Tim Westwood = AWESOME

Ma$e, my god yes the nadir of 90s commercial rap ("Feels So Good" is so bloody lazy it isn't there, and you need a real trick to pull that off - Ma$e didn't have it, no wonder he got religion and retired). I was looking through an old Uncut the other day and Nigel Williamson gave his album four stars, which says it all. That was the era when the entire letters page of Hip Hop Connection was dissing TW for playing too much Puffy-related music, wasn't it?

http://members.aol.com/dubplatestyle/mase.jpg

plus he's possibly the only guy in the world that every us rapper agrees is ace. they love him for the comedy value

Holla!

God knows who Radio 1 is going to replace him with when their Logan Run policy kicks in on him as well.

Probably Science.

etc etc

I read that as Silence.

I really need to clean my contact lenses. It's been a bad day.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1792186,00.html?=rss

Conservative leader David Cameron has claimed that BBC Radio 1 encourages knife and gun crime by playing music that glorifies violence.

Mr Cameron said the music Radio 1 plays on Saturday night - believed to be a reference to Tim Westwood's hip-hop show, which runs from 9pm-11pm - had contributed to the growing problem of knife and gun crime in the UK.

"I would say to Radio 1, do you realise that some of the stuff you play on Saturday nights encourages people to carry guns and knives?" he said last night in a speech to the British Society of Magazine Editors.

The Tory leader said his remarks were an example of how he wants people to have "the courage to speak up when you see something that is wrong", despite the fact that "you will get a lots of bricks thrown at you" for voicing unpopular opinions.

A spokesman for Radio 1 said the station took its responsibilities very seriously.

"We find it difficult to understand what he could be referring to," he said.

Mr Cameron's comments came in response to a question from June Walton, the deputy editor of Good Housekeeping, about how the Conservatives would tackle knife crime in the wake of a series of stabbings, including the murders of 29-year-old policewoman Nisha Patel-Nasri and 15-year-old schoolboy Kiyan Prince.

Speaking six months to the day after he was elected as Conservative leader, he also said media brands were more trusted by the public than politicians and had the ability to make more of a difference to people's lives.

He said Jamie Oliver's school dinners campaign through his Channel 4 series was able to do in a matter of weeks what government ministers and inquiries had failed to do over a much longer period because "he [Oliver] is a trusted brand in a way politicians aren't".

"Your brands," he told the assembled magazine editors, "are increasingly more trusted than a political brand."

Mr Cameron was also asked by Sarah Miller, the editor of Condé Nast Traveller, for his views on the Office of Fair Trading's recent draft recommendation to overhaul radically the newspaper and magazine distribution system, which has been met with opposition from the industry.

But he was forced to admit he did not know about the issue and asked Ms Miller to explain to him why she believed the OFT recommendation would favour supermarkets and put hundreds of small newsagents out of business.

"I will encourage Alan Duncan [ the shadow secretary for trade and industry] to looked into it," promised Mr Cameron. "We'll get Alan to talk to you and the industry and try and push things in the right direction."

But Ms Miller is unlikely to be holding her breath: she said that last time Tony Blair had addressed the society she had asked him what he would do about the situation and he too had promised to look into it "but did nothing".

And despite revealing that he was "uncomfortable" with some magazine content aimed at youngsters, Mr Cameron said he preferred "sensible debate", self-regulation and "leanings" rather than regulations, laws and bans, which he said was Labour's response to everything.

He praised the work of the Teenage Magazine Arbitration Panel in helping improve standards.

Mr Cameron's surprising attitude to buying British was also revealed during the evening.

When asked by the editor of Car magazine, Jason Barlow, why he did not drive a British-made Jaguar, his lengthy answer about the merits of "green performance" cars included the admission that "I'm a great believer in buying the car that's right for you. I try to buy British when I can, but if it's not right then I don't."

Saturday's programme was CLASSIC.

The four-cornered intellectual discussion on the preponderance of lyrics about money in contemporary hip hop nearly caused me to eat my dinner twice, I was laughing so much...Westwood/Dre/Rob >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Moral Maze.

Also Valentine's "Love for the Ladies" special heralded by Carmina Burana and gunfire, Goldfinger crosstalk and touching end-of-show remembrances of J-Dilla and Big L.

Really, he is the ONLY reason to listen to Radio 1.

I fucking LOVE westwood.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/09/urban.radio

^^really insightful article

I occasionally have to record Westwood doing voice work as part of my job and he is a super nice guy.

The Mail thinks Westwood helped Break Broken Britain.

That would be like me saying "Trevor Phillips [he means McDonald] shouldn't be reading the news, I want to see a white guy on there."

OK that is funny

BOOM!

i saw tim walking up a street near where i was working a couple of weeks ago, with his tiny producer walking along side him. he seemed awesome, and he was carrying a table. it was massive.

i said, it was MASSIVE.

DROP THE BOMB

:D <3 @ BOOM!

Was assuming that was a sailing reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_6VPzg0dJU

Blowing things up etc

"Westwood will never represent the most oppressed sections of our society"

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/03/tim-westwood-the-war-monger/

A white journalist is complaining that another white man doesn't represent black music?

watching the odd future interview

what a fucking gobshite, shut up timmy.

remember when this thread was quoting quality lols from his twitter every day? RIP hilarity

Westwood has been banished to the weekends, btw...

this is terrible, westwood was belatedly born for drivetime :(

and to be replaced by that insufferable wanker charlie sloth to boot

who's that german or half-german (iirc) r&b guy that's like a 3rd rate taio cruz/derulo clone, so anonymous i can't recall his name

anyway westwood had this poor unsuspecting bugger on the show a few months ago, half-assing it, asks him the regulation so who would you like to work with question

he replies "oh, usher, beyonce... i think it'd be great to do a song with [twinkle in the eye for the uk market] ed sheeran"

tim, suddenly: "that would be HORRIBLE! ohhh man! i would NEVER play that!"

<3

lol otm

1Xtra is basically even more po-faced and anodyne than Radio 1 is the thing yeah? no personality or funniness allowed on air during the day.

wellll... i mean, there's only one tim. the likes of ace & vis (also dumped, happily) and twin b cast themselves as the troublemakers of radio or whatever, they are cheerfully harmless/annoying moreso than anodyne

daytime wasnt too bad, sarah jane crawford is a fun gal, trev nelson i won't hear a bad word about unless it relates to chelsea obv

as a station they've generally been on a really great roll in recent years and have rarely put a foot wrong it has to be said. complete transformation from the 2008 doldrums

didn't realise Trevor Nelson was on daytime, no argument. when i do have it on for the music i find myself getting driven off by the DJs is the thing.

the aforementioned ace & vis were seemingly inescapable tbf, it was probably them you heard. or maybe gemma cairney with the vaguely slapped-arse demeanour

some of the weekend lot like nick bright and adele roberts idk much about, p sure "nick bright" is only going to be a faceless gimp tho

just going back to tim, must say he deserves credit (which he'll never get) for being pro-afrobeats way ahead of the current wave, he's the one that got me into it

too old for the bbc now?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/23466305

basically. plus you can't really hold down a primetime slot playing exclusively hip hop

how times have changed. The BBC and its attitudes to age (amongst other things) are a national disgrace

is there any reason to assume that age is a factor in his show being cut, other than it being sort of in the news at the moment?

isnt that the usual reason for kicking out dj's?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jul/26/radio-1-tim-westwood-leave-bbc

Radio 1's voice of hip hop, Tim Westwood, to leave BBC station

Departure after nearly 20 years comes during Saturday night shake-up, part of a drive to find a younger audience

the irony

The 55-year-old presenter joined Radio 1 in 1994, hired by the then controller Matthew Bannister to present the station's first rap show in a bid to attract a younger audience.

Now Westwood appears himself to have become the victim of a drive to find a younger audience, the latest in a number of changes on the station that saw long-running breakfast presenter Chris Moyles replaced by Nick Grimshaw.

read that comments thread for talk of "fake" and "authenticity" rockism 101

https://s31.postimg.org/hb4c4kae3/C55695_F4-492_B-48_EA-_A154-_D0_A8_D58_F35_B1.jpg

The Times is really losing it.

Wait til somebody tells them about traveller boxing vids

lol at their choice of pic

what’s the opposite of a dog whistle?

This seems like a very quaint '89 vintage of outrage, they really are losing it!

Big Dog whistle.

RIP u son of a bish

RIP Ty 💛 thank you for calling out Tim Westwood’s predatory behaviour. pic.twitter.com/RO2P1AZmeh

— machine gun Kele (@kelechnekoff) June 21, 2020

Mad isn’t it that some people think Tim Westwood, a 62 year-old man who’s been dressing like this for decades, is a fucking deviant. All the signs were there, yet they went ignored, why? pic.twitter.com/GL1nm0WZAo

— Steven Stewart (@SteveStewartLLM) June 21, 2020

not really an incisive post, but no denying he looks like the consummate bbc pedo here!

@TimWestwood you’re disgusting, a grown ass man sexually coercing a SIXTEEN year old girl to your flat and serving her alcohol @TimWestwood pic.twitter.com/JynYxDBWeh

— GG YOUNGGIRL🤍. (@bshawty8) June 20, 2020

Tim Westwood ≠ AWESOME

Hate to do it but...

That advert = he truly our generation's Jimmy Saville.

― James Mitchell, Friday, 16 April 2010 10:50 (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh look, Tim Westwood is trending again. Remember when Rodney P (🐐) made it clear that we've all known he's a wrong 'un for a long time? pic.twitter.com/Np8aB9H8vl

— nwoƚɘʞɒlᙠ (@blktwn) June 22, 2020

By the looks of this thread *A LOT* of ppl didn't know that!

I honestly can't bring myself to read too much of this thread.

westwood ...oh

Westwood has been accused in the media of giving false statements about his age and background. In 2000, at the age of 43, Westwood insisted to a Guardian journalist that he was aged 27.[31]

this is pretty good. i don't know much about the guy but came across his wikipedia page and found this.

Dj Tim Westwood has reinvented himself as a chef. pic.twitter.com/vcpTOqYi5C

— Scarcity News (@ScarcityStudios) April 19, 2024

AWESOME

Yes yes