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John Peel was an undeniable force who spread the popularity of post-punk, punk, and other underground music. Peel was born John Robert Parker Ravenscroft on August 30, 1939 in the Liverpool area. Before he began his DJ career, he served in the National Service as a B2 radar operator and worked as a mill operative afterwards. He started his radio career in Dallas, Texas, and with his connections in Liverpool he later became the official correspondent for the Beatles for the station KLIF. He returned to England in 1967, taking a job in Radio London. Around that time, he spurred the hippie culture in England by playing West Coast psychedelic bands such as Jefferson Airplane and Mothers of Invention on the station. Soon, Peel was promoted as the DJ for BBC Radio 1.

It was there that he is well known for his Peel sessions. He recorded many artists in these sessions, including T-Rex, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, The Faces, Bolt Thrower, The Sex Pistols, The Slits, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd, The Clash, Napalm Death, Carcass, Extreme Noise Terror, The Undertones, Buzzcocks, Gary Numan, The Cure, Joy Division, The Wedding Present, Six By Seven, Def Leppard, The Orb, Pulp, Ash, Orbital, The Smiths, FSK, Trumans Water, The Black Keys, The White Stripes and PJ Harvey.

He died from diabetes on October 25, 2004.

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Post-Punk.com: The Ultimate Resource

May 20th 2008 09:09

Established in 2004, the MySpace site for post-punk, Post-Punk.com has been the ultimate resource for those who either want to know about the genre or become immersed in it. Created by Joshua Pfeiffer and designed by Andru Aesthetik, Post-Punk.com contains reviews of post-punk records, links to classic and new post-punk artists, and a player filled with music with one song from each well-known band.

A link worth checking is the music video section, located on top of the page. Pfeiffer has compiled many YouTube videos of classical and modern post-punk artists in alphabetical lists. There is also a memorial page dedicated to significant punk and post-punk artists that forever shaped the genre from the Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious to the Killing Joke’s Paul Raven.

You can browse on Post-Punk.com and check out bands that they have on their friends list, or search for bands from the new post-punk artists site. If you have Post-Punk.com added as a friend in your MySpace network, you can download volumes of compilations for free. The compilations are ordered either by the years or a certain theme of the post-punk movement such as the European Coldwave.

The site can either be reached at www.post-punk.com or www.myspace.com/postpunk. Currently Post-Punk.com has over 11,000 friends in its MySpace network.

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24 Hour Party People (film)

May 17th 2008 09:48

If you want to get acquainted with how post-punk music shaped Manchester, England, then go watch Michael Winterbottom’s “24 Hour Party People.” The film chronicles Tony Wilson’s rise from the formation of his independent Factory Records label in the late 1970s to a downfall twenty years later. Aside from establishing Factory Records, Tony Wilson established The Hacienda, a night club that offered Manchester an outlet of post-punk and house music.

“24 Hour Party People” is unique in that it is a combination of a mockumentary and a documentary. In other words it is a British version of “This is Spinal Tap,” only it’s based on a true story. Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) narrates the rise and fall of his music empire, guiding the viewers to a darkly comic tale filled with the proverbial sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The film has two parts. First, Tony Wilson chronicles about the band Joy Division, whose lead singer Ian Curtis tragically committed suicide in 1980 at the age of 23. The second part involves the formation and the wild life of the band The Happy Mondays, founded by Shaun and Paul Ryder in the mid 1980s.

The film is rated R and it is available on DVD.

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What is Post-Punk? (LINK)

May 16th 2008 10:07

Post-punk is a genre of rock that incorporated crisp drumming, a pronounced bass, usually synthesizers, keyboards, and a raw studio sound. Not much information has been found on this “dark” genre that had paved the way for gothic, industrial, and even today’s indie rock. According to Wikipedia, the style has been derived from Krautrock (such as Kraftwerk), Jamaican dub, funk, raggae, avant-garde movements, and even disco.

Some post-punk bands were inspired to create their own bands after seeing the Sex Pistols perform in Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall in 1976, as seen in the films “24 Hour Party People” and “Control.” Among the forty-two people who saw the punk band perform were future members of bands Joy Division, New Order, Simply Red, A Certain Ratio, and others. It is also important to point out that the Sex Pistols came from urban London, which is at the southern part of England, while Manchester is at the north; the isolation experienced in Manchester was perfect for bands to deviate themselves from the traditional punk sound. The lyrics are generally inward and somber, not politically charged. Other bands such as Manchester’s Chameleons UK had a more ambient tone in their works

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