[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

A deep and meaningful topic tonight - when do you stop listening to Chris Moyles? I'll admit I don't listen unless I am in my car going to work but occasionally I will listen again and keep track. I realise this is not an objective survey (you are on chrismoyles.net duh!) but do you out grow him or do you listen wherever he goes now for the rest of your life?

I know it sounds bizarre but I'm an Evertonian and wouldn't ever think of not still going as I get older so how is being a fan of Moyles different?(although clearly it is)

Are we all going to be here in 40 years time with Moyles on Wrinkleys FM talking about Comedy Dave's Cheese song?

[MK Chris]

I don't listen as much as I would like to, my radio is on quietly all night cos I find it easier to get up that way so I pretty much hear the start, then I leave home at 8. Although if a song I don't like comes on before then I might stick a CD on instead.

Don't really have time to listen again.

[Bob23]

I normally listen up to approximately 8:34am, however, as traffic conditions vary, plus factoring in other co-efficients (ie. putting the bin out on Monday morning). I would say the actually range is between 8:31 to 8:37 (ie. +/- 3 minutes). If it's later than that then I'm in for it when I get to work.

[Sheep]

what the.... just an approximate time then lol

[huckerby6]

I listen from 7.15 to 8.34 when I get into school and maybe listen again if i got a lot of homework to do on computer. i listen all the way through if it is the holidays

[Lucie]

A deep and meaningful topic tonight - when do you stop listening to Chris Moyles? I'll admit I don't listen unless I am in my car going to work but occasionally I will listen again and keep track. I realise this is not an objective survey (you are on chrismoyles.net duh!) but do you out grow him or do you listen wherever he goes now for the rest of your life?

I know it sounds bizarre but I'm an Evertonian and wouldn't ever think of not still going as I get older so how is being a fan of Moyles different?(although clearly it is)

Are we all going to be here in 40 years time with Moyles on Wrinkleys FM talking about Comedy Dave's Cheese song?

I think sometimes things become a part of your life for so long you don't ever even consider stopping doing it. I've listened to Moyles for years and wouldn't consider switching to anyone new.

If I think about it though, I don't think Moyles is as good as he used to be. You used to get a consistently funny show and I would probably laugh out loud a couple of times a show. Now (IMO) it's good but not laugh out loud good, yet I don't ever think about switching allegiences because listening is something automatic - like cleaning your teeth or watching Eastenders even though you know it's cr*p.


Woah deep and meaningful!

[Minnie the Minx]

Well Monday - Thursday I tend to listen on and off from 7.15 until 9.15 and on a Friday I listen from when I wake up (usually about 8.30) until the end, but I'm usually drifting in and out of sleep so wouldn't hear all of that time.

[P.]

I had this coversation with someone the other day, it was decided that you reach a certain age then you just realise you want to listen to something sensible on the radio (although i'm not saying Moyles isn't sensible - its great).

I haven't listened live in the morning for a while now cos I have to leave home at 6 each morning. so I always listen again!

[Sidders]

I think you just listen until circumstances change. I used to listen to him without fail on my newspaper round when I was younger. Then I worked in an office, where we always had Radio 1 on.

When I went to uni, I would listen on the computers, (unless I had lectures) and switch to my walkman at 5pm when I would set off home to be there in time for Neighbours. When he switched to breakfast at the beginning of this year, I was rarely up in time to hear Moyles, and being a lazy student, I didn't want to make the effort to get up early just to hear my favourite DJ. If I had a 9am lecture, I would use him as an alarm and listen on the way in, but that's as far as it went.

For a while I had nothing to do in the afternoons, but fairly soon Coxy left and Scott Mills filled the void left by Moyles.

Now I've left uni, I still don't make any effort to get up to hear the show, because I work late. I hear the odd CPC occasionally, but it doesn't impress me as much as it used to. The situation may change if I get an office job and have to be up early, I might be up in time to hear the show. However, if Moyles left Radio 1 and moved to say, Capital, then I'm afraid that would be the end of Moyles in my life.

[Betti911]

I listen from 7.30 to 8.30 usually cause thats when I tend to travel into work. I rarely listen again now (I did in uni) cause I don't have time and our work computers don't let you.

This is an interesting topic tho Gaspode. Where do all you guys think Moyles will be in 10 yrs time? Can he keep on doing the same show forever? Is he destined to move onto try to appeal to an older audience like his then ageing fanbase?

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

The show has changed a lot while he has been on radio 1 and significantly since he moved to the breakfast show. I'm not sure all the football talk does him any favours but I would say its become less likely to provoke a reaction.

[Golden Syrup]

i don't get to listen to as much as i'd like to. i wake up at 7:45 by a radio alarm and switch off either as soon as the firstsong after the 8:30 news starts if i don't it and the end of the song if it's good. if i get time i listen again to as much as i can, but i can honestly say i've not listened to a whole chris moyles show since he moved to breakfast. i doubt they'll ever come a point when i won't listen because of him, but if he moved to radio2 or somewhere i wouldn't move with him

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Its a fair point that about not moving but I cant think of another breakfast show I would listen to. I would probably just move back to listening to CDs again.

[David]

Gaspodes right, the show has changed a lot. Hes become, a lot more, well its hard to describe, but "commercial". I know thats not the correct phrase to use...

But in the early days he always went on about how management didnt really like him, and is shows were a lot less competition based more random. Now a days, being on breakfast, he is managements no. 1 weapon and much more of the show is planned. Planning is good, but there were spells in the early days when it was clear nothing was planned and I think it made the show funnier, as Moyles could get away with this.

[Quincy]

i listened to chris moyles every day without fail from the middle of year 9 (1997/98) up until summer 2003 and i would always make sure i never missed a show. i listened every day when i got home from school, or walking home from college and then when i started working for cadburys i would always make sure we had the stereo on radio 1 all day. but when i left and started my new job it wasnt possible to listen to the radio, and then the move to breakfast meant there was no way i was gonna be able to listen, and even on my days off i just cant be bothered to get out of bed.

i still look out for chris moyles related stuff like when hes in the paper, on tv etc, but i no longer listen to the show.

i never thought i would stop listening to his show but now i have i dont really miss it.

[Splodge]

For me, that moment has kind of arrived. I used to be almost addicted to the show and if I missed even an hour in the afternoon when I was in lectures I would at least try to tape it, but in the last year and a half I have listened less and less to the point that last week I only listened to the hour where Matt Lucas and David Walliams were on, and even that was on listen again.

I've started to listen to Christian O'Connell on Xfm a lot more. Mainly beacuse of the music and features like the Bounty Hunter and Rock School, which are short but interesting, unlike flogging dead horses like Tedious Link, CPC and Buzz Off for a year and beyond. Not to mention Rob DJ's Pub Quiz, which is sh1t. And as for the football talk, I just find it painful. I like football, but Moyles talking about it just seems wrong.

Moyles just seems mainstream and commercial, the show has also become lazy and now if I don't listen for a week, I don't feel as if I've missed out on anything. I feel as though I have my mornings back and I'm not going to listen until January or February to see if it's changed in terms of dullness.

But I bet it doesn't.

[Quincy]

i remember a few years ago when chris used to try and talk about football, obviously with zero knowledge about it at all, it used to be quite funny and then dave would end up taking the pis5 out of chris and then they would argue (often with hilarious consequences!). then suddenly chris seemed to know all about football (i remember being quite angry at the time, almost as if chris was leaving his hardcore fans and trying to appeal to some boozy idiot football fan builders) and ended up going to euro 2000 and doing his shows from there. that was a turning point i feel.

[Splodge]

I hate all the pally pally stuff with Ray Stubbs aswell.

[Quincy]

maybe if i didnt know what he was like before breakfast and started listening to him again i might like him

[Jono]

I listen to him from 6.55 until about 8.20. I wish we had a radio at school until school begins

[Lucie]

The best thing at Radio1 now is Scott Mills

[MC]

Taken a while to respond to this thread cos I wasn't sure exactly what to say.

I have listened regularly to Moyles since summer 2000 and religiously (as in listening to what I can live and then taping all the rest) since around 2002. I still do listen to all of every show to this day, although I know it isn't a particularly cool thing to admit to.

This may contradict a lot of what I said when I was reviewing, but I actually do feel the show is a lot worse now than it used to be (even a year ago). I think it's been particularly stale in the last few months, and badly needs a kick up the arse in the new year. I know this all sounds stupid as Chris is now more popular than ever in terms of ratings, but he has just lost his way a lot for me.

I definitely agree with David that he has become more commercial, and now tries to be a "wacky breakfast dee jay". I still (11 months on) hate the way he interrupts the news, and think the format of the show has become really boring and predictable. Buzz Off is a farce, Tedious Link is repetitive and not funny anymore and Carpark Catchphrase is a dull waste of 20 minutes.

There's no way I'll stop listening now as I haven't a decent breakfast show alternative, and like Gaspode said it's a bit like following your football team through thick and thin. When I start at uni next year though I presume I will stop listening (at least not as much), and at this moment can't say I'll really miss it.

I just hope it gets better soon.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

and like Gaspode said it's a bit like following your football team through thick and thin.

hmmm thanks for paying attention.

[Toast]

Taken a while to respond to this thread cos I wasn't sure exactly what to say.

I have listened regularly to Moyles since summer 2000 and religiously (as in listening to what I can live and then taping all the rest) since around 2002. I still do listen to all of every show to this day, although I know it isn't a particularly cool thing to admit to.

This may contradict a lot of what I said when I was reviewing, but I actually do feel the show is a lot worse now than it used to be (even a year ago). I think it's been particularly stale in the last few months, and badly needs a kick up the arse in the new year. I know this all sounds stupid as Chris is now more popular than ever in terms of ratings, but he has just lost his way a lot for me.

I definitely agree with David that he has become more commercial, and now tries to be a "wacky breakfast dee jay". I still (11 months on) hate the way he interrupts the news, and think the format of the show has become really boring and predictable. Buzz Off is a farce, Tedious Link is repetitive and not funny anymore and Carpark Catchphrase is a dull waste of 20 minutes.

There's no way I'll stop listening now as I haven't a decent breakfast show alternative, and like Gaspode said it's a bit like following your football team through thick and thin. When I start at uni next year though I presume I will stop listening (at least not as much), and at this moment can't say I'll really miss it.

I just hope it gets better soon.

Scary, I've been listening since the same time and feel the same way.

[Jono]

Taken a while to respond to this thread cos I wasn't sure exactly what to say.

I have listened regularly to Moyles since summer 2000 and religiously (as in listening to what I can live and then taping all the rest) since around 2002. I still do listen to all of every show to this day, although I know it isn't a particularly cool thing to admit to.

This may contradict a lot of what I said when I was reviewing, but I actually do feel the show is a lot worse now than it used to be (even a year ago). I think it's been particularly stale in the last few months, and badly needs a kick up the arse in the new year. I know this all sounds stupid as Chris is now more popular than ever in terms of ratings, but he has just lost his way a lot for me.

I definitely agree with David that he has become more commercial, and now tries to be a "wacky breakfast dee jay". I still (11 months on) hate the way he interrupts the news, and think the format of the show has become really boring and predictable. Buzz Off is a farce, Tedious Link is repetitive and not funny anymore and Carpark Catchphrase is a dull waste of 20 minutes.

There's no way I'll stop listening now as I haven't a decent breakfast show alternative, and like Gaspode said it's a bit like following your football team through thick and thin. When I start at uni next year though I presume I will stop listening (at least not as much), and at this moment can't say I'll really miss it.

I just hope it gets better soon.

I have to agree, although I'm not the biggest chris moyles fan I have been an avid listener since the start of the Breakfast Show and in the past 5 or 6 months it's got very repetitive. He also spends most of his time talking about his colds etc during the time I listen, which isn't always the most interesting of topics. Buzz Off seems to just be the 80s music which is very much fixed. I hope there's some new ideas for 2005.