Steve Wright

[Ignis Fatuus]

I'm having a radio dither at the moment.

Used to listen to Moyles' nonsense on the way to work. Now they've moved all the DJs around - that Grimshaw blokes voice really gets on my nerves.

So I've switched to radio 2, which I always had in my head as being for 'old people'. So I get Chris Evans in the morning who's pretty good, and Simon Mayo on the way home - he's OK. But switch it on at any other time and it's rubbish. Switch over to Radio 1 and it's even worse. Local radio got too many ads and annoying DJs.

Then you are not ready for Radio 2 yet. Evans is godawful, loud and self-centred. He was the first on Radio 2 that was a definite switch-off for me. I just can't stand the way the entire show is about Chris Evans. Steve Wright sings along irritatingly with some bits of some songs, but Evans destroys every song, talking over the intro, talking over the ending, seemingly with this complete conviction that the listeners are there to listen to (1) Chris Evans' voice (2) music; in that order of priority.

Radcliffe OTOH is admittedly vaguely annoying with his err err but that's just a speech pattern, more than made up for by the fact that he actually has something interesting to say about the music.


IMHO of course.

[AnnaO]

All DJ's are kn0bs,

I stopped listening to the Radio when Terry Wogan retired - I'll have nothing bad said about Terry on the radio with his mates boggy and wosisname, I used to laugh my ass off

As for Terry on the telly tho - not so keen

[minestrone]

"she was on all fours on the vestry floor and he said he was Pastor Kidney" must have been the funniest thing to ever have been said on the radio.

I miss Wogan

[Sysman]

"she was on all fours on the vestry floor and he said he was Pastor Kidney" must have been the funniest thing to ever have been said on the radio.

I miss Wogan

Wogan on R2 was hilarious with that stuff but even during the show you were subject to the producers' music playlists which quickly got boring.

On Fenella Fudge, in the Wogan era there was also somebody Salmon, and a few others with food names.

[minestrone]

Aye, Todd Rundgren's "I saw the light" used to get played every week, never heard it since he has been off the radio.

[d000hg]

Then you are not ready for Radio 2 yet.

Or you are too old for it.

this complete conviction that the listeners are there to listen to (1) Chris Evans' voice (2) music; in that order of priority.

Probably because they are.

[sasguru]

Bloody chavs. What do you expect if you listen to moronic chav stations? It's got so bad even Radio 4 is dumbed down compared to how it was in the 80s.

[SupremeSpod]

Bloody chavs. What do you expect if you listen to moronic chav stations? It's got so bad even Radio 4 is dumbed down compared to how it was in the 80s.

Talking about the 80s, bring back the Friday Rock Show!

[Sysman]

Bloody chavs. What do you expect if you listen to moronic chav stations? It's got so bad even Radio 4 is dumbed down compared to how it was in the 80s.

Or the 90s.

I used to enjoy getting the Sunday Times in the early 80s because it gave me a full rundown of the week's events, plus scientific columns written by someone who had got a bit further than O-level science.

All gone now.

5 years ago I used to see the Telegraph, Times, Guardian and Independent roll over their fresh news onto the internet if I stayed up until 1 or 3 in the morning, but that has all gone now.

[OwlHoot]

The daughter at that impressionable age was heavily influenced by the twat (and how many other impressionable teenagers?). ...

So in a way he was practically abusing her by remote control. Why does it always seem to be DJs?