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27 times a month Bryan, or should this post be on tonight's other hot thread?
..huh?
Bryan's great, and his comments on a healthy prostate most amusing hence 27 times a month Bryan. 🙂
I accidentally listened to a bit of Marty Pellow earlier. **** me, I'd have asked for my money back if I was there! Christ it was awful!
Belinda Carlisle couldn't sing live in the 80s, things haven't improved now she's almost in her 80s
The whole thing is a weird line-up. Who would buy tickets to that mix of artists?
You lot think you have it bad, imagine being stuck here 😫
Was slightly awkward listening to Elaine Paige getting introduced yesterday. You could tell no-one GAS.
As for Bryan Adams. No thanks - his newer stuff is even worse than his old stuff
I accidentally listened to a bit of Marty Pellow earlier. **** me, I'd have asked for my money back if I was there! Christ it was awful!
I was driving somewhere and was unfortunate enough to catch some of this, truly terrible.
There was some ultra cringe worthy fan interview where they got her chatting to Bryan Adams, had switch that off.
That combined with Adrian ****ing Chiles taking over radio 4 on Saturday mornings, what an offering from the beeb...
N.b. I like the feature where if you quote somebody that has been swearing filtered you can see the original word while you are typing the reply.
Nothing to contribute other than this thread is highly amusing.
Was meatloaf there too?
In the unlikely event you're reading this, Mr loaf 🖕
I'm afraid I've some bad news for you - or possibly good seeing your emoticon.
He won't make it there this year, or ever again.
I had a little LOL at the Marti Pellow comment above as I too heard it on a car radio. He was up and down the scales, sneaking in some soul sounding phwarps, but it was generally absolutely awful.
Also heard some live Manic Streat Preachers on the radio a few nights ago and JDBs vocals on Design for Life was terrible, I mean really really bad. Mrs Rock thought it was a parody group! For reference, we saw them live in Halifax (of all places) maybe three years ago and it was good, so I’m happy to allow a bit of slack if he was ill. But, again as above, if I was paying I’d be sacked off.
Def Leppard tonight. Armageddon It…
Also heard some live Manic Streat Preachers on the radio a few nights ago and JDBs vocals on Design for Life was terrible,
Manics seem to be a regular at our local festival and despite totally not being my thing, always seem ok.
See the same comment for Stereophonics too
He won't make it there this year, or ever again.
Ah.
Christ, that line up....its like the musical equivalent of re-watching England v Andorra from last night
Aged 45 I'm not even that against a bit of Steely Dan / Deacon Blue easy listening but that line ups insipid at best, did they not think to give The Feeling or Travis a call or did they play last year?
David Gray is on now ❤️
I must admit this thread has been an experience so far, haha!
Apparently Suede are up at some point - should be interesting to hear what they are like these days!!
And Def lepard later...
Hmm, I turned on at 6pm for Liza Tarbuck, but got Jo Wiley instead. I used to quite like her evening shows 20 years, but my, her presenting hasnt aged well, so much so that whenever she comes on, the channel gets changed. Same with Jeremy Vine, cannot stand the guy, and never have liked him. Radio 2 has definitely lost its way, it isnt on here at all apart from 6-8pm Saturday and 3-5pm Sunday.
Apparently Suede are up at some point - should be interesting to hear what they are like these days!!
Suede are as good as ever. My single of the year for 2023, cant remeber the title, from the LP/recording Autofiction, which itself was top drawer. New recordings coming this year.
I find it completely puzzling that they can have a line up of such spectacularly beige, more middle of the road than a cats eye, given up on life, god awful cringeworthy dirge such as Bryan Adams and 'kin Def ducking Leppard FFS, and then have Suede 🤔
I'm honestly amazed that Suede would associate themselves with such monumentally awful music as these 'artists' produce and is perpetually championed on this dreadful radio station, and have done since the first time they committed these unforgivable audio crimes, virtually non stop.
I mean, Def frikkin Leppard! Come on. People need a really decent slap for that shit!
If there were any more evidence ever needed that the human race is doomed, it's Def Leppard and Bryan god damn Adams ffs.
Jebus wept! 😳
What is wrong with people?
Not keen then kayak? 😂
Crikey, a tirade like that puts the commentors in the political threads to shame - they are going to have to up thier game!
Who knew such feelings of malice and discontent could be conjured by (checks notes)... Bryan Adams? 🤣 🤣
Just had a national warning/alert on my mobile.
I didn't pay much attention to the message, was it something to do Bryan Adams ?
Mrs STR said to me yesterday - Do you want to go and see Def Leppard next year in Sheffield
Err, no...
I used to love Def leopard back in the day lol.
I'm quite intreagued how they sound these days.. I don't think I've paid them any attention since they were 'big'.
Pour some sugar on me! Absolute belter!
Having read this thread, I’ve just had a look at the line up
Sweet baby Jesus and the orphans.… Radio 2 really is the place where music goes to die, isn’t it? A sea of spirit-crushingly tedious, inoffensive blandness. It’s the aural equivalent of a Werthers Original.
Obviously it was in Chelmsford. Where else would it be?
Def Leppard? Were they even aware they were still going? Sophie Ellis Bextor? Could you be any more irritating and twee with your ‘jolly hockey sticks, mummy was on Blue Peter, cups of Earl Grey in your kitchen in the Cotswolds, middle England beigeness’?
Questions… so many questions….
Do you reckon they’ll make it through without Chris Martin putting in an appearance? It’s the only name missing from the bingo card.
Is it sponsored by M&S?
Do people actually pay for tickets to watch this bilge? Or do they just give them away in quiet desperation?
Do people launch cups of caramel latte in the air if they get over excited?
Do the ‘artists’ get paid, or are they just there as they’re glad of the attention, because nobody has expressed the remotest interest in them for decades?
I used to love Def Leopard. Hysteria is a great album that I still stick on every now and then. I can't imagine they'd be much good now though. I wouldn't pay to see them now.
Sophie Ellis Bextor? Could you be any more irritating and twee with your ‘jolly hockey sticks, mummy was on Blue Peter, cups of Earl Grey in your kitchen in the Cotswolds, middle England beigeness’?
Sorry to tread on your Professional Chippy Northerner toes, but we saw SEB at a festival a couple of years ago. I expected nothing; she was, in fact, brilliant.
Questions… so many questions….
One of which is "why would someone who doesn't like R2 open a thread that's about what's on R2" 😉
I wonder if this is the reaction mattyfez anticipated when he opened this one?
I'm quite intreagued how they sound these days..
I'm not.
What about Betty Boo, I hear she's still doing the do, have you too? Was she on radio 2?
Sorry to tread on your Professional Chippy Northerner toes, but we saw SEB at a festival a couple of years ago. I expected nothing; she was, in fact, brilliant.
It was a radio 2 ‘festival’ wasn’t it? * You’re one of ‘them’ aren’t you? You have previously professed to liking Coldplay, IIRC?
So in my professional chippy northerner (and horribly music-snobbish 6 music listening) way I can casually discard your opinion. I would literally rather be spoon-fed my own freshly sautéed testicles than listen to her, or anyone else on that line up, to be honest 😛
One of which is "why would someone who doesn't like R2 open a thread that's about what's on R2
No mention of Radio 2 in the title, my friend. I saw Bryon Adam’s name and had a look to check to confirm if he was still alive and if there was any news on Joe Cocker?
* Oh Christ! It wasn’t one of those music and foody festivals was it? Where frightfully middle class people listen to terrible bands while buying overpriced truffle oil and attending workshops run by Simon Rimmer about making organic hummus? Were Toploader on before her? Actually… I bet they’re feeling a bit left out, looking at this line up 😂
I am with Binners,it looks like that gig and line up was set by AI 😉 🤣 🤣
This is where mass data harvesting will lead,I tell ye.
A life of dull awaits.
There's some good stuff on R2 - the Blues, Folk and (sometimes) Rock shows on weekday evenings are all good and, after a stuttering start, Whispering Bob has done a good job revitalising Sounds of the 70s - but he's been elbowed off the schedule today to make way for this ****ing bilge!
I am with Binners,it looks like that gig and line up was set by AI 😉 🤣 🤣
This is where mass data harvesting will lead,I tell ye.
A life of dull awaits.
It is all evidence to support the idea we are living in a simulation.
After channel hopping again I listened to a Charlie xcx song on radio 1, these lyrics must be a glitch in the matrix surely:
"I got this feeling on the summer day when you were goneI crashed my car into the bridge, I watched, I let it burnI threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairsI crashed my car into the bridge
I wonder if this is the reaction mattyfez anticipated when he opened this one?
Not exaclty 😜 , but it's given me a chuckle as I await rock legends Def Leppard to take the stage.
Feeling hyped, may even pour myself a cheeky glass of rioja to get into the mood. 🍷
I challenge anyone to listen to this and not love it:
Ahem..
Its a fair cop guv. Anyway... more pertinently... You went to a foody festival where Sophie Ellis Bexter was on, just after Simon Rimmer had done a cook off with Tom Kerridge, didn't you? Fess up?
After channel hopping again I listened to a Charlie xcx song on radio 1, these lyrics must be a glitch in the matrix surely:
The glitch being, that's not a Charli XCX song 🤣
she wrote / sang the lyrics didnt she?
I mean, I'll happily be corrected as my knowledge of pop factory garbage is shaky to say the least, but when I googled it to do the cut and paste it seemed to be a match.
Those lyrics are off the opening music on Grand Tourismo 2. When they intruded the rumble controller on PS1. Scratch and sniff CD with tyre rubber.
Happy days.
Edit, nope, my mistake. That was need for speed on the Wii U. GT2 was something else, I can hear it in my head but not the title. “Losing my favourite….” Cardigans maybe?
I stand corrected - it was Icona Pop, but CXCX did write and feature on it
The bands rocking but the singer.... What.. The..
Sounds like he's been possessed by the ghost of the beegees
Although prime pop, CXCX, and for that matter Betty Boo mentioned earlier in the thread have the charisma some of this line up could only dream of!
Had a right good sing-a-long to Bryan Adams, just a good pop show. Didn’t know def leppard were playing, an excellent live band, should be equally as good
Radio 2 was what my dad listened to before BRMB. It was never radio I ever considered listening to, not my generation, not my views, not my tastes. Now I'm about 20 years older than my dad was then and I still wouldn't dream of tuning in, not that I have been able to for a few decades given where I live. So this thread is quite troubling, Bryan wouldn't have been played on the radio 2 my dad listened to but I'll happily listen to Bryan with a nostalgic twinkle in my eye.
I like Bryan Adams, both his music and the way he comes across in interviews - enthusiastic about what he does, expresses wholesome views, great sing along tunes.
Music to me is often about associations: 1984 was a good year for me in many respects and when this came on the radio (not 2) in the Fiat 131 mirafiori I turned it up :
Lets the dissers diss and sing along if you like it.
To be honest, I'd rather listen to some of the bands at the Radio 2 gig than bloody CMAT 15 times a day on 6. She makes my teeth itch
And whilst we're at it - Divorce. They actually sound like they should be on R2, no idea why 6 fawns over then so much
Bryan Adams did an album launch at the Brudenell social club in Leeds last weekend. Sold out in under 30 seconds.
They put another, later, show on. Sold out in 30 seconds.
Put another, earlier, show on. Sold out in 45 seconds.
Bryan Adams did an album launch at the Brudenell social club in Leeds last weekend. Sold out in under 30 seconds.
They put another, later, show on. Sold out in 30 seconds.
Put another, earlier, show on. Sold out in 45 seconds.
I think perhaps you're presenting these stats as evidence that he is in some way... good?
My interpretation of that is somewhat different. 😉
I think perhaps you're presenting these stats as evidence that he is in some way... good?
More that it doesn’t really matter what grumpy old music snobs think, he’s wildly successful to the tune of around 100million album sales and still appeals to a LOT of people, and doubt he gives a shit what said snobs think either.
Well obviously otherwise we wouldn't have been tortured with his music 😂
More that it doesn’t really matter what grumpy old music snobs think, he’s wildly successful to the tune of around 100million album sales and still appeals to a LOT of people, and doubt he gives a shit what said snobs think either.
No you're right. He's a bit like the musical version of McDonald's. 😊
Def Leppard though... Unforgivable. 😂
I've seen Bryan Adams twice - I've seen Def Leppard twice. Both in their prime though.
I was bought up on Def Leppard in the 80s so have an affinity for them, especially High N' Dry and Pyromania. They've not done anything decent since Hysteria though.
Bryan Adams - again, same era as Def Leppard - and Room Service is a great driving album.
I wouldn't pay to see either now though. And Joe Elliot really needs to stop trying to hit those high notes!
expresses wholesome views, great sing along tunes.
and
Live at The Royal Albert Hall
Says it all really
I've seen Bryan Adams twice - I've seen Def Leppard twice. Both in their prime though.
I was bought up on Def Leppard in the 80s so have an affinity for them, especially High N' Dry and Pyromania. They've not done anything decent since Hysteria though.
Bryan Adams - again, same era as Def Leppard - and Room Service is a great driving album.
I wouldn't pay to see either now though. And Joe Elliot really needs to stop trying to hit those high notes!
Had my hopes up to catch Def Leppard on the iplayer later - saw them before Covid and was surprised how good they still were, now I'm expecting disappointment
I've seen Bryan Adams twice - I've seen Def Leppard twice. Both in their prime though.
I was bought up on Def Leppard in the 80s so have an affinity for them, especially High N' Dry and Pyromania. They've not done anything decent since Hysteria though.
Bryan Adams - again, same era as Def Leppard - and Room Service is a great driving album.
I wouldn't pay to see either now though. And Joe Elliot really needs to stop trying to hit those high notes!
Had my hopes up to catch Def Leppard on the iplayer later - saw them before Covid and was surprised how good they still were, now I'm expecting disappointment
The band were solid and polished but someone really needs to sit down with the singer and tell him, well all of them, they need to rearrange some songs as he's ok apart from the high notes...
Which are frequent in thier songs. He just doesn't have the range anymore... It honestly sounded like drunken karaoke, it was embarrassing - unless he lost his voice and decided to soldier on through , anyway?
Thinking about it, I'm wondering if his voice did go, as one of the presenters earlier mentioned they had a residency in Vegas - I can't see them having done that for long with his voice they way it is..
It's easy enough to tune down and sometimes sounds heavier and better for it. Ozzy did Paranoid in E then in E flat and then in D. Noel Gallagher did don't look back in anger in C but often sings it in B live; much nicer.
Gave up on Def Leppard after the first track - set and band as slick and polished as ever but sorry Joe, the voice has gone and not just the high notes