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David Pascoe @greasepaintpeel.bsky.social · Jul 25
People who write “Replies off…” will be first against the wall come the revolution and deservedly so.
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Spielberg finally making the movie about Sharaz Jek that the world has been waiting for.
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Spielberg doing old school marketing. I cannot wait for whatever this is.
All will be disclosed Spielberg 06.12.26
December 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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A jigsaw puzzle magically completing itself:

Psilocybin - Rip Off (1 May 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Psilocybin - Rip Off (1 May 1993)
Buy this at Discogs 158 beats per minute? Well, if you insist. - John Peel after playing Rip Off on 1/5/93. Peel may well have been making...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The voodoo of life itself:

Voodoo Queens - Peel Session (1 May 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Voodoo Queens - Peel Session (1 May 1993)
Buy this at Discogs A repeat of  Voodoo Queens’  first Peel Session, which was originally broadcast on  22 January 1993 .  The video captu...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Simba Wanyika - Mwongele (1 May 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Simba Wanyika - Mwongele (1 May 1993)
Buy this at Discogs 1991 marked the 20th anniversary of the formation of the Tanzanian/Kenyan band  Simba Wanyika , led by the Kinyonga br...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Forgot to include the bloody link:

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Roger Daltrey & Ken Russell's WILD Interview About 'Tommy' | Celebs Up Close
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November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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…rock music bursting the “decadent ambient state“ of the mid 1970s. He was just wrong about who/what was going to provide that jolt.
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A holy grail of sorts? Ken Russell and Roger Daltrey appear on the Russell Harty show to promote Lizstomania, together with Russell’s dog which was rescued from abuse at a coalmine.

Fascinating to hear what led up to “Wilson and those crappy people.” and to consider that Russell was right about…
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Notes on John Peel’s Radio 1 show - Friday 23 April 1993

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Guys and Dolls: John Peel Show - Friday 23 April 1993 (BBC Radio 1)
Listening to this show, one gets the sense of John Peel being beset by issues on all sides. Some of them were self inflicted, such as the mo...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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If England do lose in 2 days, the upside is they can fit another two day warm up game in on days 4 & 5.
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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A home-made plane and the world’s smallest samba band:

Apogee - Inside Above (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Apogee - Inside Above (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs Inside Above was the first track I heard when I listened to the file for this 23/4/93 Peel Show, but it wasn’t the fir...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Featuring loss, bereavement, dreams, Nic Roeg, Galaxie 500 and Jasper Carrott:

Submarine - Fading/Jnr. Elvis/Tugboat [Peel Session] (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Submarine - Fading/Jnr. Elvis/Tugboat [Peel Session] (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs Buy this at Discogs NOTE - Submarine’s Peel Session has not been made available yet, so the videos of the tracks are a...
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November 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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It’s all good fun until someone decides to bomb the World Trade Centre:

Unsane - HLL/Broke/Black Book (Vol II) [Peel Session] (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Unsane - HLL/Broke/Black Book (Vol II) [Peel Session] (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs My three favourite tracks taken from a repeat of a session recorded by  Unsane  on 26 November, 1992 and first broadca...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Never take our nhs for granted
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · 28d
Actor James Van Der Beek is selling memorabilia from his film and television career, including Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues, to help with the financial cost of his cancer treatment.
James Van Der Beek auctions 'Dawson's Creek' memorabilia to pay for cancer treatment
The actor was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2023.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Pomerania - land of death, death and death:

The Fall - Ladybird (Green Grass) (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: The Fall - Ladybird (Green Grass) (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs Well,  The Annotated Fall  is currently accessible again, through  The Internet Archive . It was gratifying to read th...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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A tribal call to spend some time together:

Ortanique - Nomadic (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Ortanique - Nomadic (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs Ortanique was a one-off alias for  Dave Clarke  - aka  Directional Force  - which he paired up with another alias,  Fl...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Re:Death of Dick Cheney - well, it’s a start, I suppose.
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Not worth making excuses for:

Polvo - Lazy Comet (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Polvo - Lazy Comet (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs On tonight’s programme, Peel played a run of three tracks from Today’s Active Lifestyles, the second album by  Polvo ....
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November 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Being bland with Aliens:

Escape - Escape From Neptune (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Escape - Escape From Neptune (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs Over the course of 1992/93,  Amir Abadi  and  Peter Kuhlmann , working together under the name,  Escape , released fou...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Be interesting to see how Sebastian Salek spins this as a win for the Government.

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No free bus passes for under 22s, says goverment
The Commons Transport Committee recommended scrapping bus fares for young people in August.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Own brand psychosis:

Foreheads in a Fishtank - Happy Shopper (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Foreheads in a Fishtank - Happy Shopper (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs NOTE - The video is taken from  a Peel Session  broadcast on  24 August 1991  rather than the record released through ...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Peter Fonda, hard rock pioneer:

K-Tel Wet Dream - Sissy Bar (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: K-Tel Wet Dream - Sissy Bar (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs The video is taken from Peel’s Radio 1 show on  Friday 5 March 1993 . By the time he came to re-broadcast Sissy Bar, s...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I’d have put Balvinder through as well, but Chris has had the misfortune to be the first contestant to be stiffed by the change in judging format. #strictly
October 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Viral dub:

Super Morris - Cough & Spit Out (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Super Morris - Cough & Spit Out (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs This is a very appropriate track for me to be writing about at the moment, because my wife and I have both been under ...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I saw this in my feed and briefly thought, “Blimey, Lindsay Hoyle’s pomposity really has reached its limits, now.” Then I remembered….
ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · Oct 15
The Speaker of the House thinks a naked bike ride is terrorism.

This is a sentence I never thought I’d write when I got a degree in professional writing for journalism.
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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A kind person is a vengeful person:

Tiger Trap - Supreme Nothing (23 April 1993)

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Guys and Dolls: Tiger Trap - Supreme Nothing (23 April 1993)
Buy this at Discogs We’ve already heard  Side 1, Track 2  from  Stars Kill Rock  on this blog; on tonight’s show, Peel played Side 1, Trac...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM