Cracker: "It says 'Let's b friends', and it's got a b on it"
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I should add a couple of points actually Simon:
I don't do appointment radio. Therefore specialist shows can be great, but only if they're at a time I'm likely to bump into them. Like most people, I listen to radio in the morning, in the car during the day and at drive time. Once PU started doing Breakfast it was pretty hard not to hear a house track 100% of those times. We had a running joke where we'd be in the car and just as we'd flick over to George I'd start doing the 4/4 mmm-sst-mmm-sst of generic house music to see if I could fluke it in time with whatever was on.
My personal issues with being ripped off aside (because as I say, as a lawyer I shoulda known better and it was a good life lesson in never trusting anyone...), I still stuck around at George for a couple of years after that. In the end I left because they were still on a small frequency and I got tired of doing a show every day that at least half of the people I knew couldn't hear. About two months after I went to bFM, George got a full frequency. Go figure.
I'm not denying you had a fantastic time at George at some period, but to me as a co-founder and then listener, I heard the diverse thing of beauty I had helped create turn into (at least at the times I was listening) as narrow-minded and stale a beast as the station it had been competing with.
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@OscarLow - 12pm Sundays? I'm there!
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Even today they have a Nocturnal Dominion death metal show, but no drum and bass show
'The Warning'? 11-1 fri nights with DJ DWare?
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Anyone know whats been happening in Christchurch at RDU ? How's Pylonz 'one dollar' investment turning out :) ?
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Even today they have a Nocturnal Dominion death metal show, but no drum and bass show
'The Warning'? 11-1 fri nights with DJ DWare?
There's been a D&B show right through, I think. For years it was the one with the funny "chocolate milk" promo.
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Oh, also Hannah Sarney was mildly miffed to be described by me as part of a "previous generation" when she's still 23 and still has a show on Saturday nights.
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I remember when I first started listening seriously to b it was the “louder than a bomb” time and I do remember a truck load of new dance music and hip hop being played . Grandmaster Flash,Public Enemy,with acid house and house hits alongside the constant run of Flying Nun 1980’s gems.
And then it went rock apparently but I think you’ll find most of the good keen ears on the planet were particularly bowled over by the guitars and words of the pixies, pavement, nirvana, jamc, my bloody valentine , sonic youth, predominantly american new pop,
etc but I still remember a lot of various forms of dance music being played.I don’t know the genres, they confuse me but there was a lot of dance/guitar crossover MBV, NWA, springs to mind.....and then a lot of seriously long dance music got played and the dance scene became huge , a huge live earner earner for a few “right place, right time” promoters which tended to attract other money, which created a bubble as it always does.
And then there was a garage rock renaissance across the western world which found an already well formed scene here, so apparently guitars came back in.
But my laboured point is that I remember the best playlists being pretty eclectic and the pixies sounded great by ten city. .
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I remember when I first started listening seriously to b it was the “louder than a bomb” time and I do remember a truck load of new dance music and hip hop being played . Grandmaster Flash,Public Enemy,with acid house and house hits alongside the constant run of Flying Nun 1980’s gems.
Quite a lot was vented on bFM Historical Society about the music wars around this time, with Simon Laan/Nick D'Angelo programming hip hop, the guitar guys revolting and Sir Vere not liking any of them.
S'funny really: I was involved with the station for so long, but that kind of stuff tended to pass me by. I only really ever had a problem with one person, and that person had ... issues.
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Sunday Sounds" 12-2 every Sunday
FWIW I think this is a very good show.
Im quite a fan of the music Oscar's co-pilot kirk james plays too. Kind of a weird mix of funk and jazz and not quite either, old and new. Not quite sure how their time table works, it might be a week on week off thing.
Both Oscar/Kirk's music is precisely the music I want to hear at 12 on a sunday. Major bummer is the lack of frequency strength, if im not near my computer i miss out. Resorted to hanging my comp speakers out the top floor window a few weekends ago so I could dig a retaining wall and hear the show.
Back on topic, I really like Mikey, and personally preferred him to Wallace, but was *hugely* disappointed when they reappointed him. I always thought bFm was a bit of a nursery for breeding new talent. Even if it didnt work at least they gave it a go. Mikey's reappointment changed this view for me. -
I always thought bFm was a bit of a nursery for breeding new talent
and then host Zm breakfast shows and do quirky late night news. It must have a stronger vision than that surely.
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I've done both B & George
one of the two stations made me feel really welcome and were super supportive and one of them generally gave me grief after almost every show I did
the only station that never told me what to play - george, where I happily played rock, country, indie, lo fi, noise amongst house, techno and other styles more associated with george - I was on during the day... background music it most certainly wasn't
I'm a big fan of Matt's but not on B, I hope the new slot see's his considerable talents put to use and stretched as the fall back loud back of the y stuff is a bit dull
as for Mikey, I love him and loathe him on radio, he comes across far too often as being lazy and on auto pilot... and yet when he shines his talent, humour and sense of timing is beyond fault... and is a pleasure to witness/hear
whatever happens the one thing that is certain... the changes will provoke a response from B's supporters and detractors... long may those that tune in be so passionate about their choice of station
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Aw, I'm feeling mean about George now. It's just that for a long time it was hard to get the signal, and whenever I did hear it, it was in people's houses where it was used like bad drugs.
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As some bloke once said "You don't know how lucky you are"
Whatever happens at the b it's better than...
"That was Black Sabbath, coming up Pink Floyd back to back with Led Zeppelin right after this..." cut to Lion Red commercial.
Or "We have Garth McVicar on the line..."
Love the b.Has anybody else come to the conclusion that radio, unlike TV is kinda tribal?.
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Haha true dat Steve.
My favourite quote from commercial radio comes from Solid Gold FM. I still trot it out in my cocknouncer voice quite often. You've got to say it in a fake deep yet nasal voice and all running together quickly...
"Hey yeah that was 'Hooked on a Feeling' and if you're gonna be hooked on anything it might as well be a feeling eh, make it a good one, have one for meeeeee."
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And my bad about there not being a drum 'n' bass show on bFM. I was going off a friend who is a d'n'b producer/DJ who was complaining the other day about it and assumed he'd know better than me...
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3410,
"Hey yeah that was 'Hooked on a Feeling' and if you're gonna be hooked on anything it might as well be a feeling eh, make it a good one, have one for meeeeee."
That sounds like Kevin Black, now to be seen on Triangle's The Beat Goes On, quite possibly the worst TV show in New Zealand's history.
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Triangle's The Beat Goes On, quite possibly the worst TV show in New Zealand's history.
+1. Mesmerisingly bad.
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3410,
Mesmerisingly bad.
Someone's really gotta YouTube some of that show. It's awfulness would soon become legend.
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Someone's really gotta YouTube some of that show. It's awfulness would soon become legend.
It's got its own YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TBGONZ
Random clip from the Over 50s Karaoke champs:
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3410,
Oh, yeah, I meant Tony Amos (who makes Kevin Black look like John Peel).
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3410,
You haven't lived until you've seen Tony's weekly politics review wherein he invariably -- and I mean invariably -- describes MPs as "those shirt-lifters and rug-munchers in parliament".
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But then I'm not sure I'd want to go on living.
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Tony Amos' Christmas political roundup
Awesomely bad.
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Random clip from the Over 50s Karaoke champs
OMG, that is f**king fabulous. I've sent it off to people all over. Tingles of national pride.
But, gotta say, compared to the Indonesian variety shows on every channel each Saturday night, it's still high art.
Kevin Black look like John Peel
There actually was a time....seriously...when Blackie had the most edgy show on Auckland radio. Around '74 /75. his night-time show on 1ZM was where you went to hear the stuff that wouldn't get airtime during the day. It was the place I first heard Marley and Kraftwerk, and he was the only DJ to touch things like Spit Ends (sp. correct) and pre-Oz Dragon (the mighty Rock'n'Roll Ponsonby was often aired) and lots of other local stuff.
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I can't help it. Every time I watch a clip on YT I have to read the comments, most of them are mind numbingly dull, stupid, pointless, racist, sexist, insulting, juvenile, grammatically incomprehensible
rubbish but I have to read them. I suppose I have a need to try and understand why the world seems so thick.
Then I came across TBGONZ on YT. What a delight, Orange on Orange and a layout a blind man would be glad to see, for a short time anyway.
No comments for 17 months, 4 comments in all 2 of them from the same person and one from the producer, it saved so much of my valuable time.
Shame I can't get Triangle TV.
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