poptimists | England! Ireland! Scotland! Wales! (Reply)

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.)