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  • Black Swan

    Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
    Do keep up at the back, it's been CB-H for ages!
    Thanks, Old Grumpy. I stand corrected and have edited my post. Maybe a Freudian slip. But probably just goes with my manic Saturday.

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8774

      Originally posted by muzzer View Post
      "Music for Dark Mornings" ??

      FWIW I think VM is a good presenter. Vast improvement on last week's guy. She's got a really good radio voice. They should ditch "Your Call". I've never not cringed.
      IMVVHO better than "last week's guy" but not in the Skellers class.......

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26514

        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        Skellers class
        Don't "do" breakfast at the weekend (or on R3 on any other day) but it was great hearing the Skellyton transforming In Tune into a more-than-tolerable programme one day last week!
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Eine Alpensinfonie
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 20569

          Surely we are once again blaming the presenters. True, some are better than others, but the format remains the real issue.

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          • antongould
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8774

            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
            Surely we are once again blaming the presenters. True, some are better than others, but the format remains the real issue.
            I think we are comparing, not blaming, presenters ......personally I don't think the Breakfast format will change dramatically and IMVVHO you need presenters who are comfortable with it.......

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            • muzzer
              Full Member
              • Nov 2013
              • 1190

              Skellers seems to be deployed like a guerrilla you never know where to expect him next. Give the man a regular gig!

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30205

                Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                Surely we are once again blaming the presenters. True, some are better than others, but the format remains the real issue.
                Straws and camel's back.

                Meanwhile, yet again we have Albarado [sic] del gracioso on the playlist - and the giveaway that the presenter is not much into classical music since she doesn't know the Alborada del gracioso and therefore reads what's on the paper in front of her (in fairness, without stumbling over it).

                As a plug, this is the kind of thing included in the FoR3 Presentation survey: sloppy online information (certainly by R3 production not the presenter), problems with playlists, and presenters who (I will grant that I think she has a pleasant 'broadcasting voice') do not inspire trust in what they say.
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • ChrisBennell
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2014
                  • 171

                  Despite all, occasionally I find a real gem on these (otherwise unsatisfactory) programmes. Yesterday in the car, on InTune, I caught Chopin's Etude Op10 No 8 played by Valentina Lisitsa (her of St. Pancras fame - see Youtube). Actually they played a CD, still awaiting her to arrive I think, but I thought it was pretty marvellous. Came home and played it 3 times more on iPlayer!

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                  • Old Grumpy
                    Full Member
                    • Jan 2011
                    • 3594

                    Originally posted by ChrisBennell View Post
                    Despite all, occasionally I find a real gem on these (otherwise unsatisfactory) programmes. Yesterday in the car, on InTune, I caught Chopin's Etude Op10 No 8 played by Valentina Lisitsa (her of St. Pancras fame - see Youtube). Actually they played a CD, still awaiting her to arrive I think, but I thought it was pretty marvellous. Came home and played it 3 times more on iPlayer!
                    And I, in the car, heard Le Vent du Nord - at the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, but also appearing at SageGateshead the day after - bought the last two seats together online this afternoon. Turned up this evening - empty Sage - closing in in hour! The gig is tomorrow! Still, at least it wasn't yesterday.

                    OG

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                    • teamsaint
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 25190

                      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                      And I, in the car, heard Le Vent du Nord - at the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, but also appearing at SageGateshead the day after - bought the last two seats together online this afternoon. Turned up this evening - empty Sage - closing in in hour! The gig is tomorrow! Still, at least it wasn't yesterday.

                      OG

                      Ah..oh well have a great time tomorrow, OG.
                      They are fantastic live !! Well, they are ace on record too !!!

                      I am seeing them in Salisbury in March,Should be fun.
                      At the salisbury gig,myou can pay £7 extra and you get a french canadian themed supper.
                      Any guesses ,anybody?
                      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                      • Don Petter

                        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                        Ah..oh well have a great time tomorrow, OG.
                        They are fantastic live !! Well, they are ace on record too !!!

                        I am seeing them in Salisbury in March,Should be fun.
                        At the salisbury gig,myou can pay £7 extra and you get a french canadian themed supper.
                        Any guesses ,anybody?
                        Probably end with log au chocolat?

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                        • Zucchini
                          Guest
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 917

                          Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                          At the salisbury gig,myou can pay £7 extra and you get a french canadian themed supper.
                          Any guesses ,anybody?
                          A Nature Valley Canadian Maple Syrup Crunchy Cereal Bar I'd guess

                          (£1.19 for 10 at Lidl at the moment)

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37559

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            you get a french canadian themed supper.
                            Any guesses ,anybody?
                            You probably have to Queue Back

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                            • Eine Alpensinfonie
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 20569

                              Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                              And I, in the car, heard Le Vent du Nord - at the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, but also appearing at SageGateshead the day after - bought the last two seats together online this afternoon. Turned up this evening - empty Sage - closing in in hour! The gig is tomorrow! Still, at least it wasn't yesterday.

                              OG
                              Make sure you go to the correct hall at The Sage, OG.

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                              • Old Grumpy
                                Full Member
                                • Jan 2011
                                • 3594

                                Thanks for the tip, EA!

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