PSA (Peelist survey announcement)

[hirez]

SURVEY OF JOHN PEEL LISTENERS AND TAPERS
From Ken Garner: kgg@gcal.ac.uk

I am giving a paper early next month at an academic conference on radio
and TV archiving, in Madison, WI, USA, all about what I believe is the
extraordinary phenomenon of John Peel show tape documenting and sharing
online that has grown exponentially in the past few years. To this end I
have set up a short survey online on the listening/taping practices of
Peel's R1 listeners then and now. Whether you taped then or not,
download archive off-air tapes nowadays or not, if Peel was important to
you at any time, I'd really like you to do the survey. It takes 10
minutes. All you have to do is tick boxes. It's completely anonymous. I
am not even tracking IP addresses. And please pass it on to any other
once-Peel fans you know. Here's the link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HTP28ZD

ken garner
senior lecturer in media and journalism
Glasgow Caledonian University
author, THE PEEL SESSIONS (2007)
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

What I would find interesting is how many people on your LJ FL have never knowingly listened to John Peel on the radio. Not many, I'd have thought, given the demographic.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Hm. Good question. I should probably have An Poll.

I don't think it's as high as you think it might be, although I could be pleasantly surprised.

Certainly, until relatively recently, the only people who I knew listened to Peelie were me, uk_jon and my mum.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I remember significant amounts of my FL wailing, gnashing teeth and rending garments when he died. And one lone voice saying "I was more upset when Tommy Vance died, actually".

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. That would have been the relatively recently, I think.

It's telling that online Peelism has kicked off properly only after people have been able to poke around and discover no useful alternative.

I mean, it's a bit bloody odd that there's an entire channel that could be 24-hour Peel, but the only sort that actually gets it right (in my limited and entirely biased opinion) is, um, Ravenscroft Junior.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

And wendels.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I have filled out their survey.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

and filled in.

I really must make the time to go through that heap of 30ish year old cassettes upstairs.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. There may be happy discoveries.

(I've found that encoding cassettes is slightly less hassle than doing the vinyl)