"It would be more of a tribute to forget about his life's work, really it would..."

[denny]

From Mark Radcliffe's tribute to John Peel:

John's show was a unique thing, we probably won't see his like again. It will be more of a tribute to him not to try to replace his show with something similar.

Now, I'll freely admit that I'm excessively cynical at times, but that really reads to me like the BBC has noticed the amount of people who've posted tribute comments along the lines of "who will champion the cause of independent music now that John is gone?", and they've decided to start pushing a point of view that allows them to replace his show with Yet Another Bland Mainstream Show rather than try to carry on the massively important work that he was doing (pretty much single-handedly) for all these years in finding and playing independent music on a mainstream national radio station.

I don't know if anyone at the BBC could do a credible replacement for John Peel's show, working along similar lines, but I know damn well that someone should try. If the BBC won't play that stuff, who will?

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[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. I'd pay to hear that.