PFO.
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Old Mad Pensioner?
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Simply find it hard to believe that Cuddihy jumped at hosting LL
It’s a negativity filled shitfest nest of whinery
The only hope I have is that he brings a new style to hosting where he will call out the cock knockers and Karen’s and set them straight where appropriate
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The first headbanger of the Cuddihy era on now
Do tell?
Have we discussed the outrage that is the changing of the live line theme tune yet?
I caught a bit of it, there was discussion of the headbanger use of the Irish flag,
He was a farmer, he said that when there’s a fodder crisis the farmers will share their fodder just so long as they have enough for themselves, I don’t know if it was his own analogy or not but I was impressed.
Cuddihy will be grand in that role I’d say
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I referenced it immediately the other day. Something like the Liveline theme music being condemned to demolition irks and angers and preoccupies de plain people of Ireland in the real sense much more than any story about children with scoliosis being denied treatment and dying, or other bad things like genocide.
Every person in the country bar these strange young people who live their lives playing computer games and/or catfishing or happy slapping or whatever it is they do, every person knew that theme music. It was burned into them.
It was a rare common reference point in our increasingly fragmented lives. It was a signifier of reassuring mundanity, of timelessness, of a humdrum, relaxed sense of order.
Now it’s been replaced by some off the shelf corporate blandness straight out of 1984. Sorry, Nineteen Eighty Four, as in Orwell’s yoke. When I hear this new Liveline music I think of the scene in The Simpsons where Dear Leader Ned Flanders is looking on on a giant screen like Elon Musk on a conference call with German Nazis, as everybody is forced to smile by hooks pulling on their mouths. It’s like the music you hear when you’re put on hold by an insurance company.
This is like when the Sunday Game theme music was abolished before it eventually came back in castrated form. It’s like when the BBC Snooker music was tampered with. It’s like when EastEnders went “jazzy”.
The people making these decisions don’t GET IT. They feel they need to justify themselves. They have justified nothing but their own sacking.
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Hopefully enough people complain about it and they reverse the decision.
They had the composer of the original music on morning Ireland the other morning and he was asked if he like the new music and he said he wouldn’t lie. The new tune is really bad.
It’s like when they changed the Sunday Game theme
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Ye Olde television and radio producers GOT IT.
Could you imagine producers now taking a chance on some prog diddly aye, or some German big band tune whose natural home is being played in some field by the River Rhine as middle aged couples eat bratwurst and drink warm beer, or some experimental jazz, or sinister sounding synth which sounds like a razor, or Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks playing Freres Jacques?
No, no you can not.
I couldn’t tell you what the Liveline theme music was and I must have listened to the show hundreds of times. We are not dealing with a Sunday Game/MOTD type tune.
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I’m worried you might be having a stroke.
Ah you are. Do do do diddle iddle iddle do a diddle iddle do a diddle iddle do oh eight one eight seven one five eight one five ICONIC.
Yeah I looked it up there. It’s a Stocktons Wing tune. I wouldn’t class it as an iconic theme tune.
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Not a patch on heartbreak hotel
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I was thinking exactly this myself
I couldnt think of it I was mixing it up with the gay byrne radio show tune. But when I looked it up it is fairly fucking iconic to be fair to it.
The Harbour Hotel opening tune was a belter @Fagan_ODowd @Chancer
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