Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[Jono]

John Peel on the Wogan show

[John]

Its amazing that the 2 oldest DJ'S of recent times (John Peel and Annie Nightingale) were the ones that championed, and in Annie's case still do, the most eclectic and cutting edge new music

[Viv]

Last night's R1 stuff was outstanding.... I noticed the first of the programme's had actually been written by Moyles!! Fascinating to go through the different time periods. I understand more now how R1 became involved with the Ibiza stuff, etc.

Get Mike Smith: how he has AGED. OMG. OMG.

10/10

[Roy H]

Not seen it yet, Skyplussed it as it clashed with 'Lewis'

OK, OK, call me a saddo.........

[Viv]

Definitely worth viewing, Roy!! "The Blood On The Carpet Stuff" was very interesting too.

[John]

Its was good. I very much enjoyed the Moyles documentary and the Smashy and Nicey documentary was hilarious. First broadcast in 1994 apparently. I wasn't sure about the other stuff though. It wasn't as if BBC 2 put much effort into it. They showed a 23 year old Wogan show which was average at best - though nice to see John Peel. And the Radio 1 story was very outdated. They over-dramatised the Blood On The Carpet show. Almost as if they wanted to hammer home a subject we already know about.

[Roy H]

Looking forward to 'Blood On The Carpet'. Interesting that Bannister is actually in the programme too!

[Viv]

I enjoyed the drama.... Didn't see that much of it though, because it was already past my bedtime. Boo :-(

Oh, BTW, one comment I do have to make is: I liked the rule of the past about DJs not being able to name-drop, etc., etc., and wish this applied to today's (2010) radio.... sometimes when I see all the name-dropping on twitter, it reads as incredibly fake, and is extremely annoying.

Just a small point.

[Roy H]

Get Mike Smith: how he has AGED. OMG. OMG.

Maybe hes been spending too much time with his chopper..........

[Viv]

I don't think being with helicopters would age you!?!! Unless there is some ageing disease I am unaware of.

[KingTutsWWH]

Mike Smith actually had a near fatal Hammond style helicopter crash a few years back, and I noticed that after that he really seemed to age, and change, as has Hammond imo. Inevitable after a near death experience I suppose.

We only watched the first two documentaries. Found them really interesting. I was impressed to see that Moyles wrote his programme. Will catch up on the rest tonight.

[Viv]

Yep, that majorily impressed me that Moyles wrote it himself. Fantastico.

I didn't actually know that Mike Smith had been in such a bad helicopter crash

:-(

I thought it an interesting change of career too: I mean, to go from R1 to helicopters.

Mike also clearly didn't approve of Moyles' presenting style, because he often talks to a group around him and to himself, rather than engaging with the audience. I would tend to agree with this: more listener interactivity would be good.

nice to see Mike Read again and the old R1 roadshows. I remember winding up at one of those (from a distance) purely by accident in Wales a long time ago. Went there with my Welsh ex-fiance (bastard), and R1 were on the road that day!!

To see them all ageing made me kind of think what Scott, Moyles, Coxy, etc. will look like 10 years from now. Will they hold up well, or look like ageing decrepit statues.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Well doesn't Moyles already have greys etc?

I wonder if ageing is why Scott no longer seems to be orange (at least he didn't look it on the Family Guy Top 20 Characters thing that was on over the weekend), fake tan would show up the wrinkles too much?

[Viv]

Well, yes, but his face is still relatively youthful, and he's lost a lot of weight, which has done wonders, I think, for his appearance.

I think Scott has BOTOX (whispers this), so wrinkles are dubious (for the moment anyway).

BTW, I was reading in one of my women's magazines yesterday that if Jordan has any more botox, her entire face is gonna collapse.

How scary is that. :-)

[Roy H]

I think Scott has BOTOX (whispers this), so wrinkles are dubious

Maybe he should team up with Westwood and they might be able to negotiate a discount!

[Viv]

Maybe!! BTW, Westwood was featured on last night's show, and he looked really nice years back!!

Another example of how time + age will eventually ruin us all.

[Roy H]

Westwood was featured on last night's show.

Was he at the Post Office?

[Viv]

:hahaha: No!! It was just random stuff from a time ago... I was struck by how different he looked though, compared with now.

I wonder if they will eventually be able to sell pills to stop you ageing, or take a few years back at least.

I'll be first in the queue.

[Jono]

Chris Moyles proved he should stick to radio after his documentary on Radio 1 DJ’s performed poorly for BBC2 last night.

When Moyles Met the Radio 1 Breakfast DJs, which formed part of a night devoted to BBC radio, was watched by an average audience of 1.72m (7%) across the 9pm hour last night. This was nearly 700,000 viewers below the slot average of 2.4m (9.17%), according to figures from Attentional.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/ratings/moyles-radio-1-doc-stutters/5013585.article

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

I think one of the mistakes was putting it against Family Guy Night which was over on BBC3.

[Guest PineapplesLikeAarons]

I actually saw the 'When Chris Moyles Met The Early Morning DJs' thing(: Wasn't amazing, but watchable =]

[The Stig]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/may/10/modern-masters-review

A sort of, slightly, in a way positive review of Moyles' documentary!