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Frozen Indigo Angel... Whoooooooo?!!

Jesus christ, Olivia Rodrigo was around 3 years ago!?! I thought she was only born in 2019. Anyway. They are doing it to rival commercial networks, on the main 2 lists anyway with rotating them more. Which all in all is a pit of misery. I'm sick to bloody death of Stick Season, it's an utter bag of mediocre wank that makes me even prefer James Blunt circa 2005. Radio 1 still is more expansive however, loved stuff they play and make their own early days, like Jungle Back on 74 like last year. They can't lose doing stuff that, or else they become bland like everyone else. They have done that for many years though. I heard a song on a March 2001 aircheck from Chris Moyles recently and rediscovered a song by Kings Of Convenience, called Toxic Girl. Totally lost over 25 years but totally love it like it's new. Radio 1 has always played the big time pop stuff since your nan was 3. But they always have and still do throw something on the playlists that isn't what everyone else has. I hope they continue to do that as it sets them apart.

I think they are looking too much into this and need to get a proper job where you have to get up at 5am.

I thought it fit perfectly, I don't understand why it didn't go on longer than it did.

This feels like Colin and Edith after Mark & Lard all over again. From what I recall by the end of 2006 it was Edith on her own for a good while. They'd already moved Colin Murray to nights where I must be honest he did a cracking show circa late 00s. But it was never going to replace what was before on afternoons. Deja vu imo, with Scott and Chris. It does feel like they may have been the stop gap as sad as it sounds, until time moves further on and totally new different talent goes onto afternoons. Following on from Scott Mills was always going to be an impossible job. I'm not just saying it for the sake of it either. He nailed early breakfast, my favourite times was drive with Chappers, he wasn't half bad with Chris Stark either. Whoever came on it was always going to be dammed if you do, damned if you don't for a couple of years in a way. It will all settle and Scott's days at Radio 1 before you blink will be 10/20 years ago.

I thought he'd been kidnapped by Al-Kebab or someone, not something as elaborate as this. At least he can sit down now in the studio.

Superb sports coverage, always puts talksport to shame imo. Mind you anyone who employs Gabriel Agbonlahor should be ashamed anyway.

Haven't you only just finished that? Isnt it still 2005? I wish it actually was, over time my beard in my avatar has now turned blood red sadly.

No doubt the mordern society we live in would want Greg ripped off the air. I'm sure what he said wasn't meant in any bad way. He's not a bad bloke. He's apologised, move on. We may as well take risks and live in the moment now. For right or wrong. Because in another decade, you could probably end up being arrested for watching repeats of 8 out of 10 cats on Dave.

I've never listened to capital. But if the adverts go on as long as they do on absolute, then you'll all be pissed off by 7am.

I have DAB in my pride and joy. However I drive a runaround as well to keep the miles off it, which is a grandad car and probably still has a tape deck if I look hard enough. So I think FM will be about a fair bit longer. Im old enough to remember the big DAB push in 2002. Adverts all over local commercial radio saying switch over now, or it will be like pre world war 2 come 2006. Never happened.

Can't really pin it down to one single presenter. Probably a mix of Mark and Lard and Chris Moyles when he was on afternoons, when the two shows followed each other in the late 90s. Dave Pearce on Dance Anthems contributed heavily too.

Some of the old airchecks I have about from 2001 mention one big Sunday. Think that's how it started life, as a bit of a roadshow revival but for the more modern 00s. Then kinda grew from that

An afternoon with Mark and Lard was brilliant today. Amongst all the laugher, did kinda hear that Andy Parfitt was a bit of a prick. No surprise there then.

Last Train Home was actually a decent song, shame a nonce ruined it for the rest of the band. I actually voted mouldy lookin stain on the poll.

I'm still waiting for my one big Sunday tickets. I can't wait to see Ja Rule.

Scott nor any other daytime presenter dont pick their own music by the way, that's the radio 2 playlist team who tailor music to certain shows (hence calmer music for Jeremy Vine etc). And Scott is getting married, probably the biggest event in his life. So kinda think that needs time away to be done properly.

I'm sure I heard about this station in the making a good 5 years ago or so. What's the playlist like?

I feel that given the age group, there are probably requests for Pendulum, MCR, Prodigy, Chase and Status etc. But for the most part radio 2 still want to play it safe and play Torn by Natalie Imbruglia or The Proclaimers. They have been doing this for 30 years now, so they are finding it harder to change than radio 1 are by ditching tunes pre 2016. I did notice Jo Whiley will push the boat out sometimes post 7pm, hearing Wu Tang Clan on Radio 2 was a culture shock the other week.

This place has done well over the last 20 years, a big part of that is that Scott has been so relevant since 1998 up till now. But I do feel this place is now more of a radio 1 forum than Scott Mills fansite these days. It's a combination of the youngest of his listeners from his last days at Radio 1, and the fact that his radio 2 show is a bit of a culture shock to that same age group. It's very play-it-safe in comparison to all of his radio 1 work. For us older crew we've naturally transitioned over to Radio 2 with Scott. But for those who are only still young and have only heard him from about 2018ish, then I do understand it's a jump too soon. chrismoyles.net is a treasure trove to his radio 1 days. Which of course are his best. But considering he's been back on the air on a major commercial radio station for a number of years now. It's very very quiet. Granted his listeners back then are the generation after Scott's mostly. So probably just don't do forums anymore. For the past DJ's there is a Mark and Lard Facebook group, which is members only sorta thing. I'm in there and we got a massive hint that they would be getting back together near the back end of last year. Someone who's obviously connected with them posted a photo shoot they did together in there last year. When they left in 2004 biggedybong.com was started up but dried up about 2007ish. The fb group nowdays though is very active. For radio 1 jocks to have their own fansite back in the day, they would have to be pretty special and top of their game.

You ought of heard the girl in 2005 doing the voice overs then! Stark opposite, she sounded like she was on mdma.

Also. I know to it that radio 1 for many years have been crafting their own edits of tunes too. Red Hot Chili Peppers Can't Stop which came out in 2003, their version of that cuts off the longer intro you hear on Absolute etc. The same copy still sits in their system as of 21 years ago. When Rihanna Umbrella came out, they played a version with an instrumental start and just kicks in on Rihannas first verse, without Jay Z at the beginning. Their mix of Ultrabeat Pretty Green Eyes you may hear on dance anthems now and again today, isn't the usual radio edit everyone else played when new. It's some variation of edit of the CJ Stone mix. The same edit they were playing back in 2003 when it was new. Even as recent as last year they had their own version on Beyonce Virgos Groove (which I "borrowed" from their playout), that was 3 mins. Wherever you search there is no existing radio edit of that song and the normal version is closer to 5 mins.

I sort music for a radio station and a lot of the time within a promo pack there's an instrumental within there too we can use as a bed. Someone I know works for the bbc, and has access to dira. I've been on there myself and have been through Radio 1's. For their big tunes they will have various edits about. The usual stand alone radio edit, one with a 'power intro', sometimes an edit with the tune as you know it then into a 2 min loop to talk over tagged on the end. It depends. Talking over instrumentals onto the end of a tune isn't anything new at all for radio 1. I remember as far back as early breakfast, Scott was doing it on there. And I'm talking 20 odd years ago. Although there wasn't a massive "ONE (one one one)" etc to break it up back then.

I don't mind Jeremy Vine nowdays he does have some interesting people on now and again. But I am getting older now. It's a funny old job with Radio 2 though. They are trying to palm off the old crew, eventually (and I don't mean this in a nasty way) they won't be about to complain. However with the 90s and the 00s they are very reserved on what they play. Remember the 90s and 00s had prodigy, slipknot, limp bizkit etc top of the pile. Those groups still feel more radio 1 even though we are taking many years ago. There needs to be a bit of bravery and just go full on and stick on papa roach or linkin park. If this new 40s to 80s station happens. Radio 2 will jump the gap.

As much as I think Jordan is a great presenter. It's not gonna pull me over to capital. Adverts and their dire playlist is the biggest reason. Plus as long as Greg is on Radio 1 he's always going to have the upper hand. There's an old saying, 'you can't beat experience'. Greg these days has it in abundance.