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Dave Strickson

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Dave Strickson writes Formally Known As The Bollocks, a personal blog at davestrickson.blogspot.com about culture. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “John Peel Sessions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Links to a post about John Peel session recordings. Commenters point to it as a place to listen to the sessions again and rediscover music.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Renowned Music Blogger, Dave Strickson, listens to some of the people that mattered in the history of music.

Most-linked posts?

  1. John Peel Sessions
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. And today you can listen to (most of?) those John Peel sessions again: https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-peel-session... The circle has been closed!

    Comment linking /2020/05/john-peel-sessions.html

    on “I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them”
  2. Submitted John Peel Sessions as a story · 231 points

    HN discussion
  3. pixxel · 2023-11-11Recommends
    You may like this John Peel archive to (re)discover music: https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-peel-session...

    Comment linking /2020/05/john-peel-sessions.html?m=1

    on “Goodbye Spotify”

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