Resonance should do a breakfast show. They've got a clear field. Hello chaps! I'm available at a competitive rate!
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 12 May 2005 08:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 12 May 2005 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 12 May 2005 08:28 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost haha I think I would listen to Les Dawson in the morning. Lugubrious.
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 12 May 2005 08:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 12 May 2005 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Danny Baker has announced he has cancer. Awful news. From his Fbook...
Hello cats and kittens,
Apologies for the cloak and d. over recent weeks. However as it appears this is going to continue for the forseeable I really ought to offer up some sort of breadcrumbs trail as to what's going on. (As you know I am queasy about introducing vulgar real life onto the vaudeville stage so let's keep this crisp.)
After a pretty mouldy diagnosis about a month back I finally begin chemotherapy on Monday with further radiotherapy from January. Yes radiotherapy; can you beat it? This being so, the old treehouse baggy pants will be donned but sparingly. Once the quacks have soundly thrashed this thing I shall return like a rare gas and as if out of a trap. In the meantime I am watching Tommy Steele box sets (and has there ever been a more lying title to a film than TS's "It's All Happening"?) and urge you all to keep yakking up a storm and laugh extra loud at the incumbents.
Thank you for all the best wishes and concern from those who suspected as much about my "condition" and by all means keep ringing up Baylen and Amy to demand more and more Atomic Rooster and Spooky Tooth records.
So. Manly handshake. Walk right on. In the words of King George, "What what and there it is..."
DB
― Venga, Monday, 1 November 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Had kinda guessed what was wrong with him when he said something on his show last week about having to take time off at short notice over the coming months.
His current Radio 5 Saturday morning show is definitely a favourite. Alan Davies covering for him this week was unbearably awkward.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 1 November 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
the b&w tv show he made in the early 80s about heavy metal and air guitarers was brilliant. plus i've only ever read good things about him by the people who knew him so he gets a lifetime good guy pass from me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wI-AjvwPU
― NI, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
his last show for a while... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00c25ws/Danny_Baker_with_the_original_Candyman_for_one_night_only/
― Calumny (stevie), Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i think this dude is so awesome, btw.
― Calumny (stevie), Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Via Twitter:
The call I have been waiting for just happened. Turns out I won. I'm all clear. I'm well again.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 June 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Y*A*Y!!!!!
― You made the right choice, Deanne... (stevie), Monday, 13 June 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, I can't say I'm a fan, but right now this is just the best news ever! Thanks for flagging it up, Ned.
― NickB, Monday, 13 June 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
Yer welcome!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 June 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
Okay someone tell me why the UK Twitter crowd is going on about him right now. All I can gather is that he's been sacked but has two hours to himself to rip into the BBC right this second...?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
A week before he's entered into the Radio Hall Of Fame, he's discovered that his daily show on BBC London is to be axed.
I think he's a treasure, and while I don't often get a chance to hear his show, he is a great radio personality. His breakfast show on BBC London was a wonderful way to wake up, and is much missed.
― Manchild in Beantown (stevie), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QolgU8thhJ0
daaaaannnnnyyyyyyy baaaaaakkkkkeeeeerrrrrrrr
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
I understand he is tearing BBC London a new one live on the air, although I haven't actually heard it.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
BBC London's not on iplayer, is it? Or is it?
― Manchild in Beantown (stevie), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
here?
― woof, Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
aha! cheers!
there's always this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18493582
― Manchild in Beantown (stevie), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
wow cool, a guy bigging himself up while slating the bbc, awesome. there's just not enough criticism of the bbc lately.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
even moyles left with less self-congratulation than this
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
hmm. kinda think that's an insight-light take on the situation myself.
― Manchild in Beantown (stevie), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
why, because you happen to be a fan of his? he just said how much he earns and described himself as the best broadcaster in britain. do you have the bbc budget to hand?
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 November 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
note the bbc did him the honour of quoting his side of the story in their news report.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
placed prominently on their front page
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
do you still work for the bbc, lg?
― Manchild in Beantown (stevie), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
not anymore.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
well, that's reporting 101, isn't it?
― Manchild in Beantown (stevie), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
i just think it's one word against another, they won't even comment on him saying it's about money. i'm not claiming the beeb is run in some perfect way, but this sort of pile-on is just pretty unfair. and it's a bit unfair of him too, he's been given a good career by the beeb and it's not as if he'll be destitute and jobless now.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
I hate unfair Beeb-drubbing as much as the next guy (who isn't owned by Murdoch) but I'm really quite disappointed by this news, as I think Danny's a great broadcaster, and I'd much rather the corporation spent their money on him than spunking it on another stupid and expensive brand ident ad campaign. I mean, there's nuances here beyond Baker being an anti-BBC egotist really, aren't there?
― Manchild in Beantown (stevie), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
yes, definitely. i can understand laying into the bbc, i mean, self-flagellation is so inherent to being part of it (or having once worked there) like, half the time you feel you are working against the bbc not for it.
all of that said, when someone so public comes out and slates it, using the language he has used, it is instantly interpreted in that "oh bloody bbc bosses" way that kind of fuels the same distaste for the entire organisation.
i don't know why i'm defending them, i will never, ever, not hold bitterness about the way i had to leave one job in bbc. NEVER! it's a calm bitterness now but it's still there.
that said I'm not announcing this to thousands of people.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
Erm, you might be...
― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
I am probably overestimating the readership of this thread.
it's nowhere near the same. and i'm not going into detail nor am i calling them "weasels" etc etc etc.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-05-21/richard-branson-im-giving-danny-baker-my-record-collection
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 12:58 (ten years ago) link
30,000 unsold Hatfield and the north albums arriving at the prodnose door...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link
oh i assumed this was the thread where i called him a pompous unfunny sack of shit
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6D9o_TXsAAP1xc.jpg:large
wouldn't expect any better from a Millwall fan, but surprising that this smug, self-satisfied prick has decided to jump on his own grenade in such a fashion.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
holy fuck
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
he quickly deleted it and said he didn't see the racist connotations because his mind "isn't diseased".
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
Yeah I’m interpreting it as him being gobsmackingly ignorant or blind towards racism rather than it being intended as a racist insult but even so it’s a fucking shocker of a tweet
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
fired by fivelive
― mark s, Thursday, 9 May 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
whoops
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 May 2019 09:46 (four years ago) link
it was an awful, awful, awful show and I will not miss it one iota.
― calzino, Thursday, 9 May 2019 09:57 (four years ago) link