Fans of John Peel will be able to pay their final respects at a public funeral to be held at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, in Bury St Edmunds, next Friday, 12 Nov. The public ceremony will be followed by a private service for family and friends of the late great DJ. Peel's body was flown back to the UK last Monday night - he died, of course, of a heart attack while on holiday in Peru with his wife Sheila.
Given that every radio station in the country will be rightly adhering to a minutes silence at 11am the previous day, it being Remembrance Day, perhaps every radio station should commit to play the Undertones' 'Teenage Kicks' at 11am on Friday. Followed by some weird track you've never heard of, preferably played at the wrong speed.