Thread:Lorcan58/@comment-889116-20170103105048/@comment-991309-20170103205901

Happy New Year Steve. I sent a reply which seems to have disappeared so I'm trying again...

I thought all the avistic playlists had already found their way to the Peel wikia, but if not please feel free to use anything you want - the Peel wikia is obviously a much better and more usable home for the data.

I'm working from Xeroxed handwritten playlists posted to me around 1999 by Tim Joseph (I wonder if he's in the Peel group?). They're priceless for the fact that they're a contemporaneous record of what was actually played, but they're faded, very hard to read and full of (understandable) spelling mistakes and need heavy use of Discogs to turn them into accurate data. I'm currently about 8 weeks into 1993 and progressing.

I admire what Stuart has achieved working from non-continuous mix-tapes and trying to reconstruct an entire playlist, never knowing if a gap represents one missing track or many. We have produced something wonderful from unpromising raw materials until the total is greater than the sum of its parts!

Lorcan