[a-moron]

Definitely not Nic in disguise, I assure you. Please don't stop your good work here, Nic. There may be hundreds of members here, but there's a lot that never sign up but still use your hard work to get them through this difficult time. You've improved my days drastically because of your devotion and hard work.

Meh, what she does is vastly overrated.

[The Deadly]

I would have prefered it if Nic pm'ed me to take issue with it than drawing everyone else into it. The situation has become out of control for no reason. It's one opinion against another and not personal.

So you call me disloyal in a public forum but I shouldn't respond in a public forum? What kind of crap is that?

You could have asked me to remove it as it offends you. Which I would have been happy to do.

[Nicola_Red]

No, I wouldn't do that. I'm not trying to censor you. I respect your right to say it, but my right to reply is equally important.

[The Deadly]

Absolutely you're right to reply is important but the issue was between yourself and me and then everyone and their mother jumps in (I'm aware that its a forum and everyone has a right to their say etc).
I didn't say it to personally offend you as I wouldn't wish to do that. I talk to you outside the forum and wouldn't attack you personally intentionally. Maybe I should have worded what I said differently as it could be taken as a personal attack I accept that.

[Wykey]

I went on record in page 1 saying that nobody can question Nic's loyalty to the site, it's not up for debate. The work she has done here is incredible and certainly proves she is more than loyal. This didn't need to turn into a slanging match and I would have prefered it if Nic pm'ed me to take issue with it than drawing everyone else into it. The situation has become out of control for no reason. It's one opinion against another and not personal.

The situation is simply open and honest discussion, I don't think that you'll need to keep your mincers peeled for an angry mob with pitchforks and burning torches on the way home tonight.

But on the subject of wishing the contents of pandora's box to be discussed in private, then I'm afraid that's nonsense.

You drew everyone in, no-one else.

To utilise another analogy, it's like a front page headline saying "Mister X is a rapist" being made right by a private phone call.

[Bas]

Absolutely you're right to reply is important but the issue was between yourself and me and then everyone and their mother jumps in (I'm aware that its a forum and everyone has a right to their say etc).
I didn't say it to personally offend you as I wouldn't wish to do that. I talk to you outside the forum and wouldn't attack you personally intentionally. Maybe I should have worded what I said differently as it could be taken as a personal attack I accept that.

Aww, is this time for this,





Shit! I googled 'kiss & make up' & this is what came up.

[Latina]

The reason everyone jumped in is because they disagreed with the assertion that listening to Grimmy = disloyalty to TCMS. Such a statement is pretty objectionable if you're a person who considered themselves a loyal fan of TCMS and simply have chosen not to abandon R1 in the mornings because they still prefer it to alternatives.

As someone who has loved and lost more than one R1 Breakfast show incarnation over the past 16 years but generally stuck with it (Cox breakfast show excepted *shudder*) because I favoured the station and currently still do, it's not a nice thing to read from someone who doesn't know me. Not that I'd stop them saying it.

[Chris]

I just wanted to say after watching this thread that regardless of if others think anyone is disloyal, as a fan I knew about this forum and in particular Nicola_Red from Chris' own chats for years. Nic, no one is more loyal to you. I sobbed when I saw Aled holding the book you guys made. A random person out there KNOWS how loyal you are, don't sweat it over someones opinion. Sticks and stones.

^ it's really nice that someone took the trouble to join just to post that. Kinda says it all, really.

Gosh .. I turn my back and go to Sheffield and this happens.

[Nicola_Red]

I know, Chris. I know.

[MK Chris]

Since today I'm listening to the Frank Turner CD my brother got me.

[Nicola_Red]

Our kid has a bit of a Frank Turner obsession. He has a tattoo of one of his album covers.

[James H]

[James H]

On the topic though, I don't listen to any radio when I wake up any more. And I constantly find myself hopping between local radio and CDs on the way in to work.

Some days I genuinely feel lost, I forgot how easy I had it with Chris!

[myloxyloto]

A shame this kicked off like it has, was only supposed to be an anonymous poll...

Still, it says a lot about the options available that nearly half the voters appear to prefer the buzz of an alarm to anything on breakfast radio now! Extend this across the population and it would be 3 or 4 million people lost to radio as a whole, not just R1...

[R94N]

I don't listen to anything on the radio as religiously as I did Chris but some mornings I listen to Radio 4, some 6Music, and some just the podcasts I have already. I never really did 'wake up' to anything before, I used to get up before the show started.

[Sally A]

I'm lucky if I get more than 20mins of Radio 6 Music in the morning, until the DAb signal disappears, then it's over to R2.

Must admit, I did enjoy Chris Evans' Depeche Mode playlist this morning.

[northernsteve]

I've somehow found myself tuning to Capital Yorkshire for Hirsty's Daily Dose. Music quality is variable (but no worse than the R1 playlist), and the ads are irritating, but there are decent chunks of talking rubbish in a fairly entertaining way. Kind of Moyles-Lite in many ways.

He's also a proper radio anorak, who started at Radio Topshop, went on to Radio Aire in Leeds and the Pulse in Bradford - seems to have had a very similar early career to a certain Chris Moyles.

[hels78]

I haven't listened to Grimshaw, this was a choice I made when I heard it was him taking over. I don't like him, didn't prior to him getting Chris' job, certainly don't now. I may have stayed with Radio 1 had it have been Greg or Scott getting the job, but it wasn't and I took the hump a bit at being classed as too old for Radio 1. I've been listening to Chris Evans (after 10 minutes of local commercial radio on the first Monday without TCMS, which did my head in!) since, and to be honest, I hate it! I keep thinking of changing to 6 music, but don't have DAB in the bedroom, which is where I'd want to listen. Until I can work out a solution I guess I'm stuck with Evans. It's sad really, I had the radio on for all of TCMS, wherever I was in the house, but now, as soon as I'm downstairs, the TV goes on and I catch up with recordings.

[English Bob]

My reaction to Deadly when I read this thread:

[chrysostom]

My reaction to Deadly when I read this thread:

You're both the best kind of people.

[DevilsDuck]

:O

Seriously...what!?!?

I go to Sheffield to meet my lover and this is what happens!

[chrysostom]

To be fair, Nic shouldn't have listened to Grimmy. I know Chris said to give Grimmy a chance, and that Grimmy's show is a reflection of Radio 1's change in policy NOT direct competition to The Chris Moyles Show, but that doesn't matter. If you listen to Grimmy then you are a horrible person and approve of Radio 1's shift towards their specified demographic, as dictated by the public in the form of the BBC trust.

I only listen to Moyles re-runs now, even when anyone else is talking to me - just in case they doubt my loyalty to Moyles. I also tell Grimmy he's a twat on a daily basis to keep the spirit of TCMS alive. That's what being a Moyles fan is all about.

[a-moron]

LOL'd.

Well maybe not actual LOL'd but I sniggered the * out of that post.

[Tunster]

To be fair, Nic shouldn't have listened to Grimmy. I know Chris said to give Grimmy a chance, and that Grimmy's show is a reflection of Radio 1's change in policy NOT direct competition to The Chris Moyles Show, but that doesn't matter. If you listen to Grimmy then you are a horrible person and approve of Radio 1's shift towards their specified demographic, as dictated by the public in the form of the BBC trust.

I only listen to Moyles re-runs now, even when anyone else is talking to me - just in case they doubt my loyalty to Moyles. I also tell Grimmy he's a twat on a daily basis to keep the spirit of TCMS alive. That's what being a Moyles fan is all about.

Being a rebel and a moron simply .

Chris Evans as a day 2. Sounding good still! Don't have to concentrate on every word he's saying, but it's commendable radio from a true prob. I did flip over to Grimmy at 7am post news. For a start, he was having a jab at Tina for not saying his feature name properly (the wake-up song) and kept making her say it. Then that feature is already dying flat on its arse already. All it is is a roll-call of names who have half wittingly texted in for the sake of it to get their name read out. I can't wait for that show to die.

[Nicola_Red]

I did flip over to Grimmy at 7am post news. For a start, he was having a jab at Tina for not saying his feature name properly (the wake-up song) and kept making her say it. Then that feature is already dying flat on its arse already. All it is is a roll-call of names who have half wittingly texted in for the sake of it to get their name read out. I can't wait for that show to die.

That's not really a fair representation, is it?

1. She referred to it as the "wake-up song" and he corrected her to "waking up song". He did not keep making her say it at all. Moyles would have corrected any member of his team anytime they made an error.

2. How can it be dying on its arse when it's just a song with some names read out?

3. What were What Are You Doing Now, the Golden Hour, etc? People texting in to get their name read out.