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johnump
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 Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: The Official Chris Evans Drivetime Thread |
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Here is the thread for fans and listeners of the Chris Evans Drivetime shows to discuss the show or just generally ramble about CE, Foxy, Jonny Saunders etc.
I will ask that if you want to slag Chris Evans off or slag the show off then please do it in the gripes section because I'd like this to be for people who actually listen to the show and whom enjoy it. Please respect this.
So let's get talking about the show!!
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Please, don't all rush at once...  |
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I think this will be a rather dead thread, at least when it comes to people making positive remarks about you-know-who ..............  |
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Well if it's just me who likes the show then quite frankly I don't give a damn. I'll blab about the show on my own. It seems to get to you when somebody likes a presenter you don't and you feel the need to make humourous remarks and put that person down.
Or we could stick to the same old threads and saying how much you dislike certain shows/presenters and putting down anybody who disagrees. Sounds like fun.
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I'll join in from time to time, John. Chris has done great work with drivetime - he's built up an incredibly interactive and familiar show. I must admit, though, when he first started on drivetime, I never thought he'd manage the magic he eventually did. Remember that first show? My, it was dreadful - more due to the lack of music than anything else. It's perfectly balanced at the moment, I think - though, I am starting to feel some aspects of it are feeling stale (especially women's minute). Good shows always seem to stem from chance texts, features of comments from the gang that manages to grab Chris' and the nations' imagination, which makes the quality quite uneven (to be honest, I don't feel like he's had a really good show since that whole 'pinky and perky' business a while back).
But I guess the same goes for Wogan...i can't stand the current running joke:...yes, okay, things rhyme with tosser, get over it 
This has gone into a bit of a ramble. Lessons learnt from posting late after drink
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Nick if your saying the show is getting stale then didn't TFI Friday eventually run out of steam?
Maybe he didn't shout so much at the listener and sit back and speak to us in a normal manner then we wouldn't complain? I guess people still don't trust Chris incase he does the same thing again and walk out on the BBC? I think he's learnt his lessons now and doesn't do that. I guess he's very demanding ? The show is popular, because this is what Radio 2 has turned into now. We could all say he's the savour of Radio 2 like Moyles was for Radio 1? I hear you all now.....!!!!!!!  |
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:35 am Post subject: |
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The Chris Evans show is fantastic! It's one of only two weekday shows that I make an effort to listen to. Sometimes I have to run across the car-park at work, so I don't miss the first few minutes. You all know the other show I like ( would die for), and there's nothing anyone can say to persuade me that that is the very best show on the Planet. Nuff said.
Chris' show is different in different way and that makes it different! It's different every day in a different way, and the reason why ( if you don't listen you won't know- so I'll explain) is because it's sort of planned and not, and sort of has a formula but it's not rigid. Chris thinks out loud, so, when he speaks, you don't hear what he is saying- you feel what he is thinking! Very few people have that talent. It's kind of like telepathy for beginners. It's more than a show, it's a meeting of minds. I like it. |
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| Rachel wrote: | | Chris thinks out loud, so, when he speaks, you don't hear what he is saying- you feel what he is thinking! Very few people have that talent. It's kind of like telepathy for beginners. It's more than a show, it's a meeting of minds. I like it. |
Well put, Rachel. It's as if Chris makes the listener feel as if they're part of the production process. A bit like Wogan, I suppose - but with him, the listener is the show |
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I'll make my one and only post on this thread and that's to say that Chris Evans' Show is the worst on Radio 2. I hate to be shouted at and I'd break all records to run to any radio to switch it off if it happens to be left on by mistake.
I guess you could say I hate it, mainly as I can't stand his voice in any shape or form!
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igs007
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| johnump wrote: | Well if it's just me who likes the show then quite frankly I don't give a damn. I'll blab about the show on my own. It seems to get to you when somebody likes a presenter you don't and you feel the need to make humourous remarks and put that person down.
Or we could stick to the same old threads and saying how much you dislike certain shows/presenters and putting down anybody who disagrees. Sounds like fun. |
Wow, slow down. I think in the spirit of Chris' show, you should lighten up, we (or at least I) am not having a go at Chris Evans listeners for liking that guy and enjoying the show, which is fine. We were only having a light-hearted dig because as I'm sure you're aware, there are many on this forum who do not enjoy the show, myself included. All credit to you posting a positive Evans thread, it's good to see the reasons that people think it's a decent show. And as you can see, there are some good posts on the topic. I could open up another 'reasons why the Drivetime show isn't good' thread, as you mentioned above, but I wouldn't want to bore you to death! |
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At last some people who enjoy Drivetime. I thought it was just going to be me!
Apologies if I offended anybody because I think I may have over-reacted slighty  Igs I would be happy for anyone to start a thread about why they dislike the Drivetime show because we all need to vent our frustrations about people and shows we hate. I just wanted this to stay as a "discuss the show" thread and hopefully it stays that way.
Ok I'm calm now....
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Is it me... or is it interesting how popular this thread has been, even though Chris Evans hasn't been near a microphone since it began. He can stoke debate even when he's off running his pub...
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| Last night , perfect example of what I meant. |
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At his best when it doesn't go at all to plan, making the error a bigger part of the show which was brilliant. Poor Foxy.
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Yep broadcasting on the fly can be exciting. Unless of course it was planned for the guests not to turn up all along, in which case it was brilliantly done.
I did like the guests who did turn up .. Burial in a concrete Atlantis - kind of fun at first but I reckon I'd get a bit fed up with that Patrick Duffy guy swimming about all the time looking lost.
And of course there was Freddie "I'm not really sure what the rules of Cricket are" Flintoff... best interview I've heard with him.
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| Since my mother taught me that if I can't say something nice then I should say nothing I am saying nothing. |
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The music played on the show is actually very good and quite varied - but then again so it was with JW and when S Mac was depping.
That's where it ends though.
I hate the way every show is introduced with the same script and why oh why does every show have to be entitled something or other and then followed by a snippet of a song? Ideas for this are running out fast and quickly becoming more ludicrous.
In reality every show should be entitled "I can't believe I got this gig when by rights it should have gone to Stuart Maconie for all the hard work he did while JW was ill" and then be followed by a snippet of "Every Loser Wins" by Nick Berry.
The fanfare for the kids is patronising, woman's minute is rubbish, the interviews are insincere, patronising and are no more than a series of scripted questions, the answers to which are never elaborated on.
I hate the way the business news and interviews are conducted with that percussive hi hat going on in the background, just like Radio 1 does and most of all I hate being bombarded with bloody trailers about Chris Evans and his show and podcasts all day long when I've already chosen NOT TO LISTEN!! 
Chris's show is not different in anyway at all. It's the same rubbish being shouted at us by a hyperactive fool on a daily basis, except for All Request Friday which is worse. All the stuff requested gets played on R2 daily anyway and the only reason listeners phone in a request is to get their name on the radio in the same way that the only reason listeners apply to KB's Popmaster these days is so that they can say hello to their entire family tree.
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Wow Angus,
there's quite a sense of perceived injustice running though your post there, and some real emotion too. Emotion is good though. I like emotion. That is what makes us tick. I like the show for many of the reasons you list as why you don't like it. Weird ain't it!! And they say we're all the same underneath.
It's like this: I don't like cucumber, but no cucumber is ever going to upset me, make me angry or spawn my hatred. I just don't like it, and there's an end to it. It rarely crosses my mind. I do though love tomatoes- can't get enough of those babies, but and here's the deal. Guess what? What! They do annoy me!!! Sometimes they're too soft , occasionally a bit bitter, now and again just too big, and I get really annoyed if I run out of them. Sometimes getting upset about something is a way of saying, I like this really but I like it best when it's perfect. |
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Hour 1 of today's show was to my liking. I liked the bloke in the business slot, seemed to put it in a way even I could understand. And George Harrison after the news was timed to perfection just as I came into the home straight. Spot on.
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| Angus McCoatup wrote: | The music played on the show is actually very good and quite varied - but then again so it was with JW and when S Mac was depping.
That's where it ends though.
I hate the way every show is introduced with the same script and why oh why does every show have to be entitled something or other and then followed by a snippet of a song? Ideas for this are running out fast and quickly becoming more ludicrous.
In reality every show should be entitled "I can't believe I got this gig when by rights it should have gone to Stuart Maconie for all the hard work he did while JW was ill" and then be followed by a snippet of "Every Loser Wins" by Nick Berry.
The fanfare for the kids is patronising, woman's minute is rubbish, the interviews are insincere, patronising and are no more than a series of scripted questions, the answers to which are never elaborated on.
I hate the way the business news and interviews are conducted with that percussive hi hat going on in the background, just like Radio 1 does and most of all I hate being bombarded with bloody trailers about Chris Evans and his show and podcasts all day long when I've already chosen NOT TO LISTEN!!
Chris's show is not different in anyway at all. It's the same rubbish being shouted at us by a hyperactive fool on a daily basis, except for All Request Friday which is worse. All the stuff requested gets played on R2 daily anyway and the only reason listeners phone in a request is to get their name on the radio in the same way that the only reason listeners apply to KB's Popmaster these days is so that they can say hello to their entire family tree.
And that was a positive review of the show |
Fair play, that was a great post, and I agree on pretty much every point. I do listen to the show on occasions, so I still feel I can comment! In which case, I'd disagree on the kids slot, more often than not Evans comes out of it worse than the kids.
The show is, contrary to many people's views, not that adventurous. Look at the features etc. and you'll find he plays it pretty safe. In fact, he crams too much in, which is why he's always running over time and crashing songs. But you have to hand it to him playing safe with the show, it's pulling in the listeners slowly yet surely. That's my positive review! |
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I like the combined Wogan and Evans trailers. The one with Sally saying "we need someone too make us laugh" Well does he make you laugh?
Next they will be both doing a trailer too be played on each show saying see you in the morning or afternoon, like Moyles and Mills do over on Radio 1?
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject: Each to their own |
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I'm with Rachel on this one.
I like the CE show .
I know a lot of people don't but hey, what do I care. Everybody has a show they don't like. No pleasing everybody and no point trying to convince somebody to like something just because you do. Equally, no point trying to convince people not to like something just because you don't either.
Isn't it a wonderful world we live in . Room for everybody.
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| mark occomore wrote: | The one with Sally saying "we did someone too make us laugh"
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You've lost me Mark, what does she mean, or what do you mean?? |
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: | I like the combined Wogan and Evans trailers.
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Yeah me too, I'm still waiting for my cheque though!!!!! |
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| John W wrote: | | mark occomore wrote: | The one with Sally saying "we did someone too make us laugh"
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You've lost me Mark, what does she mean, or what do you mean?? |
I think he meant to say "we need someone to make us laugh" John, or at least I think that is how the trail goes!
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It was nice of Chris is say thank you too Richard Allinson for covering his show on Friday? NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
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| Oh I forgot about this overnight- but last night, I think Chris said that if your Chicken dies or was it flies I think it was dies though, then write in and your dead Chicken will get a big shout on Drivetime on his/her way to the great Chicken Shed in the sky. Well; I was talking to my mum at the weekend. As well as being a rock ledged- my mum keeps chickens ( loads of em) and she has ( had) a Cockerel which she called Jerry Springer ( it didn't half look like Jerry Springer too) anyway Jerry came to a sad end when my mum bought a load more chickens for him to ... can I say "service" - my mum thinks that he died of exhaustion- she was really miffed cos she'd spent ages nursing him back to health earlier last year after a Minor Road Traffic Accident ( RTA) involving a white van, caused by speed - the police said. Apparently Jerry just didn't run fast enough - they were going to put him down but my mum was having non of that. Jerry survived more than a whole year, just doing what Cockerels do best before he passed. Any of you keep chickens? |
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Motorway man!!! What a legend. A true rival to Sally traffic. The music hit the spot tonight and Johnny Saunders seems to be getting back into good form again. ARF tomorrow and then on Monday the Dark Lord will squint in the studio to bring us Drivetime. I'm looking forward already.
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A double dose of the Motorway Man too - so good they called him twice . Not really rival to Sally Traffic though
Monday's Drivetime will be a real treat. |
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| Will Chris turn up for his show today? It is Friday after all... |
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A top show today, cracking music with decent features. That Bowie cover of the Kinks was brilliant. ARF tomorrow then Mr Maconie for a week. Will we see a return of PieTunes????
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and the plank girl too - gotta get her back- how good was she?.... The only person I know to get the most popular* Drivetime presenter and the sports guy to simultaneously Broadcast, face-down from a studio floor........
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| Bring on the Maconie!!! |
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Foxy's radio birthday(not officially until Sunday) and packets of pork scratchings as a gift! A reasonable ARF so far, not brilliant music but better than some. Just how did she manage 40 secs of the plank  She really is foxy
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I suffered about an hour of this evening's show.
Same old thing, shouting, talking so fast he trips over himself, getting so excited about stupid things, too many kids and making people feel uneasy. (imo)
Like when the chap said there was now only one of the Drivetime team under 40. ( forgetting off air production members )
Chris really rubbed his nose into that one didn't he? over and over again. I've noticed this before.
He should be on Radio 1.
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If you didn't like the show then why did you "suffer" an hour of it??? Surely if you didn't like it then you should have switched stations or switched off.
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| It was really spooky last night – Chris explaining how to request the first track of the ARF show via the blog, I thought maybe I’ll do that – and then I thought, well what would I request? (I’m way too shy to phone up you see) …so I got to thinking, what would start Drivetime off with a bit of a kick? After a bit of thought I plumped for Robert Palmer – Bad case of loving you. It was the very next track!!! This mind reading this is a two way process….. |
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 9:35 am Post subject: Mind Games.... |
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