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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject: Chris Evans Show Radio Review |
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Elisabeth Mahoney
Friday August 3, 2007
The Guardian
It's no secret that I am a fan of the Chris Evans show (Radio 2). At its best, it is an immensely engaging programme that lends its audience a strong sense of ownership. I have tuned in daily this week while doing things that the show seems to suit: decorating, sitting in the sunshine or driving. But for the first time since the show found its feet after launching, it's been getting on my nerves.
The problem is in tiny details, creeping in. There's Evans, interjecting too much and too forcefully, and dinging his annoying hotel-reception bell ad nauseum these days. A hugely dull new incarnation of the Woman's Minute phone-in now features women drivers calling in to say what vehicle they are driving and where, while the recently introduced Sally Says Hello spot is all a bit lifeless. Often, the show still gets it spot on - the play on the high regard with which Jonny Saunders holds Beverley Craven is inspired - so you really notice when it misfires. Patchy and undisciplined (that bell!) is not the stuff of Sony gold awards.
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I did hear the women drivers phoning in. It's to attract the female listeners to the network as I think they have found out in surveys they are losing out to the male listeners, or the younger female listener? |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: Chris Evans Show Radio Review |
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mark occomore wrote: |
I did hear the women drivers phoning in. It's to attract the female listeners to the network as I think they have found out in surveys they are losing out to the male listeners, or the younger female listener? |
It'll need more than a ding dong of Chris's bell to lure them away from Magic & heart. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Mark, when I saw the title, I thought you were actually doing a review of CE's show.... _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:33 am Post subject: |
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and there was I thinking that some poor unfortunate had set to and done a Bob Harris on Evans. There again, who amongst us would have such fortitude? _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: |
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Aha! Geddon - we don't need a 'naughty step' anymore - just get the offender to review CE's show! _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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in depth and minute - by - minute - poor soul! _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:54 am Post subject: |
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This needs a rethink, after all, the Geneva Convention strictly forbids cruel and inhumane treatment. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Chris and his team are the backbone, the very nerve centre of Radio 2, the rest of em just make up the numbers.
I like the bell! ding!
The new womans' minute is great fun!
Sally has the nation eating from the palm of her hand during Chris' show- she is fabulous. Extentions and all! |
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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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I enjoy these parts of the show, pretty poor review to moan about a bell etc if you ask me. |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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Give the show to Sally, then. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:42 am Post subject: |
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Oh that wouldn't work Geddon... Chris is the catalyst for all the good things on drivetinme. |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: |
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He is also responsible for 100% of the drivel. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Maybe it's a girl thing..... but even the parts that traditionally I'd have no interest in, "Business and Sport" , are fun and very nearly interesting at times. I think you have to be on the hairy edge of, and now and again, plunge right into "non traditional" thinking, to get the most from Chris' show |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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It's a puzzle why it took Elizabeth Mahoney over 15 months to realise the Evans show is very irritating
Of course only our Rachel could give a proper well-informed review here, as no-one else here is a regular listener |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:55 am Post subject: |
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John W wrote: | Of course only our Rachel could give a proper well-informed review here, as no-one else here is a regular listener |
Isn't Ernie a regular listener, too?
Is that idea someone had for each of us regulars to review a show we'd not normally listen to for the Anniversary still worthwhile? _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
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idcowden
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 67
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:48 am Post subject: |
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I'm a regular here (if not a very regular poster) and I listen to CE fairly regularly also.
Like most here, I hated the show at first, but I do think its settled down now and is quite listenable. I agree that the bell should be confiscated.
As for "new look Women's Minute" I think this was intended as a dig by Chris after competitions were suspended. Sometimes there are too many feature spots and interuptions (sally says hello is a bit dull IMHO). And I preferred the Business Fox to Beat the Busby (Busby has a very irritating voice). Overall though there is some good music and entertainment, and I do think that some of the music links are very clever. I'd rather have Drivetime with CE, which does have some planning and forethought, rather than the Big Yawn with Steve Wright, which is frankly past its sell by date.
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:48 am Post subject: |
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John W wrote: | It's a puzzle why it took Elizabeth Mahoney over 15 months to realise the Evans show is very irritating
Of course only our Rachel could give a proper well-informed review here, as no-one else here is a regular listener |
I love Chris' show - there's nothing bad about it. Full of wows and ahhhhs and oh really?" I didn't know thats". All put together by a fab team of people working together and clearly enjoying what they do. There's new stuff everyday, so it's always fresh, spontaneous and exciting. Some shows carry on with the same old threads for days - weeks even, wringing every last drop if life from a topic. Not drivetime. Oh no; it's new and different every day.
I even have my hubby listening to it now and that was no easy task. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Rachel,
So with idcowden there are TWO regular listeners to Evans show here!
Ernie/gfloyd praises but isn't regular eh Ern?
Anyway I personally see little dfference in Evans and SK shows, except that I CAN stand SK's voice, and that makes a big difference, but otherwise I can't see how praise can be heaped on one and contempt on the other, by the same listener |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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John W wrote: |
Ernie praises but isn't regular eh Ern? |
I listen when I can. I am not always at a radio between 5-7pm every night. As a general aside, I find that I have been listening to Radio 2 less recently, mainly because of the repetition in daytime. There is only so many times you can laugh at Ken Bruce telling the same joke or Steve Wright rabbiting on.
John W wrote: |
Anyway I personally see little dfference in Evans and SK shows, except that I CAN stand SK's voice, and that makes a big difference, but otherwise I can't see how praise can be heaped on one and contempt on the other, by the same listener
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I think a lot of it has to do with attitude. Sometimes SK makes us feel like its a chore to come into work and is doing us a big favour by turning up. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:32 am Post subject: |
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John W wrote: | Rachel,
So with idcowden there are TWO regular listeners to Evans show here!
Ernie/gfloyd praises but isn't regular eh Ern?
Anyway I personally see little dfference in Evans and SK shows, except that I CAN stand SK's voice, and that makes a big difference, but otherwise I can't see how praise can be heaped on one and contempt on the other, by the same listener |
Little difference!? John, John John,..... you mustn't have listened to CE very much at all. The two shows are worlds apart. They are different kinds of shows completely. On a good day SK can be really fun to listen to but apart from the travel news jingle and the broadcast frequency, the DP and Drive time have nothing in common. |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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They start with the latter "D"
( coat in hand - on my way!) _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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The Chris Evans show is like an Evening Dawn Patrol at times - the inane chatter, the sound effects, the "me me me" moaning. Lots of similarities. I prefer and enjoy Chris but it's right to say the two shows are quite alike. |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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Where's the business and sport , the phone ins, woman's minute, the guests, the Duke Box Jury( with the good the bad and the ugly) Beat the Busby , Sally Says Hello, First Time Today, the texts on the topic of the day, in the Dawn Patrol?
You're just trying to wind me up |
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gazmando
Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Huntingdon
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: |
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I have to agree with Rachel.
Chris's show is fun and enjoyable with some great features and a VARIETY of music which is greater than any of the other daytime programmes.
When I leave work at 17.15 I normally go home fuming after the Rap, R&B(sic) and whatever Indie band that will impress his sons mates, music that Steve Wright keeps playing.
But when I work till 19.00 I go home a lot happier normally whistling a good song I've heard.
P.S Tuesdays the best night as Desmond Carrington follows Chris.
I wish he was on every night at 19.00. |
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: |
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Rachel wrote: | Where's the business and sport , the phone ins, woman's minute, the guests, the Duke Box Jury( with the good the bad and the ugly) Beat the Busby , Sally Says Hello, First Time Today, the texts on the topic of the day, in the Dawn Patrol?
You're just trying to wind me up |
I'd say that the CE show has less in common with the SK show...... and much more in common with Saturday Morning Kids' TV.
On second thoughts, perhaps I should not denigrate Saturday Morning Kids' TV too much. |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: Re: Chris Evans Show Radio Review |
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mark occomore wrote: |
There's Evans, interjecting too much and too forcefully, and dinging his annoying hotel-reception bell ad nauseum these days. A hugely dull new incarnation of the Woman's Minute phone-in now features women drivers calling in to say what vehicle they are driving and where, while the recently introduced Sally Says Hello spot is all a bit lifeless. |
Getting back on topic, I must say that office news is a wonderful segment. Very daft, but very funny and quite inspired. Just goes to show how to adversity forces people to innovate and come up with great ideas. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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Adversity, ernie? Do you mean the falling listening figures for Chris Evans or the general malaise that hangs over Radio 2 these days with Lesley Douglas getting it wrong time after time? |
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howard66
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Briant wrote: | Adversity, ernie? Do you mean the falling listening figures for Chris Evans or the general malaise that hangs over Radio 2 tWhese days with Lesley Douglas getting it wrong time after time? |
Well said Briant |
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gfloyd
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Briant wrote: | Adversity, ernie? Do you mean the falling listening figures for Chris Evans or the general malaise that hangs over Radio 2 these days with Lesley Douglas getting it wrong time after time? |
Briant,
The only small flaw in your theory is the actual figures for the Drivetime show.
Q3 2005 4.77m
Q2 2006 4.85m
Q2 2007 4.83m _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject: Re: Chris Evans Show Radio Review |
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gfloyd wrote: | Just goes to show how to adversity forces people to innovate and come up with great ideas. |
Hopefully, sometime soon, we can expect to get some "great ideas" out of Chris Evans that will make drivetime listenable once more? (The "great idea" that would suit me is if he found something else to occupy his time between 5-7pm weekdays). |
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igs007
Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 190
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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Considering Evans said he has 5 million listeners last week (yes, I listened for a little while) then I wouldn't look too much into those figures.
JW had 5 million when he finished. Sure, that may be just the tail end high figures (eg his last show) but it still meant Evans lost listeners. Only now, after much tweaking, is he starting to find replacements. he's hardly set the world on fire, despite the constant stupid promos for his show. |
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gfloyd
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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welcome igs 2007.
The radio audience declines throughout the day anyway. After 3 o'clock more people are watching tv than listening to the radio, so I suppose Chris is up against Richard & Judy, Weakest Link, Neighbours, etc as well as other radio stations. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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SantaFefan
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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Simpsons, Judge Judy.... Planet Rock...... watching paint dry, listening to the tumble dryer.. _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be. |
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gfloyd
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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SantaFefan wrote: | Simpsons, Judge Judy.... Planet Rock...... watching paint dry, listening to the tumble dryer.. |
See. There are loads of ways you could be occupying your time! _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: |
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But he still SHOUTS, I do'nt want to be shouted at through the radio. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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