Best early Brooky line was Jimmy Corkhill's "Come 'ead, come 'ead, 'ave me wife - only five quid!"
― Dr. C, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Peter Miller, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― chris, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― russell dixon, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Nearly all R1 DJs of that era were fundamentally Conservative, perhaps unsurprisingly so as the original '67 DJ intake was full of pirates pissed off after Tony Benn shut Caroline etc. down. Free enterprise and all that. R1 was certainly aiming at what would now be termed the core Radio 2 25-55 audience rather than what Derek Chinnery described as "unemployed student louts with no money to spend" and so the Top 40 for most of the '80s resembled a Radio 2 chart (and indeed daytime R1/2 playlists of the time were virtually interchangeable). The whole thing was a sew-up; I remember Paul Morley's damning remark about record companies who "will only allow a certain number of records to be hits throughout the year so that they can fill three compilation albums." I think JL probably was sincere in her tastes - she did attempt to start an XFM-style indie station in Liverpool (Crash FM?) which, erm, crashed - but has probably decided just to take the Queen's shilling and do what's necessary to pay the mortgage. "So that's 12 in a row from Katrina and the Waves; hope you enjoyed those, here's another 14 from the gorgeous Simple Minds . . ."
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Playlists interchangeable - yes, but only until c.1986 when Radio 2 abandoned contemporary music altogether and went straight for the traditional Light Programme audience (i.e. started doing all week what it does now on Sundays, not always badly, but based around that appalling "character" Derek "Do They Mean Us?" Jameson on the breakfast show). Hence the impasse both stations were in by the early 90s.
That's a classic Chinnery line, but is topped by Johnny Beerling saying that Long's leather shoes made her look like "a lesbian".
― Robin Carmody, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Her being on after midnight made me think, oh, she has the graveyard shift now - but then, no: she was always a late-night DJ, wasn't she?
She plays old music and it becomes possibly as much as twice as moving.
Even new music sometimes sounds good from her.
Last night she was pursuing the question of whether it was snowing anywhere in the UK.
― the longfox, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link
― the longfox, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link
THE DRAGONS!!!they also did a great version of Get off my cloud
― Jens (brighter), Thursday, 29 January 2004 11:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 29 January 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago) link
how romantic
― disgusted of Chigwell, Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 29 January 2004 13:10 (twenty years ago) link
Bob H closes the show with Duran Duran live at the Brits, material just arrived at the studio!
Janice later plays the obscure Boss track 'Sad Eyes'.
One possible conclusion I draw: B&S have become a R2 band.
― the bellefox, Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago) link
good, i say ban that annoying twee "cuckoo" single from 6 Music !
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― the bellefox, Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
She was smashing. Knew obscure answers instantly, like a real disc jockey.
― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link