DJs you love to hate

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norman fay

"Hey! is it just me, or was mark radcliffe's evening show pretty good & genuinely eclectic?"

Yes. And how.

"What happened there?"

He went daytime, turned himself into a professional northerner and started playing up his "character" for the daytime audience, and Radio 1 dumbed itself down for its new best friends, its beloved ultra-hedonistic 15-24-year-olds. The old Radcliffe show would be far too clever for them now, I'm afraid.

As for Radio 1 DJs music-and-talkwise, Trevor Nelson is probably my favourite: entertaining, thoughtful, nice voice, flow, plus great upfront R&B & hip hop. Dreem Teem and Westwood are great, too.

On the other hand, Garth Trinidad on Chocolate City sounds really nice, though I don't know enough and haven't listened enough to say anything about the music. Eric J. Lawrence's show Dragnet is good for the music, though he seems overly fond of novelty tunes - some of which are really funny - like this song about McDonald's.

CLUE~!

DJ CLUE!

CLUE!!

Now if we're talking about, like, non-radio DJs then that's a completely different story.

and that guy on KISS FM in LA the Disco Duck guy.

Lame.

Paul Van Dyk and Oakenfold who's rumored $10k sets were annointed with trainwreck after trainwreck. Was it the coke or the champagne?

Grooverider on the nights when he was phoning it in but those other nights, the man could really do the job. Goldie, same story but his batting average was way way worse.

DJ Peretz, has he spun anywhere besides Coachella? Speaking of which Madonna in the DJ Tent... whew.

Noise board did it already: the real enemy

--from a plane flying over Miami Beach during the Winter Music Conference...flew by at least 15 times in two hours. tickets=$60 . enough said.

"Are you going to that party in the Tenderloin tomorrow?"
"I don't know, will DJ AM be spinning?"

It just turns any conversation into a series of dollar signs.
What about those MISSHAPES?