Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[ianwilk1999]

On 1/14/2024 at 5:22 PM, coffeeandgin said:

From likely to unlikely:

-James Cusack to get a full-time show. Surely only a matter of time and he's been on cover increasingly frequently recently.

-Maia Beth takes Future Pop full-time. She's pretty frequent cover on there already and it's an easy way to get another new DJ onto the station.

-Vick to leave Life Hacks. She's stopped travelling up to Manchester on a regular basis for it plus was away over the summer and not sure how much longer she'll want to give up her Sundays.  Katie & Lauren Layfield too feels a very obvious duo to have on Life Hacks.

-Dean & Vicky split up. It's been 18 months and that show just hasn't stuck and frankly both sound better either solo or alongside other DJs. Think Vicky might be the one to lose out if so - she's weekend cover way more frequently than you'd expect a weekday DJ to be (Charlie and Vick's Saturday and Sunday shows being permenant roles).

-One of Matt Edmondson or Vick Hope to leave Radio 1. Would happily have both remain but does feel as good as he is as if Matt might be on borrowed time on Radio 1. Plus Vick has so much else going on outside Radio 1 and if she's not doing Breakfast there's nowhere to go on Radio 1 post Going Home that wouldn't be a demotion.

-Jordan to get Breakfast. Wouldn't be shocked if Greg called it a day for a new Breakfast show come September. 6 years would be a great innings and could see him either taking another show on Radio 1 or leaving Radio 1 entirely - between Tailenders, his books with Chris Smith, shows on Radio 4 etc he has plenty to keep him busy.

If so Jordan in a male-female duo is the obvious choice - suspect it would be Katie but don't rule out Mollie King.

-If above did happen then don't rule out Dean getting Drive in some form. Aled really seems to rate Dean for some reason - he very quickly rose up the ranks and him doing the New Years week cover on Breakfast seemed like it might have something more to it - especially given Jordan & Katie were on Going Home that week so seemingly available that week.

I think you may be close with the Vick Hope one. Have you seen that she is now doing regular weekly tv work for Pointless. It feels like she has plenty going on and like you say if she doesn't want breakfast, there isn't really anywhere else to go at R1 after drive.

[ianwilk1999]

I guess we missed off Jordan going to Capital. It's not Vick or Matt!

[NathanS]

15 minutes ago, ianwilk1999 said:

I guess we missed off Jordan going to Capital. It's not Vick or Matt!

I suppose "Jordan to get Breakfast" is kind of right... just on Capital instead.. 😏😂