I’ve listened to Radio 1 for about 30 something years now and it has varied in quality enormously. Broadly I’d go along with your assessment, except Sara Cox annoys the hell out of me – too much horsiness, too much Bolton, too much Eminem. Mark & Lard are still the only people pronouncing his name correctly too.
It’s a shame that M & L aren’t on in the graveyard slot any more – they were funny, irreverent and played some great music.
Nemone is quite cool, but I really LOL with the Dreem Teem (or however you say it). Sunday mornings, very funny.
Because of all the Eminem recently (it drives me mad) I’ve been tuning to Radio 4 – the best pictures of any radio station. But I’ll probably tune back after a few weeks. I need my music.
Likewise, I can’t stand Sara Cox. Zoe Ball was tolerable, but seemed to be a female version of Chris Evans. I notice how you haven’t mentioned the “Saviour of Radio 1″, Chris “Mark Lamaar hates me” Moyes.
Of course, Mark and Lard are the real Kings of Daytime. I’ve followed them for years. I was born in the same village as Frank Sidebottom, btw.
I regularly listen on the internet to Mark and Lard and, on occasion, catch some of the evening stuff. I think the BBC do a resonable job of balancing crap/ratings with quality/no ratings and seemed to get pilloried from both sides.
Mark and Lard in the graveyard slot – those were the last ‘great days’ (sniff sigh) of Radio 1 as far as I’m concerned. Poetry! Literature! Even theatre . . . and, of course, terrific music and sessions. In fact, Radio 4 aside, their late-night show was the last regular radio programme I used to make an ‘appointment to listen to’. Since then – ugh.
Well, having been at Radio for Work Experience in the past, just after they got rid of Simon Mayo, a really irritating guy in our group kept asking EVERYONE (Head of Music, Head of Programming, The guy by the water cooler etc etc) if they felt they’d lost a sense of history with saying goodbye to ‘The Golden Hour’ or whatever it was called – the two half hours of retrospective stuff you had to guess the year.
They ALL replied ‘no, we’re a new music station’. Now it seems that every show has a 1 or 2 song equivalent, with the Su Pollard-esque Sara Cox playing Tiffany’s ‘I think we’re alone now’ to death, through to ‘Back of the Stack’ and a load of other retrospective titles cropping up everywhere.
R1 is always changing, and some things work, some don’t.
The new era of Colin-and-Edith seems to be a bit more of an MTV-ish ‘yoof’ culture move, and I’m waiting to see how that pans out!
(Incidentally for all those who don’t like Sara Cox, a friend of mine (accidentally) opened a soundproofed door into her face when we were wandering around lost)
Radio 2!
*cough*
My weekends wouldn’t be complete without it.
I’ve listened to Radio 1 for about 30 something years now and it has varied in quality enormously. Broadly I’d go along with your assessment, except Sara Cox annoys the hell out of me – too much horsiness, too much Bolton, too much Eminem. Mark & Lard are still the only people pronouncing his name correctly too.
It’s a shame that M & L aren’t on in the graveyard slot any more – they were funny, irreverent and played some great music.
Nemone is quite cool, but I really LOL with the Dreem Teem (or however you say it). Sunday mornings, very funny.
Because of all the Eminem recently (it drives me mad) I’ve been tuning to Radio 4 – the best pictures of any radio station. But I’ll probably tune back after a few weeks. I need my music.
Likewise, I can’t stand Sara Cox. Zoe Ball was tolerable, but seemed to be a female version of Chris Evans. I notice how you haven’t mentioned the “Saviour of Radio 1″, Chris “Mark Lamaar hates me” Moyes.
Of course, Mark and Lard are the real Kings of Daytime. I’ve followed them for years. I was born in the same village as Frank Sidebottom, btw.
I regularly listen on the internet to Mark and Lard and, on occasion, catch some of the evening stuff. I think the BBC do a resonable job of balancing crap/ratings with quality/no ratings and seemed to get pilloried from both sides.
Mark and Lard in the graveyard slot – those were the last ‘great days’ (sniff sigh) of Radio 1 as far as I’m concerned. Poetry! Literature! Even theatre . . . and, of course, terrific music and sessions. In fact, Radio 4 aside, their late-night show was the last regular radio programme I used to make an ‘appointment to listen to’. Since then – ugh.
Well, having been at Radio for Work Experience in the past, just after they got rid of Simon Mayo, a really irritating guy in our group kept asking EVERYONE (Head of Music, Head of Programming, The guy by the water cooler etc etc) if they felt they’d lost a sense of history with saying goodbye to ‘The Golden Hour’ or whatever it was called – the two half hours of retrospective stuff you had to guess the year.
They ALL replied ‘no, we’re a new music station’. Now it seems that every show has a 1 or 2 song equivalent, with the Su Pollard-esque Sara Cox playing Tiffany’s ‘I think we’re alone now’ to death, through to ‘Back of the Stack’ and a load of other retrospective titles cropping up everywhere.
R1 is always changing, and some things work, some don’t.
The new era of Colin-and-Edith seems to be a bit more of an MTV-ish ‘yoof’ culture move, and I’m waiting to see how that pans out!
(Incidentally for all those who don’t like Sara Cox, a friend of mine (accidentally) opened a soundproofed door into her face when we were wandering around lost)