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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Are you listening in London or across the UK on your life, your music the new smooth radio?

http://www.smoothradiolondon.com/

Or

http://london.smoothfm.com/home.asp

Mark Goodier hosts the morning show trying to hit Radio 2 with a 10.30 quiz ( R2 pop master ), and a special guest choosing some there favourite tracks ( R2 tracks of my years )

Great sounds on Londons smooth

Very Happy

Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:45 am Post subject:

I'm not listening. I don't care whether Mark Goodier is presenting: what's the music like? What tunes, what style? Any new stuff? Album tracks? Rarities?

Gus Honeybun · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:48 am Post subject:

Whilst I do enjoy listening to that nice Mr. Goodier, I much prefer underground music.

I'd like to say I like "Bright Eyes", by Art Garfunkel, but the film in which it featured had a rather negative impact on one of my cousins.

Gus
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gfloyd · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject:

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject:

I doubt that it's available in the wilds of Yorkshire!
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Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

Does Martin Collins still gargle with razorblades!

gfloyd · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

Hi Ernie-He was indeed.

He is a mate of your favourite DJ/presenter Richard Allinson-only joking.

It was Richard who asked him one time on air "Do you gargle with razor blades to get your voice like that"-the expression stuck with him after that.

By the way I see in Smooth's schedule they have the excellent Peter Young on at a weekend.

I used to love this guy-highly intelligent-he used to host a lunchtime quiz on Capital Radio-he is also very funny from memory.

From his picture on the Smooth web-site he has lost all his hair though-indeed Mark Goodier's picture is hardly flattering either.

The Smooth schedule looks good to me-I will certainly will be tuning in soon to give it a listen.

Ella Sailyour · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain

Add Michael Aspel to the daytime schedule between 9.00am and mid-day and you have Capital 194 vintage 1980. Will they get Mike Barry in to do the cookery slot again perhaps?

Sounds pretty dull to me!

Ella
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Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject:

But does anyone actually know the sort of music they play on Smooth?

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3415 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Does that include rock?
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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:47 am Post subject:

Not from what I heard last night. It is all very well having these london stations on Freeview, but it was totally irrelevent when the news slots arrived. They've also got Sky doing the Radio news. THAT was when I turned off.
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Perhaps we could persuade them to play some light music, as no one else seems much interested.

Ian.

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Give it time to blend in. Maybe the new radio 2 in the future?

I got my tune played on Mark G show today where he plays your requests between 12-1pm every weekday.

Ella Sailyour · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain

Ian Robinson · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:05 am Post subject:

I did listen to Smooth the other day, and it played all the tracks I expected it would (Marvin Gaye, Commodores, Corrine Bailey Rae) which I suppose is fine if you just want background musak. But it's not for me, no matter who presents it.

Ella Sailyour · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain

With the majority of these radio stations now they're only playing out server-based playlisted selections and interspersing the tracks with the same old spoken word rubbish, so it's probably better to set up a "shuffle" in iTunes and achieve the same effect but without the useless speech!

Ella
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gfloyd · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject:

Interesting article about Smooth

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/birminghampost/business/tm_headline=more-listeners-admit-they-tune-in-to-smooth&method=full&objectid=19100276&siteid=50002-name_page.html
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

I would say that most people will re tune from Radio 2 as some well known names are on the London station. People who follow the DJs like Mark Goodier will follow him where ever he presents. The shame is he was on R2, and made himself a house hold name covering shows, and Lesley was foolish not signing him, but I think the network couldn't offer him a daytime show?

There loss Smooth gain.. Same goes for others like Nick B. I' am sure Virgin have lost a few listeners with Martin Collins on Smooth London. The only one is really Lynn Parsons who hasn't had a regular show on a radio station for a while will gain listeners for the station?

Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject:

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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:36 am Post subject:

I have occasionally listened on freeview, but there is no added value for those outside London, as the adverts, news (by Sky) etc is all London centred, at least R2 is national.
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Through the fields of oil

Ian Robinson · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:16 am Post subject:

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Smooth has five, soon to be six, stations covering East Midlands, West Midlands, Glasgow, London, the Northwest and Northeast. The first three were former Saga Radio stations - The East Midlands one has for its daytime presenters former Radio Trent people who (with the exception of John Peters) were pretty rubbish even then.

Apart from the "big names" (Greening, Parsons, Goodier) in London, and Andy Peebles in the Northwest, the others appear to be staffed by the average local ILR people.

I'm not sure how well the shift in music policy (now more Donna Summer, Elton John and Bay City Rollers, less Connie Francis, Bert Kaempfert and Matt Monro) has gone down with listeners because the switch came too late for the latest Rajar figures, but parents and mum-in-law (in their 70s) are unimpressed.

From what little I've heard it now appears to be a slightly more mature version of Heart/Radio 2. Sadly no "light music" (or even easy listening) to come for you, Ian W...
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firewirefred · Guest

I think Smooth radio is awful. Formula-driven rubbish of a kind there is too much of on the airwaves/web these days. Even the name is enough to put me off.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Just listened for half an hour.

Bland would be too exciting a word to describe it.
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firewirefred · Guest

Trouble is a lot of so-called radio stations these days use systems like Galileo which are really just broadcast versions of stuff like iTunes. You request a search on Bland middle of the road music or Music to Snooze to and it comes up with a complete selection. Then all you have to do is drag / drop the ads and trails into place, leave some gaps for the voice-geek to do his bit and hey presto you have a radio station.......

.... not. That is pretty much what Smooth is!

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Ex Breakfast presenter from 102.7 Mercury FM Steve Hyland has joined Smooth London.

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.5234.17