It's The Death of Prime Time Radio as we know it
Posted by Riccardo Gargiulo on 13 May 2008 - 2:18pm.
and may your chosen deity have mercy on it's soul...From the Lipster -
George Lamb wins radio Oscar
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Unbelievable
Though the rot started to set in for 6Music when they signed Russell Brand. Who I enjoy as a comedian, but has fuck-all to do with music. Lamb lacks even that saving grace. Watch and wait for the rebranding as 6Inanity.
And another scarcely-deserving pair of winners...
The 15 million pound man, Ross. And especially, Dermot O'Bloody Dreary: unbelievably shite.
James Whale loses his job
Yet we must continue to suffer Lamb?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/13/bbc.radio1
On topic, though, does anyone believe that a bloke pressing buttons to play samples and talking shit with a sycophantic 'posse' is the best this country can do radio wise? Didn't Steve Wright already do it on his Radio 1 afternoon show decades ago?
Blimey
I'm beginning to think he's some kind of war criminal, the way people go on, is he in charge of Burma or something. You'd think the BBC had never employed anyone bad, the way this has all been covered. And as for Desmond Carrington....
It's All True
Having never heard the man, but read with a laugh all the vitriol about him here, I've just listened to half an hour of him. It's all true, what a prat. Mind you, he's still better than 90% of the "personalities" on Irish radio so count yourselves lucky.
an ill-informed fellow Mick writes...
it's different markets though, Pat. Friends of mine who are in a position to listen to the wireless over t'internet at work swore by Gideon Coe. It's the withdrawal of him, a man who genuinely loved the music and not his own voice/posse, and the replacement that seems to have rankled with The Word faithful.
Radio presenters going out over the normal airwaves with advertisers to placate will *always* play to the lowest common denominator. Yes Gerry Ryan, that means you...
I think it's the fact that the non-commercial Beeb would do such a thing that's the clincher here...
In the interests of
In the interests of fairness, I'm currently doing my best to endure a half hour of George Lamb. So far we've had Lamb and his cronies ruining Louie Louie by singing along at the end (hilarious!); Lamb crowing about winning his gold;"If you could give an alien a dialect, what would it be?"; a "rowdy" wave; an interminable "Physic Finds Missing Dog" news story and a Shabba shout out.
Apart from the utter bloody inanity of it all - and to be honest, I'm not above a bit of inanity now and again - its his voice that I'm finding the most difficult thing to deal with. Its over eager, faux matey and smugly self satisfied all at the same time. He's the sort of person I'd avoid at all costs at a party so I can't think why I've invited him into my computer. Where's that off button.