What's the deal with Dreamland Express? Any leads on whether it's real or just a total mystery?
― everything, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
I found a gig flyer with Fairport Convention and Dreamland Express, but more than that, no.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
...which also had John Peel on the bill, right?
― everything, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/middleearth3sep67.jpg
― everything, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
One of these days, I'll get Tom Ravenscroft back on the case...
― Mark G, Saturday, 6 July 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
Hi all, My Covid lockdown project has been John Peel's record box. I've come pretty close to getting them all. I need I'm not Drinking More - Al Ferrier and Ticky Dopies/ I Saluti - Sipho Bhengu, and , of course, Dreamland Express - I think I saw somewhere that John Peel may have played the Dreamland Express tunes on his show. Is that true? Mark G, I see from a post about 5 years ago that you got hold of the Sipho Bhengu. I would dearly love to have copies of these tracks (and the rest of the Thala Thala compilation album)
If Mark G or anyone else can help me with these last few tunes that would be great. Does anyone else need any from the list?
― Alexrob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
Just sent you a Webmail with a link to the Al Ferrier song.
― city worker, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
And..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
city worker - thank you so much. I had kind of resigned myself to failure, or at the very least a long long wait to find that. Do you have any gaps in your collection? Who knows, I moght have something you're after. You're welocme to any music I have.
― Alexrob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
Mark G, Hi. Did you send a weblink as well? It hasn't come through to me.... I have to say, I'm amazed and delighted to get these responses.
― Alexrob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
Hi,
Not as yet, but.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 06:26 (three years ago) link
Listening to Peel's intro to a 1973 Be Bop Deluxe session and it's striking how different his on-air voice is from later years. He's even more lugubrious and deep-voiced in 1973. Anyone know if the change was intentional or just something that gradually happened?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
He definitely tried his hardest to distance himself from his fluty-voiced public school hippy persona of the late 60s, I didn't know he was doing it as early as '73 though.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
I think Marc Bolan broke his hippy heart tbh.
coulda been bowie
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
I have a theory that when he was in the process of trying to lose his hippy trappings he based a lot of his vocal mannerisms on John Walters, his producer, they could sound very similar.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link