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Tom Ravenscroft: ‘I always wanted a shell suit, but my mum wouldn’t let me have one’

The radio DJ talks about missing grungy old music festivals, doing all the cleaning at home, and being brought up without ambition by his dad, John Peel

We had three TDK 90s and we would drive around France in our battered, crappy Peugeot 505 estate, travelling the world musically through these cassettes. And then rave culture started and me and my friends got really into hardcore and jungle, and we got called ravers, but as an insult. I remember being taken to a Nirvana gig in London’s King’s Cross when I was very young and it being a terrifying experience.

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