Stuff about Irish music on the radio here. Kinda interesting.
Bottom line is if it’s not commercial then it’s not getting played outside specialist shows. And with so much competition now the stations have to be ruthless. Even those ones who haven’t yet come on air who showcased their abilities to the BCI with DJs who gave up their time for nothing and who, when the licence was issued, found themselves cast aside for personality-less safe options. It’s a cut-throat business and no mistake.
Ask Phantom who have had to sell a chunk of their station. For those about to rock. C’est la musique pour toi.
This was funny though:
Fianna Fáil Senator Paschal Mooney said radio request shows had declined in Ireland. “They are afraid of what the public might actually ask for,” he said.
Yeah, there’s nothing like “Hello to Mick and Susan in Cabra, Fliddy, Stabs, Magoo, Nigel, Trev and the Willah in Clontarf and they’re all looking for Scooter”.
There was a famous dance music pirate in Dublin back in the day whose evening request show came under serious Garda surveillance because it was rumoured they were sending coded messages to prisoners in the Joy.
Bring back the old days, I say.
Yup. Looks like it’s all going the way of the US and the Clear Channel monopoly.
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/clear_channel/
Radio has become an outlet for sanitized corporate mush-music. Might the internet save us or have the youth of today become too damn bovine to care?
ah, the old days you say?
I won a copy of U2′s October from Maxi on her Poparama show. It was a ring in with an answer to the question thing. The horrible thing is that I could have picked any album I wanted and I picked that….
poparama, pop, pop, pop, pop – arama, poparama, pop, pop, pop, pop-arama, poparam, pop, pop..
Remember Sunset back in the early 90′s! brings a tear to the eye!
Cant listen to any radio now, it’s just ads, bad music and ego’s spilling shit from the hole under their noses!
Cowen as at the opening of the Limerick tunnel the other day and now he’s at the opening of the motorway to the north. Has he nothing better to be doing?
Radio …. Bah!
Paschal Mooney … double Bah!
D’Internet will sort out all that soon enough. You can already see a good bit of RTE with their Realplayer application on their site – license fee free.
Soon we’ll not be lumbered with backward national providers only. The world will be our shellfish of choice.
Then we’ll surely be harking back to the old days!
I hate most radio. But I have a particular hate gland just for Spin and their listeners.
nearly crashed the car one evening, driving back to Dublin when one lady was playing a request for her Granddaughter ‘chardonnay’ in Tallaght.. still think it was a piss take….
do you really?
Two Five Three, Two Five Three, Radio Dublin, Two Five Three.
maybe it was borne out of a native-american style naming system…
Senators Donie and Paschal are some ff-ucking time-warp double act… like that pair with the accordion who wore leprechaun outfits.
Every two-bit ‘regional’ radio station up a tree plays nothing but Country ‘n’ Irish, they still haven’t heard of Horslips, Thin Lizzy, The Boomtown Rats, or the Undertones and would prefer to give the listeners a good lash of the ‘best’ of Kenny Rogers before they’d stoop to the likes of Van Morrison.
Radio is totally fucked by computer-controlled scheduling of ads. Everything is sandwiched into a 12-minute formula, it’s little wonder it all sounds the same.
The Pirates were proper stations. My home phone number was one digit off the number for Vibe FM. Used to get all sorts of lunatics ringing in the middle of the night. Eventually we just accepted all the requests and thanked them for listening.
“… they still haven’t heard of Horslips, Thin Lizzy, The Boomtown Rats, or the Undertones ….”
are there any Irish acts from the last twenty years worth talking about? This is the age-old Hotpress whinge, radio stations dont play enough Irish acts etc. etc.
thin Lizzy make an interseting musical cameo in the New A-team film… (21st century style)
disregard that last bit. sorry. It was steely Dan.
I’m from the land of LM-FM where Declan Nerney rules supreme. Please kill me!
http://www.declannerney.com/index.php
Every morning I can’t wait till I get in range of Phantom!
Radio, bollocks. Never resort to the airwaves when you have a tape player, one of them tapes with the headphone jacks on it and an MP3 player fulla stuff everyone apparently hates.
Rachel English gives me a pain the hole.
Spotify, Ra na G and some Radio 3 these days for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ
BBC Radio via t’internet. And randomly chosen stations from around the world too. Lyric FM is good. 4FM is alright for driving but makes me feel old.
lyric fm all the way for me.
the other rte stations are largely dreadful and the commercial ones are brutal beyond belief, especially fm104 and 98fm.
and matt cooper’s voice is nasal and irritating.
Newstalk mainly except when the Sky+ cunt is on..
BBC 5 Live on Friday afternoons for kermodes film review..
Other than that,Radio Nova Paris or just podcasts..
@JJ Mcgreer
“and matt cooper’s voice is nasal and irritating.”
Yeah, I used to think he was alright, but I’ve started coming out in a rash after about five minutes of his shite now.
fill3rup remember limericks live 95fm 24/7 at dell
its still a wonder to me nobody went on a shooting spree in that fucking hellhole
Matt Cooper – He can’t pronounce ‘Saturday’.
It grates everytime.
There’s a ‘t’ in it, Matt.
I do,i do.. The same 8 songs over n over again..
The hatred I have for Avril Lavigne over that..I mean id have to jump on her face over and over..
and that was about 7 years ago..
“Sky care..”
Someone actually fucking wrote that and thought we’d believe it.
this was on my radio i would sooner hammer a six inch nail into me mickey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2X6aAHqE-Q
@Holemaster
And then they employed that fat fucker to say it.
Crrrringe worthy.
“Wha..(insincere half snigger)-.What more can i say/”.. Makes my blood boil..
Like if anyone has ever given out a about Sky Customer Service(a shower of rude cunts I might add) that they are simply Lying..
I hate George Hook..
Apres Match of George Hook Sky ads…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEfnCEJ7FvM
a george – his descent into ego fulled insanity can only be months away.
Wasn’t George a confirmed Murdoch hater?
Everyone has their price.
In Canada there is a policy called CanCon or Canadian content. Any music station has to dedicate 30% of airtime to music that is by Canadian artists. Other music qualifies by having canadian producers, studio’s etc… It stops American produced music from wiping out everything north of the border.
Thankfully Nickelback are US based and don’t qualify. Everyone here hates them, even more than Damien Rice.
Perhaps a similar policy would keep Irish artists afloat?
gees that makes us look bad… and that’s not good!
I fully support anything that puts an end to Nickelback
Wasn’t George a confirmed Murdoch hater?
The Day that Sky got the rights to the Heineken Cup the hypocritical cunt wore a Black Arm Band while doing punditry for one of the matches because it wasnt going to be free to air anymore..
Eh,lads.. everyone knows that they only want a qouta on “Certain Types of Irish Music”..ie Shite.
The Stations will find a way around it like have done all the other licence restrictions (eg:Announcing some jobs are available is counted towards the news qouta and community service too)
so the shite stations will play Jedward et all and say “Well they’re Irish!”
I`ve not heard Grannies Intentions played for ages.
George Hook is a d4 ubercunt sell your soul to the devil cunt.
I do like the death notices on CKR FM.
grannies what a band your as old as me FCM A GREAT BAND
The whole Irish music scene is nepotism and back slappery and the same chosen few running the show and making it impossible for anyone else to succeed. And generally, the terms of success are pretty paltry too. It’s deeply derpessing and cynical, all of it. Just a few deciding who will get them rich – the Meteor awards etc are laughable.
very true JO i worked in it for a long time cunts and the worst type of cunts’ glad i am away from it
I’m worried no one will want to read story of my life, reveals Joe
HE is one of RTE’s most popular broadcasters with hundreds of thousands of loyal fans, but Joe Duffy still suffers from jitters when it comes to penning his memoirs.
Probably be as popular than Gerry,s.
that’s an intersting point icarus. It has to be part of expalination of why the music scene is kicking in canada these days; Arcade Fire, Crystal Castle
any excuse for this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q95KgV-QDBc
and god, playing with his friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LMz2H5xJOY
two out of work models and a fashion slave try to dance away the michelob night
The bartender poured herself another drink while two drunks were watching the fight
The champ went down then he got up again
then he went out like a light
fighting for the people.
I forgot how great an opening line that song has. Neil Young and Alex Higgins walk into a bar, the barman tells them to get the fuck out.
I gauge the quality of taxi drivers by the radio station they listen to.
FM104 is bad. He’ll be a talker, very boring and racist and miss your turn on purpose. Gives out about other drivers.
Q102 means he’s a little better, lighter attitude, more likely to tell a crap joke but still racist. Loves the Costa del Sol.
4FM is quiet. Does the job for a few extra quid to put the kids though college or pay alimony. Easy sort. Family man. Always has change.
love neil young
back on topic
dedicated to my mate who i drunkenly spoke shit of a while ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvb65dCMjZI
now, off to try and drop the hand on supergrover down in the local, with my ex taxi drive mate too who had radio 4 on. radio 4 is your only man.
dont you just love it’ a bit of neil before bed at the end of a good day. come on rovers
Neil on sky arts until midnight. “rust never sleeps”
I’ve a mind to cancel my entire Sky subscription just because of those George Hook ads
old days
the thing about the old days
they the old days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ABHp0KKPk