DJ Emma Peel (The Girl Bomb)

About Miss Peel

DJ Emma Peel is Melbourne's first lady of latin. She hosts weekly radio show, SWITCHED ON, on PBS FM (106.7FM): taking listeners on a journey back to the 1960's and 1970's to discover sounds from around the world including: Latin Jazz, Boogaloo, Salsa, Samba, Bossa Nova, MPB, European Sound Library, Soul-Jazz, original Rhythm and Blues, Now Sound and other rare vinyl delights. In 2012 she supported 9 times Grammy Award winning latin jazz pianist, Eddie Palmieri, during his Australian tour. Most recently, she supported the King of Latin Soul, Joe Bataan during his only Melbourne concert. She has interviewed a number of musical legends including Tito Puente Jnr and Dr Lonnie Smith. From 2001 - 2007 Emma hosted Melbourne's longest running Go-Go club, Blow-Up - a unique monthly event which featured go-go dancers in cages, bands, psychedelic lighting and suave DJs. During this time she also DJ'd for the 5.6.7.8's Australian tour, the Melbourne Fringe Festival, Falls Festival, Queenscliff Music Festival, La Mirada Film Festival, Melbourne Arts Festival and traveled annually to Europe to play at jazz clubs in Italy and France. You can check out her SWITCHED ON PBS FM WEBPAGE BY CLICKING HERE! DIG!!!

PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU WISH TO CONTACT EMMA, THE BEST WAY TO DO SO IS VIA EMAIL:thegirlbomb1[@]gmail[.]com

OR VIA FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/thegirlbomb

You can check out and download some of her DJ mixes on SoundCloud:
http://soundcloud.com/thegirlbomb

Interests

General

LIKES:

jogging on the spot like Tina Turner and the Ikettes, op-shopping, sewing mad 60's outfits, hotpants suits, false eyelashes, ridiculous amounts of eyeliner, Djing, collecting 60s/70s latin records, collecting other people's disgarded junk that i regard as treasure (particularly haberdashhhh!!!), graphic design,creating/editing music on protools, drinking scotch (double) on the rocks, flirting with intelligent rock boys (increasingly difficult to find), Go-Go Dancing, french/italian cinema, going surfing with Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Il Cattivo):

psychedelic light shows, 60's - early 70's fashion design, Fiats (i have never driven anything else...)

Trash soft porno crime stories...

J H Lynch & Shabner paintings and Eden lithos....

loon pants, big floppy sun-hats, running around beautiful flower gardens in autumn....

listening to rain on the roof at night, spokey dokes, riding girly bikes in hot pants,

nutella for breakfast, big hair, laughing with friends, and men who can dance like this (check it):

HATES:

scabby rock boys who think they're god because they can strum a guitar....GET A REAL JOB!, boys who go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about their band and how its going the be the greatest band in the world soon. I DONT CARE!, obsessive Beatles/Who/Rolling Stones fans. EXPAND YOUR MINDS!, drooby guys who try to chat me up. DREAM ON! 80s fashion. P-LEEEASE! stencil art on t-shirts, Australian chicks that affect an American accent and say "like" every second word, men who wear sunnies and baseball caps at night...back the front (Lleyton Hewitt style), the song "Heatwave",Austin Powers, BITCHY WOMEN.

LOVES:

My "fashion tribe" of like-minded hipsters and flipsters:

Il Cattivo, El Bastardo, Paul Kidney. Here they are:
Music
Movies

Medium Cool, 8 and 1/2, Anna, Juliet of the Spirits, Psych Out, Straw Dogs, The Conversation, La Dolce Vita, Whats News Pussycat, The Tenth Victim, Mr Freedom, Alfie, The Limey, The Italian Job, anything with Alain Delon, anything with Marcello Mastrianni, Basic Black, The Getaway, Head, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, Gassss!, Vixen, Get Carter, Sweet Sweetback's Badaaaaass Song, Candy, Foxy Brown, Space is the Place, The Big Lebowski, Rosemary's Baby, The Touchables, The Life Aquatic, Myra Breckinridge, The French Connection, Zabriskie Point, The Ipcress Files
Books

This is the best book you could possibly ever buy...
Heroes
Grace Slick...

This Chick:

and this chick:

Veruschka

Bob Fosse...

Steve McQueen (who is the dishiest man to ever walk the universe)...

stylish couples such as.....

groovers who lay about and look good, such as....

chicks with enormous hair, such as....

Other heroes include: Walter Wanderley, Alan Hawkshaw, Sven Libaek, Herbie Flowers, Shirley Scott, Ramsey Lewis, Bob Fosse, Cal Tjader, Enoch Light, Ethel Gabriel, Phil Bodner, Piero Piccioni, Maynard Ferguson, Alan Parker, Brian Bennett, Les Baxter, Ennio Morricone, Anita Kerr, Hal Blaine, Tony Bennett (i've met him.. he's so cute and cuddly)...