Entertainment For Lively Minds
Annie Nightingale
Posted by wayfarer on 7 June 2011 - 12:19pm.
I've just watched "Annie Nightingale - Bird on the Wireless" She spends an hour talking to camera about the music she has loved and championed over the decades and how, like Peel, she is always waiting for the next musical cycle to happen as popular music reinvents itself. Here is a person who loves music and is so articulate and knowledgable that an hour in her company just flies by. If you havent seen it yet, it's on iPlayer until Monday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011mb8d/Annie_Nightingale_Bird_on_...
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I thought it
sold her short.
The tunes they chose to represent her career were all massive hits and hardly displayed the ground breaking new music attitude she holds dear. And she has some fantastic stories about her Ibiza/ house madness too that were over looked. Far too conservative a documentary for me.
I liked the fact that she provided the narration though.
Agree Jimmy
The programme ended up being a bit of a list of stuff she liked. You didn't find out what she thought about the characters she's met over the years, apart from Ian Dury, little about being a female or older broadcaster, or why her tastes in music keep changing/adapting. It needed a Kirsty Young-type interviewer to tease things out.
Perhaps the programme stuck to the mainstream stuff to emphasise the sheer range of stuff Anne's covered.
The Stuff
she talked about became mainstream. She was in at the beginning of a lot of it, not just music, but being the first pop journo in Fleet Street, the first female dj on Radio One; things that became mainstream.
Sleep
Unfortunately I fell asleep half way through it on Saturday night after a few glasses of wine. I enjoyed what I saw, but she rambles on a bit at times. Will try it again on the I-Player.
It was good but I agree it was too much well worn
musical history lesson and not enough about Annie and her story.
Plus I can't believe she fell into that old chestnut of blaming Rick Wakeman as the reason Punk happened. As any fule kno, it wasn't Rick, it was Laurie Lingo and the Dipsticks and JJ ' no charge' Barrie.
The Whistle Test thing on tour with the police looks good though. A very jetlagged AN whizzing around on bullet trains while the band playwith huge 80s tech gadgets
watched Police in the East
last night and enjoyed it greatly----well worth catching on the best sounding "telly" you have--hope it's on iplayer.
I thought we'd just agreed/disagreed
It was Queen?
I wanted more Radio 1 early days stuff and her own story
Hearing her talk about the music she loves was of no real interest to me, and when it gets to how she's mad on Magnetic Man it was frankly undignified.
I was so excited about this...
...but thought it was really dull. Who needs to hear again that the Beatles, Clash and Ian Dury were actually quite good?
I appreciate she was there first, but unless you knew that, you wouldn't have necessarily known that from the programme.
Not sure whether the programme makers lacked ambition, or they just couldn't get the stuff from AN properly, but I was very disappointed with it.
I found her
profoundly irritating and switched channels after about fifteen minutes of inane self-glorification. She only plays records on the radio for gawds sake.
And she was rude about prog. Which wasn't big or clever. Or original.
re prog
was delighted that bbc4 also repeated the excellent Prog Rock Brittania recently. At once wry and a labour of love---i still think Carl Palmer's 1/2" thick steel drumkit is funny. ...
It was ok,
but I didn't learn anything about her as a person