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John Peel Honoured With Hundreds Of Gigs

added 13 October 2005 at 10.27

Almost a year since the legendary DJ John Peel passed away, hundreds of bands across the world will simultaneously play at hundreds of events to mark the loss.

Billed as John Peel Day, today (October 13) is the one-year anniversary of the DJ's last show and has been organised to celebrate the man’s life and contribution to music.

In a fitting tribute, bands, venue owners and promoters have been encouraged to organise a gig or club night no matter how small under the John Peel Day banner and the music world has responded en mass.

At least 300 concerts have been organised in venues ranging from the backrooms of pubs to the gig that kicked it all off last night at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, featuring (amongst others) New Order, The Fall, and Super Furry Animals.

Celebrities playing host at the event included Jarvis Cocker, Fergal Sharkey from The Undertones, Griff Rhys and the Peel’s family neighbour Delia Smith.

In a heartfelt tribute at the gig, New Order frontman Bernard Sumner told the assembled crowd his band would have got "nowhere" without Peel's support for their former incarnation, Joy Division.

Hundreds of events are taking place around the UK today while other events are also being held in Spain, Germany, Italy, USA, Holland, New Zealand and Canada.

So get out there. Support new music, especially stuff you’ve never even heard of before. Have a drink, and raise it to John Peel. Here’re just a few of the events happening in London and around the UK today:

London:

• Venue: Scala
  Line Up: The Engineers, Magnet
  
  
• Name: ‘Swear I Was There’
  Venue: 93 Feet East, Brick Lane
  Line up: Cazals, Lancaster Bombers, Twisted Charm, Stricken City
  
  
• Name: Sonic Cathedral - The Night That Celebrates Itself
  Venue: The Legion
  Line Up: Jim Reid, The Morning After Girls, The Telescopes, Surprise Guest DJ
  
  
• Name: Test Icicles
  Venue: City 16, Shoreditch, 7pm
  Line-up: Test Icicles
  
  
• Name: Goldierocks presents... John Peel Day
  Venue: The Elbow Rooms, Islington
  Line up: Misty's Big Adventure, The Rumble Strip, Action Plan, The Bishops, Emmy The Great, DJs Goldierocks and DrownedInSound
  
  
• Name: John Peel Day
  Venue: Color, Camden
  Line Up: Miss Black America, The Phoenix Drive (feat. Drew from Babyshambles), Matt from The Beatings (solo), The Social, iDou (feat. Fruitbat ex-Carter USM) & The Siamese Sluts.
  
  
• Name: The Lock In
  Venue: Upstairs at the Garage, Islington
  Line Up: Fleeing New York, Wry, The Sam I Am, DJs Do Me Bad Things
  
  
• Name: The Crimea tribute to John Peel
  Venue: The Enterprise, Camden
  Line Up: The Crimea, Florida
  
  
• Name: John Peel Day at The Marquee
  Venue: The Marquee Club, Leicester Square
  Line Up: M.A.S.S., The Mad Staring Eyes, Airman, Cosy Cosy

Around the UK the rest of the world:

• Cycling Event from London to Great Finborough 
• Dawn of the Replicants - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh 
• Roni Size - Fez Club, Reading 
• Dizzie Rascal - Stylus, Leeds 
• Jethro Tull - Constitution Hall, Washington, USA 
• Supersmash Monkeyhouse - The Stables, Limerick 
• Camera Obscura, Sluts Of Trust, The Aphrodisiacs, Guest DJ - King Tuts, Glasgow 
• Royksopp - Manchester Academy 
• Bloc Party - Birmingham Academy 
• KT Tunstall - Sheffield Octagon   
• Badly Drawn Boy, I Am Kloot, My Computer, Nine Black Alps, Liam Frost – Manchester, Night & Day
• Webb Brothers, Caribou, Russian Futurists, Simon Thomas, High Contrast – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
• Kid 606, Drop the Lime, Tom Q Furness & Vernon - Bar Fresa, Liverpool
• This Ain't Vegas, The Harrisons, The Ivories, Negative For Francis, We Start Fires, Boys or Ballet - Club Strut @ The Forum, Darlington 
• Bearsuit Lalia and Goathaven - The Nelson, Norwich
• Håkan Lidbo, Lesli, Debonair, Last State, PeterMurphy's Carver Combo, Gösta Berlings Saga, Stompin' Souls, Giants Of DeSign, Torpedo, The Sunshine, DJs Phil Hopkin & Morty McCarthy (Sultans of Ping) - Street, Stockholm, Sweden

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