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I hate the way that real Djs, who actually love and are knowledgeable about music, have been slowly eased out of Radio 2, and replaced with celebrity presenters and comedians who know nothing and care even less. Thank God for radio 6.

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Damn, I'd love to hear him and Jeff talk about music for 15 minutes. I could see parallels being drawn between Elbow in England and Wilco in the US as far as how underrated they are.

which is where the comparison ends... Wilco have a fantastic singer and aren't boring :P

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Yes lovely man. I once had a short email exchange with him regarding a song (bit of an obscure b side that they used to do live a few years back) that I wrongly thought might have been inspired by the name of the American manager Thatcher brought in to try and finish off the miners during the strike of 84-85. Difficult times for Guy's family as they had family members in the striking miners and in the police force (there were some nasty confrontations at the time). In the email he said that our conversation reminded him of the case against the man who knocked the head off a recently unveiled statue of Thatcher (that was some years ago) in a gallery. This man's defence was simply "Well, someone had to do it". Let's just say there'll be a few parties in South Wales where I come from when she pegs it.

The song I always think about when it comes to Margaret Thatcher is Elvis Costello's "Tramp the Dirt Down." That's one of the angriest, harshest songs I've ever heard. Not saying it's not justified, mind you!

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I just heard this station on my ipod, bbc radio 2 89.1, today, there's a good special with mike mills of r.e.m. and it's a four part on glen campbell. i thought this was some electronic shit the british play.lol

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The song I always think about when it comes to Margaret Thatcher is Elvis Costello's "Tramp the Dirt Down." That's one of the angriest, harshest songs I've ever heard. Not saying it's not justified, mind you!

Indeed. Oh, and please don't humanise her by use of a first name :-)

 

P.S. ending a sentence with 'mind you' makes you sound like you're almost Welsh :-)

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I just heard this station on my ipod, bbc radio 2 89.1, today, there's a good special with mike mills of r.e.m. and it's a four part on glen campbell. i thought this was some electronic shit the british play.lol

It is a very schizophrenic station. When I was a lad it was the home of easy listening, big band, and pre-rock'n roll music (classical and a bit of jazz is radio3).

Now there are still such shows, but now people of the equivalent age to those times are listening to all kinds of 'rock' music and it has specialised shows for country etc.. Radio 1 is more for urban and disposable pop. Radio 6 is the more indie station, for which John Peel would have been a doting grandfather.

 

I actually spend almost all my radio time with radio 4 and '4 extra' - spoken word: current affairs, drama, serialised books, comedy, documentaries. Some excellent podcasts from them e.g 'in our time'.

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P.S. ending a sentence with 'mind you' makes you sound like you're almost Welsh :-)

:headbonk I know! Y'know, even as I typed that "mind you", I was thinking it sounded overly influenced by all the Brit-isms I've been reading on here lately. I'm like a sponge.

 

LOVED your review of the second night at the Roundhouse, by the way.

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The BBC does not always make it's programs available to those outside the area. I believe there are ways around this - you can Google it and find a way to do it.

 

My favorite show is Sounds of the 60s - Brian Matthew.

 

Jimmy Savile passed away a few days ago.

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My favorite show is Sounds of the 60s - Brian Matthew.

 

 

I am also a devotee of this excellent programme, every Saturday morning. There always seems to be something on there that I've never heard before. Brian's now 83!

 

You might also want to check out Sounds of the Seventies with Johnnie Walker.

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I am also a devotee of this excellent programme, every Saturday morning. There always seems to be something on there that I've never heard before. Brian's now 83!

 

You might also want to check out Sounds of the Seventies with Johnnie Walker.

 

I use to listen to that show when Steve Harley was doing it. I also like the Suzi Quatro shows.

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I went to see The Jim Jones Revue a couple of nights before Wilco, and Mark was in the bar (a JJR fan) with...? Nick Lowe!

 

then 2 nights later, there's Nick again!

 

Mark Lamarr's shows were great. He had one that just played the best rock n roll... he is genuinely knowledgeable, and an obvious fan. His other show God's Jukebox (I think) was just as good, but more eclectic

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I went to see The Jim Jones Revue a couple of nights before Wilco

I was thinking about that but though three big nights out in a week would be too much. Love JJR. Then there was Ryan Adams at Union Chapel the night before too, but could not get a ticket for that.

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Lamarr? Funnily enough I met him on a ridiculous night on the lash after the Wilco gig at the Astoria in July 2004. It was a in a blues club just up the road from Bar Italia in the West End as I remember.

 

We had a bit of a ding-dong re music and I found him a bit up himself. He insisted he only ever listened to (old) black music, nothing else, original blues etc etc A bit precious really. But I was seriously hammered at the time. Got so pissed I missed my train home and ended up in there til about 3 in the morning. Other than that, nice bloke!

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Ha! Really? His accent is pretty standard south east English - I think he's from Swindon. I suppose he can talk quite quickly when he gets excited!

 

I wonder if he can throw a shoe over a building?

 

I think that is what it was - he gets excited. It was not Oasis level, just hard to understand from time to time.

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