Tearjerker, Downtown Symphony, Piano Flow, Happy Harmonies and other Saturday padding

[kernelbogey]

I guess it is vastly easier to find such drop outs from the highly competitive world of marketing who think a bit of soft sell to tired mums should be a doodle than to find musically literate producers who would also I suspect demonstrate the illiteracy of their superiors brought from from the marketing dept with no doubt their 'commercial salaries'.

I'm sure there are plenty of musically literate producers at R3: what we complain of here is the curse of managerialism.

[french frank]

I'm sure there are plenty of musically literate producers at R3: what we complain of here is the curse of managerialism.

I don't know what the situation is now, but when Mark Thompson was DG, the BBC's marketing department was pretty powerful. It dictated which trailers a service should take, what time they should be 'placed' and so on. That was the time the current DG was brought to the BBC from PepsiCola. I'm sure producers work to managers' briefs. This is certainly the case with indie production companies who tender for contracts to commissioning briefs so presumably have to show how they are targeting particular demographics and trends.

[Aotearoa]

In my ignorance I didn’t realise they were two different programmes. They just elide together as one long set of right on sounds.

[kernelbogey]

...That was the time the current DG was brought to the BBC from PepsiCola....

so...
Lipsmackin' moodgroovin’ acesoundsin' mozartin' mindbuzzin' allnitein’ cooltalkin' radiofree-ee-ee

[Frances_iom]

so...
Lipsmackin' moodgroovin’ acesoundsin' mozartin' mindbuzzin' allnitein’ cooltalkin' radiofree-ee-ee

No - just a lookalike product and not even the real thing! - it does have one use tho metal cleaning thanks to the phosphoric acid though it cheaper to buy descaler based on the same acid.

[french frank]

In my ignorance I didn’t realise they were two different programmes. They just elide together as one long set of right on sounds.

There's also Classical Fix and Unclassified. I don't think I'd actually noticed that Late Junction is now down to just a single programme. Not interested on my own account, but it does seem to shortchange that audience in giving them Night Tracks instead - though I suppose the 30-min Unclassified is supposed to 'make up for' that loss. Its catchline 'Music that defies classification' was used for Late Junction when it started. Thirty minutes of that with Elizabeth Alker is just handing over 30 minutes of Radio 3 air time to 6 Music.

PS Yes, overlooked Downtime Symphony.

[kernelbogey]

I happened on Saturday morning to hear the end of TTN, before the beginning of Tearjerker. Normally, John Shea would sign off by announcing the last TTN item before Breakfast. There was no transition announcement - so presumably he was not told about losing the last two hours of TTN before he recorded the links for his three-week stint.

Let's wait and see this Saturday whether anybody remembered to tell Catriona.

[Nick Armstrong]

Let's wait and see this Saturday....

Let’s not bother...

[cloughie]

Let’s not bother...

I’ll sleep on it, hopefully through it!

[Serial_Apologist]

I happened on Saturday morning to hear the end of TTN, before the beginning of Tearjerker. Normally, John Shea would sign off by announcing the last TTN item before Breakfast. There was no transition announcement - so presumably he was not told about losing the last two hours of TTN before he recorded the links for his three-week stint.

Let's wait and see this Saturday whether anybody remembered to tell Catriona.

I inadvertently had my first experience of Tearjerker yesterday morning, when I woke up to Radio 3 - it being the station I am tuned at low volume to right through the night. What I seemed to be hearing was an adolescent self-accompanying in some kind of pop tune on piano, concluding with a sort of sub-Einaudi "cadenza" then segueing into a sort of rambling "piano concerto" with odd bits of e.g. Puccini in - a kind of mixtape I guess, with no organic continuity, just a featureless ramble. At some point a young woman came on to tell me they were offering me soothing music, or something. After about 15 minutes of this I switched over to Radio 4 for Toady. I guess this is the future for those of us who sleep with the radio on for TTN on Friday nights.

[kernelbogey]

I guess this is the future for those of us who sleep with the radio on for TTN on Friday nights.

I recommend the World Service. (Though on the R4 wavelength, it switches back to R4 at 0520.)

[Ein Heldenleben]

I inadvertently had my first experience of Tearjerker yesterday morning, when I woke up to Radio 3 - it being the station I am tuned at low volume to right through the night. What I seemed to be hearing was an adolescent self-accompanying in some kind of pop tune on piano, concluding with a sort of sub-Einaudi "cadenza" then segueing into a sort of rambling "piano concerto" with odd bits of e.g. Puccini in - a kind of mixtape I guess, with no organic continuity, just a featureless ramble. At some point a young woman came on to tell me they were offering me soothing music, or something. After about 15 minutes of this I switched over to Radio 4 for Toady. I guess this is the future for those of us who sleep with the radio on for TTN on Friday nights.

It strikes me as a considerable achievement to construct an hour of “soothing “:music which seems to get people who like music wound up. Those piano relaxation pieces on Spotify are by and large excruciating...

[Frances_iom]

It strikes me as a considerable achievement to construct an hour of “soothing “:music which seems to get people who like music wound up....

complete misunderstanding of the intended audience - like muzak in lifts, shop etc + whilst you wait for a phone to be answered, it is purely distraction material - not intended to be listened to as such but merely to waste enough part of the brain's processing capacity that you don't think how bl*dy stupid is the current occupation - quite why the BBC is into this I suspect is a matter for the accountants - dirt cheap time wasting

ETA why is the site so slow this morning ?

[Bryn]

. . . ETA why is the site so slow this morning ?

No such problems here.

[Pulcinella]

No such problems here.

Or here.
ETA? Extraterrestrial activity (on the Isle on Man)?