Thursday Music Link
In the matter of DJ Tim Westwood ... I don't think anyone can credibly make a case that he doesn't know a huge amount about the music he plays, or that he is very highly respected by the actual artists and has been for more than twenty years (he's mentioned in the liner notes to the Nation of Millions album). The only real charge against him appears to be that he adopts a silly fake voice for broadcasting purposes, to which one can only dimly object that John Peel impersonated a Beatle for his entire broadcasting career too.
Velocity of Hue
Alternatively, something a little more blues based
John Peel wasn’t the only adopted merseysider whose accent slid down the social scale in his later years.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, the Pathe website is the finest time-waster on the internets.
Also incidentally, did you see that Jimmy Reid was briefly a junior member of the stockbroking trade / profession?
ReplyDeleteCilla Black as well. No, I never saw that about Jimmy Reid - fantastic, thanks.
ReplyDeleteHe didn't affect *that* accent for his whole career, otherwise we wouldn't have those recordings of him over in the US doing the mid-Atlantic thing.
ReplyDeleteWestwood still does DJ appearances across the United Kingdom where he plays largely mainstream hiphop at entirely mainstream nightclubs while interspersing it with incomprehensive jive and ludicrously frequent samples of gunshots. The experience (at least when said nightclub is on the west coast of Scotland) is almost like being at a Wild West-themed Butlins disco but with the wrong CDs delivered. I think it's quite fair to suggest that such behaviour is bananas. Coolio's subsequent appearance at the same club was equally bizarre but, well, that's Coolio.
ReplyDeleteVery late counterpoint, from a friend:-
ReplyDelete"A friend was a professional adviser of TW a number of years ago. My friend is a lovely person, not given to hating at all but he makes an exception for TW, who he found to be an arrogant t*55er. "