David Pascoe

Transcendence and Under the Skin.

That ad’s stayed with me as it soundtracked a huge row that my parents had while I was watching something like The South West Week in my room, circa 1989.
My mum actually said a tearful goodbye to me, just after the ad finished, but she was back again 15 minutes later.

57 years’ married this year.

Gabriel Clarke was a poet of those packages. Everyone else who’s ever covered the Football League in the years since he moved on to other things has sounded stodgy and dull in comparison.

The most dangerous woman in Britain today.

Release the Maplin Files!

This and Wherever I Lay My Hat, That’s My Home are my two definitive examples where I heard the cover before I heard the original and was disgusted at the way the music business had lied to me by allowing those covers to both exist and be heavily promoted.

Until I checked, I thought it was one of The New Radicals for a moment.

Perfect for that dinner party/girl’s night in over a couple of glasses of wine demographic, I guess.

There’s also a case to be made that she’s filled the Amy Winehouse gap, mainly because she was more reliable.

Someone ate a packet of KP Tubes and then got creative.

Guys and Dolls: The Fall - Service/I’m Going to Spain (16 April 1993) Buy this at Discogs As was previously mentioned , Peel had received a copy of the latest album by  The Fall . In this case, his first list...

When Renfield went to Bilbao.

The Fall - Service/I’m Going to Spain (16 April 1993)

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It would make for quite a nifty album cover if it was shot in 1962.

Examples include Simon Garfield’s books about Radio 1 and British wrestling.

It can be a bit hit and miss that site, but I’ve found a number of surprises there which have helped pass the time.

Currently readable on Internet Archive.org

Guys and Dolls: Guided by Voices - Exit Flagger (16 April 1993) Buy this at Discogs It’s exactly 1 year since  Guided by Voices first appeared on this blog , a year which covers 3 weeks in terms of Peel...

Cancelling the farewell tour: Guided by Voices - Exit Flagger (16 April 1993)

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I didn’t see Jaime Smith’s dismissal but is it fair to say that Ben Foakes wouldn’t have nicked it?

Yes. Yes, you are. And not just because of the elections but because of all the prevarication, whataboutery, cowardice, obsfucation and mental contortions that people went through, between 2021 and 2024, to avoid taking action which could have stopped it happening again.

Farage is the right type for the media to get behind/doff their caps to in a way that Griffin and Paul Nuttall (bald, Liverpudlian) weren’t.

ITV sport commentator, John Helm, sits laughing in a sailing dinghy after his right leg went into the water as he attempted to get into the dinghy to conduct an interview. The other man looks like, but isn’t, Marti Pellow.

Guys and Dolls: Hole - Olympia/Pee Girl/The Void [Peel Session]/ The Raincoats - The Void (16 April 1993) Buy The Raincoats at Discogs On Thursday 25 March, 1993,  Hole  recorded their second and last session for John Peel. In the two years tha...

Courtney Love and I don’t have much in common except for….

Hole - Olympia/Pee Girl/The Void [Peel Session]
The Raincoats - The Void
(16 April 1993)

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I remember the video getting shown on BoxPops circa 1990, and they included some info captions, one of which said that most of his work was considered too far out for regular mainstream consumption.

It has to be said, this Indian cricket team are a real bunch of twats, aren’t they?

If Edsel ever give this the deluxe treatment, it will include the out-take version, Sometimes When We Touch (I Get Jealous Thinking About Which Other Men Have Touched You, So I Need You To Provide Me With a Full Breakdown Of Your Sexual History.)

It’s giving me Giant González vibes.

Happy brick in a racist’s bollocks day to all who celebrate.

Just to clarify, this isn’t me trying to be arch. I just have a ton of housework to complete after several days of doing nothing.

One day, I’m going to do this myself in relation to Marion’s 1998 album, The Program.

But not today.

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With all this promised wildness, did you find yourself at any point thinking….

Guys and Dolls: Metamorphism - Mecano (16 April 1993) Buy this at Discogs Tony Clements , the man behind  Metamorphism , would, over the next couple of years, go on to become something of a fi...

Mark E. Smith in Mission Control?: Metamorphism - Mecano (16 April 1993)

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Ah if only Heathen Chemistry had been the musical equivalent of A Touch of Evil, though.