Tony Dixon, who worked for just about every radio station in Dublin at some stage, died last night. I used to work with him a bit, back in the day. He was always trying to play his R&B stuff, sneaking in songs whene he wasn’t supposed to. Especially as we were a ‘hot hit’ radio station. Didn’t matter how often he was told, at some point you’d hear him play something that nobody had ever heard of.
“A great tune from Wandell Grovemunch and the Associations … that’s Oooh baby, let me sex you in your sex bit”.
“Tony, you’re supposed to fucking play Whigfield!”
However, I remember when Q102, the old Q102 and not the taxi drivers favourite Q102 that’s on now, decided to change format back in the 80s/90s. It was ages ago, I can’t remember exactly when.
They got one of these format guys in and they went ‘hot hits’ like Sunshine101. I think they called themselves SuperQ. Anyway, clearly the remit was for the DJs to shut up, for the most part, sound happy and just play as much music as possible.
I remember listening and Tony was on. One song began to fade out, the natural point for the DJ to come in, waffle a bit, and then play another record. To this day I remember it well, obviously he’d decided to take the mick a little bit, cheesed off with the new regime.
Song fades, Tony pipes up sounding as falsely happy as possible.
“It’s 12.15 and here’s another song on SuperQ!”
And then came the opening bars of ‘Waiting for a star to fall‘ or something like that.
“Here’s another song …”, heh.
RIP Tony.
Worked with Tony for a good few years djing in Dublin clubs and we used do the Irish clubbing section for Blues and Soul magazine too. Nice guy and a gent too. Passionate about music on a personal level he helped me with my first radio demo when i was going from pirate to mainstream radio. RIP
PLAYING WHILE ROME BURNS, WHAT?
I like the sound of Tony. Fight the power.
Thats terrible Twenty,he,
was is a legend in radio and club DJing..Gluey- leave it off you grave-stomping AIDS magnet..
oops..must prctice that stricke thing..
Gluey, get yourself a wife and a garden.
He did. His wife left him and got the garden in the settlement. Thats why Gluey is so bitter.
damn you, comment-losing error 500
Semi-z-list celebrity trumps perspective, does it?
No disrespect intended, but isn’t there a bigger issue at hand?
Along with 90% of the people who read this I never heard of the guy until now.
La-La-Lahhhh, X-Factor, I’m a celebrity, I can’t hear you…
Today?
Really?
There was a post last evening to discuss the ‘plan’. Don’t we need some ‘light relief’ too? Otherwise it just all gets too depressing.
I don’t get the celebrity comment … apparently the guy was a radio DJ and interested in quality over schlock…
Sounds like a guy more interested in music than celebrity really. Those interested in celebrity don’t get into trouble for deliberately playing better music. They just play the schlock and interject themselves too much into the programme.
‘Don’t we need some ‘light relief’ too?’
It’s all too stressful, I’m off for a Tommy Tank!
Gluey is flapped surely ?
Sounds like a decent guy Twenty. You have arrived a middle age now when people you worked with start dying off.
I’d say everyone hated the ‘Format Man’. Cheap shiny suit, Ford Capri, wispy mullet and a five and quarter inch IBM floppy with jingles and sound effects on it.
Probably sold Britannica sets before that.
Mate of mine sold Encyclopaedia Britannica around the highways and byways when he were young and fairly unread, HM.
Called to a house in Wicklow where he claims some crowd involved with Clannad had pretty much an open house for musicians and other interesting oddballs.
Sold no Encyclopaedias like but had a whale of a time over two days.
*Irrelevant story brought to you courtesy of WWW Industries*
Only last night I heard a dj say on air, “I really hate that song/track… but it’s on the playlist.”
Playlists are like ‘playola’ from old days, they are linked to the freebies that radio stations get from lables and promoters.
So yes, RIP Mr Dixon and I’m sure we’ll drift back to the state of the country as the day goes on. But where do people (or trolls) get the idea that bloggers are in any way obliged to follow an agenda?
*note to self… copy before hitting the button.. just in case…*
er labels… although I like ‘lable’ as a word for a music company that spoonfeeds radio stations…
On the pirate I was on,they kept trying to get us to play the station stings at certain times..
That doesnt really wash when you are playing an 8min long track and you are stoned..
Also told us that we were playing a little too much “Black” music.. I thought they meant in tone so we started throughing in more motown and synth based music..
That station now has a broadcasting licence..
Gluaistean. Scientific fact: Too much cyber wanking jams capslock on.
The first rule of Playlist is don’t mention Playlist on air
Sorry Twenty, I wasn’t here yesterday, but even so, surely reflection is better than speculation?
Cap’n, a genuine question…
How did Clannad, from Donegal, end up in Wicklow?
More importantly, did you manage to sell the encyclopaedias to them, and how did they manage to get them home?
And what the fuck has it got to do with ANYTHING AT ALL?
2ND Rule of Playlist is pretend a playlist song is something you just happened to find yourself while checking out music on the internet,because you’re really enthusiastic about “new” music..
Isnt that right Foney Tenton?
Is Gluey another one of Git/MB/CJ/CP/WANKERS?
i’m all for a little light relief too please. info overload with armageddon lately
i remember the guy. rip.
radio has gone to the dogs, people settling for MOR shit. He’s probably in punk/reggae heaven now pissing on ryan turbridy sshit-music brain. shit presenting brain. Shit, Shit Show brain. ye gey my drift – turbridy – “Haw, haw, haw here’s some more 60′s stuff because I have no tatse of my own”
Say it loud. We’re pinkish black and we’re proud.
They all end up in Wicklow, those arty types. Oh yes.
Oh. I remember listening to Tony Fenton waffling on about The Pale, and anyone remember them, and wonder what’s they’re up to now… and someone texted in that they’re gigging all over the place and have been for some time – with an unspoken, ‘you stupid fuck’ at the end.
Heh..
I know someone who rode John Hurt’s ex wife in Wicklow.
“That doesnt really wash when you are playing an 8min long track and you are stoned..”
That was probably a three minute track Fill.
or 18min…
As far as I am aware, the format of the playlist for a lot of stations is decided by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland on the lines of:
Every hour – two songs from the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s, 90′s, 00′s must be played – 3 must be Irish etc. So the station manager (who may be tone deaf as well as stupid) decides the playlist for every DJ for every day. It becomes an Orwellian construct rather than an effort to play good music. Really fucking ridiculous regulation.
Phantom turned into a cunt nest after they got their license.
You mean Fantomb?
Good guess HM..
All the little marketing blondholes have their fake tan OMG-ness all over it now.
It was a shed on the southside when i was there..
I loved it but they were a wee bit small minded musically with regards to electronic music/hip hop etc..(we had a late night show)
As an indie station most of their playlist were on major labels..
I dont listen to Phantom as there dont broadcast outside the pale..
phantom YAWN
phantogram though….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSgLHWR16o
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1125/politics.html
“Mr Cowen said that any attempt to change or re-negotiate the plan would have to have the approval of the people.”
huh? What the fuck does he mean by that? A referendum on the woirk of fiction which he, the department of finance and lenihan cooked up?
A new goverenment would have the approval of the people…
what is the weasel worded wanker on about now? cunt.
He must think that he’s already in opposition. He’s fucking lost it!
Well done.
Git- save the attempts at sniping for the forum. Thats what its for.
Otherwise for answers to your questions see Jo’s comment after your complaint and my original post for answers to your questions.
All except what people with something to do with Clannad being in Wicklow. I don’t know. But I hear people from Donegal are allowed to live elsewhere now that we have buses and cars n’such.
I could be wrong. My mate could have been bullshitting me. Who knows? Who knows? Who cares?
my facebook status simply reads “Fianna Failures”
(wipes silent tear from cheek, chuckles at people rallying behind Jim Corr)
And another thing, Joe Duffy should do a liveline roadshow thing, in the o2, complete with a cross section of his listenership and the fucking eejits he has on his “funny” Friday show.
Then we should seal the doors and blow the fucking place up, while a ghetto blaster plays “That’s the way ah huh ah huh, I like it…”
Good old Joe. Once a socialist always a socialist. The only thing that’s changed is he realised he could lie his head off for FF and RTE would give him money.
Redistribution of income alright but not as we know it.
Joe has a particular fondness for letting his contributor start to speak and then immediately interrupt them with an addition question to flummox them.
He’s a cunt.
http://www.ictu.ie/common/images/nov27/lIT01-Medium-Rectangle_1.png
and something for the weekend…
Anyone remember Big D?
Zis report in ze Financial Times of England does not concern you. Frau Merkel is talking about making bondholders take a haircut and share ze risk of banks going verfuckt.
You can eizer pay ze Financial Times payvall money or you can do sumzing VERBOTEN and put ‘Berlin to make debtholders carry greater burden’ in google.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/503cfe16-f7fd-11df-8d91-00144feab49a.html#axzz16IkYpOrA
Zis only means GOING VORWAERT which is a german political phrase meaning sometime in ze future. It does not mean you can tell bondholders in Irlanden to fock off. Especially vuns from Osterreich or Deutschland.
Sign ze focken papers and ve can all go home.
Ze Link ist Focked!
Why do you all listen to Joe Duffy so much? I won’t do it – more because I can’t. But why torture yourselves?
Agreed, Jo. He’s the aural equivalent of the Daily Heil and the pretense that the programme doesn’t have an agenda – that’s it’s only driven by listeners’ calls – has worn threadbare at this stage.
I tune in hoping to hear about blow-jobs
rip tony.
anyone remember roberto duran and his “no mas” moment against sugar ray leonard ? well it’s like that now.
conan, you marching ?
And again, from the IT – must have a dissenter on the picture desk…
I’m hoping to, Sniffle.
and,
> Kidnapped
>
> A driver is stuck in a major traffic jam just outside Dublin on the M50
> motorway.
>
> Nothing is moving.
>
> Suddenly a Garda knocks on the window. The driver rolls down his window
> and asks, “What’s going on?”
>
> “Pensioners” have kidnapped Brian Cowen, Brian Lenehan & Mary Harney,
> and a bunch of Bankers.
> They’re asking for a €30 million ransom, otherwise they’re going to
> douse them with petrol and set them on fire.
>
> We’re going from car to car taking up a collection.”
>
> The driver asks, “How much is everyone giving, on average?”
>
> “About a litre.”
I’ve just been having a thought. Predictions are saying there’s going to be another white winter.
Last year, the govt threw up their hands and whined, ‘we weren’t ready’ as businesses got ruined and people got injured.
This year … bahahahah.
There have to be better places to go for blowjobs, itchy.
Joe Duffy is the broadcast version of a FF blowjob.
It is a break for Fraulein Larkin, ja?
I’m 100% sure the IMF/ECBers were complicit in the whole “no cuts for TDs” aspect of the rape. And can someone explain the whole ministerial cars thing? Fich Dich, Olie, Fich Dich.
I remember Big D HM. Do you remember the wonderfully named ‘Radio Empathy’? Emo radio at its best it was.
Ha, caught you Crank you old bastard.
I know for a fact that there is at least one of the Clannad members living in Wicklow, I had to visit the house with my job. So your mate’s story is feasable. Alas I didn’t get to stay & party for 2 days. An awful lot of the arty types do end up in Wicklow, I had a mate that was outbid on a property by one of the Corrs. Hard to compete with their kind of cash.
I do remember Big D but only I was a nipper. My big sisters listened to it.
HM, you have big sisters!? You’ll be Itchy, Maggot and Peadar’s new best friend!
I think they’re a little too old for them. Except Maggot.
No Maggot.
Hi!
Yep, I’m that old HM. Fond memories of listening to Radio Dublin when it started, broadcasting on a Sunday afternoon. Frequent warnings – “We may have to go off the air at any minute. The P&T are in the area.” That was real pirate radio.
God I remember that. That was brilliant.
Itchy, unless you can remember cream and dark blue buses in Dublin you’re waaaay to young for my sisters.
age is no barrier to a good horn
Frequent warnings – “We may have to go off the air at any minute. The P&T are in the area.” That was real pirate radio.
Or no warnings..
“That waaasss……”
Your sisters can’t be that old HM. In my day the buses (and everything else) were in black and white.
Lol, nice.
I remember cream and blue buses…
Wasn’t there also a station broadcasting FROM a van?
Peadar
November 25th, 2010 @ 4:13 pm
age is no barrier to a good horn
:)
it’s cool HM. i’m meeting somebody nice on the w/end. i think. though the last girl, who was supposed to go to mia with me, cancelled on the wednesday. today is thursday. nearly there. boing, boing, boing! does my baldy redhead look big in these?
No that was for ice-creams Granddad.
The nurse cancelled?
no. the nurse has not cancelled. and she likes hurling. this is going to be great.”Pull on her itchy, pull on her!”
Crank you’re bringing back memories of the “Where’s Grandad” public awareness ad where he rolls into a lake.
Nurses are great itchy (unless they have a thing about hygeine and what they put in their mouths). In which case, your back to Pam.
Itchy you remind me of an old friend who couldn’t date a girl unless she was into local GAA. Which meant that he had the choice of either his sisters or one other girl down the road.
He never copped on to that though.
Thankfully not a grandad yet. The kids have been warned – first one to make me a grandad gets disinherited. Mind you, considering I haven’t a bob, it’s hardly a disincentive.
Actually, a bit like this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333009/Howard-Flight-Welfare-cuts-encourage-poor-breed.html
In fairness if it wasn’t for Irish nurses in residential halls in London hospitals I’d have had a long cold trudge out to the ‘burbs on a fair few occasions.
Bless ‘em all. Except the ones with big wooden crucifixes over their beds. That was just weird.
And fairly redundant if memory serves.
I used to ‘work’ for Radio Dublin
I remember green buses, with conductors, and you could drop off at the platform at the back.
I went out with a nurse years ago. Smart cookie. Had two houses bought by the age of 25, way before the prices went mental.
So what the fuck. Hang on. Ah fuck.
She’s from the country hm; I do not like GAA people. I’ve been brought out to Malahide GAA Club and ..well. it’s full of GAA people. She is not particularly a GAA person, she just said she likes hurling. It’ll be grand. I like nurses too crank, they make my dad feel better, they are way too cool.
Was that the one run by ‘Captain’ Paedo Cooke?
On nurse’s pay? The last two nurses I was with were both nurses by training and toms by night.
No complaints like. The biggest expense with nurses was always the drink. Drink like bastards they do.
Yes Conan
Heard an infamous broadcast of his (from 1977?) re-broadcast today on the PK show where one of his victims was talking about him.
maybe you’ve all see this – from rt fucking e -1998 – tom prenderville –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a37sRjkLtWw
Yea, I knew Cooke as well Twenty. Always found it odd that he was hanging out with young ones but I was a lot more innocent then.
I did wonder what the young ones parents were thinking when he was hanging out with them at 5 in the morning.
My hubby used to work in Big D, if that was the one in the Crofton Airport Hotel, as it was then.
Ian Dempsey was there too, as were deveral of the shower now on 2 FM, including that arsehole depressant, whatsisname with the curly hair who has depression and is only happy when he makes everyone else depressed.
Gareth O’Callaghan.
That’s him.
A prick then, and a prick now.
Anyone remember DJ Silvie from that time?
BTW, if you want to hear great sounds, Near90FM at 10 o’clock tonight and every Thursday night, a really great show.
0. Silla
November 25th, 2010 @ 7:11 pm
whatsisname with the curly hair who has depression and is only happy when he makes everyone else depressed
Larry Gogan?
Wash your mouth out, Itchy, Larry Gogan is a God!
It was Gareth O’Callaghan I was thinking of. My brain is mush from too many years of enjoying myself, I’m afraid.
That Joe Duffy is a bollix turncoat, I fucking hate him. He’s worse than a gang of aul wans, himmmmin and hawin out of him. What’s his game, trying to put people off going on this march, is on a retainer from FF???
that youtube with tom prenderville is excellent snifffle.
but.
fractional banking. it is, I think, I thought, i’ dunno, it’s a fundamental money supply theory that 10-1 lending is kosher. taht’s a question’ish. i thought the prob was when they multiplied it out during the last 10 years or so to 100-1 +? I have a big problem with this. there’s probably mortgage backed secuity acting as deposit I think I’ll post it under economy on politics.ie. but the dudes banned me. they are a bit prissy over there.
Ireland has a debt to banks of 500 Billion.. that’s what we’ve heard about the latst shit; 200 billion to brit banks, 300 billion to german banks (i notice mary ellen synon on the last word not mntioning brit banks but mentioing french and germans to default to) I don’t know if that includes all debts. i.e short-term loans, o/drafts, credit cards etc, etc.
This would imply deposits of 50 billion. ah fuck it
I met Larry in The Pink Elephant in the day. When I say I met I mean I saw at the bar and stumbled over to him talking shite. He was propping up the bar drinking cocktails. It was about 3 a.m. and pretty empty. He was fucking locked. But performing well. He was also wearing a white suit. Jesus. That was a while ago.
Larry does rock Silla.
itchy second hole from the neck depending on your persuasion
Channel 4 saying the irish governmnet is the reason that interest rate is 9%
Please fucking resign you cunts. It’s not funny anymore.
Is Gogan still playing ‘One Day At A Time’ by Gloria?
Or did the people at the Hague International Musical Crimes Tribunal deal with him in the end?
Gogan is associated with horror beyond belief for me.
Ireland was a kind of musical Rwanda in his heyday.
Please tell me ‘Gloria’ is dead. Give me something to cling to.
Gloria is as majestic as ever
Haven’t listened to Larry for a long time, Capt, but that song is deep, and teaches us about spirituality, you could learn from it!!
Just cos it’s crap, doesn’t mean you can ignore it!
Shit, now it’s in my head, I’m humming it against my will.
Damn you, Captain!!!
Is One Day at a Time the theme song for Alcoholics Anonymous?
Banks are cunts and banking is for cunts.
Bryan Dobson read news on Nova in the jolly roger days… I’ll leave it at that.
Remember ARD?
Maybe that was the one in the Crofton, Radio Dublin was the best, though.
Not a “th” in the place!
fianna fail gave me gonorrhea
some sight seeing me shuffling around with Janelle Monae.
high and low
break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnefUaKCbc
You mean A-R-D (Alternative Radio Dublin)?
Yes, Conan, that’s the one.
I think that Captain guy was involved with it, too.
Loads of the first 2 FM djs started there.
So it has a lot to answer for.
who’s this captain guy you’s are on about? I thought you speaking about Peter Cook earlier…obviously not
He was around for years, managing and running various radio stations, then in the 90s he was done for being a paedo, I think.
Cooke was his name, I think he’s dead now.
Crank probably knows a lot more about him.
No he’s not, he was finally banged up about three or four years ago… after getting off on a technicality previously and escaping allegations in the 1970s. He appealed against his conviction unsuccessfully in 2009. With any luck he’ll rot in jail. Pat Kenny had an item with one of his victims this morning.
Silla: ‘Is One Day at a Time the theme song for Alcoholics Anonymous?’
It certainly had a lot to do with subsequent alcoholism yes.
It was number one for something like 54 weeks until some genius worked out that the population of Ireland would have had to buy 18 copies each or something.
Then the charts were suspended. Or maybe it was because of the song. Either way it was a tremendous relief equalled only by the final whistle at Giants Stadium in New Yorg against bloody Italy.
New Yorg? So good I named it once.
It was number one for something like 54 weeks until some genius worked out that the population of Ireland would have had to buy 18 copies each or something.- Captain.
Ah, the good old days.
When Albert Reynolds ran the ballrooms and Donie Wiggy Cassidy ran the country music scene.
I wonder what ever happened to them?
Oh, that’s right, they went into politics where their experience of manipulation and shady deals could be put to more profitable use.
You know my favourite politician Ivor Calley’s wife Jennifer has a wig-shop and beauty parlour/hairdressy business … I can’t help wondering whether she fitted Donie for the roadkilled fox that sleeps on his head in the Dail.
He’s a touchy fuck, is Donie.
A few years ago he sued someone for saying he wears a wig!
We should have known then that politicians are bare faced, if not bare-headed, liars.
Berties brother Noel, a complete dope, is on rte radio 1 saying that he’d be very nervous about going on a protest. He’s trying in a thick way, the only way he knows, to scare people off the protest march on saturday. Who the fuck votes for that fool?
Ken Clarke on BBC Question Time puts another sword to the myth of spoofing cunt Lenihan – “Ireland has gone the way of USA, Iceland and Northern Rock, busted banks. The government, rather rashly, guaranteed the banks debts”
So Lenihan. Wahddya make of that? Still the correct thing to do? He fucked it at the very beginning and he’s such a cunt he refuses to admit it.
Lenihan could have guaranteed the deposits and left the bondholders and secondary tier investors sue Anglo management after an investigation into the running of the bank.
But then FF donors would not have liked that. And by then of course the Maple 10 transaction had been attempted to support the share price with Anglo shares bought with Anglo loans … naughty naughty and rumour has it of course that the Maple 10 group contained at least two senior FF’rs.
He guaranteed the whole thing to keep the books under wraps in my opinion. The only way the truth about Anglo will come out is if the bondholders get burned and demand an independent examination of the books.
Which would destroy FF good and proper I believe.
I remember doing my ecker in my room listening to radio nova – and “two and two”, the best chocolate bar ever.
xmas card from me to david enrich, wall street journal dude on vincent browne show. after what i heard him say I’m going to check out his writings…
His recommended strategy for negotiations with the ecb/imf is “behave like a crazy man.” Let them not know what you might do. I’m thinking Conor Lenihan
Spectator writer dude is more conservative and nearly had a fit when he heard that
my first impression of enrich is as an impressive individual
I’m thinking of buying a DAB radio. Or should i just use iTunes on the laptop I already have?
i just tune into through my laptop to the beeb. i have 3 apple itune devices which I can’t operate*
* can’t be arsed to operate
hectic social schedule coming over the hill; the national, nina nastasia, janelle monae, xmas drinks, keying government chariots, choking government ministers, stealing mary harneys knickers, send beverly cooper-flynn my tv licence in exchange for her huge, vile, gaudy, ugly gucci bag.
so much time, so little to do
pay per view. pity
http://topics.wsj.com/person/E/david-enrich/1329
I’m thinking of buying a DAB radio.
Check what the service is like in your area.
Cricket, The Ashes, update. England all out for 260′ish. The Gabba is full to the brim….could be 80,000?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/9226845.stm
0132 – Aus 78-1 Commentary Time for the Australian skipper, Ricky Ponting checking in. Punter with a lavish leave, hopping outside off and thrusting his bat upwards, almost like a matador waving his cape. Good over from Anderson, nice and full, nice and full…
WICKET
Watson c Strauss b Anderson 36 (Aus 78-1) WE’VE GOT A WICKET! Anderson on a good length, Watson stays back, edges and Strauss takes the regulation catch at first slip. Big for England, very big…
resign you ff failures.
While I like seeing the Aussies beaten I hate Pietersen.
Itchy I love your work.
This blog is great for triggering memories. I remember Blue and Cream buses, and when there was a painted one with advertisements, and when they turned orange with music upstairs, little black speakers screwed into the ceiling.Radio Dublin, Tuah Foive Treee! I remember being chased on a motorbke by cops in a bright red Vauxhall Ventura, and they had blue Hillman Avengers. I remember when the Sunday World was seen as porn. Times were shit, but for some reason I`m fondly recalling things.
Jaysus Fintan I remember those Avengers. I remember seeing an uzi submachine gun on the dashboard of an unmarked cop car with no cops in the car. Carefree times.
I remember the radio upstairs for all the twenty somethings, smoking and going to their jobs in the bank. I remember being a school-kid and thinking they were all really old.
Jaysus Fintan I remember those Avengers. I remember seeing an uzi submachine gun on the dashboard of an unmarked cop car with no cops in the car. Carefree times.
Jesus!
11 AM and 3 posts – is there a general strike ?
Twenty’s been lifted by the spooks in the black Mondeo.
I hope they didn’t slip him a poisoned spiceburger HM!
Oh my I really enjoyed reading this. Nice to come across a blog that is so raw and truthful for a change – great job!!