Review: The Now Show, Radio4 UK

Subject: Review: The Now Show, Radio4 UK
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:34 PM

Listened to this excellent show tonight, and near the end they did a song called 'Let's have a minutes noise for John Peel' You have to hear it to appreciate it, but it brought a tear to my eye. What a wonderful piece of lateral thinking, what else would you have as a memorial tribute for a man who played his sort of stuff. The show will be repeated tomorrow lunchtime, or you can hear it via Listen Again on the Radio4 website.
Thanks John.

Giok

Subject: RE: Review: The Now Show, Radio4 UK
From: Dave4Guild
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 03:47 PM

Hi, John.

Heard the programme myself this evening with very much the same emotions as yours - grabbed my old Guild and did a reasonable fingerstyle approximation of the accompaniment after it had finished.

Might try to tape it tomorrow and do the job properly - it would be nice to do something in JP's memory.
Brilliantly written IMHO.

Dave Bennett

Subject: RE: Review: The Now Show, Radio4 UK
From: Dave4Guild
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 08:57 AM

A Minutes Noise
The Now Show Team(BBC)

Let's have a minutes noise
From all the girls and boys
Who understand that they lost
A friend the other day cos'
To have a minutes silence
Somehow would be wrong
Let's have a minutes noise for John

Let's have a minutes row
From everyone remembrin' how
He soundtracked all our mis-spent youth
From teenage kids right to Home Truths
To stand in wordless contemplation's
Just not on
Let's have a minutes noise for John

(bridge)
So D.J.s rip up your play-lists
Remember better stuff exists
Now that he has left us
How do we save the world
From bloody Simon Cowell.

Let's have a minutes racket
'Tho he isn't coming back, it
Seems we understand the need
To play something loud and at the wrong speed
A minutes silence couldn't show him
How we feel
Let's have a minutes noise for Peel



Played in A

(G capo 2   G, D, C, Em.   for Folkies!)

It should be available on the BBC Website for a few more days.

I read a letter in, I think The Times, where some-one had written that they thought it might be appropriate to have a minutes noise for John Peel, because of his contribution to music, rather than a minutes silence.
It was very poignant to have a song along the same lines - (perhaps the R4 team read the same letter) the same week and with the Remembrance Celebrations at the same time.

Subject: RE: Review: The Now Show, Radio4 UK
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 09:43 AM

I've e-mailed POTW with a request to play it.
Giok

Subject: RE: Review: The Now Show, Radio4 UK
From: Emma B
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 11:26 AM

Leadfingers and myself were listening to it while in the chat room - hope it comes up again on PTOW - what a fitting tribute!