Comments on: The DJ is dead. Long live the DJ.

The DJ is dead. Long live the DJ.

helvetica — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:53:50 -0800

John Peel's Successors Named. Begining on February 1st, John Peel's week night show will be succeeded by OneMusic, three shows hosted by three DJs. The three chosen to fill those gigantic boots? Huw Stephens, Ras Kwame, and Rob da Bank. Good luck gents.

By: garfield

garfield — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:25:38 -0800

nice dude. thanks for the update.

By: drill_here_fore_seismics

drill_here_fore_seismics — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:32:28 -0800

Yet to see how this will play out, and the website says that the DJs have been chosen for their in depth musical knowledge across a variety of musical genres but I'm disappointed that this looks like the three shows can break along genre lines. Stephens (heard last week describing the programme following him as a 'genreless dance music show') playing the guitar end, Kwame covering the more 'urban' stuff, and Bank doing the 'electronica' end. I just hope that's not the case as one of the delights of Peel's show for me was that he played anything and everything regardless of genre.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:02:09 -0800

These guys will probably do a great job, but I'm afraid that nobody can fill the great man's shoes, because none of them (and probably nobody else alive) has Peel's knowledge and experience of modern music, combined crucially with his breadth of taste. His death was quite genuinely the passing of an era, and it's all about fresh starts rather than continuations now.

By: salad spork

salad spork — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:38:17 -0800

It's quite a testament to the man when it takes three people to replace him. John Peel was quite the legend, and it saddens me that his show is no more, but all things must come to an end. Best of luck to these lucky three - and maybe, just maybe, someone else will come along with Peel-like taste, knowledge and individuality. I'm not holding my breath.

By: helvetica

helvetica — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:52:39 -0800

Damn, looks like the anchor tags at the bbc aren't working. Anyways, I'm with drill_here_fore_seismics. It will be a damn shame if it ends up being three different genre-based shows, eventually pushing so far away from each other that they end up becoming completely independent of each other

By: protocool

protocool — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:13:08 -0800

ah, damn. i thought i was going to get that gig....

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:08:47 -0800

Oh boy. Huw Stevens - feckless eegit, driven by the fashion and the urge to be popular, Rob Da Bank - voice for the deaf, personality malfunction, Ras Kwame - interesting, and potential, but he's not going to be flipping from Papa Wemba to DJ Shitmat The king is dead. That is all.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:33:24 -0800

I was driving across the Midlands the day after Peel died and was taken aback by the lack of references to Peel's death by the various DJs on the Beeb that day. They seemed highly disinterested by the whole thing.