I just want to hear something I haven’t heard before,” the late Radio 1 DJ John Peel once said. His love of music would ...

In 1979, for even the most avid NME reader living outside Britain’s big cities, it wasn’t easy to get to see new bands. Sure, you could hear them on John Peel, but that didn’t tell you anything about ...

Listeners to the John Peel show on 25 June 1979 heard something which had not yet arrived at its destination. Central to this flux, these recordings are from the week Gary Numan decided that the ...

There is no set formula to write a great song, but people might be surprised how important improvisation played a part in Joy Division. Read more here.