BOC: A mention on the telly

Laj Waldner erebus7 at DLCWEST.COM
Tue Feb 9 23:51:05 EST 1999


Andy Gilham wrote:
>
> Just in case it's not clear to anybody outside the UK, these mentions are
> not intended as a homage to BOC - quite the opposite, in fact.  On _I'm Alan
> Partridge_, it was to show how horribly, desperately unhip Radio Norwich is;
> and Smashy and Nicey are grotesque parodies of old fart radio presenters who
> haven't been remotely fashionable since about 1973.  Their favourite song is
> Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet".  (That said, there
> was a Smashy and Nicey CD of their favourite records, which was actaulyl
> quite decent - "Reaper", "Silver Machine" - I think - and a few other
> classics.)
>
> Alan's own taste in music is very dodgy.  In one episode, he tried to
> impress his secretary by singing along to a tape of Steeleye Span's
> "Gaudete" in his car ("this'll blow your socks off"), and another time he
> told the tale of his irresponsible youth when he went to see ELO at the
> Birmingham NEC ("come back, ELO, and play all night!").
>
> It's a great show, by the way.  A _Fawlty Towers_ for the nineties.
>
> - Andy
>
> ObCD: Godspeed You Black Emperor! - _F#A#_
>
> mailto:Andy.Gilham at btinternet.com; http://www.btinternet.com/~andy.gilham

What we need is a few DJ's like that were I'm from, might actually start
listening to the radio, sound like a good program.

Laj.



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