Hey Muso's...take a look at this!

[Sergei's Celebration]

The John Peel Centre for Creative Arts is publishing all of the great mans record collection on line, you can view his original index cards, the record cover and a link will take you to the song. Every week more will be added so book mark it and keep popping back.

This is all part of a great, interactive website based on John Peel's record studio.

Enjoy...

http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/index.html

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Anybody else having problems with the site? Cant open the record collection

 

[NMH]

Anybody else having problems with the site? Cant open the record collection

Only the 'A's are available to flip through for the time being. As is stated, the other letters will exponentially be added up to September 2012.
Perhaps the titles may increase too, after that JP would have had an AWFULLY large record collection, for sure.

Here's The Pig, his missus talking about it;
An introduction | The Space

 

[NMH]

In that last photo of John from that vid, he's holding a yellow record cover that I used to own. It's a rare psychedelic album, and it makes me drool to wonder at what treasures he owned!
Legend, albeit somewhat difficult to listen to whole hours of his shows due to the amount of awful dreck that he allowed airtime to for the sake of musical open-mindedness!

Loads of bands owed him for their livings though. He certainly championed the cause of Pink Floyd, and Tyrannosaurus Rex in their early days.

 

[SittingbourneSeagull]

Only the 'A's are available to flip through for the time being. As is stated, the other letters will exponentially be added up to September 2012.
Perhaps the titles may increase too, after that JP would have had an AWFULLY large record collection, for sure.

Here's The Pig, his missus talking about it;
An introduction | The Space

Said on the news this morning that the collection was in the region of 26000.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

What a wonderful thing, always love to hear him drone on, wonder what Clara's doing now. Cannot wait to get some decent broadband and spend some time on this site at the weekend

John Peel Sound Clips by Johnpeelarchive on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

 

[NMH]

Said on the news this morning that the collection was in the region of 26000.

I'm supposing they mean albums, as The Pig mentioned some undocumented singles collection.
That's about 15 times my collection then. He must have discarded many times that amount.

 

[Doc Lynam]

Really want to get my hands on some of those tunes. Do i need Spotify?

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

No still only getting a black screen - assuming it is my ISP not the site.

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

No still only getting a black screen - assuming it is my ISP not the site.

Try going direct to this link
http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?letter=A

Or if not maybe your Java is slightly out of date. Just guessing like.

PS it does take a while to fully load as well (depending on 'puter speed like!)

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Try going direct to this link
http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?letter=A

Or if not maybe your Java is slightly out of date. Just guessing like.

PS it does take a while to fully load as well (depending on 'puter speed like!)

Cheers working now - must have been slow internet !

 

[Storer 68]

Said on the news this morning that the collection was in the region of 26000.

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

Classic stuff. I can see a lot hours spent trawling Peel's sprawling collection of musical genius and stuff you really don't even want to hear once.
Delighted to discover Aardvark sound exactly like I thought they would, guided by the LP cover and the fact it was on Deram and released in 1970.