England! Ireland! Scotland! Wales!

[mippy.livejournal.com]

So I go onto the Radio 1 homepage to find out the name of the 'jam' I was 'digging' on Thursday night and it appears Dave Pearce is still ruling the Sunday night airwaves like a baseball-capped Colossus. Even though someone I work with knows someone who does his DJing for him. It's like the 2000s never happened. I could flick Radio 1 on and it would be like sixth-form all over again, and instead of typing this on my BLOG I would be hand-writing an essay on the role of the family as a cohesive social institution. While Ann Lee's '2 Times' plays in the background.

Wasn't chart dance music supposed to be dead, anyways? Is it time for a Radio 1 poll where we can discuss who needs to be taken off the air, or was I the only one who grew up with it enough to have an inexplicable fondness for Nicky Campbell while my schoolmates listened to the ironically-named Rock FM? And not just because my favourite non-fiction book ever is The Nation's Favourite, or because I first encountered R.Carmody on a website that hosted .wav clips of 1980s jingles. (I was a DXer in my youth.)

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I missed Dance Anthems again. :( It is the only good bit of Radio One, really. Well, that and Annie Mac but not when she's being forced to talk to Peaches Geldof or follow a playlist. I thought Dance Anthems on a Sunday was the last nod to a dying institution, hence the fact Dave isn't allowed to get his trance trousers on during drivetime anymore and so we have to suffer the ignomy of Zane Fucking Lowe being all shit, all the time.

Every time I see a picture of Dave Pearce I feel a bit ill about the fact I've been listening to him with something approaching religious fervour for quite possibly a decade.

Chart dance music was killed by Nuts magazine. I have a badly-thought-out and only half formed idea to justify this statement involving porny videos and shit cheap 80s remixes but I don't think it really goes anywhere.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of fond of Dance Anthems even though it reminds me of Rios in Whalley. Radio 1 makes me feel a bit disorientated these days - there's still Moyles and Jo Whiley as though nothing's changed for a decade, then all these people who don't really sound like proper DJs.

[nocultureicons.livejournal.com]

There was quite a telling moment on Edith Bowman's show this afternoon. The competition was for tickets to One Big Weekend and all three of the callers failed to recognise 'So Here We Are' by Bloc Party. Although it's hardly a massive record, R1 would have played it a lot and the ten second clip they used featured the title quite prominently. And yet none of the contestants could even name the band.

Although 'Changing Tracks' remains Daytime R1's most horrifying moment, I find Bowman's show really embarrassing, particularly her obsession with mindless chatter about films and the constant barrage of uninteresting audience interatction. The non-playlisted records she plays (one selected by the audience, another the basis for a competition) are almost always drearily familiar too. So far away from the CCCC.