the video code or whatever in the lines with | at the start, and |- indicates a row break.

Sorry, have to go to bed right now (up for 6am tomorrow, hopefully). If it's still unclear, just carry on as you have so far and I'll retrofit all the pages tomorrow night or Wed morning.

This is only details - great plan for the pages and can't wait to have them all up.

Cheers,

Steve W 16:25, October 17, 2011 (UTC)

1910 and 1908
Just did the previous couple too. Idea is paste in the template, then sub in the details for the latest year where the template 1, 2, 3, and 4 are - think it should work.

OK, bed now!

Steve W 16:35, October 17, 2011 (UTC)

This is the template (copy and paste in the new page, source format):

This page is part of a chronological series featuring videos of songs played in the Peelenium.

Peelenium vids
Hi Steve,

Thanks for your message. Glad it all seems OK. Think I found another for 1914.

Cheers,

Steve W 15:24, October 18, 2011 (UTC)

tables
If you want to see the actual table on the page as a test, preview the page while subbing in a border of 1 (rather than zero) in template. I made it zero so the table can't be seen on the page - as it's just used to hold things in place.

Cheers,

Steve W 17:41, October 18, 2011 (UTC)

Hi Steve,

Made a calendar before for the Peelenium video years and stuck it on the Calendar page (although seem to have logged myself out). Had been thinking it might be good to have at the top of the year pages for easy links, but looks too big.

Thought maybe we could break it up into decades to go at the top of the year pages (and make link decade pages). You could have the current decade in full by year, along with links for the other decades.

Eg, for the 1920s:

The full decades would then gradually shift from the bottom to the top as you worked down the century. What do you reckon?

Cheers,

Steve W 10:13, October 22, 2011 (UTC)

peelenium tables
Hi Steve,

Many thanks for your message. I'll add the decade tables to the year pages so far, then add the decade pages. Will also stick the full Peelenium calendar on the main Peelenium page - as we have a link to it on the year pages already. Think it should then work pretty much as the Record Box vids section does and be easy enough to find individual years.

Cheers,

Steve W 10:47, October 22, 2011 (UTC)

Hi Steve,

Saw you're here just now - many thanks for ongoing Peelenium vids. Great stuff.

Any thoughts on the menu? Any preference on the colour? Stuart seems to favor non-red. I'm probably OK with the grey at a push. Blogs for front page OK?

Cheers,

Steve W 01:57, November 26, 2011 (UTC)