Tag: John Peel Centre

Jarvis Cocker discusses John Peel’s influence, Pulp’s Peel sessions and their classic album 'Different Class'.

Taking inspiration from the more extreme ends of guitar music, namely early-hardcore, dissonant no-wave, Sonic Youth were the Velvet Underground for the materialistic 1980s.

Watch the full video as 30 years on from the release of 'Daydream Nation' Thurston Moore joins us to reflect on it's impact for National Album Day at The John Peel Centre For Creative Arts.

National Album Day returns on Saturday 12th October for its second year and once again Classic Album Sundays is the official events partner!

The Kinks' guitarist looks back 50 years to the creation of the iconic album that is now considered the band's finest LP offering in a heartfelt and open discussion.

The podcasts and videos from our events with KT Tunstall, Paloma Faith, Orbital, Primal Scream, The Kinks's Dave Davies and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Colleen's BBC 6 Music Album Special and her Art of the Album story.

Check out these great shots from our first of two evenings at The John Peel Centre For Creative Arts to celebrate the first ever National Album Day.

Date and Time: Sunday 14th October 5:00 to 8:00pm

We were honoured to be joined by one of our childhood heroes Pick Floyd's Nick Mason for our first event of 2018.