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Album: Ergo Phizmiz, Things to Do & Make (Care In The Community)

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Published Aug. 7, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.

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Previously a composer of experimental electronica, Ergo Phizmiz has acquired some stellar supporters in his decade-long career: John Peel, Michael Nyman, Matt Groening ...

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It's a shiny new podcast... with Robin Ince and Victoria Sponge

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Several "firsts" in Word podcast history. We've never had two John Peel impersonators in a live soundclash. We've never discussed Mills & Boon or crab opera. No-one's talked about having a bit part in The Office or the slightly pedestrian plots of 1970s stag films. We've never read a passage from Darwin's The Origin Of Species or found out how the Edinburgh Fringe can be free. And we've never consumed a Victoria sponge cake on air, freshly cooked by Fraser Lewry (see photographic evidence

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Album: Various Artists, Kats Karavan: The History of John Peel on the Radio (Universal)

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Published Dec. 17, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

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John Peel's first stint as DJ was in 1959, for a Dallas radio station's R&B show called Kats Karavan; thereafter, the work sheet for every Peel show bore that same legend in the space reserved for the programme title ...

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'Blue Plaques' to commemorate Joy Division and John Peel unveiled in Rochdale

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Published Sept. 23, 2009 at 2:20 p.m.

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Peter Hook and members of OMD and The Membranes also at the unveiling ...

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The Cribs: Ignore the Ignorant | CD review

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Published Sept. 5, 2009 at 6:06 p.m.

(Wichita) ... Gary Jarman, described as "the most political" of the three Cribs brothers, would like to make it clear his band have not made a political album. "It has been reported that our new record title is some kind of 'political statement'," he wrote on his MySpace, contradicting Ryan Jarman, who had said Ignore the Ignorant was titled after the BNP wins in June's European elections. "Just not true," continued Gary. "The title was conceived ages ago. It is an album with personal subject

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Good Books' Goodbye At Glasto

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Published June 25, 2009 at 11:13 a.m.

Glastonbury will host Good Books' final show as the home counties indie heroes bow out on the John Peel stage ...

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Bruce Springsteen Joins Gaslight Anthem Onstage At Glastonbury

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Published June 27, 2009 at 9:06 p.m.

The Boss joins the purveyors of the '59 Sound on the John Peel Tent ...

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The Fall, Camden Koko, London

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Published April 5, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

Mark E Smith is hunched at the back of the stage in black leather jacket and wheelchair, looking like Salford's Davros. Most of the crowd don't know a broken hip is prosaically to blame, and Smith's defiant spins round the stage are variously taken as bone-idleness or bad-taste, satiric decrepitude: just one more strange turn in the 33-year saga of The Fall. The band who were John Peel's talismans till the day he died, and who jettison members at the whims of the wily Smith, do not function in

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Doves Announce Glastonbury Slot

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Published March 20, 2009 at 11:48 a.m.

The Mancunian heroes will be headlining the John Peel Stage, it's been revealed ...

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2008 review: Books and DVDs of the year

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Published Dec. 6, 2008 at 7:04 p.m.

Books ... 1: The Olivetti Chronicles - John Peel ... The great man's journalism – from Madonna to Extreme Noise Terror ... 2: Renegade - Mark E Smith ... One of Peel's heroes with a splendidly splenetic memoir ... 3: The Clash - The Clash ... Coffee-table account of possibly the least coffee-table band ever ... 4: A Thousand Things - Paul Weller ... Limited to 2,000 copies, each signed by the Modfather ... 5: Sleeveface - Morris and Rostron ... LP sleeves cover punters' mugs: much hilarity

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