John Peel

A Festival- goer has created a petition to have the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury renamed because of historical sexual abuse claims.

A postcard, allegedly sent to Nevin from Peel after she contacted him about their relationship 30 years later, read: “Jane, Well, you’ve scared the daylights out of me. “It was when I was in the tent for the first time the recollection of it hit me, and I felt really uneasy about it. She said the affair resulted in her falling pregnant and having a “traumatic” abortion in Ealing. In an interview with The Guardian in 1975 while discussing women, Peel said: “All they wanted me to do was abuse them, sexually, which, of course, I was only too happy to do”. An interview originally published in The Herald in April 2004 stated that Peel admitted to sexual contact with “an awful lot” of underage girls. In an interview with The Sunday Correspondent in 1989, Peel said: “Girls used to queue up outside.

A PETITION has launched calling on Glastonbury Festival to rename its John Peel Stage because of historical sexual abuse allegations against the…

“I was insecure and impressionable. She told Mail Online: “He (Peel) must have known I was still at school. In 1975, he told The Guardian: “All they wanted me to do was abuse them, sexually, which, of course, I was only too happy to do.” I suppose I used him for his fame, and he used me for sex.” The petition, created by festivalgoer Jack Owens, 26, describes the stage’s name as “a slap in the face to sexual abuse survivors”. The John Peel Stage was called the New Bands Tent until the DJ's death in 2004, when it was renamed “in honour of the late and great DJ and festival friend John Peel”.

A festival-goer has started a petition to change the name of a tent at Glastonbury for up-and-coming artists after sex allegations against its namesake.

[...] One of my, er, regular customers, as it were, turned out to be 13, though she looked older..' “It's a slap in the face to sexual abuse survivors, women, children and decent people to have to stand in a stage with his name on it, which has the sick words 'teenage dreams so hard to beat' written on the side. The petition was started by Jack Owens, a 26-year-old from Manchester, who attended the festival and said he felt uneasy whilst in the tent. She claimed to have met him at a Black Sabbath concert when he was 30, before he had sex with her in the BBC studio and backstage at concerts. It was named the John Peel stage in recognition of his highly acclaimed work in the music industry in a career that spanned decades, including his apparent mastery of choosing bands that would then rise to fame. The famous pink and blue canopy was renamed after the DJ and friend of the festival in 2005, shortly after his death the year prior from a heart attack aged 65.

A campaigner is calling for the Wirral-born DJ's name to be dropped by the famous festival.

"It's a slap in the face to sexual abuse survivors, women, children and decent people to have to stand in a stage with his name on it, which has the sick words "teenage dreams so hard to beat" written on the side. Jack Owens, 26, who started the petition, wants organisers to remove Mr Peel's name from the tent for next year's festival. But now a petition is calling for his name to be stripped from the stage following claims of sexual assault.