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Lamacq's lowdown on Radio 1 shake-up
Posted: 04 Jul '06, 10:57
As has already been widely reported, the BBC has recently announded plans to shake-up its Radio 1 programme schedule: Colin Murray will fly solo on an evening slot, while a selection of specialist DJs will be brought in for equally specialist shows. On the downside, all clues point to the end of Steve Lamacq's Lamacq Live show, itself but a shell of what The Evening Session once was.
In order to settle the dust kicked up by the not-all-that-informative official press release, Lamacq himself has made a statement, which he posted as a MySpace bulletin.
"So as many of you have already heard, Radio 1 have decided to end Lamacq Live in September. It will be something like eight years since it started and we are all a bit gutted to be honest.
"That's the bad news.
"The good news is that we are making plans for some special shows over the next couple of months including a Reading and Leeds festival special and, of course, a massive report on T In The Park next Monday from 9pm.
"We have also got some excellent showcase bands lined up including You Say Party! We Say Die! and - fingers crossed - Cajun Dance Party. That's the good news.
"Radio 1 have offered me a new magazine-style, one-hour, once-a-week show which I'm currently considering. Although I could just pack it in and apply for the, currently vacant, Colchester United manager's job.
"In the meantime my shows on 6Music stay the same and I am discussing a new podcast solely for unsigned bands which I think might be good. That's just too much information now, isn't it?
"Sorry to go on, but wanted to get the facts straight before the whole story gets out of hand in the press."
So there you go: facts, straightened.
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What are they thinking?? Lamacq is the only show I listen to on Radio 1.
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Meh
I'm liking the idea of the podcasts though.
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he can always carry on writing for
DIS
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iLOVELAMMO
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I like Lammo
though I rarely listen to Radio 1 at all now, if I can help it. He does seem like one of the few people left, post-Peel, that cares more about music than stamping a try-hard "personality" on everything. Colin Murray and Zane Lowe are barely fit to make the tea.
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as much of a cock as Lowe is
you can't say he knows nothing about music.
Though he doesn't seem to dislike ANYTHING.
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I can respect his enthusiasm and knowledge
I just find him impossible to listen to
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same for me with lamacq
i still hate him for the richie edwards incident.and how he discovers bands later than anyone else(ie DiS) and then claims them as 'his band'.
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lam lam
"claims" so many bands he's clearly gonna get it right occasionally.
The onemusic shows are pretty good listening
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I hated Lamacq's show, once when I listened to it, the first half hour, everything he played I had already heard on Jo Whiley's show, so whats the point of that?
Colin Murray on the otherhand once named checked Slint during a Rooster accoustic set. And I quote:
"they'll be doing a cover for us, we have no idea what it'll be, it could a Slint b/side it could be anything..."
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shame it wasnt
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End of an era
Although I haven't listened to much Lamacq Live, I used to love the Evening Session.
Hope Huw Stephens and Rob Da Bank's shows remain unchanged.
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Internet killed the radio star?
DiScuss!
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Why would anyone in their right mind
listen to Radio 1 when there's BBC 6 music?
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because
6music is shit too.
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you sir....
are a liar.
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Steve Lamacq is a top bloke
Say what you want about his radio shows (although I'll always say he is a legend after growing up listening to the Evening Session doing my homework), but he is a thoroughly nice chap from what I know.
I once went to a signing he did in Nottingham when his book came out. We had a chat about Elastica because I was wearing an Elastica tshirt.
I had no idea at the time that Lamacq was behind Deception Records, so I must have seemed like a bit of an obsessive when I rocked up.
Lovely bloke though and the Radio 1 airwaves will be a poorer place without him if he decides to sack them off.-
this sucks
lots :(
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Ahem
DECEPTIVE records
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Hmmm
He's not happy. And I don't blame him. He said he nearly gave up broadcasting after the last round of changes.
We'll never a have a Peel-type figure again on Radio 1, will we? They wouldn't dare touch the sacred cow itself, but once that was no longer an issue they no longer needed to have qualms. I genuinely believe he could go on as long as Peel with his appetite for new stuff not diminishing.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Radio 1, you suck. I will listen to Murray's show - he'll be much better in that slot where he can play the stuff he likes, but that's not the point.
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DiS Radio...
...forget the podcast, we need the airwaves.
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maybe lammo has just outgrown radio 1
its lucky there are mnore outlets for broadcasters these days - am sure Peel would have jumped ship in the 80s when they messed with his schedule if he'd had the choice - Radio 1 can quite frankly do one.
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Hes staying
but it sounds like for only one hour a week.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5144548.stm-
One flippin' hour a week
Radio 1 is shit.
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Out of interest...
What happened to the podcast?
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Gollum Kiss'O'Gram job will pay more!!!
He's always been bloody awful compared to Peel and Kershaw. Terrible taste, terrible inane idiot banter but astonishing Gollum physical embodiment. He is no better or worse than TerraHawk Whiley, RobDaBank, Colin & Edith but is a step up genetic ladder compared to Moyles. Radio One is Knacked-Kershaw is on Radio 3 and Laura Cantrel has a great show from here http://www.radiothriftshop.com/
Lammo will enjoy the Gollum Kiss'O'Gram work more-they will feed him Cider and listen to his drivel-
SILENCE
Lammo is great. His voice reminds me of doing my homework.
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My form tutor
sounds exactly like Lammo
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Me too!
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well
i used to quite obsessively listen to
the Evening Session but i rarely go out of the way to listen to Lamacq Live until the last hour of the show where he gets to play what he wants and talks to the guy from KCRW about how Blighty's bands are doing Stateside.i'm more worried about what's going to happen to other midweek shows really, as despite the rather unavoidable Peel-shaped void i still listen to a lot of the shows...because i think they're actually quite good. The Breezeblock, Annie Mac, Huw Stephens, Session In The Nations, Bobby & Nihal, and despite his occasionally irksome presenting style, Rob Da Bank too. It's just a shame the Andy Parsnip has started trying to market the late night shows rather than let them get on with it and play stuff that no other national radio station would dare touch.
Having said that, Colin Murray's alt.show might have been a bit too playlisted but it still pissed all over Zane's show which superceded it. He had Mclusky in session and everything...
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maybe an age thing
Yeah, those shows do sometimes manage to play some good music, but it is the lack of sincerity, the constant hype raking and a general stupidity that Andy Parsnip thinks the Kids want.
I fear the Kids don't actually know what they want and suffer no end crap.
Might just be me getting old and grumpy though, but I'd like think of it as getting wise.Parsnip surf protest song here-http://www.myspace.com/georgegargan
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