The eighth floor

[James R]

• 06:30–10:00
  The Chris Moyles Show
  14/03/2011
  Simon Mayo joins Chris to talk about the art of hosting really long radio shows!
  

[DC]

great! i'll listen to this, it'll be great to hear from simon mayo on what he did before.

[James R]

Simon is also 1 of the many confirmed guests for the marathon

[R94N]

I want Chris to ask him if he actually likes mayonnaise!

[John]

Or people called Simon

[abertom]

How about as a bank holiday takeover they bring back past dj's something like

7:00-10:00 Tony Blackburn

10:00-1:00 Simon Mayo

1:00-4:00 Mark and Lard

4:00 Mark Goodier

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

well the Breakfast show DJ would HAVE to be Dave Lee Travisty if they did that... or Chris Evans

[Viv]

Simon was fantastic!! Really interesting!! Seemed slightly irritated in places by Moyles, but the entire thing was still good.

10/10

Fascinating to hear how R1 used to give away cars .... now, as Moyles says, presenters can't even give away an opinion!!

[DC]

simon was an actual legend on radio 1 for anyone who remembers. here's one of his last radio 1 shows for those who don't, worth the download for sheer nostalgia.:-

http://www.4shared.com/audio/j7LK2cnS/BBC_Radio_1_-_Simon_Mayo_-_1-2.html

How about as a bank holiday takeover they bring back past dj's something like

7:00-10:00 Tony Blackburn

10:00-1:00 Simon Mayo

1:00-4:00 Mark and Lard

4:00 Mark Goodier

the last 3 i used to hear frequently on radio 1. if there's ever a day mark and lard get back together as a duo then that would be a massive highlight for me to say the least.

[cxx666]

1:00-4:00 Mark and Lard

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, just NO!!!!!

[DC]

a sony gold said otherwise.

[cxx666]

I would rather listen to JK & Joel for 6 hours a day than Mark and Lard for 3. Used to hear them before Moyles when he was on drive back in the day and I can honestly say the words over rated, and mediocre have never been more appropriate for a radio show.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

I would rather listen to JK & Joel for 6 hours a day than Mark and Lard for 3. Used to hear them before Moyles when he was on drive back in the day and I can honestly say the words over rated, and mediocre have never been more appropriate for a radio show.

and then Sara Cox came along and plunged breakfast back into the Dark Ages... then returned for weekends after Moyles lived up to his claim of being the Saviour of Breakfast Radio.

[DC]

I would rather listen to JK & Joel for 6 hours a day than Mark and Lard for 3. Used to hear them before Moyles when he was on drive back in the day and I can honestly say the words over rated, and mediocre have never been more appropriate for a radio show.

well said, that opinion is now everybodys.

[John]

Cant say I agree with the M+L comments either. They were one of the first DJ's i listened to on R1, way back in 1997... or something like that

[DC]

i can't believe it's been nearly 7 years since their last show on radio 1, so much has changed and not all for the best.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Indeed, at least Moyles and Dave have been constant, not sure who else has been there that long other than Scott and maybe some of the nighttime lineup.

[DC]

i'm probably guilty of repeating myself here, but when chris and scott do go the entire daytime lineup will sound like androids. this time 10 years back you had scott mills, sara cox (love or hate her) on breakfast, simon mayo, jo whiley, then mark and lard, then moyles, then dave pearce. all of those shows sounded and offered something different from one to the other. in another 10 years you won't be able to tell the daytime dj's apart.

[Viv]

*nods*

*agrees*