Should The John Peel Tent Be Renamed

[Quark]

3 hours ago, fred quimby said:

I look forward to all this being fields again stage

Just fill it with longdrops and call it the W.C. Fields

[Ayrshire Chris]

40 minutes ago, Quark said:

Just fill it with longdrops and call it the W.C. Fields

I’m old enough to get that joke 

Edited February 23, 2023 by Ayrshire Chris

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 hour ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

The Fred Again...Stage.

 

 

Fred Atent

[clarkete]

5 hours ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

The Fred Again...Stage.

 

 

He made it into the popbitch newsletter for the second week in row... 

"If, after playing a couple of well-publicised sell-out shows in Sydney, you and your entourage decide to go to a local strip club, it's a bad idea to try to use star power to cadge free drinks and dances from the women working there. If someone offers you a freebie, fine. But asking to be given things in exchange for a tag on Instagram is awfully gauche – and leaving no tip is inexcusable."

[gfa]

8 hours ago, clarkete said:

He made it into the popbitch newsletter for the second week in row... 

"If, after playing a couple of well-publicised sell-out shows in Sydney, you and your entourage decide to go to a local strip club, it's a bad idea to try to use star power to cadge free drinks and dances from the women working there. If someone offers you a freebie, fine. But asking to be given things in exchange for a tag on Instagram is awfully gauche – and leaving no tip is inexcusable."

with the same news as last week?

[Neil]

On 2/22/2023 at 11:06 PM, stuartbert two hats said:

nobody is listening to his show now

it doesn't help being dead. 

[stuartbert two hats]

41 minutes ago, Neil said:

it doesn't help being dead. 

It's a distinct disadvantage. Doesn't seem to hurt actual musicians too much though.

In listening figures, that is. It's pretty bad for their health.

[clarkete]

1 hour ago, gfa said:

with the same news as last week?

Yeah, turns out I've not made the optimal use of my new time machine

[Quark]

39 minutes ago, clarkete said:

Yeah, turns out I've not made the optimal use of my new time machine

You could go back and never post the post?

[clarkete]

2 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

It's a distinct disadvantage. Doesn't seem to hurt actual musicians too much though.

In listening figures, that is. It's pretty bad for their health.

I hear his name regularly on 6music, in the same way that they credit most sessions when they replay them, plus the series they just had every Sunday - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014cg0

I've only really read the other aspect on here and on the links people posted here. 

 

 

[Avalon_Fields]

I tend to fight against the cancelling of people, but I think the wisest strategy is to avoid naming any stage with someone famous from music. Today it's John Peel....but tomorrow it could easily be someone who is currently highly regarded, but has a certain alleged dubious past as well (David Bowie for example, also with underage girls).

 

[Skip997]

Just now, Avalon_Fields said:

I tend to fight against the cancelling of people, but I think the wisest strategy is to avoid naming any stage with someone famous from music. Today it's John Peel....but tomorrow it could easily be someone who is currently highly regarded, but has a certain alleged dubious past as well (David Bowie for example, also with underage girls).

 

The music industry was full of this in the 60's/70's/80's (and may still be). I doubt there's ever been a big rock star who hasn't at some point had sexual relations with someone underage, whether knowingly or not. The Rolling Stones even wrote a song about it and yet were never seriously challenged.

Basically we'd have to cancel a huge number. I agree, don't name stages after famous musicians.

[chestwig]

On 7/5/2022 at 8:22 PM, Neil said:

Peel would play any old shit, he wasn't a music snob. 

He was a snob. In the early years almost as soon as anybody became famous he ditched them!

[Cherry Tree]

Does pretending to play Mandolin on Maggie May make you a famous musician?
 

They should rename it The John Ravenscroft Stage, or like some sort of Hereditary Title, The Tom Ravenscroft Stage.

[CaledonianGonzo]

6 minutes ago, Cherry Tree said:

The Tom Ravenscroft Stage.

The Peel Junior ("The Other Kids Can Call You PeeJu") Stage

[CaledonianGonzo]

It's happened

Now called Woodsies

[Andy0808 v5]

Sounds like a shit nightclub.

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

It's happened

Now called Woodsies

Prefer ‘the nonce tent’

[sime]

Woodsies works for me. I like the continuing trend of naming stage areas after the field they are in. 

[The Nal]

Woodises sounds a but fiddly too.

[Leyrulion]

On 2/22/2023 at 5:12 PM, Leyrulion said:

Call the whole area "the woods". Have the big tent still, link in more coherently with the forest next door, a couple of smaller stages, the bar and tea tent. 

Called it.

[maelzoid]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

It's happened

Now called Woodsies

How is that an improvement?!?!

[shuttlep]

 the wood , woudl have worked

 

woodsies

 

 

sounds noncy

[august1]

From woopsies to woodsies

[Crazyfool01]

saplingsies would be more appropriate given the replanting in that area