Went well off 6 Music after they started employing comedians instead of music fans. Steve Lamacq's still good, though. He used to do match reports on Colchester games before he got his gig as a music journalist.
Q Radio has its good moments too.
Capital Radio (and the firms that then bought Capital) never really had a clue what to do with Xfm since the moment they bought it, which was 11 bloody years ago. The guy running NME Radio is Xfm's original founder.
the stupid thing is that Xfm tried to go mainstream just before digital radio, and now internet radio, allowed much more choice and much more room to specialise; so while it still has some good DJs (Xposure and New Noise are good shows) the rest of the station just sounds like a marketing man's idea of a radio station for the yoof, while on digital and online everyone else is steaming ahead of them.
I bought an internet radio earlier this year - great for catching up with "listen again" shows, and there something for everyone if you search hard enough.
[cite]Posted By: falconwood_1[/cite]Xfm has gone right down the proverbial.
Ian Canfield's new breakfast show is simply dire - so bland
Terrible isn't it. Hard Rock quiz - not a quiz about hard rocks - but a quiz about rock thats hard. poke off. he puts me in a foul mood in the morning.
Xposure has had a good dj covering for John Kennedy this week and last week though. (not that John Kennedy isn't very good!)
I still prefer xfm, better than anything else still, i like Berry he is a legend and his show is good and your bro Suz, hated that orrible sounding alex zane tho, ponce of the highest order with an amazing speech impediment. Dousche bag!
Will have to sneak a listen to this nme radio tho, sounds good.
Wasn't it a consortium from Capital and the awful Bob Geldof that bought it out. Listening to XFM one week it'd have people like the late Dave Arnold, who'd often dissapear rather than do his show, and Nigel Kennedy playing white noise tracks for fifteen minutes... to suddenly the god awful Geldof on at drive time and playing cod reggae anything.
I just couldn't listen to it again properly. Although Tom Binns was good in the morning.
went to see a pilot for tom binns tv chat show being filmed cos a mate was on it . Proper funny , it was just as Michael Douglas and Zeta Jones were starting to see each other , Binns made a comment that she'd been spending a lot of time "on his boat" and she liked to be taken up the poop deck.
Binns was always funny on undere the moon with danny kelly late night ch4 footie show, now makes a liviing as a spoof hospital radio dj on the comedy circit arthur crakenberry or owt like that well worth checking out seen him twice v funny.
[cite]Posted By: falconwood_1[/cite]Xfm has gone right down the proverbial.
Ian Canfield's new breakfast show is simply dire - so bland
Terrible isn't it. Hard Rock quiz - not a quiz about hard rocks - but a quiz about rock thats hard. poke off. he puts me in a foul mood in the morning.
Xposure has had a good dj covering for John Kennedy this week and last week though. (not that John Kennedy isn't very good!)
that dj I was talking about last week - is now covering Steve Harris 7pm show.....
That dj I used to talk about a lot on xfm is moving to nme! Last xfm show was meant to be sunday coming but he found out an hour ago it was last sunday so he didn't get to play his last song and say bye. Bstards. Now - can you get nme on dab or only internet? H should be on weekdays and sundays!
He is such a bell-end that he is bound to end up on Radio One soon, though. They like dickheads like him, and he knows bugger-all about music, so he should fit in well.
Radio is just sh*t in this country(*). It doesn't have soul any more. Corporate types sitting in boardrooms in London dictating what should be said and played on stations at the other end of the Country.
Thank god for the Ipod.
(*) Though if you troll around long and hard you can find some real gems - Geoff Lloyd on Absolute - ok the music is too mainstream but he is great.
[cite]Posted By: Oakster[/cite]Radcliffe & Maconie all the way!
Well said. I am in Winter mode now, that means football on the telly Mon-Wed, sound off and R&M on the radio.
I send in as many "chains" as I can think of, been on 3 times.
[cite]Posted By: BDL[/cite]Radio is just sh*t in this country(*). It doesn't have soul any more. Corporate types sitting in boardrooms in London dictating what should be said and played on stations at the other end of the Country.
Thank god for the Ipod.
(*) Though if you troll around long and hard you can find some real gems - Geoff Lloyd on Absolute - ok the music is too mainstream but he is great.
That's what my brother is trying to get away from. The controls of playlisting. His new noise thing is great if that's what you're into - totally random ne music of a variety of genres. Not everything covered but better than listening to green day, rhcpn, keane, killers every hour!
Radio along with TV is in it's sunset dying days. Given the ability to access the internet from more mobile devices than ever, traditional forms of broadcasting and the way we receive radio is going to change dramatically in the next couple of years. Forget DAB, pocket sized internet radio isn't that far away.
A big thank you to both Suzi & Jon for thier help in airing for the first time on radio, a new band called Ambassadors of Morocco, one of the lads (Ben) in this band is a Charlton fan.
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(also on Sky and Freesat and cable and www.nme.com/radio as well, but not Freeview or DAB)
Q Radio has its good moments too.
Capital Radio (and the firms that then bought Capital) never really had a clue what to do with Xfm since the moment they bought it, which was 11 bloody years ago. The guy running NME Radio is Xfm's original founder.
I bought an internet radio earlier this year - great for catching up with "listen again" shows, and there something for everyone if you search hard enough.
Terrible isn't it. Hard Rock quiz - not a quiz about hard rocks - but a quiz about rock thats hard. poke off. he puts me in a foul mood in the morning.
Xposure has had a good dj covering for John Kennedy this week and last week though. (not that John Kennedy isn't very good!)
Will have to sneak a listen to this nme radio tho, sounds good.
I just couldn't listen to it again properly. Although Tom Binns was good in the morning.
Strangely it wasn't commisioned
that dj I was talking about last week - is now covering Steve Harris 7pm show.....
Oooh get the sausage family! Nice one.
Apart from when George Lamb is on.
He is such a bell-end that he is bound to end up on Radio One soon, though. They like dickheads like him, and he knows bugger-all about music, so he should fit in well.
Thank god for the Ipod.
(*) Though if you troll around long and hard you can find some real gems - Geoff Lloyd on Absolute - ok the music is too mainstream but he is great.
Well said. I am in Winter mode now, that means football on the telly Mon-Wed, sound off and R&M on the radio.
I send in as many "chains" as I can think of, been on 3 times.
That's what my brother is trying to get away from. The controls of playlisting. His new noise thing is great if that's what you're into - totally random ne music of a variety of genres. Not everything covered but better than listening to green day, rhcpn, keane, killers every hour!