Of course, I'm tempted to do that, but you can't help but thinking at the same time, you know, that they're going to introduce foreign bodies into your gruel. "Somebody was telling me that a member of the Butthole Surfers is in town and invited me to get in touch with him, and so on, and discuss record label and forthcoming LP, and whatever else I wanted to discuss. On his 17 November 1990 show, Peel mentioned another abortive encounter: The band, though, continued to be keen to meet the DJ in person. "I chickened out at the last minute cos I thought they'd obviously be expecting some kind of fellow who looked as though he'd just escaped from a biker gang, and when they get this rather portly, avuncular grey-haired old chap - a nice chap in many ways, but at the same time it's not what they expect, really, from a DJ." He explained his reasons on his Peel 099 (BFBS) show: In 1988, Peel was invited to have lunch with the group but decided not to attend. Peel also reviewed the gig on the Observer newspaper in a piece that was later reprinted in the Olivetti Chronicles. This is one of the things, you know, one of the conflicts that I’ve had with people over the years." I mean, I don’t feel one should necessarily always enjoy popular music.
So, I think the Butthole Surfers would define something for me, although I’m not quite sure what it is.
I don’t know, is that titillation? I mean, what attitude should I have had to that? And that was just one aspect of what they were doing. All of my preconceptions about what things should be – for example, one obvious thing was sexism for example, because they had a completely naked woman dancing on stage with them throughout the entire thing. "I saw the Butthole Surfers and came away genuinely – “with one’s senses reeling” does sound like a cliché from a regional newspaper, but that is exactly how I felt after I’d seen them. But very well worth seeing and hearing."Ī few weeks later, he described his impressions further to John Walters in the fifth programme in the Peeling Back The Years series: But if you said you enjoyed it, I should be seriously concerned about you as a human being. The following week, on his 10 August 1987 show, he still seemed overwhelmed by their performance: Peel first saw the band in 1987 at the Clarendon Hotel Ballroom in Hammersmith.
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