Could the Radio Festival be about to see its first topless lecture? Iggy Pop will deliver the 4th John Peel lecture at the annual radio industry shindig, in Salford on Monday 13 October. James Osterberg, the wildman of proto-punk and alternative music who now rifles through his record collection for a Sunday afternoon BBC 6 Music show, will deliver a lecture titled Free Music in a Capitalist Society, which he described as a “struggle which never ends”. This year’s Radio Academy event will take place in the month of the 10th anniversary of Peel’s death and Iggy said of the reverred Radio 1 DJ:

“Here was a person with strong opinions and enthusiasms who wasn’t defined by any system, because of that his show became an exciting location, kind of like a shop that’s a good hang. So it was a social as well as a musical phenomenon.”

He will be the first American to deliver the lecture – in previous years the speakers have been Pete Townsend, Billy Bragg and Charlotte Church. The Welsh singer and actor appeared barefoot – gauntlet laid down, Iggy, right there.