Another reason to ignore the banality of morning on Radio 3. The repulsive Starkey is a guest all next week apparently.
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Star who?
Never mind. I have finally given up on R3 in the morning. My hand still goes to the radio like a hand wanting to stroke a cat I have lost.
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a whole week of this ?
first one on the "dumbing down" buzzer wins a signed drumstick
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I assumed it was Ringo Starr (né Starkey) who might have interesting classical music preferences.Originally posted by doversoul View PostComment
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doversoul - how nicely put!Originally posted by doversoul View PostStar who?
Never mind. I have finally given up on R3 in the morning. My hand still goes to the radio like a hand wanting to stroke a cat I have lost.
Sadly, the same here...Comment
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I have more or less given up too...but hang on. Starkey might be just the bloke to liven things up a bit. He usually has no shortage of controversial opinions. However unlovely some people find him, at least he will not tell us how wonderful all the beautiful music we are about to hear is going to be. IN FACT, how about Starkey as a Breakfast presenter?Comment
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I can't get enough of Starkey. It would make my day if they gave Stephen Fry the push from all the programmes that he currently pollutes and put Starkey there in his place: then those programmes would become instantly - for me - watchable.
Besides, as a right-wing populist homosexual he has a unique place in today's media
Yes, put him on the breakfast programme: my guess is he knows sod-all about music, but that would probably be more of an asset than anything else.Comment
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My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
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I confess that if Starkey is talking I too will usually listen, if only for a laugh and a shout at the screen / radio. The fact that he doesn't appear to give a sh*t and speaks his mind (even though wrong-headedly, sometimes & perhaps) is so refreshing after the bland, cynical spouters-of-press-releases that populate the airwaves...Originally posted by ardcarp View Post"...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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None of the dozens of other right-wing populists who decorate today's media are homosexuals, then?Originally posted by Mandryka View PostComment
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If they are, they choose not to identify themselves as such: Starkey has been open about his sexuality for a long time. I believe he describes himself as a 'Tory liberterian'.Originally posted by John Skelton View Post
His comments about the August riots were brilliantly provocative, imo: the fact that they upset so many complacent armchair liberals can only be a good thing.Comment
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I found those remarks to be deliberately and gleefully provocative and nothing else. He claims that Maitless wouldn't let him finish his remarks but I haven't seen a subsequent article in which he expands and explains further. A sort of posh right wing rent-a-quote stirrer.Originally posted by Mandryka View PostComment
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Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
I thought that was his worst performance of any I've seen - as mentioned above, I tuned in BECAUSE he was on but he was embarrassing.
Far more importantly, Ammy, are we going to get a decent review of your lunchtime freebie?
"...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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I suspect Stakey would agree with all the adjectives, pejorative and otherwise, except 'posh' to which he would react rather strongly! Being a Grammar School boy from Kendal doesn't make you posh.Comment
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