Archive for the 'Radio' Category
Three Sacred Cows
1. There’s an interview with Phil Spector on TV tonight, being trailed as his first for three centuries. Ironically, one of the last he gave – for Tony Palmer’s All You Need is Love series – was on a couple of weeks ago. So not that long really.
Radio Times describes Phil as the greatest record [...]
Filed under: 1960s, Culture, Entertainment, Movies, Radio, TV, Television, acting, being chippy, film, secret girlfriends | 3 Comments
This is actually quite good
In spite of the fact (or should that read because of the fact?) that they sold 25 million records, I’ve always kind of derided Hootie and the Blowfish. I have no idea why this might be, unless it’s memories of the Burger King ad.
Out of the blue today I received a mailing from a web [...]
Filed under: Culture, Entertainment, Music, Radio, Songs, arts | 2 Comments
Tags: country, Darius Rucker, Hootie, Music
Pop on Trial – the verdict
It was kind of predictable, I think, that the BBC4 Pop on Trial jury would vote for the 1970s as the “most influential” decade of pop. There was an awful lot happening in the 70s; as to how much of it was really influential, I don’t know. Any programme that puts Paul Morley on the [...]
Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, BBC, Baby Boomers, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Culture, Entertainment, Music, Radio, TV, Television, The Seventies | 4 Comments
Tags: 1950s, fifties, pop, pop on trial
I’m not superstitious, but…
…One day, someone at the BBC will cotton on to the 5Live hype effect, to whit:
All Home Nations failed to qualify for Euro Football championship following super massive 5Live bigging up of England qualifying games. I’m calling this the 5Live Hype Halo Effect.
Both Murray brothers eliminated EARLY from Australian Open Tennis following a week or [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, BBC, Conspiracy Theories, Entertainment, Radio, Time-Wasters, being chippy, weasels | Leave a Comment
Tags: hyperbole
Polyp Weather
What they don’t tell you on the Sensodyne toothpaste adverts: that it tastes absolutely foul.
Over the past couple of mornings, I’ve got up at about the time that Richard Bacon pops into the Breakfast studio on Five Live to announce what his 9-12 phone-in shift is going to be. (My bedside radio is still defaulting [...]
Filed under: BBC, Bob Dylan, Education, Entertainment, Radio, anxiety, health, hypochondria | 2 Comments
This kind of album title is probably just about meaningless to 99% of the music listening population. I don’t think many of us have a conceptual map of Music City in our heads, I know I don’t, and I’m not clear even now where this music is supposed to be coming from. Clearly, this CD [...]
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Bye Bye Fi’ Li’
I’m weaning myself off BBC Radio Five Live. I’ve been growing increasingly disenchanted, but the departure of Garvey from Drive accelerated the process.
Two incidents of inaccurate reporting were the final straw. One day last week, the Breakfast show was telling us about the publication of a report into education standards. The headline was, in spite [...]
Filed under: BBC, Radio, media studies | 5 Comments
Scam, Blam, Thankyou Stan
Llewtrah’s entry about an attempted phone scam prompted me to produce an entry about the various phone-in and other scandals that have afflicted the media industry in recent weeks.
On one level, it’s entertainment of the highest order to see people falling on their swords all over the place, and admitting what I suspected all along, [...]
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The Queen and Di
I watched that “film” called The Queen with Dame Sir Lord Helen of Mirren in it. It’s been on my PVR for a couple of weeks. I agree wholeheartedly with Kermode that it is not a film – not even close. It was a not-especially lavish and somewhat slow-paced TV drama. Unless getting Sir Henry [...]
Filed under: BBC, Climate, Conspiracy Theories, Education, Entertainment, Movies, Radio, Television, acting, arts, being chippy, climate change, media studies | 1 Comment
Tags: five live, moustaches, peter allen
Disabled by Request
“I’ll see him in anything, so I’ll stand in line.”
It seems to me that if the BBC are going to take advantage of innernet trends like YouTube, then they should play by the same rules as everyone else. But their video version of Kermode’s film reviews has embedding disabled by request, so all I can [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, BBC, Culture, Downloads, Education, Entertainment, Movies, MySpace, Radio, anxiety, arts, film, media studies, weasels | 3 Comments
Tags: Tarantino, violence, YouTube
