Steve Wright

[Lurking Lawyer]

daemon said:

Serious snackin'

[daemon]

Raygun said:

daemon said:

I listen Planet Rock these days.

Planet Rock is alright but they do keep trying to plug some awful new bands which bores me stless.
The trouble with me when it comes to rock music is that most tracks I either love or hate like today they played tracks by U2 and Guns n Roses which I hate but then played a gem by Steve Miller Band called Swingtown where's if I'm listening to Solar Radio which plays soul/jazz even the tracks I'm not over keen on I can put up with.
One genre of music I hate is indie especially all that crap from the 90s like Pulp,Oasis and Blur, no wonder they they never made it in America, absolute crap.

I dont mind the new stuff. I'd hate to be stuck in the vein of 70s / 80s / 90s music which is where my core music would normally come from. Have got quite into ShineDown, Asking Alexandria, Fall Out Boy, Five Finger Death Punch, Ghost BC and Avenged Sevenfold through radio listening and whilst some of those arent exactly cutting edge, its bringing me more up to date.

Amazon prime is v good for what you need - you just pick a "channel" - I've "Classic Hard Rock" on at the min. You can like or dislike a song - if you like it, it keeps it in the playlist and adds songs like it, if you dislike, it stops playing it instantly and removes it from your playlist.

Classic Rock is another radio station i quite like.

[daemon]

Lurking Lawyer said:

daemon said:

Serious snackin'

Apparently - and i read it on the internet so it must be true - he gets all his food ordered in for each meal from a selection of restaurants he uses. They know when its for him and the way he likes it prepared. When he turns up in the mornings he just tells a runner what he wants from where and when.

[TIGA84]

Nom de ploom said:

lordy if ppl don;t like a DJ switch it off ffs.

there's plenty of choice out there.

I like radio 2 alot because of the variety of music and the live slots, but I can't stand jazz and I'm not into folk music so I don't listen to that bit....

its pretty simple really.

where else could I get joe bonammassa as album of the week and adrian lester as guest on the same day??? i'm not keen on Elaine Paige - her laugh is very annoying and I'd personally allow Liza Tarbuck to run headfirst into a wall but they have just recruited micahel ball into sunday mornings and he seems very genuine...

I cannot stand commercial radio - Leeds has Radio Aire and its fecking awful - if they play groove is in the heart or I'm a dreamer one more time I swear I'll firebomb the place. its cheap and it has adverts.

I honestly think with radio 5 live included, bbc radio is pretty much the best thing they use the licence fee for

I have a strange respect for Michael Ball, I think he'd be a proper laugh from things I've seen him on.

His cameo on Toast of London as Andrew Lloyd Webbers debt collecting henchman was superb, he'd make a cracking villan on something like Lockstock!

Back on topic though, I used to listen to Mayo on a long drive home from Newbury to Kent everyday, I thought the show was good, confessions was always funny.

Occasionally I'd leave early on a Friday and have to endure Serious Jockin though, it was like a cheese nightmare from the 80's filled with awfulness, random scratching stabs and helicopter gunships etc. Appalling. As soon as my crappy Alfa radio could pick up LBC halfway down the M4, over it went.

[minimoog]

TIGA84 said:

Back on topic though, I used to listen to Mayo on a long drive home from Newbury to Kent everyday, I thought the show was good, confessions was always funny.

Mayo's good but that sports sidekick he has on with him is a massively irritating tosser when he starts getting all strident and opinionated.

[GoateeDirector]

I like Steve Wright, it's just a radio show, chillax

[Dr Jekyll]

Sparky137 said:

However, what the article does do is paint a picture of a man with some serious self esteem issues, probably more to do with his size and general appearance more than anything else.

He certainly will have if he reads this thread. I'm certainly no fan and his show is corny and irritating but he's hardly a bad person, let's keep this in perspective.

[T5XARV]

GoateeDirector said:

I like Steve Wright, it's just a radio show, chillax

Chillax ?
Are you Steve Wright ?

[coppice]

It is as though it is forever 1977- loathsome . Ratcliffe and Maconie on R6 Music are better in every way- funny , hugely knowledgeable about music and genuinely likeable .Choice of music is as eclectic as it is enjoyable. Love the show ...

[dub16v]

I probably shouldn't be in this thread, I often listen to his Sunday show...quite like it

[MarshPhantom]

I don't listen to Radio 2 much, when I do it's Wrighty. Mayo is doing the same show as he was 30 years ago but people don't seem to mind that.

Evans is a and Vine wants shooting.

I used to like Sarah Kennedy too.

[Trevatanus]

MarshPhantom said:

I don't listen to Radio 2 much, when I do it's Wrighty. Mayo is doing the same show as he was 30 years ago but people don't seem to mind that.

Evans is a and Vine wants shooting.

I used to like Sarah Kennedy too.

We need a "Confessions" thread on here. I don't have anything to confess though

[anonymous-user]

MarshPhantom said:

I used to like Sarah Kennedy too.

You like listening to post-menopausal women telling you about their cats, how they had to "stop for a widdle" on the way to the studio and tales of their latest grocery shop in "Sainsbugs"?
There are websites for people like you, usually with premium rate phone numbers attached.

[Blackpuddin]

coppice said:

It is as though it is forever 1977- loathsome . Ratcliffe and Maconie on R6 Music are better in every way- funny , hugely knowledgeable about music and genuinely likeable .Choice of music is as eclectic as it is enjoyable. Love the show ...

Takes all sorts I suppose. I just can't get past Ratcliffe's constant Bruce Forsyth-style emming and ahhing, plus there seems to be a very poor ratio of music to what they seem to think is hilarious banter. Though that might be me.

[Blackpuddin]

Lisa Tarbuck is easily the funniest radio presenter on just now.

[Europa1]

Blackpuddin said:

Lisa Tarbuck is easily the funniest radio presenter on just now.

To coin a phrase, "takes all sorts I suppose". I can't stand the woman.

[coppice]

Blackpuddin said:

coppice said:

It is as though it is forever 1977- loathsome . Ratcliffe and Maconie on R6 Music are better in every way- funny , hugely knowledgeable about music and genuinely likeable .Choice of music is as eclectic as it is enjoyable. Love the show ...

Takes all sorts I suppose. I just can't get past Ratcliffe's constant Bruce Forsyth-style emming and ahhing, plus there seems to be a very poor ratio of music to what they seem to think is hilarious banter. Though that might be me.

Much as I like Ratcliffe (and both his and Maconie's books rare excellent reads) I do sometimes wonder how Mark got through his first radio audition as his Emm..err.. ermm...uh.. delivery is certainly idiosyncratic - but it just makes me smile. Anybody who can riff about the sheer perfection of Benmore Tench's name is OK with me

[coppice]

DMN said:

rohrl said:

Scheduling Radio 2 can't be easy.

Radio 1 has to appeal to 16-25 year olds or so.

Radio 2 has to appeal to 25-100 year olds.

There probably isn't much of a crossover in the musical taste of a 30 year old and an 80 year old.

Which is whay there is 6Music for those aged 25-45.

Oddly enough some of the R6 music demographic is older than that - we may be no longer in first flush of youth (like 40 somethings) but you don't grow out of good music, old or new...

[Nom de ploom]

Blackpuddin said:

Lisa Tarbuck is easily the funniest radio presenter on just now.

not sure if serious

[vxr8mate]

Recently had the privilege of listening to Craig Charles when he covered for Graham Norton on Radio 2.

He was refreshingly funny.