DJ Marcelle van Hoof is a 42-year old woman who has had an insatiable appetite for new exciting underground music since the punk era in 1977. A huge fan of the Radio One's The John Peel Show, in 1981 she phoned John when she heard he was coming over to the Netherlands for Pinkpop to ask if she could buy him a drink. Two years later, in 1983, John and his wife Sheila invited her to go on holiday with them as they travelled round Germany for three days looking at record shops and taking in a concert by The Cocteau Twins in Dusseldorf. Since then she also visited the family at Peel Acres and attended John's funeral in November 2004...

She is often called 'the female John Peel' for her weekly radio show Another Nice Mess which she broadcasts live every Tuesday between 7-9pm on DFM which sees many John Peel fans tuning in. She also works as a freelance journalist, practices Reiki, plays football, loves reading books, smiling, riding on her Vespa scooter and doing nothing! She's a Scorpio which she says therefore makes her 'very intense...'.

Real name?
Marcelle van Hoof

DJ name?
Marcelle van Hoof

How did you choose it?
It wasn't hard...

Vinyl junkie or CDs?
Very much vinyl.

How many records/CDs do you have?
About 9.000 I guess.

What style of music do you play?
I play any style as long as it's fresh, adventurous, new, shocking, lively, spontaneous, unclear, and/or not too slick. I consider Peel, with his open mindedness, humour, his mistakes, his terrific ear for new music and enthusiasm to be my mentor. I love minimal German techno, breakcore, heavy dub, leftfield hiphop, weird electronics, reggae, drum n bass, seventies punk, riot girls, noisy guitars, grime. I LOVE heavy bass in music. I'm the biggest Fall-fan in the universe... (I like to think). The name of my radio show Another Nice Mess sums it up really well.

Where do you DJ?
I have had Another Nice Mess for almost 20 years, playing the latest exciting, groundbreaking underground music. For a long time this was broadcast on free Radio 100, but nowadays on DFM through the internet (www.dfm.nu). I have loads of international listeners, from the US to Germany, from Belgium to Scotland. Amongst others a lot of former John Peel-listeners tune in... (a sad and nice thing at the same time). Apart from that I deejay live wherever people want to have me: these days quite often at the OCCII, but also Paradiso and Vaaghuyzen in Amsterdam, Paard van Troje (The Hague), Ekko (Utrecht), Tivoli (Utrecht), festivals in Belgium... too many to mention really.

Your ideal DJ gig?
People dancing, jumping, smiling and enjoying themselves to anything from The Fall to Venetian Snares, from King Tubby to minimal German techno... from Sole to Jon E Cash, from Four Tet to Robag Wruhme… I like an open-minded audience!

Last record/CD you bought?
A whole package: six 'grime' 12-inches, by postal order from the UK, most of them by Jon E Cash, Au Revoir Simone CD from USA, new Four Tet 12-inch, Deadbeat album on Scape, Electrelane album on Too Pure, Mashup compilation by Shitmat, Enduser and Bong-Ra, a Haitan voodoo music album on Soul Jazz. Naming one record would never do me justice...

Current musical obsession?
My musical obsession has always been to go for the new, the adventurous i.e.grime at the moment or some breakcore, or some weird electronics. I never stick to one genre and like to evolve!

Top 3 all-time dancefloor favourites?
Delta 5: Mind Your Own Business 7''
The Fall: Big New Prinz 12''
Big Youth: Waterhouse Rock remix album track

Worst request?
''Something in tune.''

Favourite record stores in Amsterdam?
Distortion, Get Records, Concerto

Favourite internet radio station
DFM
WFMU

Do you have your own website?
www.anothernicemess.com