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Mark's Interests
General
Putting on a CD or piece of crackly vinyl and being blown sideways to the point where I can barely speak or move.
Watching football.
Thinking about Plato and how to relate him to the essences of football and rock and roll (which you can.
Music
Anything that sounds so good I foul myself with excitement.
Listen to my show at www.dandelionradio.com and check my profile at www.last.fm/user/Unwashed for updates on what I'm listening to right now.
Dead of Night, Twelve Angry Men, Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, Quadrophenia.
Television
The Young Ones. Father Ted. Fat Tulip. Early Vic and Bob. The Simpsons. Football. Family Guy. Carl Sagan's "Cosmos".
Books
"Wuthering Heights", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "The Wasp Factory", "The Golden Notebook", "Gulliver's Travels", "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", "The Dice Man", "Snowblind", "Couples", "The Republic". Pretty much anything by Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood or Tom Sharpe.
John Peel. Then maybe Matt Groening, Epicurus and probably one or two others. Not much time for heroes. I admire humans for being human and dislike them for the same reason.
The Mark Whitby show on Dandelion Radio:
"It's a brilliant mix of independent, underground and better known music and Mark plays freely between genres in a masterful way with gem after gem coming up."
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You can listen to my show pretty much every day on Dandelion Radio, playing a combination of the new, the strange, the different and not staying still long enough to occupy anybody else's rut.
I'm also the author of "The Festive Fifty", a book on the legendary John Peel's end of year chart, published in 2005. Get in touch if you want one.
Who I'd like to meet: Pass along this small tribute, copy this code.
Sadly this is of course never going to happen. Can't think of anyone else who I would have been interested enough to listen to for any length of time.Was denied the chance to meet Peel when a band I was managing (loosely speaking) got played on his show and he met them. However, they wouldn't let me go along because "Peel doesn't like managers", which I'm sure was correct, and entirely understandable.
Peel's role in music is best understood in the terms spelt out above. If the articulation of a universal truth is what rock and roll is all about, then John Peel more than anyone had the dedication and honesty to be able to identify the most significant articulations in all sorts of places that others, bound by conformity and illusory categories, wouldn't have known where to look.
Peel himself, of course, would have said this was complete bollocks.
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Hi Mark, Welcome to the OST "Aficionados"! Thanks a million for your brilliant words in the 2000 Trees blog, the friendship and the interest in our music. Keep in touch. Peace and good wishes. OST.
Hey there Mark, hows things? Oh dear, he's been at it again... Thats right the Mascara Snake, two brand new tunes from LORD NUMB - FAST ' N ' BULBOUS and I'M DORIS STOKES and another amazing re-mix by NSJ of QUESTION MARK FOR A FACE - THE ABANDONED COLLIERY MIX. Fierce.
Thankyou for adding Camden Calling as a friend Benefit By Audio will help homeless and vulnerable people to access the Arts. For those of you who may be interested our artwork is original and designed by a homeless person. Hope to see you there 08.08.08 Kentish Towm Forum 7pm-1am 6 bands 2 dj's £12. 50
Cheers Mark - really appreciate that! We will have our debut EP finished in a month or three so we'll get in touch when its done and send you a copy, see what you think! Until then, we'll send as may able ears your way. Balloons xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hey there Mark, I've just stuffed 3 new tunes up me playa - CUBITT, THERES NOWT AS QUEER AS FOLK and PIPISTRELLE plus 2 super fried re-mixes from electronic wizards NSJ and BIK. Dig!!!
Hi , Thanks for the add – have a good one. All the best Sososher Sososher – it’s a bit of a tongue twister isn’t it “try saying it three times in a row”. Now you’ve heard the name, you’re going to have to find out what it means.
