12 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Obituary: Kevin Greening - Tremendous shame. He was one of my favourite Radio 1 DJs during the mid-90s -- Especially when he had to fill in on the breakfast show at short notice when Chris Evans didn't turn up to work. #
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28 month ago
philgyford : CD Times - Various (compiled by Chris Coco & Rob Da Bank) - Bugger. Blue Room is the only radio I've regularly listened to (on Listen Again) since Peel died, and it finishes this month. The last corner of radio that felt like home. What do I listen to now? Suggestions very welcome.
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35 month ago
philgyford : BBC - Radio 1 - Zane Lowe - Tracklisting - Thursday 16 February 2006 - Fantastic 90 minutes of break-up songs. Be a maudlin teenager all over again. 30 mins into the show, if you can find the Listen Again link. And if you can put up with the appalling Zane Lowe.
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43 month ago
plasticbag : Radio 1 to be broadcast across America - "It will be broadcast with a time-shift so that US listeners will hear Moyles' breakfast show while munching their early morning waffles"
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Mr Biddulph doing his stuff at the latest Radio 1 "Ten Hour Takeover" - Bow down and worship, World. Mr Biddulph - champion of geekdom - is busy changing broadcast radio forever!
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plasticbag : The official UK download chart is throwing up some surprise hits - I think the most interesting part of this article is not that Marillion are near the top of the downloads chart, but that they've been financing their albums by getting donations and pre-sales off the web. Future mainstream model here?
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plasticbag : Dan Hill on the death of John Peel - Gambaccini then listed a few of the artists that Peel's Radio 1 show 'broke' in the UK and beyond: The Clash, Sex Pistols, Roxy Music, Althea and Donna, Led Zeppelin, Pulp, Leonard Cohen, Joy Division, Laurie Anderson, The Undertones, Elton John...
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plasticbag : John Peel tribute on Radio 4's Front Row - A particularly interesting tribute to John Peel including Andy Kershaw's comments that just three weeks ago John Peel had said that he felt marginalised by Radio 1 and that the late nights were killing him...
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