The difficult fifth series
Radio 2's best-kept secret!
Yes! The Day The Music Died returns! The topical comedy half-hour that treats the music it loves with the ridicule it so clearly deserves is back for its fifth series.
Radio 2 are nice enough to keep recommissioning us, and producer Will Saunders (who we've watched rise to the ranks of something important in radio entertainment from virtual nobody) is nice enough to keep laughing at our jokes and then telling us to say them again to make it easier for editing. So we were back in what we call The Day The Music Died Studio, but isn't, at radio powerhouse Wise Buddah, to talk over each other and mis-cue the clips and inserts for about 50 minutes that will become a tight 30 under Will's iron thumb.
That's me, Jon Holmes and Robin Ince. The most important thing about this fifth series, apart from the fact that we're trying to make it a bit looser and less scripted (ie. doing less preparation for it), is that Radio 2 have kind of recognised us. We have our first ever photo session - albeit quite a shiny one - and our own BBC website and our own MySpace page.
This clearly means that this is our last series. So enjoy it. It's on after Jonathan Ross (let's see how many of his listeners we can drive away) on Saturdays, starting this Saturday.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 8:00 PM
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I think you are being a bit economical with the truth on your Myspace profile thingy - which one of you is 22 years old then, eh? :-)
I must apologize because I mistook you for Mark Steel when I saw that photo. And now I'm wondering what would have happened if Lenin had heard Saturday Night by Whigfield.
I hate to be a pain in the arse (no really!) but shouldn't that be "whom we've watched rise..."? I'm genuinely not trying to be picky; I hope I'm wrong. It's just that at the moment everywhere I expect to see 'whom' I'm seeing 'who'. I'm becoming paranoid that I don't understand their use.
nowadays 'whom' is pretty formal and most people just use 'who' in its place...
Neil . . . We actually worked out that our combined age was 111, so as soon as we can actually access the site, we'll update it. I have no idea why we're Scorpio either. Dave, I'm always slipping up with whom. But don't tempt me to go back in and change it now, otherwise it will make your comment redundant, and I would be Stalin. Also, and this is true, I sometimes see Mark Steel on the television and think it's me! Especially since I've had my hair that way. I don't know if it happens to Mark in return. I can do quite a good vocal impression of him too, so if he ever needs an understudy.
You were a bit picky about Mark Lawson's use of apostrophes earlier in the week - is the BBC website allowed to totally ignore commas? 'Take a pop at well pop' they wrote. Unless you are talking about the sort of pop music that is made in a well. Pedants unite!
Pedants unite, indeed. It actually causes me pain somewhere deep inside my soul to read "take a pop at well pop" on a website with my name and picture on it, but of course, to get it changed means to get somebody to get somebody else to have a look at it when they probably have better things to do. You may think that I can just get under the bonnet of a BBC website and change it myself, but it's not that simple. We must seek out bad grammar wherever we find it and do what we can to get it corrected.
I was being a bit cheeky obviously, but I do like the idea of well getting under a websites bonnet.
(Spot the deliberate mistakes).
Hmm. My partner always gets you mixed up with Mark Steel as well.
Always wondered what Jon Holmes looked like.
I'm glad someone else pointed out the lack of commas. I was reading it thinking "what on earth is 'well pop'?" So, you see, the lack of commas actually confuses simple people like me.
I've started having dreams about your cats. Must look at your blog less...
by the way, completely unconnected to my last post, this is reassuring, and might interest you: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5016136.stm
I already lose 3 hours of my Saturday with Jonathan's brilliant show, now it'll be back to three and a half again...! But it's worth it.
Blimey. Radio 2 shows are getting their own Myspace pages?! It really is taking over the world!
Frankie: how long before him and her become formal only?
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