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Rachel
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| ColinB wrote: | | My rationale, in this context, is that we are - by virtue of our membership of this forum - a group of people whose collective aim is to preserve what we feel to be the best qualities of the Radio 2 network. With that in mind, it's quite reasonable to voice our concerns - especially when it's likely that our posts are getting read by some of those who work within the corporation. |
That’s all very well, Colin, <cue Clarkson> BUT: it’s not very well defined what exactly those qualities are. Someone who has been listening to R2 for say five years, may join here in an attempt to preserve the Chris Evans era exactly as it was when he did Drivetime, which many people agree was the best Radio Show ever, so unless there’s a stated set of objectives then we’re going to get disagreement about what to preserve. That’s the problem with committees, forums and any kind of joint management scenario- no one really gets what they would like. It’s all a big mish-mash compromise leading to unrealised expectations, broken promises, missed targets, failed deadlines, stress, grey hair and death but that’s life. |
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Ally Gory
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| Chris Evans' Drivetime show was the best radio ever was it? What a ridiculous thing to claim. You might have enjoyed it more than anything else you've heard, but I guarantee you haven't heard the vast majority of radio output. |
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ColinB
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| Rachel wrote: | | That’s all very well, Colin, <cue Clarkson> BUT: it’s not very well defined what exactly those qualities are. Someone who has been listening to R2 for say five years, may join here in an attempt to preserve the Chris Evans era exactly as it was when he did Drivetime, which many people agree was the best Radio Show ever, so unless there’s a stated set of objectives then we’re going to get disagreement about what to preserve. That’s the problem with committees, forums and any kind of joint management scenario- no one really gets what they would like. It’s all a big mish-mash compromise leading to unrealised expectations, broken promises, missed targets, failed deadlines, stress, grey hair and death but that’s life. |
You're right on all the above, of course, Rachel - but another facet of life is that if people find something objectionable then they are inclined to speak up and complain about it. In that respect, I have written (via email) to the Controller, Radio 2, three times now asking why he's so obsessed with a broadcaster whose talents I question.
I get the stock replies, of course, indicating that the person replying to me doesn't agree, but at least I've complained!
I also sent Chris Evans a text in the expectation that he might include it in his infantile "Moooooorning Chris" slot asking why it is that he talks so much and so loudly even though he has little of any intelligence to say. He didn't read it out!
But at least I complained. That's life.
PS: "The best radio ever?". Hmmm. All I ever heard was two hours or utter banality. |
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Rachel
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| Ally Gory wrote: | | Chris Evans' Drivetime show was the best radio ever was it? What a ridiculous thing to claim. |
I made no such claim. |
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Rachel
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| ColinB wrote: |
But at least I complained. That's life.
PS: "The best radio ever?". Hmmm. All I ever heard was two hours or utter banality. |
Yep, sometimes a complaint is a good thing.  Keep em coming.
PS: Well there's not many people can get me to run across a car-park at 5pm but Chris Evans did. No I wasn't running away... |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: |
PS: Well there's not many people can get me to run across a car-park at 5pm but Chris Evans did. No I wasn't running away... |
Spoilsport. You ruined my next gag. |
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kengeo
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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Evans Alert!!
Steer clear of ITV on Thursday, if wishing to avoid the not so ginger one.
It seems that he yields influence within ITV as well, he must the only one to have appeared twice on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire ?
Its a bit like the Irish vote on Europe, he'll keep going until he gets the result he wants! |
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Ian Robinson
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I assume you all saw the lengthy trailer on Channel 4 last night? It's for his new show, which sounds very very dangerous (celebs do stunts live on telly) and does give the brief suggestion he's been horribly injured in a motorbike crash. |
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MadeinSurrey
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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So let's get this straight...Evans Is on BBC, ITV AND C4  
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| MadeinSurrey wrote: | | So let's get this straight...Evans Is on BBC, ITV AND C4 |
Yep. The silly woman who hired Evans for The One Show has now moved to Channel 4... and has hired him there too!
(She's also just taken Jimmy Doherty over) |
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It'll all end in tears.........
The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
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Rachel
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| I'd quite like to have his energy- just for a day. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:22 am Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: | | I'd quite like to have his energy- just for a day. |
If I were as hyperactive as he is I reckon I'd have a heart attack. You only have to listen to the first 60 seconds of his radio show to realise there's something wrong with him! |
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Rachel
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:11 am Post subject: |
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| ColinB wrote: | | Rachel wrote: | | I'd quite like to have his energy- just for a day. |
If I were as hyperactive as he is I reckon I'd have a heart attack. You only have to listen to the first 60 seconds of his radio show to realise there's something wrong with him! |
Oh I don't know, maybe we're all just washed out, tired individuals with no drive or enthusiasm, destined to spent the rest of our lives in the slow lane, barking at the people who get in our way and complaining about the people who are overtaking us in the fast lane but only because once upon a time, we were them. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: | | ColinB wrote: | | Rachel wrote: | | I'd quite like to have his energy- just for a day. |
If I were as hyperactive as he is I reckon I'd have a heart attack. You only have to listen to the first 60 seconds of his radio show to realise there's something wrong with him! |
Oh I don't know, maybe we're all just washed out, tired individuals with no drive or enthusiasm, destined to spent the rest of our lives in the slow lane, barking at the people who get in our way and complaining about the people who are overtaking us in the fast lane but only because once upon a time, we were them. |
Speak for yourself, madam! That certainly doesn't describe me. I have plenty of drive and enthusiasm (being self-employed, you just can't sit on your hands these days) and I love the challenges each new day brings (most of the time, anyhow). I just can't stand the hyperactive cackle I get from the current R2 breakfast presenter so I opt instead for Radio 4's "Today" programme. It keeps me nice and calm at that time of the day.
Evans' inane rubbish coming out of the radio speaker is like having a bucket of cold water chucked over me. And what I definitely don't want is a bucket of cold water thrown over me at 6.30am!!! |
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Rachel
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:25 am Post subject: |
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I tried Radio 4 once, I waited and waited and waited but they were just talking. Nothing happened. It was like the radio version of the test card.
I'm self employed too, I keep myself busy with a bit of housework, shopping, cooking and playing about on the internet. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: | | I tried Radio 4 once, I waited and waited and waited but they were just talking. Nothing happened. It was like the radio version of the test card. |
I think that's what a lot of Radio 4 listeners use it for, or just as unobtrusive sound in the car.
Years ago a colleague used to give me a lift home from work cos we lived near to one another. We'd be stuck in traffic - he'd have PM on; I'd make a comment about something and he'd have absolutely no clue what I was referring to.
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ColinB
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: | | I tried Radio 4 once, I waited and waited and waited but they were just talking. Nothing happened. It was like the radio version of the test card. |
There you go, you see Rachel. Each to their own. Personally, I find that little of any interest to me happens on the Evans breakfast farce either!
On the other hand, I find that Radio 4's "Today" programme in not only great on the ear at that time of day (given Radio 2's banal offering) but it's also an exemplar of good current affairs journalism and presentation. That's what I want, and that's what I get. Cool beans, eh?
Without Radio 4, Britain would be a much poorer place in many senses of the word. Unfortunately, our political leaders seem hell-bent on killing off such broadcasting and replacing it with shallow, uncritical and sycophantic broadcasting that derives its funding from commercial sources (all eyes on the Murdoch Mafia).
I'm just happy to have a choice of BBC national networks at the moment, and given the choice between listening to people discussing the news of the day or Evans' constant infantile cackle I'll go for the latter until either Evans burns out or he is replaced by someone who isn't obsessed with his/her voice being heard at any cost. |
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Rachel
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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I think, Colin, that I’ve come up with a rather clever ( if I say so myself) solution to your Evans on Radio 2 problem.
Dyno-tape!
It goes like this- tune all your radios to Radio 4 – make several little dyno-tape messages that say “Radio 2” – stick the messages on the bit of your radios that displays the channel that you’re listening to. So you’ll get all the stuff you like on “Radio 2” without Evans. Now that’s cool beans!
As my Dad would have said, "I like that: up there for thinking, down there for dancing." |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: | I think, Colin, that I’ve come up with a rather clever ( if I say so myself) solution to your Evans on Radio 2 problem.
Dyno-tape!
It goes like this- tune all your radios to Radio 4 – make several little dyno-tape messages that say “Radio 2” – stick the messages on the bit of your radios that displays the channel that you’re listening to. So you’ll get all the stuff you like on “Radio 2” without Evans. Now that’s cool beans! |
I won't let it be said that there are no true innovators left in Britain. That is, by all accounts, the product of true genius!
| Rachel wrote: | | As my Dad would have said, "I like that: up there for thinking, down there for dancing." |
I like it.  |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 9:00 am Post subject: |
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I like this (quoted from the piece referred to above):
| Quote: | Needless to say he went out on the following question, having raised just £1000.
Sad though I feel for his charity of choice, I do feel strangely reassured by the fact that the man who made some inane and ill-informed references to me on his radio show over twelve years ago is still just as big a moron today. |
The payoff line is the best:
| Quote: | | Apparently this waste of space celebrates his birthday on April 1st. Why am I not surprised? |
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Am I right in thinking he got the question asking what the last line in a song is?
I happened to avoid the millionaire show and was half tuning him out at breakfast.
If I am right (and I usually am!) then it seems a pretty unfair question to put to him. Everyone knows he talks all over the end of songs, so how could he possibly know? |
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kengeo
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The Galway Bay line appears less than 1/2 way into the song, pretty sure most people, even those who aren't music aficionados would know the line.
This coming from a guy who is a 'professional' DJ.
He is so far up his own, he didn't even trust the audience, and this gives quite an insight into his personality, and his attitude to money, what a ****! (insert your own word here).
Remember Chris know best!
At least it made him look what he - is a complete muppet! |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 10:52 am Post subject: |
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| I can't imagine that Evans actually listens to the music in the studio once it's playing. I bet that as soon as his mic is closed, the monitors are turned down, his headphones come off and he's then holding court with the sycophantic muppets who surround him in the studio. It's therefore not really surprising that he knows so little of the music that interrupts his irritating cackle! |
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Rachel
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:28 am Post subject: |
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He was tired and nervous- he'd been up for ages. No one is super-human: this morning he donated two go-karts to one charity and some cash to the other- so it all ended well enough.
Be good-be nice- it's Christmas. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:50 am Post subject: The Chris Evans Breakfast Show |
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I noticed he got on Look North because of the show with the Archbishop of York! 
It's also not right that a professional DJ doesn't know the words to Fairytale Of New York. I thought Michael McIntyre was bad snough mocking Shane McGowan on the Royal Snoreathon last week!
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ColinB
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:53 am Post subject: Re: The Chris Evans Breakfast Show |
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| aviddiva wrote: | | I thought Michael McIntyre was bad snough mocking Shane McGowan on the Royal Snoreathon last week! |
Personally, I thought that was quite funny - but then again I don't really like that song now that I've heard it so many times on the radio in the run-up to Christmas and in high street stores since October. |
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I was unfortunate enough to catch some of this in the background at work today. What a load of garbage it sounded too. The funny things, I was listening to Andrew Collins (who is doing Shaun Keaveny's 6 music show) before leaving for work, and he played James Brown 'Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothing': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6OoOhKM_yc Why did I immediately think of that bloke who was on Radio 2 at the same time. A word of advice to Mr Evans, if you really want to be funny, have a listen to the last half hour or so of Chris Hawkins' 6 music show especially the spoof panto bit, now that was genuinely funny. That's how you do real fun!
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I've avoided hearing and seeing 'The One' for about two weeks now, quite an achievement but happened on his blog just a couple of minutes ago. Yuuucchh!
I remember looking on there early days and posting slightly negative stuff which stayed there, and the other posters were, well, confused and could not understand my questioning his relevance on R2? I think the 'confusion' was all a pretence but I didn't want to waste any more time with them.
Eh, why don't the folk who post there talk about his show? It's just a waffle thread. He is referred to as CLP, have I forgotten what CLP is ?!?
Why don't folk who dislike him go on there and post their opinions?
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Rachel
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 11:56 am Post subject: |
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| John W wrote: |
He is referred to as CLP, have I forgotten what CLP is ?! |
You mean you haven't read A Chris Miss Carol in the coffee bar? The answer to your question is in there.  |
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He is so far up his own, he didn't even trust the audience, and this gives quite an insight into his personality, and his attitude to money, what a ****! (insert your own word here).
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I did try but the forum software won't let me. I feel a bit of a twit now. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| My volume has been at a respectable level this week. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:38 am Post subject: |
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| You mean that the volume can at least be set at a level higher than "zero"? |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| ColinB wrote: | | You mean that the volume can at least be set at a level higher than "zero"? |
When volume is set at Zero' when Chris is on, you can still hear him |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | ColinB wrote: | | You mean that the volume can at least be set at a level higher than "zero"? |
When volume is set at Zero' when Chris is on, you can still hear him |
You're not implying that Evans' gob is actually loud, are you? |
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Rachel
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Did any of you catch the Radio 2 Christmas Quiz- Christmas Day in the evening I think it was...( my mind is a blur)- now that was shouting. It was very disappointing – like living next door to a rowdy pub. Not good radio at all. |
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ColinB
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| Rachel wrote: | | Did any of you catch the Radio 2 Christmas Quiz- Christmas Day in the evening I think it was...( my mind is a blur)- now that was shouting. It was very disappointing – like living next door to a rowdy pub. Not good radio at all. |
In answer to your question - no, I avoided Christmas Radio 2 completely. Sounds like I made a correct decision! |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: | | Did any of you catch the Radio 2 Christmas Quiz- Christmas Day in the evening I think it was...( my mind is a blur)- now that was shouting. It was very disappointing – like living next door to a rowdy pub. Not good radio at all. |
You mean Chris pub is as loud as his voice? |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Who is Chris pub? |
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