- Sat Sep 26, 2015 9:46 am
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Hi all, long time lurker and have used the archive lots in the last 3 years waiting for this week! Was going to post my thoughts on Monday but thought I'd wait til the end of the week.
The show overall I think is great. So refreshing to have some great radio to listen to in the morning. I migrated to Radio 2 after Chris finished (partly as I can't stand whiny Grimmy, partly because I'm part of the age brackets Radio 1 don't want any more [emoji15]) and although the music is alright there I just find Chris Evans so irritating.
The music on the station is great. I was initially put off a bit by "fresh rock and guitar based music" but having listened for a week I love it - basically all the tunes he would have liked to play on R1 but couldn't.
Yes adverts are so annoying and the reason I generally don't listen to any commercial radio, however I gladly accept them to listen to the Saviour.
The new team - I think the chemistry will get better as time goes on. Chris and Dom are as good together as they were before. Yes, it does lack Comedy Dave but as a few have said towards the end of the old show it started sounding vey stale and Dave was very disinterested and distant. I think we can safely say we won't hear Dave at any point in the future on radio X. That said, I think Chris should have addressed it maybe just a quick mention to all that he used to work with but they're all working on other things now etc. It would have looked at the elephant in the room. Not doing that I think leaves it open for callers/guests to bring it up and create awkwardness!
Liked the fact Chris mentioned about the 'lads only' thing and I can imagine he was raging about that as Radio X technically did what R1 are doing with the age of their listeners, branding it 'men only' they are cutting the potential audience in half so no surprise he has banged on about it being for everyone.
No surprise there wasn't really any features - this will come I think in time. We know there will be Rob DJ - amazing news as that feature was quality. However did Roy coming 2nd allude to the fact we might not have any feature with him in? I hope not. It may not have been prime time but CPC was so funny and the highlight of our day in work!
The new Chris - he has clearly changed as have we all probably in 3 years. He seems quieter and less arrogant / smaller ego. Not sure if I like that but obviously he needs to fit in with the station. When he had the first caller I was just waiting for him to cut them off in true Moyles style but no, definitely calmer now, didn't even cut off the creepy caller (maybe lining him up nicely to replace Simon Mayo/Steve Wright on R2 in 3 years)
'New' Dave - yes the chemistry's not great but we're still in the first week, give it time and I think they'll be a good team. They just need to get involved a bit more.
I can see Chris' show becoming very popular - obviously never going to compete with the BBC but think they will smash other commercial stations. The main problem, I think is as a whole, the station is quite weak. Apart from Moyles the DJs aren't the best and I can see people tuning in for Moyles then straight back out. Anyway only time will tell, I'm just happy having him back on making me laugh in the mornings... here's to the next 3 years [emoji482]