Anne Hilde Neset

[Guest]

I'm digging her show, man. It's like a whole new level. Like, how far can Late Junction go? It's like m-theory where the m stands for Music... It's like the things they try out before avant-garde.

And for the record, I always considered Oliver Postgate right for the job.

[boatmanbird]

2 great shows in a row, Anne HN is doing something very right !

[Bryn]

She's no better than I expected.

[ian russell]

She has an accent (reminds me of the German comedian on David Mitchell's R4 panel show, whose name I don't know) which I am growing to love.

No jazz yet though. Still, one more show to go on the iPlayer....

[Russ]

Hmmm - I wasn't too taken by her first show this week to be honest, but then LJ is always full of things I don't like and other things I think are totally fab. I tend to listen to it on LA and fast forward through the stuff that doesn't interest me.

Russ

[ian russell]

Really. Well, if I was Alan Sugar, and Alan Sugar ran Radio 3, and Anne Hilde Neset was one of the candidates for my apprenticeship and it was decided they had to come up with a playlist, I'd fire everyone on the spot, on the first day. Then I'd put on my robes, head over to the Lords and sack everyone there too. Then I'd make Anne queen. Then I'd bow my head down and run as fast as I could into the closed partition door to the Commons, simply because I'd realise I was Alan Sugar! and it'd be doing a lot of people a favour.

Her third show was the best. I slid that old iPlayer cursor back a few times I can tell you.

[Lateralthinking1]

Fair enough. Happy to keep an open mind.

[Globaltruth]

What seems to happen with new presenters of this show is that they prepare thoroughly for the first week or so, discover the joys of the BBC Music library (so we get rare ethnic music, sound effects et al), start to get a bit thin on the ideas front (so we get the old standards - Hassell, Varese) and then we start to see their mettle - in Max's case he has found his LJ style through the use of themes. I will be interested to see where AHN heads off...maybe she is just going to continue with that theme theme, if she is ever heard again. I assume she has got this gig because Max is off doing new Oily Cart stuff for a few weeks.

And note that I'm not criticising just observing.


But I will also observe that David Toop produced a 2 CD set in 1996 called Crooning in Venus.

Here's part of the track listing for CD 1

1. Rangers In The Night - Wyatt, Robert
2. Time - Sly & The Family Stone
3. Yet So Beautiful - MacDonald, Laurel
4. Cais - Nascimento, Milton
5. I Still Love Albert Einstein - Earthling (1)
6. Mercury - Royal Trux
7. See Through Love - Russell, Arthur

Anyone spot the similarities? As well as being a former member of The Flying Lizards, David Toop also writes for The Wire.
Maybe the BBC have employed the wrong Wired writer...

[ian russell]

I never liked themes. Is it a cover for poor choices or does it just create them?

Max found his place by scripting the continuity and presenting it like he was addressing a class. I'm not complaining, it is probably unique not to say soothing and informative. I liked the other stand they introduced to us - I can't remember his name, played a lot of experimental electronica.

[Globaltruth]

Theme time

What not even Bob? ;)
Poor old worn out Bob, I think it helped provide him with a frame to share his encyclopaedic knowledge of music.

But you're probably right - let's have a meme not a theme.

[ian russell]

Bob? there are many Bobs...

Nick Luscombe is the fella I refer to. His name just bobbed into my head.

[Globaltruth]

Bobby D. Zimmerman

[ian russell]

I see what you mean. Anne's tuesday show has a sort of a space theme. Still, she didn't tie herself to it.

The Chinese drinking song sounded a lot like the blues, which surely proves drunk is a universal language.

[ian russell]

Bobby D. Zimmerman

Oh, that one.

[Schrödinger's Cat]

I listened to the 1st prog (Tue 23rd) while I was travelling around town today by bus/foot. Not ideal conditions to judge what was played but it certainly sounded as tho her progs are worth continuing with.

Actually I've quite got into listening to LJ while on the move in the last 3 months - I never used to bother with it before, except when Robert Sandall was presenting. The music isn't usually too demanding (not intended to be derogatory) so can cope with the distractions of travel.