Come on now. This is all some huge joke, right? Now the Controller of Radio 2 has fallen on her sword. Poor Andrew Sachs was
I moved here to tumblr.com on 1st November 2008 as I thought it was more suited to my needs and current style of quick blogging
I’ve tumblrd away
I love WordPress, but the nature of my needs are now more suited to tumblr.com so I’ve moved there. Please come on over to my
I love Ken
Politically, I hate Ken Livingstone. When the lovely Boris ousted him from control of London, I was a happy man. Be gone, creep, I thought. Then
KCR-FM (East Liverpool)
I’ve been listening online to this station for a little while now ( http://www.kcrfm.co.uk ), after finding out it’s no longer called The Rocket – D’oh! –
RNI – wtf is it about?
I titled this “RNI – wtf is it about?” because I want to say a few words about Garrrry Stevens’s’s internet radio stream RNI (more
Radio Caroline Maidstone needs a new spare bedroom
It seems that the idea of inviting a bunch of folk into your home in order to maintain a version of Radio Caroline was not necessarily a
Absolute Radio hears Christopher England
Despite my moaning about aspects of them, look at this written by the Brand Director of Absolute Radio. Look mum, I’m famous! http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/09/absolute-beginners-no-longer-by-chris-lawson/ On that
Absolutely annoying (repeatedly)
This new Absolute Radio, right. It promises you ain’t gonna hear the same thing between 10am and 5pm, all part of the ‘no repeat workday’, right.
Absolute Jacking
Is it me or is the all new Absolute Radio (“used to be known as Virgin Radio”) going the way of Jack FM? Jack FM in Oxford (owned by Absolute) boringly has
Virgin became Absolute Radio today
‘Absolute Radio’, that was the name they settled on after months of debate about what should succeed ‘Virgin Radio’. They looked at their letterheads or
Google Chrome just works!
I use (in business) Google Apps for Domains, have been playing extensively with Google Gears, and generally find that things Google just work. Compare and contrast things
Virgin-Radio-soon-to-be-known-as-Absolute-Radio
I dipped in to about 20 minutes of ‘Virgin-Radio-soon-to-be-known-as-Absolute-Radio’ and to my amazement found that, apart from the obligatory and annoying constant bigging-up of the
Where’s Christopher England?
Christopher England is a kinda personality or persona of another Chris, and mainly nothing like him. That other Chris is sooooooo damn busy being himself
Background radio versus Foreground radio
Here’s my take on a couple of things RAJAR. Music radio: I’m convinced that “music radio” falls into two main styles, but hasn’t previously been
Britain’s Naff Talent
I don’t watch much TV overall, although there’s some pretty hot and interesting stuff on Channel 4 now and again, but I did watch Britain’s
Stupid programming ideas #807732: Cristo on LBC
Ok, so there’s this ‘showbiz’ show on the talking station LBC in London, presented by ‘Cristo’ in the weekend early evenings. Despite his constant menuing
I’m waiting for the Man in the Morning
I don’t suppose anybody here is still following the Man in the Morning’s blog http://breakfastdj.blogspot.com/ are they? Now, this surely must be building up to
The case of the RICKMOBBING of Liverpool Street Station
I’ve just been listening to a discussion on t’wireless about Friday’s Rickmobbing of Liverpool Street Station in London. They were desperate to make sense of
Ten grate links in a row
As a one time lover of Capital 95.8, I hadn’t realised how bad it had become until I accidentally subjected myself to about two hours
The Internet is real life
Weirdly, I watch people wasting their time on such clunky and hard to use services as Facebook and I ask “Why?”. They spend hours and
The death of old radio blokes
I’m old school. Today, radio is in the hands of a new generation, although my generation reject and hate them. It appears to be the
Farts is funny
We all do it. Some do it discretely and quietly. Others do it loudly and proudly. We fart. I don’t have a problem with farting.
Cunning Chinese make fat people explode
Whilst the world spends its time staring suspiciously at anybody of an Arabic(ish) origin or appearing to be dressed in an Islamic way (especially carrying
Pop music
I’m guessing that for the last 50 years or so the yardstick for popular culture has been pop music. Pop music has always taken the
There’s nowt but dead people on’t radio
My hobbyistic interest is radio. True, I spend most of my radio listening hours tuned to either Radio 1 or a talking station. In London
The New Media and Technology divide
It seems to me that people are grouping themselves into new media and technological user groups. I’m worried if this is dangerous. Let me explain.
Penis abuse
Surely it’s about time we prosecuted those people – typically following Middle Eastern based religions – who abuse their children. Hacking away at parts of
Equality or not?
Interesting. So, a lot of the job application forms, mainly those put out by the politically correct luvvies that run the public sector, suggest that
Tate Liverpool
Surely the straight forward folk of Liverpool aren’t fooled by this Tate Gallery! The contents that have any worth could be moved into a small
Water water, Scouser’s water
The taste of Chlorine that is sadly missing from the highly drinkable tap water in London dominates the water supply here on Merseyside such that
On the buses
London is not alone in its inclusive attitude towards its culturally diverse community.Here in Liverpool young black kids have been given identical jobs – entertaining
Youthful Sport
Bootle has introduced a new sport ahead of the Olympic games coming to the UK. It’s run in relays, and participants can use cycles (BMX
Sober-watch
Still exploring the wonders of Liverpool to discover why it’s the capital of culture. Looking for a random local male that’s sober. Not found any
Dog pooh galore
Yea! I’ve found the one square metre of pavement in Liverpool with no dog pooh on it. Don’t care if it is raining really hard,
Radio, wot radio?
Nearly 2 in the morning here in Liverpool (the capital of culture), and I’ve just spent 10 minutes scanning through an FM radio. I’m shocked
Worst McDonalds in the world
I wonder if the management of McDONALDS know how awful and disorganised one of their Liverpool branches is. It’s disgusting. Yeuch! Yet, I suspect it
Liverpool’s Fluorescent Orange women
Things are looking up for the new capital of culture. Just seen two fake tan wearers that weren’t in the middle of a drunken biaytch
Christians steal time
Somebody stole traditional New Year’s Eve in Merseyside. Huge barriers were built stopping anybody in Liverpool actually seeing the Mersey, forcing the thousands searching for
Great George clunks in the New Year
Huh! Get a plastic cup. Hit it with a feather duster. Hear that noise? That’s the new 14.5 ton ‘great George’ bell in Liverpool Cathedral,
So this is Christmas?
It’s Christmas Day. For a majority of the planet today is just another day. However, for most of the English speaking and ‘western’ world it’s
Freedom
These Scousers appear to be freely celebrating a religious festival that is banned in London Village. Very impressive. No thought police to scare them. They
Have they charged the McCanns yet?
Ok, yes I am guilty. I am trapped into a daily ritual, out of which I cannot get. In some ways I find it exciting
A knife through the heart
So, this young lad gets off a bus and goes to walk a few hundred metres to his home, which is just a road away
Feral acceptance
It was interesting listening to the sound bites surrounding this poor Garry Newlove fellow from Cheshire who was battered to death for daring to ask
Helpdesk and Integrated Inventory Manager
I is looking for a decent bit of software. Maybe even one that is hosted, rather than having to be installed on my own servers
I’m confused
Okay. There’s Myspace. Facebook. Blogger. And the excitingly different Twitter and Jaiku, with their free texts of things wot you wrote, straight to my mobile
The Doctors who wanted to kill us
Aren’t Doctors supposed to have this passion for life? Other people’s life. Aren’t they supposed to take the Hippocratic Oath which binds them to great
Isle of Man International Broadcasting Madness
It would be interesting to get to the bottom of what’s actually going on with all this Isle of Man malarkey. It’s very difficult to
The all newly launched South London Radio
Well, it launched with George Benson’s “Never Give Up on a Good Thing”.Sigh. Stop me if I’ve not heard this format before a million times:
Kidnap after neglect
Am I hearing this right? The little girl that has gone missing, probably kidnapped, in Portugal was 3 nearly 4, and had been left alone
Sudan Insane
Do you remember that mega-worry about minute particles of the illegal dye Sudan I getting into the food chain? Man, was that fun to watch.
Don’t blame the parents
So, the latest victim of a gang is on my home patch, and the first thing I hear is the liberal elite wankers going on
Sprinkle when you tinkle
Moan moan moan. I’ve written before about women and their obsession with the toilet seat being up or down, as if they are the only
The search for non-willy porn
Why can’t I find any porn aimed at me? I mean, right, I’m a bloke, right, and so I’m not interested in men’s willies, am
Treating life differently
Veggies and Vegans. Loonies we should help or cruel bullies we should lock up? These people seem to have some mighty skewed ideas when it
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs, eh?
Yes, Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs. They confuse me. Yep, they have a fear. A fear of numbers. Well, a fear of the number 666 to be more precise.
Shut the fuck up in cinemas
How are we going to get people to shut the fuck up in cinemas? I’m not being old here, ok? I go to a cinema,
The Church rejected Christ’s own family?
The excellent Channel 4 in the UK is not backward with coming forward with ‘anti’ stuff about Jesus Christ. There were loads over the Christmas
I don’t think I’m gay
I have a very open mind. Yet it’s also quite closed. I mean, I ‘accept’ a lot of things whilst also having my own way,
Fear of mono
Around and about radio enthusiast sites and mass debating pits I notice there continues this horror and fear of mono. Why are (radio anorak type)
History is a lie
History has a funny habit of changing. Now, in a Star Trek world this can be explained away with time travel, temporal distortions and whatever.
The day the muggers won
I was wandering home at just before Midnight when a rather concerned lad in his early 20s asked if I’d seen two hoodies pass me.
BBC2 Programme for Stoners
Ok, so I keep funny hours. I don’t do the drink and drugs thing, it’s just that my lifestyle means my hours are different to
Adverts of the outside
Aren’t people stupid when it comes to advertising? Especially so when it comes to selecting a house or a car. Take a house, for example.
Why I hate old songs
Why do I tend to hate old songs more than anything I have ever hated?
When will they tattoo us?
One of the most frightening things happening in the UK is that more and more local authorities are collecting data on ethnic origin and sexual
Dragnet to the past
You know how you get bored and so start flicking. I don’t mean flicking bogies. Flicking around the TV channels. I had a flicking session
Honest Sex
I’ve long been sympathetic to people who are into strange and unusual sexual practices. I’m not a swinger, mainly because I’m a bit of a
Loud birds
Cor blimey. How is a man supposed to sleep around here, eh? That big moon thing keeps shining brightly. Ok, so it’s my fault for
Loyalty, Friendship and Water
To different people, the same word will have different meanings.
Weird Poisoned People
Why are some people weird? It’s usually purely down to the poisons they either unknowingly or knowingly ingest.
The Flies
They tell me odd things are happening. It’s true that birds have been singing all through the night where once they’d sing from dawn. The
Sex on TV
What is wrong with these people who scream and shout about sex on TV or in the cinema? (I mean, in the film you are
My brother’s 50th birthday
It’s my brother’s 50th birthday today. It’s extremely odd to think back, say, 40 years to when he was ten and we were children living
The oldest man in the world
I read with interest about the world’s oldest man. As I get older and start to wonder at what point I am likely to wake
Confused Supermarkets
Having previously reported on the horror of daytime shopping in supermarkets, there is a side issue I need to address. It’s about the confused signals.
Trolley Rage
Okay, I’m getting to grips with this shopping lark, but I am suffering from trolley rage.
The lion and the giraffe
I read this somewhere ages ago, and I thought it was pretty thought-provoking, so I’ve plagiarised it for here from my copy that’s on my
That Da Vinci Code
I sat down to watch the guy who is better known for playing the dense and daft Baldrick in the various Blackadder series, to see
Marry the Ripper?
Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, brutally murdered 13 women over a four year period, horribly mutilating their bodies, and was later diagnosed as a paranoid
A Lunar Tic
So today we had an eclipse of the moon. In fact it’s doing its stuff right now as I, er, write. Currently it’s a sort
Save the swastika
The Swastika is a lovely symbol. It means a lot to a lot of people, and yet there are those who want it banned. This
Ikea
Ikea is a ‘Scandinavian’ self-assembly furniture shop. Well, it’s lots of shops. Huge shops. They are making an absolute fortune for the owners, because somehow
Football
I see that football appears to be infesting TV again. Live and let live, but I’ve never understood games with balls. Well, some of them
Shave me eyebrows?
So what’s all this shaving tiny bits out of your eyebrows business, eh?
Drunk driving bitch
I got to hear the news today that a girl working for a company I have a relationship with (the company not the girl), was
Satire
Satire is a wonderful thing. The satirical writers of our world make us laugh by pointing at those who should be laughed at. Satire isn’t
Bob’s Bob?
Maybe that goldfish is trying to tell you his name is Bob.
Flash mobbing
I think the sport of streaking first started in the 1970s. This was the completely harmless yet completely pointless activity of taking all one’s clothes
Motivate to Metric
Good to hear that Ireland has removed all the silly imperial road signs spouting stuff like ‘miles per hour’ speed limits and has properly replaced
Whose holocaust?
Last month we had ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’. Why do Jews never really acknowledge the “others” who were gassed, shot, or in other ways ‘terminated’ by
Emergency Radio
Reading through the ‘Preparing for Emergencies’ book we all got quite a while ago, I notice that I have to gather up my belongings and
Being 19
In conversation, I very very occasionally drop into the discussion that I am 19 years of age (Ok, I actually say it a lot). This
Time to cull the old people at Radio 1
What’s going on at Radio 1? Either there is some obscure mental condition affecting those in control or it’s really really really time to cull
The Fear that is London
In America, well New York, even before September 11th 2001, an interesting thing was happening. Crime was falling dramatically, and even murder had reduced by
Fear of mono
Around and about radio enthusiast sites and mass debating pits I notice there continues this horror and fear of mono. Why are (radio anorak type)
Chris Evans’ TV set
I never really liked Chris Evans on the radio other than when he was first on GLR. I thought he was good on the Big
Valentine’s Day hype
I realise that Valentine’s Day is a hype. It is a device used to generate profit for those who publish and sell cards. And those
Reducing radio audiences
How to reduce your audience if you run a radio station:
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