John Peel’s Sound of the Suburbs

“Channel 4 TV series aired in 1999 that featured Peel meeting local musicians in different parts of the UK.”

INCREDIBLE!!! I daydreamed of making a similar documentary. Of course John Peel has done it. Who else would? Can you imagine anything similar these days? Perhaps once the bands have 150,000 Facebook ‘Likes’ and the singer is fit the BBC might send Fearne Cotton down. 

Watch them all! 

1. Sounds Of The Suburbs: Lanarkshire(27/02/1999)
2. Sounds Of The Suburbs: Oxford(06/03/1999)
3. Sounds Of The Suburbs: South Wales(13/03/1999)
4. Sounds Of The Suburbs: Cornwall(21/03/1999)
5. Sounds Of The Suburbs: Humberside(28/03/1999)
6. Sounds Of The Suburbs: Bradford(04/04/1999)
7. Sounds Of The Suburbs: Isle Of Wight(11/04/1999)
8. Sounds Of The Suburbs: The North East(18/04/1999)

A shame there’s no Kent :) 

p.s. What the hell happened to Channel 4’s music coverage? I’m getting old, that’s what! :(