Never mind the George Lamb, here's Sarah Kennedy
George Lamb, the talentless himbo on 6music, rightfully gets some stick from just about anyone with a brain. But what about the BBC Radio network's other bad signings? In particular, the perennially annoying Sarah Kennedy. She has many obscure catchphrases...
"he may be tonsorially challenged, but he's welcome on this show at any time" (James Taylor)
"the Banglingtons" (The Bangles)
"I haven't heard that in a goodly long time" (anything really really well known and overplayed, like Build Me Up Buttercup, and she really does seem to believe she hasn't heard it for ages)
"here she is, in her ratting suit" (the travel woman)
"Sainsbugs" (Sainsburys)
"SW's to you" (a reference to the Steve Wright 'Love the Show' tradition)
"chesticles" (some sort of illness that causes her to be replaced by Aled Jones)
"I hope you've got out of your trucklebed" (no idea)
"I hope you've got your gamp with you" (ditto)
There must be other annoyances from this most unpredictable of DJ's...
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Thank you
I have never heard her - and thanks to you I'll make damn' sure I never do......
What else do you expect. .
from someone who rose to fame alongside a man who seemed to revel in being called "Beadlebum"?
Careful...
we'll probably find out she has the largest private collection of existentialist poetry in Britain.
Never heard her
But she surely can't be worse than Terry Wogan.
Does Wogan like music?
The critic AA Gill once said something very incisive about Terry Wogan - he never shows any sign of interest in the music he plays! Has he ever played a song and them commented on it? I honestly don't think he has, unless he's on Eurovision of course. Does anyone know what his favourite bands are? Did he ever give his opinion on Katie Melua and the others he's credited with launching?
Sarah Kennedy is pretty annoying, but then aren't all presenters after a month? And at least she has from time to time commented on, if not discussed, the music she has just played.
Do any DJs actually TALK about music beyond a short glib remark? I've never heard John Peel's radio show but I assume he would talk for minutes at a time about each song he played, right?
I've heard he's partial to a bit of...
Extreme Noise Terror.
I remember him getting very
I remember him getting very giddy about that Katie Melua single he "discovered", so he does make the odd comment now and then. However he tends to reserve judgement (i.e. ignore) anything new or he'll just say something like "cheer up, man" when he plays the new Morrisey single.
Kennedy is a surreal listen in the morning. Her morning paper review as I'm slowly waking up makes me wonder if I have woken up in a parallel universe. I love the way she say things like "If you like cats/football/flowers/jam/saucepans/etc then you really should buy the Daily Express this morning as it has alovely picture of a . . . ." as if you base your newspaper purchase decision on something so trivial (then again. . .!) As a radio presenter I realy don't rate her at all but listening to her show is a unique experience. I say every morning that she has to go but I'm not sure I could put up with Aled Jones or Richard Allinson either.
She is pretty ghastly...
A few years ago, I and a few like-minded souls used to amuse ourselves by going onto the Radio 2 message board and posting things like "Sarah Kennedy - pretty bad today, what?" and seeing the torrent of support that poured in for her - along the lines of "if you don't like her, listen to something else". On reflection though, I suppose it was the modern equivalent of going to watch the inmates at Bedlam. In the end, "the man" wouldn't allow us to do it anymore.
Have you noticed how she adopts a cod Japanese accent when reading out a story in some way connected with the people of that nation? Perhaps a little racist?
The thing that amazes me though is the banal tripe that she reads out that her listeners have sent in! How their five year old daughter said something cute, or the time the cat got locked in the shed.
Still, I don't suppose it's so much worse than ranting on about dodgy old rock bands, is it?
These days I wake up to Radio 5 - but that Nicky Campbell - what a twat HE is!!
For a while my cassette player.....
....(yes, she has had the contract for that long) in the car was broken, so I listened to her for a few journeys, before changing to R4. (In truth, only because of my laziness, as I needed R2 for Johnny Walker on the way home, a longer drive, timewise, cos of traffic) She is unspeakable dire but is increasingly "unwell", often following gaffes about race, age, sex, you know, all the comedy staples. Methinks she has, um, a thirst, if you catch my drift. If she were not so unfeasibly popular, I think she would have been banished long ago.
Related Q: what time do most folk buy the Daily Mail? I will bet very early, just after or before their fix of bile.
Tut tut to Archie: we like Beadle, now he's dead. Remember the earlier stream about the Bickershaw boy?
Indeedlebum!
Sorry. I must try to keep up.
Coming
late to this, but God yes, she is bloody awful. I occasionally have 5 Live on in the evening and if I don't reset the Roberts I get her nasal whine as a wake up call.
Unless I've missed it, no-one's mentioned that her review of the papers stops at the Telegraph and the Mail; I can't remember ever hearing her quote from the Guardian or indeed anything that doesn't headline Princess Diana or Boris Johnson on a daily basis. It worries me that she's as popular as she is.
I'm with Retro; she's not well. They shoot horses, don't they? If that's too harsh, a retirement flat in Skeggy.
Morning Radio 2 is beyond shite
Kennedy, Wogan & Bruce. The sooner they retire and spend the hard earned money we have paid them all these years the better.
A gamp...
... is a brolly, no?
One step at a time though. Lamb first.
Incidentally, Lamb has been nominated for a Sony Award for best DAB 'rising star' or something. The chaps at the Facebook group seem to think there are (allegedly, m'lud) nefarious links between the Sonys team and Lesley Douglas.
In any event, it's a public vote, and Word readers may like to make their preference known (I voted for Amy Jones, if only because she looks like Zoe Bartlet from The West Wing).
http://risingstar.sony.co.uk/?referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radioawards.org%2...
none of the above
All we hear is Radio Ga Ga.
gampingtons
A gamp is indeed a brolly. She only calls it a gamp to appear more like Miss Marple... which reminds me; rarely does a week go by without her mentioning Marple, followed by:
"Oh really officer? How very interesting"
You can practically set your watch by it.
Chris Evans
Like Steve Wright (who isn't too bad actually, much more bearable than he used to be in his Radio 1 days, except for the Sunday love songs which is just sick making) he is an old style radio 1 DJ, misguidedly brought back as if radio 2 should be a nostalgic reunion, except he is worse than he used to be. I used to like TFI Friday - but now he's just trying too hard to be so cheerful, he is unbearably manic and has requests for songs then talks all over the intro and doesn't play the whole record.
Sarah Kennedy she is not right - she will suddenly start making comments mid-way through a song. It seems she is popular with a horsey, country lady, musical loving type.
Wright? Wrong!
He's still a prize twonker in my book. He has a 'pose' who cheer when he has a special guest on the 'big show'. He actually uses the word 'big', a favourite of small children. People who like him justify it in terms of "he's mad, he is!", much how they used to idolize Adrian Juste and his edited together bits of other people's comedy. Doubtlessly it helps while away the time in provincial branches of carpet shops.
I remember when he did the Radio 1 breakfast show, introducing his 'pose'. "Fingers flying over the keyboard, taking your messages: Ioni!" (cheers) "She's black y'know!"
Pillock!
'not too bad'
I said. He's mellowed his act such that it is less trying. There's worse. Some of the guests are good. Music's not too bad. I used to not be able to stand him so it's relative. Yes, the clapping by the posse is unacceptable.
Greatest living Englishman
I was going to say something, but then I remembered someone else had already done it. Page down a couple of times.
http://martinnewell.stevedix.de/
I take it....
...that none of you have ever heard Mo Dutta early on R2 weekends. It really is "Up with the Partridge" especially when he has the world's most dull man on who is a BBC meterologist talking about the weather.
I have a soft spot for Wigon. It's not about the music, it's about the filth he can away with reading out at 8.30am, even if the TOG thing is a bit tiresome.
As for Kennedy......I've heard her do a show obviously the worse for wear, I wonder if Richard Allinson has to sleep with his mobile on waiting for the 5am summons...
Given Up
I gave up on R2's Breakfast Show years ago because I couldn't stand Sarah Kennedy, the 'unwell' presenter. These days it's Radio 4 in to wake up and shower + shave, then Radio 3 once I'm ready for breakfast.
An unfortunate side effect is that I'm generally just in time to catch the start of Rob Cowan's stint on R3. Too chirpy by half. Don't be put off by this though, his between tune patter is kept to a minimum and, if you're not really a classical fan, at that time of the morning R3 operates like a pop statio and keeps the selections to the 5 minute mark. If you don't enjoy a tune something else will be along in soon (and at least Cowan doesn't witter on about his bloody cats).
Could be worse
Local radio at the weekend played "Baker Street" and whichever-DJ-it-was back-announced it as "that's 'Baker Street' by Gerry Springer..." - I'm still not sure if he was trying to have a laugh or if he was genuinely that stupid.
Oh God
That woman drives me INCANDESCENT with rage...
I'll be needing a lie down if I think about her any more!!
This is all well and good, but...
...please bear in mind that at least you don't have to put up with any bloody adverts, shameless plugs from the DJs and a playlist that has more variety than your average... well, your average commercial station.
Which is all that's played at work.
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE KILL LEONA LEWIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry about that - three times today I had to put up with that drivel.
Is Sarah kennedy...
worse than "thought for the day". It's bad enough having to listen topolitican desemble without having some self selected reglious type spout glib homiles over my toast. I've tried music stations for breakfast but can't face tunes until I've left the house, Radio 5 has too much sport, XFM is bobbins and BBC London is plagued by endless pointless traffic reports and even more tedious crime reports "we go over to Hamish at the scene who'll repeat what I've just said"..I'd listen to podcast if they were loud enough.... ;)
Thought for the day
It's 2 minutes in a programme that runs from 6:30 to 9.
Misread that
initially as "two minutes that runs from 6.30 to 9.00". Which is exactly how I feel about it.....
We all need a pet hate
and she's mine - I find her incredibly irritating, extremely daily mail and hate the way she witters on and on, often at the expense of actually playing any records. Recently I heard her discussing why it was called "good friday" at least 2 weeks after Easter. Surely she could have googled it by then.
Radio, why even bother...
And why, exactly, do Word readers like yourselves with enormous record collections spend any time at all listening to radio which only feeds you music you don't like presented by people you hate?
There's this thing called the iPod, you might have heard of it...
Morning music radio
You'll probably find many of us here don't listen to it and are selective about the ones we listen to in the evening. Radio4 is the morning station of choice in our house.
Radio is pointless
I've often wondered why anyone listens to the radio. They play sh*te you hate and the presenters are annoying. I listen to Radio 2 for ten to fifteen minutes in the morning as it's a lot less violent than the alarm on the alarm clock. After that, I listen to no more radio at all.
But it shouldn't be.
It should be the way you hear about new music etc - even if it's only new to you.
I know it doesn't really work out like that, though....
Years of listening but got very little out of it
I have discovered about four songs on the radio. Otherwise it's magazine reviews/coverage and general reputation of an artist/album that makes me hear new music.
Sarah Kennedy introduced me to "In These Shoes" by Kirsty McColl and "Rock and Roll" by Remi Nichol. That's about it.
agreed
That's exactly how it is for me, for 'real' radio. After that I listen to either KCRW or Resonance via the magic of the internet. I must check out the other recommendations from this month's issue, another great article in an issue packed full of them (mostly).
Music?!
I was intrigued by the thread but I don't listen to Radio 2 so I had a quick look at the sort of music that she plays. Good grief!! What possible interest could a Word reader have in that tosh? I know he's not everyone's cup of tea but I woud have thought that Chris Hawkins over on 6Music is far more "Word reader friendly".
Sarah Kennedy is the only DJ
who makes me scream for "**** sake shut up!" at the radio. The darling of middle England I believe though. As for why listen to her, I hear her because I'm normally in the car at 6.45am and turn on the radio for the 7.00am news and inevitably catch her wittering before, during and after the pips, which, if memory serves, are frequently gathered to her ample bosom. One wonders what they have done to deserve this.
On the rare occasions...
...when I catch Steve Wright the eighties radio throwback,, I always enjoy trying to work out which bits are live, and which are pre-recorded*
* the short answer is 'every bit apart from the travel'.
Wrighty
Steve Wright is my brother, so I am very offended by these remarks made against him. Only joking! Listen to his show and count out how many time he says "The Big Show!" in one afternoon.
Kennedy is dire, she is always off ill as well, there is nothing worse than tuning into her show tunes by mistake on a Monday morning.
The sincerest form of flattery...
or just plain plagiarism?
Found this at Danny Bakers website - compare and contrast...
http://www.internettreehouse.co.uk/wright.htm
So which is best, Baker or Wright?
There's only one way to find out... FIGHT! (C)Harry Hill
Show tunes.....
Probably the worst set of tunes, provided on the worst possible radio show in the worst possible way. And the way she daily calls on the poor git who originally taped the link, aeons ago, as if he were there, day after day after day.... Hell on earth
sarah: A to Zed tosh
She is a bit scarce re music. Last week's paper review included reports that Glastonbury sales are down because of the controversial choice of headliner Jay-Zed
It is every Englishman's sacred duty...
...to refer to the gentleman as "Jay-Zed". Like Zed-Zed Top.
Steve Wright and "The Posse"
Since my university days in the early/mid 90s, i've not had the opportunity (pleasure?) to listen to Steve Wright's afternoon show. In his present Radio 2 slot, does his "posse" still feature that chap that does the hilarious Mick Jagger impersonation?
Plus a word on Kennedy - the sheer inane-ness of the banter, the horsey catchphrases, the abismal show tunes (just who is Guy Henry?) all makes for a rather psycedelic and not entirely unenjoyable 20 mins whilst getting ready in the morning.
Ken Bruce - now that's just plain crap. Bring back Simon Bates and "Our Tune", that's what I say...
DJzzzz
Clearly Danny Baker is the King of Radio. He has the negative effect of making me dislike almost all other DJs.
Having said that, the new Adam and Joe show on 6Music on Saturday mornings is very funny and has dethroned J. Ross in my house.
And Simon Mayo is very bright and was quite enjoyable sitting in for most of the Radio 2 Rabble recently. He likes Sparks, which is rare in a DJ.
it amazes me that anyone is awake
in time to listen to Sarah Kennedy. Or Wogan for that matter. The rock and roll idea is to come around as Bruce kicks off popmaster...and always get more than the bores who get on.
Who said anything about getting up, Dannyboy?
We'll sleep when we're dead.
Or is it Hammersmith?
I thought it was Brooklyn...
... before we got any kip?
No sleep until Hammersmith
1st Motorhead live LP.
The case of the 'invisible black man'
Unbelievably even the Daily Mail seemed mildy perturbed by this episode:
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_arti...
How does this woman survive? A hospital radio station would have been offended by this kind of publicity, but La Kennedy continually appears to avoid the Radio 2 revolving doors that Stuart Maconie and even Steve Harley have just been pushed through.
Hang on
Why do soldiers black up their faces at night? So as not to be seen. White people are easier to see at night because their skin reflects what light their is, making them visible. All the - otherwise appalling; no argument there - woman in question said was that she nearly ran over a black guy wearing dark clothing because she didn't couldn't see him. (The discussion was about the advisibility of reflective clothing to make pedestrians and cyclists visible, so it was hardly a gratuitous comment.)
Isn't discomfort at any mention, even when it's relevant, of black people perhaps tending, as a rule, to have dark skin taking multicultural sensitivity just a shade (geddit?) too far?
Whilst you make a good and valid point...
Political correctness being usually a step or two ahead of good common sense and rationality, I dare say the problem with "Bunty" (as she self-styles) is that she may well have seized upon the story with a touch too much relish. There is a world of difference between, say, John Humphries, giving out said information and, if she were or is, a slightly right of centre presenter presenting it as one in the eye for those who have the effrontery to walk our streets at night. I am not suggesting she is, merely hypothesising if she were, naturally enough.
I just get a bit irked. . .
by the growing tendency when we don't like people to seize on anything and everything they say or do and go to considerable lengths to construe their behaviour in a way that slaps a bright red "socially unacceptable" sticker on it - yes, I hate her guts but she's a really bad person.
If she HAS to stay ...
... can I at least request that she (a) stops reading emails out loud that tell her how great she is and (b) she actually reads the papers before attempting to review them?
A few years ago she was reading a complimentary letter from a listener who asked, in the closing sentences, for a picture as he had no idea what she looked like. Her response was a sniffy "well, haven't you watched any TV for the past 20 years then?"
Bizarre, bizarre woman. Yet not quite as bizarre as Mo Dutta.