But will they play Go Mental?
The Guardian is reporting that:
As a tribute to Peel, the first record Radio 1 played after his death was announced on Newsbeat at lunchtime today, was The Undertones’ Teenage Kicks, one of the DJ’s favourite songs.
This was followed by tracks from the White Stripes and the Strokes.
‘Teenage Kicks’ is splendid, but I’m not sure the White Stripes or Strokes do much to honour Fat Jack (as he occassionally referred to himself) — they seem like the kind of artists you’ld ignore when he played them, then, when they became big you’ld think “well of course John Peel played them first” (remember, John Peel broke The Bluetones). It would have been a much more fitting tribute to have followed the Undertones with Go Mental’s ‘Hold Me Now’, which John Peel once called the best record of the nineties.
And another serendipitous tribute arrives in the form of a website at djgermanspeedcore.tripod.com which collects lyrics of gabba and happy hardcore records. I should e-mail John Peel and tell him about it…
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