Danny Beard on weekend afternoons

[Jono]

WILDCHILD PEACHES GELDOF has landed a top deal to DJ on Radio 1.

The party-loving 18-year-old signed a deal with the station this week - and bosses reckon she's the next big thing.

She'll start alongside ANNIE MAC on her evening shows, reporting on gigs she's seen that week. And if all goes well, she could become the youngest ever DJ on national radio.

Our Radio 1 spy said: "Peaches has been in talks with us for a while but the deal has only just been thrashed out.

"She is very up with the current music scene and is just the kind of person who appeals to our audience."

http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=vip--plum-role-for-peaches--&method=full&objectid=19237868&siteid=93463-name_page.html

[~bex~]

Please no! I think she'll be alright working with Annie Mac reporting on gigs, but I just don't think she should get her own show, not yet anyway.

[Mike]

Who is she?

[Ema]

Who is she?

[insert Nikki off of BB stylee]

She's a young DJ, daughter of Bob Geldof

[Jono]

Radio 1 are going in an odd direction with employment at the moment. Fearne Cotton, and now Peaches Geldof. They just seem very similar and aimed at one audience. It's always been Moyles, Mills and JK and Joel that people talk about at college and out and about. That's what I'd say Radio 1 is about. I've never bumped in to people saying "Did you hear Fearne and Reggie this morning" and I doubt I'll hear people say the same for Peaches. She's cute, but that doesn't work on the radio.

[Monitorabbit]

There's a world of difference between a press release and the reality. Peaches is doing a tiny segment on Annie Mac. Considering how unlilkeable she is the rest is pure speculation. If she can actually develop a persona listeners will like, then I guess she'll deserve some success for all the hard work that'll entail on her part.

[*becky*93]

i believe the story the newspapers arent often wrong about radio 1 related stories apart from the same old waste of license fee stories. she was okay on the bank holiday sunday show with annie mac last month but i had just grown to like annie macs shows i dont want to hear this nobody and i dont want to give her more attention.

[DC]

it does seem a bit unfair that she can get where she is getting becuase of who she is, there are many great dj's out there trying hard to get going. but give pretty peaches a chance.

[Monitorabbit]

it does seem a bit unfair that she can get where she is getting becuase of who she is, there are many great dj's out there trying hard to get going. but give pretty peaches a chance.

Give her a chance because she's (in your opinion) pretty? Not thinking with our nether regions at all here, are we?

The "it's who you know" thing always applys, it's just luck for many good DJs same as many good bands that they eventually get heard by someone influential and promoted.

To be fair because she's someone famous' daughter she's got a lot to live up to. It takes courage (or arrogance) to put yourself forward in those circumstances. Being someone some people think is cute and/or pretty won't cut it ultimately, she has to be likeable or controversial or a mixture of both and to have the technical skills required (BBC training course? I know she's already club DJ'd so shouldn't struggle to drive a desk).

The fact that she's generated this discussion suggests that (at least at first) she's going to be controversial enough to draw in listeners out of curiosity. The BBC employs very clever people indeed on the production side, so we'll wait and see how she does which is no doubt what they'll be doing, too.

[DC]

Give her a chance because she's (in your opinion) pretty? Not thinking with our nether regions at all here, are we?

The "it's who you know" thing always applys, it's just luck for many good DJs same as many good bands that they eventually get heard by someone influential and promoted.

To be fair because she's someone famous' daughter she's got a lot to live up to. It takes courage (or arrogance) to put yourself forward in those circumstances. Being someone some peole think is cute and/or pretty won't cut it ultimately, she has to be likeable or controversial or a mixture of both and to have the technical skills required (BBC training course? I know she's already club DJ'd so shouldn't struggle to drive a desk).

The fact that she's generated this discussion suggests that (at least at first) she's going to be controversial enough to draw in listeners out of curiosity. The BBC employs very clever people indeed on the production side, so we'll wait and see how she does which is no doubt what they'll be doing, too.

it's a term, i dont deserve to die for saying it.

listen good, i have been a dj since 2000 i dont need to be told how hard it is to get on the ladder. i know it's well f*cking hard, and you need all the help you can get. you obviously have to know what you are doing (like mixing etc), but you have to have help, you have to be in the know with the right people more than anything. if i were in her position i would take the chance, she has fame and is using it to her advantage. i cant blame her at all.

[Jono]

The fact that she's generated this discussion suggests that (at least at first) she's going to be controversial enough to draw in listeners out of curiosity. The BBC employs very clever people indeed on the production side, so we'll wait and see how she does which is no doubt what they'll be doing, too.

I don't think it or she is controversial at all. She was on Annie Mac's Sunday Night show and put in a good effort. I can see why the bosses want her, and BBC Radio these days seem to want to target household names - Fearne & Reggie, Vernon Kay, Dick & Dom. It's no different to Radio 2 who have gone for Alan Titmarsh, Paul O'Grady and Parkinson.

As you rightly say Gil, that's how the world of radio seems to work. It's not what you know, it's who you know, and an element of being in the right place at the right time. She would probably give Radio 1 a lot of publicity, I can see the front page of Radio 1 Online right now with some sort of 'bad girl' picture telling us she's joined the station.

I think the controversy lies in the way the station then treats those who tune in for other reasons - the die hard listeners. Radio 1 seem less about pleasing those who have always listened and more about scoring new listeners.

They forget about those that listened for new talent who have made their way up the schedule - Moyles, Mills, JK and Joel, and Mark and Lard. And prefer those who want to hear 'celebrities' get a show on the station.

They forget about playing old music in favour of constant new music - because they think we don't want to hear old stuff.

They forget about those who might want to go to Radio 1 events like the Big Weekend. And go to areas where their figures are failing, and give out tickets to new listeners to try and lure them in to their listenership as opposed to those who listen every day.

Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing radio station, but sometimes I think they take a step in the wrong direction.

[Monitorabbit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=401318&in_page_id=1879

That was almost a year ago, Trash Pussies split a few months after and she joined with two other friends to DJ under the name Black Rats.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=123804099

Much as I'm not a Peaches fan, it remains to be seen if this is a step in the wrong direction. Stranger people have caught the public's imagination and even we die hards may get over the shock of the new and start to like her. After all Moyles is on the face of it someone I'd really dislike in real life but I love his show and listen every morning.

The BBC know that figures don't improve if when recruiting new listeners you also lose the old ones so I'd imagine she wont survive if she proves a turn off to established listeners.

[~bex~]

One of the problems I have with people like Peaches getting shows is that it doesn't seem to me like they're particularly bothered about doing radio, they just want to "get themselves out there". Generally it makes better listening if the DJ really wants to be a DJ, like with Moyles and Mills, both of whom wanted a radio career from a young age. Of course, I'm making huge assumptions here - for all I know radio might be Peaches' dream, and she may turn out to be very good, I just wish Radio 1 would concentrate more on getting "Radio Talent" than celebrities.

[augusta92]

At least she has a good pedigree... if shes anything like her mum Paula Yates, she might be quite a good presenter/DJ, and shes been presenting shows now for 4 or 5 years....and they do keep saying R1 is a youth station so it makes sense to employ people in the 18-25 years age bracket.

but it does seem annoying if shes got where she is because of her background rather that her talent!

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[Mafro]

Peaches Geldof on Radio one? bobobobo off.

[sebdevlin]

:yeahthat:

Yay just what radio 1 needs a talentless sloane ranger with dubious dj skills and nearly as vacuous as paris hilton. If she speaks to radio 1's target then i'm off to six music or even radio 2 bring on the bruce.

[DC]

well if it wernt for this site i would of never of heard of peaches geldof to be honest. i have never heard her mix, i presume she isn't a judge jules by far. but why does everyone really hate her with a passion? did she kill someone or somthing?

[Jono]

She's a socialite, that has a part time job as a DJ. I don't dislike the girl, but it seems a strange choice.

[DC]

scum, kill her.

[dstrkzn]

I hate peaches. She slagged off the OC because 'it promotes anorexia' stupid bitch. I think i hate her as much as i hate Bob.

[Monitorabbit]

I hate peaches. She slagged off the OC because 'it promotes anorexia' stupid bitch. I think i hate her as much as i hate Bob.

Hmm - you protest too much. You're attracted to her her really, aren't you? Go on, admit it.

You don't really hate St Bob? :shock: That's a joke, right?

[DC]

fire them all into space, saxo robbing scum.

[Grace]

You don't really hate St Bob? :shock: That's a joke, right?

I know he does all that good shizz for Africa, but the man needs a hairbrush!

[iain_smith]

little tip-don't believe anything you read in the People...