I was really shocked last week.
Upset even.
Totally unexpected.

It was announced that Gilles Peterson was being axed from BBC Radio 1.
He is at the cutting edge of all things new about music.
Broad range/as futuristic as you can get
yet he has been sacked, so it seems, because the nee to have younger DJs
stink

If yo click this way often
you will know I delight in his music.
I capture and have done for ten years.
I have a hard drive full of his two hour programs
Plus his albums with a wide range of artistes.

The beeb have replied to my complaint
upset but not nasty - never

Developing new DJ talent is a key part of this and we believe the changes to the schedule will ultimately strengthen the overall range and depth of our specialist music offering. There will be new programmes for Skream & Benga, Toddla T, Charlie Sloth and Friction; and we will also introduce another four new presenters to the station in early 2012 as part of the In New DJs We Trust show.

We do understand your disappointment regarding Gilles Peterson’s departure. He has enjoyed a fantastic 13 years with the network, but we felt it was the right moment to give an opportunity to one of the next generation of up and coming DJs. He is currently in talks with other BBC Networks about future projects, so this is not necessarily the last time you will be able to hear him on the BBC.

We hope that this explains some of our thinking regarding the changes. We’re sorry you’re not happy with them, but hope you will at least give the new presenters a chance once they start in April 2012 before making a final decision about them.

I remain upset.
My Wednesday morning will become and empty space
a naked soul suffering musical and emotional deprivation.
hmmmmmm

This weeks show GEMS

Listen now (120 minutes)

Folk starlet Liz Green delivers stripped back renditions of two tracks from her new LP.

Meanwhile, Gilles Peterson drops heavyweight bits from

Sinden, Darkhouse Family and Bad Bad Not Good!

Music played

1. Actress — Rainy Dub

   Honest Jon's

2. Troy Gunner — Heads In Hands

   Mindset

3. Julio Bashmore — Well Wishers

   Futureboogie

4. Darkhouse Family — Take On The World

   Earnest Endeavours

5. Sinden — High Demand (feat Jesse Boykins)

   Grizzly

6. The Twilite Tone — Mean Machine

   UNOUno

7. Liz Green — Displacement Song

8. Liz Green — Gallows

9. Yusef Lateef — Brother John

   ABC

10. Frank Minion — Black Opium Street

11. Shigeto — New Light

    Ghostly International

12. Actress — Rainy Dub

    Honest Jon’s

13. Troy Gunner — Head In Hands

    Mindset

14. Julio Bashmore — Well Wishers

    Futureboogie

15. The Real Thing — Children Of The Ghetto

16. Madlib — Deep

    Instrumental

17. 2Morrow’s Victory — Antfarm

18. Homeboy Sandman — New York Nights

    Stones Throw

19. Emanative — Lions Of Judah (Zara Mashup)

20. Bad Bad Not Good — Hard In The Paint

21. Bludd Relations — Even Steven

22. Darkhouse Fam — Take On The World (feat Om’mas)

    Earnest Endeavours

23. Sinden — High Demand (feat Jesse Boykins III)

24. Kindness — Seod

    Terrible

25. Unknown — Burial Blakey

26. Lv — Explosive (DJ Rum Remix)

27. Scrimshire — A Promise Is All It Was

    Wah Wah 45

28. Words and Music with Liz Green

    1. Liz Green — Displacement Song

    2. Liz Green — Gallows

29. The Staves — Icarus

    Atlantic

30. Ifan Dafydd — To Me

    Push & Run

31. Carmen McCrae & Dave Brubeck — Take Five

    CBS

32. Roots Manuva — Beyond This World

    Big Dada

33. Sound Of Rum — So Low

34. Bad Bad Not Good — Rotten Decay

35. Namshimada — Sunshower

36. Kindness — Seod (Philip Zdar Dub)

    hmmmmmm in mourning ........
    

A Pip Favourite
for the season
but also
RELATIONSHIPS
which we are all interested in
if without them
with them
in conflict
in harmony .....

Anger

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger,
and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy,
even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power
that can move the world.




- Mahatma Gandhi

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I re read this yesterday
something I clicked in 2003
called
'YMCA for dinner'

I had a meal in the YMCA Dining Room tonight as I usually do. I sat alone. Sometimes it is good to do that just to see who decides to sit with me – it opens up many different contacts.

Jacky joined me. He’s from Senegal, with us from the YMCA for one year as a full-time volunteer. We were joined later by Mr. Singh. We talked about lots of things. The war looming. Me leaving the YMCA in two weeks and lots of miscellaneous brief exchanges with passing staff and residents. Jacky was quiet. He often stays silent following conversational exchange. “What are you thinking Jacky?” I ask. He paused, gentle as he does. He said in a measured pace.

“It’s like losing your father. It’s like becoming an orphan. Not just for me, but for everyone, the whole YMCA”.

He was referring to my departure and I felt blessed. I was moved.

Pip Wilson

Here I am. Thinking Santa things ....

My fav app

50 things killed by technology

Ringing the cinema to check film times, owning an encyclopaedia and dialling 1471 are among 50 things killed off by modern technology, according to a new poll - what about your score ?/50 ?

Printing out photographs, using public telephones and recording television shows on VHS are other activities which are dying out because of digital advancements.

The detailed study, carried out among 3,000 adults, examined the impact technology has had on our lives or the last 30 years.

TOP 50 THINGS WE DON'T DO ANY MORE

1. Ring the cinema to find out times

2. Going into the travel agents to research a holiday

3. Record things using VHS

4. Dial directory enquiries

5. Use public telephones

6. Book tickets for events over the phone

7. Print photos

8. Put a classified ad in the shop window

9. Ring the speaking clock

10. Carry portable CD players

11. Write handwritten letters

12. Buy disposable cameras

13. Take plenty of change for pay phones

14. Make mix tapes

15. Pay bills at the post office

16. Use an address book

17. Check a map before or during car journey

18. Reverse charges in payphones

19. Go into the bank or building society to conduct your business

20. Buy TV listings

21. Own an encyclopaedia

22. Queue to get car tax in Post Office

23. Develop and send off for photographs

24. Read a hard copy of the Yellow Pages

25. Look up something in dictionary

26. Remember phone numbers/ Have a phone book

27. Watch videos

28. Have pen friends

29. Use a telephone directory

30. Use pagers

31. Fax things

32. Buy CD's/ Have a CD collection

33. Pay by cheque

34. Make photo albums

35. Watch programmes at the time they are shown

36. Dial 1471 when you get home

37. Warm milk or other hot drinks on stove

38. Try on lots of pairs of shoes on high street

39. Hand wash clothes

40. Advertise in trading papers

41. Send love letters

42. Hand-write essays / school work

43. Buy flowers from a florist

44. Work out how to spell something yourself

45. Keep a personal diary

46. Send post cards

47. Buy newspapers

48. Hang washing out in winter

49. Keep printed bills or bank statements

50. Visit car boot sales