Xmess upon us

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Yeah it's this time of the year again, when the bells are jingling un every shopping mall:

The count down to the most beloved/hated season has started again!

Here are a few recommended Xmas blogs for both sides compiled by connoisseurs of the genre:

Christmas à gogo

Christmas shareo

Punk-Christmas

Mistle tunes

Hif-fi-holiday

barbarian beach party

If you want to get in the right seasonal spirit 

check out my Christmas special podcast:

Click & listen to

Profane Xmess

John Peel remembered

The day of dead has just passed (2 Nov.), so if you are feeling like listening to the legendary DJ 

broadcasting from beyond the grave again: Here are loads of John Peel shows waiting for you!

I discovered him in the 80's on British Forces Network on air in Westberlin and got hooked.

I met him personally many years later during Womex in Berlin (2000) and discovered then 

that he was a very nice and down to earth bloke as well.

Listening outside your comfort zone and keeping an open ear for things to come 

was his life long ambition:"I just wanted to hear something I haven't heard before!"

You are surely missed, John!

"The Nation needs you" by the Cuban boys

http://www.johnpeelcentre.com

http://www.johnpeelarchive.com/

Don Letts explores John Peel's record collection

http://www.johnpeelarchive.com/don-letts

John Peels Record Box documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_aUFuZA9oo

John Peel's Autobahn Blues documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IVl-o7gZo