Don’t get me started on them cunts doing a nixer on Lyric. George Hamilton, that cueball that used to read the news, Marty Whelan…
A ready made stream of classically trained musicians and tutors up and down the country, lives dedicated it, but no, give it to Marty.
Ah leave Marty alone. He’s an alright sort and his morning show is an institution.
Yeah, Gerry used to be on 10pm- midnight in the mid 80’s
Back the fuck up here. Marty is a legend. Great listening for young and old.
Pat Kenny used have a show called The Outside Track (I think) on the old Radio One or possibly on VHF. All album tracks and it was very very good. He knew his music stuff back then.
Anybody remember that?
Marty is a dick.
Saturday or Sunday evenings?
Saturday about 7pm I’d say.
He used bring in his own albums that he’d bought abroad and everything.
You’re a dick.
You’ll be telling me Simon Delaney is a legend next. Simon is a ‘presenter’ on Lyric these days.
Throw a few hours to a real musician, someone who actually knows what they’re talking about, struggling to make ends meet, keep them involved. But, no, Marty Whelan/Martin Morrissey types are ‘legends’.
Go shit in your hat.
Marty is a grand harmless listen in the morning in the car. You can always wake up early on Sunday morning and listen to Vlad Smishkewych.
I won’t be promoting Delaney in any way. He’s shit. But since 2011 I’ve been driving suas sìos na tìre sa Bherlingo ag èisteacht leis an raidio. All hours, all stations. There’s only so long you can listen to various news outlets or banter presenters. Marty is a beautiful mix of serious and fun and whatever else you want. Plays good music, maybe too much opera for me, and can do 3 hours by himself. He’s a brilliant interviewer, despitebhis soft spot for Nevin Maguire. He’s a lad who learnt his craft and is good at it.
Marty for president.
That maybe true (I actually like Whelan) but it’s the fact rte throw these gigs to the lads rather than others who would be brilliant at it (from a knowledgeable pov) and who could stay in the music game and further their career through opportunity. Its infuriating.
Lyric is (was/should still be) ostensibly a classical music station. Giving hours to the likes of Whelan, Hamilton, Delaney et al dilutes that. Put them on Rte gold or some other place, preferably a hook in a meat factory in Offaly.
I find the radio unbearable these days.Between the banteroligists and DJs playing the same 6 songs non stop it’s impossible to listen to.Tunein/podcasts is the only way to go.
I heard a story before that Simon was going to completely blow up in Hollywood but they needed him to either lose a tonne of weight or get even fatter and he wouldn’t do it.
What makes Marty Whelan a “legend”?
The problem is that a lot of these musicians wouldn’t be able to present a music programme. It’s a completely different skill set, but a few music courses at third level are starting to introduce more radio and podcasting modules to enable the students to have more opportunities post college.
I had no choice but to listen to either 2fm or Spin SW up until this time last year when himself left school. The decline into mind numbing scutter over the years was painful. Throw in the cash machine which is absolutely appalling and my blood pressure was setting all sorts of records. The simple pleasure of putting on a podcast after the ‘Bantz’ was unreal.
That’s a fair point, but of the available talent (that word talent actually means something here) there’s definitely a few who’d make a fist of it.