chrismoyles.net
- Fri Sep 27, 2002 12:43 pm
#28808
How much of the show is playlisted?
It's the same as with any commercial station: there is a playlist but it's not as rigid as, say, Virgin or Radio 1. Last year, when Virgin got rid of Chris Evans, they took Steve Penk on and he was abysmal. I was offered Penk's job and it was a lot more money but I couldn't play that kind of music. I couldn't go: 'Another classic now, here's Phil Collins.' I would have been fired in a year.
What's the worst thing you've played on Xfm?
System Of A Down. I have to be honest - I don't like everything we play and I know that people like them but I don't get it. As soon as they come on I turn the monitors right down - to me it's just noise. It's the same with Linkin Park and all that other skate-punk shit - you get 40-year-old advertising execs in baggy, low-slung denim listening to it. It's like, 'Get a life, you tits.' Which means I've probably just alienated half the audience.
How's it feel to have the 'award-winning' tag?
Big time, eh? You know you've made it when you've beaten off the likes of Dr Fox.
How bad is it on your social life?
Well I have to get up at 4.30am.
Good practice for when you have kids.
I'm resisting that. My wife's biological clock is ticking but mine's on snooze. On the going-out front, I have to say no to so many things because I can't be moderate. Some of the best shows I've done have been hungover but I hate that Sara Cox thing where it's every day - I just find that lazy.
Any TV work on the horizon? Penk's made it.
Oh yeah - I'd love to do TV Nightmares and take over from Denis Norden, like he's being primed to do. A lot of TV execs are lazy, it's as though their thought process is: 'He can talk and we have this rip-off of a show' You go to a meeting and they say: 'We've got just the right vehicle for you' and you sit there going: 'That's shit. I wouldn't watch it and I'm not doing it.' And they say: 'Oh, you are fussy - you're not that well-known.' There is some Channel 5 stuff that's possible; they've got that Chris Moyles thing coming out and once he's screwed it up, I'm sure they'll want someone decent.
It's the same as with any commercial station: there is a playlist but it's not as rigid as, say, Virgin or Radio 1. Last year, when Virgin got rid of Chris Evans, they took Steve Penk on and he was abysmal. I was offered Penk's job and it was a lot more money but I couldn't play that kind of music. I couldn't go: 'Another classic now, here's Phil Collins.' I would have been fired in a year.
What's the worst thing you've played on Xfm?
System Of A Down. I have to be honest - I don't like everything we play and I know that people like them but I don't get it. As soon as they come on I turn the monitors right down - to me it's just noise. It's the same with Linkin Park and all that other skate-punk shit - you get 40-year-old advertising execs in baggy, low-slung denim listening to it. It's like, 'Get a life, you tits.' Which means I've probably just alienated half the audience.
How's it feel to have the 'award-winning' tag?
Big time, eh? You know you've made it when you've beaten off the likes of Dr Fox.
How bad is it on your social life?
Well I have to get up at 4.30am.
Good practice for when you have kids.
I'm resisting that. My wife's biological clock is ticking but mine's on snooze. On the going-out front, I have to say no to so many things because I can't be moderate. Some of the best shows I've done have been hungover but I hate that Sara Cox thing where it's every day - I just find that lazy.
Any TV work on the horizon? Penk's made it.
Oh yeah - I'd love to do TV Nightmares and take over from Denis Norden, like he's being primed to do. A lot of TV execs are lazy, it's as though their thought process is: 'He can talk and we have this rip-off of a show' You go to a meeting and they say: 'We've got just the right vehicle for you' and you sit there going: 'That's shit. I wouldn't watch it and I'm not doing it.' And they say: 'Oh, you are fussy - you're not that well-known.' There is some Channel 5 stuff that's possible; they've got that Chris Moyles thing coming out and once he's screwed it up, I'm sure they'll want someone decent.
dave benson phillips
Why oh why don't I live in London? Or alternativly, have digital. Can you buy devices that have digital radio on them? Sorry if that's a dumb question but I'm not technical minded, all I know is that you can get radio through your TV if you have digital.
