R3 Sound Frontiers etc

[DracoM]

" Live from Pop-up / Residency / Sound Frontiers "

Erm.........R3 just don't get it, do they?
Every prog this week is shouting aloud 'guess where we are, Oh, Scarily Adventurous Us, eh? Pop-up / Residency in......X. '

For the presenters usually bubbled tightly into BH, yes, being liberated to the so-daring RFH foyer etc is 'exciting' and 'live'. For listeners in Skegness, Taunton, Fishguard, Bantry, Carlisle, Wick and Hoy, or the literally tens of millions who cannot get to / do not want to get to the RFH, it matters not a whit. Unless they have background crowds assembling for some 'event' at RFH which blur out chat and links, it barely sounds any different, it makes next to no difference whatsoever to what they play, the day's schedule, so...? They gush with delight at the bravado at being goggled at by passing strangers, but FGS....I#d guess that for 98% of their listeners, it doesn't matter a tinker's cuss.

YES, of course, celebrating the 70th anniversary of R3's birth is necessary and welcome, particularly repeat of the archive stuff fronted by the late Humphrey Carpenter - so many familiar themes that have not gone away!

[pastoralguy]

I imagine that 'pop up studio' is going to smell quite 'gamey' by the end of the stint...

[DracoM]

Yuk.

[Frances_iom]

" Live from Pop-up / Residency / Sound Frontiers "
it doesn't matter a tinker's cuss.

I'm quite happy to add one of these and wish the pop up merchants bon voyage as they head out down the Thames - yet another stupid marketing technique

[Nick Armstrong]

For listeners in Skegness, Taunton, Fishguard, Bantry, Carlisle, Wick and Hoy, or the literally tens of millions who cannot get to / do not want to get to the RFH, it matters not a whit...

Well done, Drax, was thinking of starting a thread when I read your Words and Music post.

I think you're right in large measure. At the same time, I can see some merit to the 'open' approach. Yes for those people who don't want to be there it's of no interest, and of course many can't in practice. But there will be some - not only the London based folk (like me; have I been? No, not yet anyway) - who may find it a good reason to visit London, and see a little of how it all works, meet the people they listen to week in, week out.

Not only presenters... You can rub shoulders with Steve Reich this afternoon when he turns up for In Tune; or with Oliver Knussen who will apparently be there each day for the live COTWs...

So I don't think it's just the archive stuff that is attractive (loved the two-part Sunday Feature yesterday) - one shouldn't be unremittingly negative about the location aspect, it seems to me.


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[vinteuil]

... what I like about our caliban is that he's always so b****y positive...

[Nick Armstrong]

... what I like about our caliban is that he's always so b****y positive...

Il n'y a pas que moi....







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[vinteuil]

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... is "armslengthal" really M Davey's cybermoniker?

Good for him, if so - a 'brave' [thank you, Humphrey... ] choice of upfront political heraldry

[french frank]

I'm quite happy to add one of these and wish the pop up merchants bon voyage as they head out down the Thames - yet another stupid marketing technique

Certainly a blatant marketing ploy. But this week's publicity - oodles of it - has on the whole been pretty positive. And 70 years of the Third/Radio 3 seems to me to offer a lot more than three weeks of Sound of Cinema… But what happens on the 75th? Why 70? (60 = bus pass, 65 = retirement, 75 = free TV licence, three quarters of a century, 100 = a century).

[pastoralguy]

There was a 'Free thinking' event took place in The Sage, Gateshead and Radio3 was very much in evidence during our recent Edinburgh Festival and I'm sure there was also an event happened in the Welsh borders too. (Hay-on-Wye?)

So it's not just London that gets the attention.

[DracoM]

I'm delighted that R3 is celebrating, it has much to celebrate, we as a nation should celebrate, it's had a considerable influence in world radio too, and it's made a huge difference to my life......

...............BUT why do they have to keep trumpeting the 'pop-up' thing? If we are listening to Sarah Walker / Essential Classics [ - erm...if], and it sounds pretty well exactly like it does every day from the studio, same selections, same schedule etc, then how much does it matter to almost anyone else except Sarah Walker and the prod team that they are in the RFH foyer? Fun new dimension fo THEM, but to anyone else? It's only what long time BBC listeners on radio and TV called / call an OB, isn't it?

We are being reminded every fifteen minutes. Why?

[french frank]

We are being reminded every fifteen minutes. Why?

To make up for the removal of the every-15-minutes news headlines.

You have a point (I expect) - it's one of those things where you feel the broadcasters are enjoying themselves much more than their listeners are.

[teamsaint]

Certainly a blatant marketing ploy. But this week's publicity - oodles of it - has on the whole been pretty positive. And 70 years of the Third/Radio 3 seems to me to offer a lot more than three weeks of Sound of Cinema… But what happens on the 75th? Why 70? (60 = bus pass, 65 = retirement, 75 = free TV licence, three quarters of a century, 100 = a century).

Why 70?
1. So that those higher up the ladder are impressed, and get to look like they instigated it.
2. The folks running it are hoping to be retired/ high enough up the ladder/ doing something useful by the time a really big anniversary comes round, and so need to make their mark now.

For evidence check out the 950 th Hastings commemorations at English Heritage.

Anyway, as long as its done in the best possible taste....

[antongould]

.... or of course by the time of the 75th anniversary Radio 3 might be no more or on its last legs ....

[jayne lee wilson]

28/09/16....Sound Frontiers...

H&N does peaktime...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wrlbr