Why isn't There A Thread For Scotlands Top Music Journalist ..... BILLY SLOAN?

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I am amused by all these mysterious tales of the Sloan. I must say that his name just makes me think of a Jam B-side. ANY Jam B-side.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 June 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

What was that teatime music prog in the early 90s was presented by Ewan someone and a girl.
I once saw that Ewan guy and Billy Sloan in HMV in Glasgow. The things you see when you don't have a gun.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

love this idea people have that there's some editorial cabal at newspapers, all getting together to promote fourth-rate rock bands at the expense of new and groundbreaking music. it's very simple, really: el presidente and speedway are photogenic, and lend themselves well to busy tabloid spreads. aereogramme and the mount vernon arts lab aren't and don't.

That's what I meant. Editor goes "stop covering ugly gits like Duglas T Stewart/Stephen Pastel/Pat Kane in your main articles, I can't put their ugly mug in the main photo. Where's Dante Gizzi?"

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I once helped cause a famous stir on Sloan's midnight show on Clyde in April '84, right after That Mary Chain Gig at Night Moves. They were supporting a terrible bunch of Talking Heads wannabes called Rhythm System and got kicked off stage/a good kicking round the back by the bouncers after about 15 minutes. Laura and I were cheering them like mad and getting the skunk eye from everybody else there in their Big Country check shirts.

Anyway, that night Sloan had a 'phone-in about the gig and it was all "bunch of jokers, not like Rhythm System, REAL musicians!" so we rang in using a number of pseudonyms and voices - plus ca change, eh? - to put the case for JAMC, otherwise the show was in danger of turning into Frank Skerrett's When Music Was Music.

The first DJ to play "Upside Down" on daytime radio was, unbelievably, Richard "Fame Academy" Park.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"What was that teatime music prog in the early 90s was presented by Ewan someone and a girl."

Chartbite. How could you forget?

The girl was Mhari something, former partner of erstwhile comedian Frankie Boyle.

So there.

― iain macdonald (the_article_don), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link

My friend worked on that show as a runner showing the guests around, buying chocolates for Belinda Carlisle that kind of thing.

― mms (mms), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

he has a very small dog you know...

― Pandas At War (pandas at war), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Chartbite! Thats it. Ewan McLeod was the guys name I think. Mhairi Stephen or something might have been her name.

x-post.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:35 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my friends has an amusing Billy Sloan anecdote, can't remember it though.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link

hey billy sloan sittin on your own watching new episodes of crossssroads

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

xxxxxxxxxxx-post BUT: DJ Rankin sounds GREAT!! I think that explains what I have heard neds on the buses playing on their mobile phones -- like really fucked-up happy hardcore.

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

If only he was Billys son.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

He could make him happy hardcore remixes of status quo for fathers day.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

How about a happy hardcore Foster and Allen Tribute To Frank Skerrett remix?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Probably been done. Some of the original happy hardcore neds will be pushing 40 now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

*cough, wheeze*

― An Original Happy Hardcore Ned (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't imagine Ned at the Rez in a boilersuit and white gloves. I just can't.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, in my day the urgent and key programme on Radio Clyde was Street Sounds with Brian Ford on Wednesday evenings, 8-10, to which we all listened for our weekly punk rock intake.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

So when/why did Radio Clyde go so shite then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It's hard to say but it seemed to go belly-up in parallel with Capital Radio down here, i.e. turned Top 40 virtually overnight. I suppose it was something to do with loss of ad revenue, shareholder grumblings, though I can't see why because there wasn't any competition in the mid-'80s (except for the BBC). Shame because when it started it had a lot of cred going for it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Shame because when it started it had a lot of cred going for it.

Which is something that is hard to believe now.

I just found out recently that theres an XFM Scotland now. And it's appaling during the day. It was a Keane Day and that put me off for life I think.
Haven't bothered listening to it at night to see if its any better.
http://www.xfmscotland.com/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

The XFM Scotland DJ's

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

it can be okay occasionally. fraser thomson (yes, alext, that fraser thomson) is good - well, he played black sabbath once - and ... ach, it's XFM scotland. you know what it's going to be like. not ground-breaking, but decent enough in the car.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

XFM London, if it's any consolation, is not appreciably better.

Am I correct that the only show that both XFMs get is Eddy Temple Morris? "FUTURE! FUNK! SQUAD! GOD, MAN! THE MOST CRUCIAL! NEW! THING SINCE PENDULUM! WHEN THIS 12-INCH ACHY BREAKY HEART REMIX COMES OUT! PEOPLE! YOU NEED! THIS! RECORD!" for three hours.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

XFm Scotland is basically rebadged Beat 106, isn't it?
Not that I've listened to it.

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Was the original XFM before Capital bought it out any good?
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― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The original XFM was brilliant! No playlist so you got anything and everything from Third Eye Foundation to Jimmy Webb. The Keith Cameron evening show was an especial delight. But no one listened, they couldn't get advertising so they had to go formal.

Starting (officially) the day after Princess Diana's death probably didn't help matters much either.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember Virgin when it was just a test broadcast. It was really good. Especially as there was no other stations in the uk that played rock. So it was quite different from all other stations and benefitted from that.
And basically it had no playlist and just played anything. Lots of stuff I hadn't heard at the time. Anything from the 60s to what was currently about(Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Suede, Blur as it was then)

Sadly it eventually got stuck in the 80s. Havent heard it in YEARS now.

I have a DAB radio, are there any good stations worth listening to?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

1st place I ever heard Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, Love, Led Zep(yes, honestly id never heard them), 13th Floor Elevators, Miles Davis was on Virgin Radio.
I also remember hearing Sly And The Family Stone and Hendrix a lot too.

Marx Radcliffe on Radio 5 Hit The North was great, as was his nighttime R1 show.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

My new filing job went a bit Billy Sloan today when one of the girls who had brought in her Ipod queued up the mix from hell: 80s Rod Stewart and Wet Wet Wet. Noooo!
Happily, I returned home to hear my flatmate blasting Giant Steps. That made it all better.

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

That could be a Clyde 1 podcast.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

It was more a fame academy thread. With good bits about Billy Sloan.

Billy deserves his own dedicated thread as Scotlands Top Music Journalist.

Quick, you'd better start another one, this seems to have turned into a thread about Radio Clyde.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh noes!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Top Of The Pops should come back presented by Billy Sloan. How could it fail?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes!
Or if BBC Scotland's wasted opportunity of a music show (imaginatively called The Music Show) comes back for another series, instead of some West End twee indie babe presenter they should get none other than the might Sloan to anchor it all, paired with Stephen Pastel in a Odd Couple style pairing. Hilarity ensues!

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

With John Millar doing a film section.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I would totally watch that (except for the John Millar bit).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

The name rings a bell, but I think John Millar was a wee bit before my time... Help this callow youth out here people.

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Och no, I remember now. He doesn't do Scotland Today anymore, but he still does the Mail. Thinning long hair if I remember?

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

He was the Daily Record tv critic for a long time and im pretty sure i saw him still doing the film/tv stuff on lunchtime scotland today last year.

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I guess he doesnt then.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't tend to watch ST much, but the usual film guy is that young guy who gets excited about Harry Potter and such. But I suppose they must get Millar on from time to time.
As TV critics go he has to be better than Frances Traynor!

But anyway, back to Billy...

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

So far on this thread Billy Sloan, John Toye and John Millar have been mentioned. So I think its most unfair that Arthur Montford hasn't been mentioned in this ilx stramash...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't John Toye shoot himself?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link

But then I'm old enough to remember the days of Glen Michael and Bill Tennant, so what do I know?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Frank Skerritt! Did he do the Greyhound results on Clyde at one point?

John Millar= 3/4 length Tartan Coat + being wide on New Faces

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Let us not forget the late great king of nasal soccer analysis Jimmy Sanderson!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 07:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Talking of great radio shows, why no mention of Peter Easton? Then for books, there was Jenny Brown (swoon). And let's not forget Clem Ashby:

"And now our STV's movie at midnight, "A Town Called BAAAAAASTTTTTTARD"

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I apologise for my belated entry into this thread

― The Aff It's Heid Show (Dada), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 08:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Peter Easton used to do the Radio Scotland Scottish Top 40 rundown on a Friday.

Classic PE comment, after playing "Fantasy Island": "Great band, Abba...Tight Fit seem to think so anyway..."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 08:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I have been living in Scotland for the best part of 13 years and I have never heard of these people!

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:09 (seventeen years ago) link

You've not been there long enough!

― The Aff Its Heid Show (Dada), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Or in the wrong bit (i.e. not the Clyde Valley)!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't John Toye shoot himself?

Thats what my dad thought.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you misheard him

― The Aff Its Heid Show (Dada), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

But then I'm old enough to remember the days of Glen Michael and Bill Tennant

I used to see Glen Michael all the time when i lived in Prestwick. His wife owned a cafe near the bus stop where i got the school bus to Ayr.

No he didn't carry Paladin about with him.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Let us not forget the late great king of nasal soccer analysis Jimmy Sanderson!

Were you at the game today?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(xxpost) That reminds me of a story about a friend of mine's dad who, years ago, was watching a subtitled film at a cinema in Glasgow, the subtitles were really grainy and difficult to read and at one point in the film someone burst in to a room and exclaimed:

"The count has shot himself!"

Apparently my friend's dad was in stitches

― The Aff Its Heid Show (Dada), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Or in the wrong bit (i.e. not the Clyde Valley)!

He's obviously never been strawberry picking as a young lad.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Totally authentic of course...

http://www.myspace.com/reallybillysloan

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

haha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

That looks more like Alan Rough in that myspace pic.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

i forgot all about this thread

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 24 September 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

so that DJ Rankin wiki entry is long deleted

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