John Peel dead

News just in – I’m extremely sad to report that John Peel has died whilst on holiday in Peru. John Peel was responsible for shaping the face of British (and the rest of the world) music for the last 40 years. In the whole of that time he was the only consistently music-focused fan who paid little attention to trends and fads and he introduced a huge amount of people to music that they would not have had the opportunity to listen to otherwise. I don’t say this lightly but John Peel was the best DJ that the world has ever seen – just to show you how respected he was, in the last 5 minutes, I’ve received 7 emails with the bad news. Who else would play Napalm Death next to a Greig Concerto?