[Aled]

So, Aled... How much do you need to be bribed for OBW tickets?

Lets start the bidding at a hundred!

How about 100 Japanese Yen?



Congrats on the Sonys. Entire team and Radio 1 in general deserves a good pat on the back. I can't remember the station ever being this strong. It was long overdue for Chris, and about time he got some good publicity and recognition.

Also, loving the website. Quite funny to see a top international radio producer like yourself (hows that for sweet talking?) begging for advert clicks though

Whoa! "Begging for advert clicks" is a little strong, spent a while learning html got involved with Google and am enjoying the learning curve - what's the point of doing it if no-one clicks? I'll never know how it works etc.

So far 3 clicks today!

[gregs]

Aled, what do "EMX" and "XD" mean on the studio clock?

XD is the ex-directory line through to the studio - light flashes when that number is called i'm assuming

one of the illuminated ones will be mic live i guess too

[Quincy]

whats that strange circular object?

[bumheed7]

hi aled.
are you able to explain why only a small percentage of dundee people got tickets for the weekend? and i stay in the surrounding area and know only one person that managed to get tickets for the sunday. and this is a general concensus of people on the radio 1 forums and another music forum that ive seen.

sorry if you don't know anything about this but i just think its a slap in the face to the scots and the dundeenians especially!

[Adam]

Aled - sad the last ep of The West Wing gets shown tonight?

[Mk.]

hi aled.
are you able to explain why only a small percentage of dundee people got tickets for the weekend? and i stay in the surrounding area and know only one person that managed to get tickets for the sunday. and this is a general concensus of people on the radio 1 forums and another music forum that ive seen.

sorry if you don't know anything about this but i just think its a slap in the face to the scots and the dundeenians especially!

I'm happy to take this one.

The reason as I gather is that literally the whole of Dundee applied. Everyone. Who can blame them? With only 15,000-ish pairs of tickets to go around, and a small amount having to go to people across the rest of the UK (it would be even more unfair not to), lots of people are clearly and unavoidably going to be disappointed.

Radio 1 did a great thing for Dundee and Scotland this weekend.

[MK Chris]

I'm happy to take this one.

How very kind, Mr BBC Spokesman.

[tombugler]

Aled, will the Radio One roadshow ever start up again? And more importantly, will it be coming back to Weymouth?

[bumheed7]

hi aled.
are you able to explain why only a small percentage of dundee people got tickets for the weekend? and i stay in the surrounding area and know only one person that managed to get tickets for the sunday. and this is a general concensus of people on the radio 1 forums and another music forum that ive seen.

sorry if you don't know anything about this but i just think its a slap in the face to the scots and the dundeenians especially!

I'm happy to take this one.

The reason as I gather is that literally the whole of Dundee applied. Everyone. Who can blame them? With only 15,000-ish pairs of tickets to go around, and a small amount having to go to people across the rest of the UK (it would be even more unfair not to), lots of people are clearly and unavoidably going to be disappointed.

Radio 1 did a great thing for Dundee and Scotland this weekend.

well if all of dundee applied then that should be the end of it. allocate the 14000 to them and everyone else can just deal with it, me included. every other OBW has been exclusive to the given city except competition winners, so why make this one different.

coincedence that its cos its in scotland?

[MK Chris]

Oh do get off your high horse.

[Aled]

hi aled.
are you able to explain why only a small percentage of dundee people got tickets for the weekend? and i stay in the surrounding area and know only one person that managed to get tickets for the sunday. and this is a general concensus of people on the radio 1 forums and another music forum that ive seen.

sorry if you don't know anything about this but i just think its a slap in the face to the scots and the dundeenians especially!

I'm happy to take this one.

The reason as I gather is that literally the whole of Dundee applied. Everyone. Who can blame them? With only 15,000-ish pairs of tickets to go around, and a small amount having to go to people across the rest of the UK (it would be even more unfair not to), lots of people are clearly and unavoidably going to be disappointed.

Radio 1 did a great thing for Dundee and Scotland this weekend.

well if all of dundee applied then that should be the end of it. allocate the 14000 to them and everyone else can just deal with it, me included. every other OBW has been exclusive to the given city except competition winners, so why make this one different.

coincedence that its cos its in scotland?

That's not true actually. Previous R1BWs have had known ticket 'days' when you could queue up to get tickets. People travelled the UK to queue which meant that the health and safety issues behind the giveaways meant we can't do it anymore. So this year we did a postal ballot. 30,000 tickets 85% of which went to Scottish postcodes, 40% of these went to Dundee only, with only 15% going to the rest of the UK.

That sounds fair to me.

[Chongster]

Should you not be in the Big Brother house now?

[David]

8 oclock.

[TVgirl]

Aled, I want to ask you about something Chris reminded me of last week, when he was teasing you and Rhys about 'copping off' together after the Sonys. Just before Xmas you were discussing Civil Partnerships and once again Chris was joking about you and Rhys, saying you should have one. You then asked him if he had heard about 'Rhys and me'. He said no, although Dave and Rachel seemed to know what you were talking about. You and they agree that Chris would find it 'extremely funny' when he found out, but that the story was for another day. Well it's about half a year on now (which makes it very sad that I remember the story in so much detail I know), so just wondered if you have any plans to tell it on-air anytime soon? Failing that, could you please post it here, just to satisfy my curiousity? Btw it was great to hear both Rhys and Will on air last week, it brought back happy memories of the good old days of afternoons.

[bumheed7]

hi aled.
are you able to explain why only a small percentage of dundee people got tickets for the weekend? and i stay in the surrounding area and know only one person that managed to get tickets for the sunday. and this is a general concensus of people on the radio 1 forums and another music forum that ive seen.

sorry if you don't know anything about this but i just think its a slap in the face to the scots and the dundeenians especially!

I'm happy to take this one.

The reason as I gather is that literally the whole of Dundee applied. Everyone. Who can blame them? With only 15,000-ish pairs of tickets to go around, and a small amount having to go to people across the rest of the UK (it would be even more unfair not to), lots of people are clearly and unavoidably going to be disappointed.

Radio 1 did a great thing for Dundee and Scotland this weekend.

well if all of dundee applied then that should be the end of it. allocate the 14000 to them and everyone else can just deal with it, me included. every other OBW has been exclusive to the given city except competition winners, so why make this one different.

coincedence that its cos its in scotland?

That's not true actually. Previous R1BWs have had known ticket 'days' when you could queue up to get tickets. People travelled the UK to queue which meant that the health and safety issues behind the giveaways meant we can't do it anymore. So this year we did a postal ballot. 30,000 tickets 85% of which went to Scottish postcodes, 40% of these went to Dundee only, with only 15% going to the rest of the UK.

That sounds fair to me.

well we'll just have to agree to disagree.
obviously dedicated people could have made the trip to the given city, but i doubt it would be 15% of the tickets. perhaps im wrong though.

i dont see what the health and safety problem is though. i queued for 4 and a half hours to get t in the park tickets this year along with around 10,000 people in edinburgh. there were people camped outside all night with alcohol and there didnt appear to be any trouble or any health risks. and that was for a festival that is much bigger and more anticipated than OBW and where money was an issue as well.

[fish heads]

i dont see what the health and safety problem is though.

With all due respect, it's easy for you to say as an observer, but I assume when you work in the industry it's different, and while T in the Park didn't look unsafe from the public's point of view there was probably a lot of behind the scenes work and money to make it look that way - and there is a ticket price to cover this.

With R1BW being a free event essentially being paid for by the License fee payers maybe it wasn't financially viable to keep the existing ticket distribution running year upon year and make it justifiable to use law obiding license fee paying folk whilst keeping it within the bounderies of health and safety. Although I don't doubt your actual concerns, it is far too easy to criticise R1 as a member of the public, but it is much harder to make the decision as a business one from the BBC's POV, and until you actually work there nobody should be making any real judgements upon what is and what isn't acceptable to do within these situations

[Adam]

Bumblebee - disagree all you like, its not going to change anything. I'm sorry to tell you this but OBW in Dundee has finished and packed up. We all know you've made your point, just leave it now!

As Aled has said - 85% of tickets went to Scotland. If you think about it, 15% went to UK, which means not many people in the UK get to see the event.

Clearly a postal ballott is a much better option, if anything was to happen to people who were waiting for tickets - the bbc would share some of the blame.

Like i've said - if you're REALLY that bothered about OBW tickets contact the BBC Complaints Department, moaning to Aled really isnt going to help you unless he passes ur comments on. But to carry on about it, is getting rather boring.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

[Adam]

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[Aled]

Aled, I want to ask you about something Chris reminded me of last week, when he was teasing you and Rhys about 'copping off' together after the Sonys. Just before Xmas you were discussing Civil Partnerships and once again Chris was joking about you and Rhys, saying you should have one. You then asked him if he had heard about 'Rhys and me'. He said no, although Dave and Rachel seemed to know what you were talking about. You and they agree that Chris would find it 'extremely funny' when he found out, but that the story was for another day. Well it's about half a year on now (which makes it very sad that I remember the story in so much detail I know), so just wondered if you have any plans to tell it on-air anytime soon? Failing that, could you please post it here, just to satisfy my curiousity? Btw it was great to hear both Rhys and Will on air last week, it brought back happy memories of the good old days of afternoons.

Rhys and I are to share a room in Germany for the entire time that we're out there!

[Aled]

hi aled.
are you able to explain why only a small percentage of dundee people got tickets for the weekend? and i stay in the surrounding area and know only one person that managed to get tickets for the sunday. and this is a general concensus of people on the radio 1 forums and another music forum that ive seen.

sorry if you don't know anything about this but i just think its a slap in the face to the scots and the dundeenians especially!

I'm happy to take this one.

The reason as I gather is that literally the whole of Dundee applied. Everyone. Who can blame them? With only 15,000-ish pairs of tickets to go around, and a small amount having to go to people across the rest of the UK (it would be even more unfair not to), lots of people are clearly and unavoidably going to be disappointed.

Radio 1 did a great thing for Dundee and Scotland this weekend.

well if all of dundee applied then that should be the end of it. allocate the 14000 to them and everyone else can just deal with it, me included. every other OBW has been exclusive to the given city except competition winners, so why make this one different.

coincedence that its cos its in scotland?

That's not true actually. Previous R1BWs have had known ticket 'days' when you could queue up to get tickets. People travelled the UK to queue which meant that the health and safety issues behind the giveaways meant we can't do it anymore. So this year we did a postal ballot. 30,000 tickets 85% of which went to Scottish postcodes, 40% of these went to Dundee only, with only 15% going to the rest of the UK.

That sounds fair to me.

i dont see what the health and safety problem is though. i queued for 4 and a half hours to get t in the park tickets this year along with around 10,000 people in edinburgh. there were people camped outside all night with alcohol

Right there is where the problem is. When new councils see the above happen and the vast number of people who turn up they get very nervous, you can't say it didn't kick off last year so it'll be fine. If we don't know how many might turn up but it could very well be 10,000+ it's not a good idea!

[bumheed7]

i dont see what the health and safety problem is though.

With all due respect, it's easy for you to say as an observer, but I assume when you work in the industry it's different, and while T in the Park didn't look unsafe from the public's point of view there was probably a lot of behind the scenes work and money to make it look that way - and there is a ticket price to cover this.

there was no money put into the T ticket day at all. there were two guys employed to deal with the queue and that was it. as i say, everything was fine when i was there, but i suppose i wasnt there when the disappoint of 'youve waited 5 hours and its sold out' came about!

[TVgirl]

Aled, I want to ask you about something Chris reminded me of last week, when he was teasing you and Rhys about 'copping off' together after the Sonys. Just before Xmas you were discussing Civil Partnerships and once again Chris was joking about you and Rhys, saying you should have one. You then asked him if he had heard about 'Rhys and me'. He said no, although Dave and Rachel seemed to know what you were talking about. You and they agree that Chris would find it 'extremely funny' when he found out, but that the story was for another day. Well it's about half a year on now (which makes it very sad that I remember the story in so much detail I know), so just wondered if you have any plans to tell it on-air anytime soon? Failing that, could you please post it here, just to satisfy my curiousity? Btw it was great to hear both Rhys and Will on air last week, it brought back happy memories of the good old days of afternoons.

Rhys and I are to share a room in Germany for the entire time that we're out there!

Thanks for answering my question Aled,so quickly too! I've never asked you a question before, but now I know you're this efficient I'll definitely do so again. Btw I bet Rhys is hugely pleased about the whole situation.

[David]

Aled, do Radio 1 really archive every show broadcast?

Did you use to listen to Moyles on the Early Bit C. 1997...and have you got any big plans to celebrate 9 years of Moyles on air?

I've archived every show since I've joined. I'm sure we could find other shows since before I joined but it'd be very hit or miss if it's in the library

If you fancy a challenge in a spare momment (not that you get many), you could try and find the audio of Chris, Dave, Rhys and Jon Culshaw busking in Leeds from May 2001. It was when they went to to Leeds for Travis to play live on the show, possibly due to MusicLive. My favorite Moyles momment ever, and sadly no one recorded it

They were talking about the momment which in my opinion is my favorite ever Chris Moyles momment right at the end of this mornings show. You need to find the tape now Aled!

[Mafro]

Aled, will you Chris or Mills be appearing on BBLB this year?

[bumheed7]

Aled, will you Chris or Mills be appearing on BBLB this year?

i think that's a definite yes!
and i wouldn't surprised if one of them was on twice with it being longer this year!