Drunken Bungle Whore

As you know I spend many hours driving up and down the highways of this fine country and much of this time is spent listening to local radio. Any suggestions for who I should be tuning into locally?

In the Midlands it would take a lot to persuade me away from Ed James on Heart who has nearly casued me to have an incident on several occasions! ('What's written on your pants' being one of those times!).

Not into wiredy modern scary stuff - more the Heart/ Capital/ Century sort of thing, but with a decent DJ to amuse me. (Glad to hear Jono Coleman is off from Heart in the south, but Jamie Theakston....?????)

Suggestions??

GaryK

Listen to your CD its a whole lot better than listening to some fool full of his own self importance who thinks he is hilariously funny, stereotypical? Well Ive yet to listen to one who isnt none of the above.

Tiggs

got to agree with the above....someone should do a post to ask who people recommend locally so you can avoid the crap ones.

Patt@firstime

Avoid Mercia FM in the Coventry/Warwickshire area - DJs are soooo cheesey!

Matt

ChrisB

"Andy & Louise in the Morning" on Signal 1 (Staffs / Cheshire).

Avoid - Louise needs an axe in her head, pronto.

Money spent on a CD changer that can read MP3 discs is money well spent IMO.

Apparition

er... Rutland falls into the above category

Patt@firstime

FPMSL

Can I get them online to 'sample' her?

Matt

Drunken Bungle Whore

I did do a post to ask for recommendations - I'm guessing there are none! I already have the 6 CD changer in the car - but after a week of 6-8 hour a day journeys I sometimes crave the sound of a human voice and a bit of a discussion.

Will have to start talking to myself again.....

mart360

you think you got it bad!!!!


mike read used to be a pompous egotistical R1 jock, banning bloody good records, and ramming crap gitar playing down your throat..

WFM he,s now a jock on one of our local stations..

i stopped listening as soon as it was announced he was to be a dj


local radio,,,, 56 minutes of adverts and crap and 4 minutes of music..


typical hour...

news & weather

traffic update..

adds

record

adds

dj spiel / compo

traffic update

news & weather

traffic update..

adds

record

adds

dj spiel / compo

traffic update

and that BLOODY anoying statement "coming up this hour"

Mart

Regacy

Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4, Radio 4,
Try it, you might like it.

corradoboy

Don't go anywhere near Real Radio in West Yorkshire. There's a pr!ck on there called Umberto, sounds like the gay b@st@rd lovechild of Lilly Savage and Vera Duckworth He does play some OK tunes, but his incessent inane waffling makes me want to rip the head unit from the car and do a doughnut on it. As said earlier, you can't fault Radio 2 during the day. Does get a bit old school some evenings, but any station featuring Bob Harris : has to be the best

GC8

Local radio is ****e ffs. I couldnt stop my girlfriend listening to 'Hallam FM' whilst we were driving in her car so Ive pulled the b*stard aerial out out of the back of her radio.....


Edited to add: She still thinks that her radio has broken, she cant understand why the RDS tuner just keeps hunting up and down (quietly) seeking 'Hallam FM'.....

Simon

Jap2Scrap

lol!! Sunday nights are ok on Hallam with Kerrang radio taking over. I don't know if that's the same with local radio countrywide but we're always coming back from Southampton on sunday nights and just as we hit South Yorks we flick the cd's off and listen to Kerrang for the rest of the journey.

Other than that all local radio is crap up north. Was much better down south where I come from, despite the ads being a pain in the ***!!

GC8

'Down South; better'? You must be kidding surely? The South is ****e, and you cant get gravy in the chip shops.....

Simon (facking norvan mankey)

Jap2Scrap

Wooooaahhhhhhh there!!

Can get pea fritters down south which you haven't heard of up north and there's more curry sauce available in chippies, besides anyone can whip up some bisto at home

Also, it's warmer, drier, less chavistic (that a word?) and there seems to be way less crime! Most importantly however, not so many old people bore your **** off in supermarket queues..

GC8

You forgot to mention that there are less fat people. Although according to the local news last night most of the fat f*ckers seem to live in Barnsley.....

Simon

Brendan Hughes

Ensure your car stereo has an input of sorts

Buy a 20GB Ipod

Go round all your mates who have Ipods (or their kids etc), get them to fill up the 20GB with the kind of music you like. My son's mate has rock, techno, chillout, jazz (and I mean real jazz, Sinatra and Fitzgerald), Mozart and 1.5 hours of Robin Williams live standup. (Swiping theirs means you don't have to spend ages recording it yourself - and it means you get more variety)

Plug it in on shuffle.

When you want discussion, go for Radio 4. If they've some crap drama on, or a news report you heard the last hour, go back to the Ipod.

Keep RDS on for the traffic reports.

Gradually prune the crap you don't like off the Ipod.

Take you a loooooong time to get bored of that. And not so much retuning, inane adverts, inane banter etc.

Reffro

If I'm in my car, and I want to listen to music, I play a CD. If i want a voice to listen to, I choose Radio 5. Really good station, plus you can have an argument all on your own. I'm often to be seen shouting at the radio calling various people all sorts of unsavory names, its a good stress reliever.