Keeping It Peel: John Peel Day 2006
Jarvis Cocker
When I Like Music asked Paul Heaton of The Beautiful South what had changed within the music industry since they began, he said,
"The things it misses… it misses John Peel. Incredibly so. When I was younger and in a band, John Peel was on five times a week, and John Peel was the thing you aimed for. If you could get on John Peel, you had a guaranteed audience. And it wasn't about selling records, it was just about getting people to come along to see you live, and generate a bit of interest in your band. Nobody who was on John Peel expected to sell x amount of records, rather they were a Peel band and therefore other people out there would like the band.
So I think a lot of young bands now miss that as a real back way in to the music scene. Like a stepping stone, once you'd been on Peel, they'd try you on Janice Long, a little bit earlier, and possibly Bruno Brookes. It was a way in there, especially for a band that sounded a bit different"
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