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Peel Session: Altern 8 (1991/10/27)
Activ-8’ing Keeping It Peel Day with Altern 8 live from Maida Vale — almost 20 years ago to the day. Download here and find the tracklist here.
“not exactly a quote, but a brilliant moment of dry humour and probably the most sublime bit of public djing i’ve ever witnessed:
at the sonar festival about three years ago, peelie was playing an outdoor, daytime set. typically the crowd loved it and things were getting a bit nutty; especially one guy down the front who had obviously done what the tabloid business refers to as a mind-bending cocktail of drugs. he looked a bit odd to begin with but as the music went on - with john dropping a stonking happy hardcore version of dreamlover by mariah carey, limb by limb by cutty ranks and something that sounded like an entire symphony orchestra falling down a flight of stairs - he became more unhinged, tried to climb into the dj booth, had to be stopped from pulling the speaker stacks down and the proceeded to get his cock out. having seen all of this, the next track selection had me in pieces. it was the ramones with “i wanna be sedated”. — stelfox (2004)
