tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post101358969739160375..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Radio 1 getting old againSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-62889156008033136602011-11-08T07:50:09.696+00:002011-11-08T07:50:09.696+00:00Did you see this from Tom Gauld the other week?
ht...Did you see this from Tom Gauld the other week?<br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomgauld/6278984537/in/photostreamSimon Hayes Budgenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-12228626174605248412011-11-07T19:44:03.715+00:002011-11-07T19:44:03.715+00:00Moyles, unlike his colleagues, does have a lot of ...Moyles, unlike his colleagues, does have a lot of people listening who've never really got over Ocean Colour Scene not being in the charts anymore - they like his persona and what he stands for culturally, and listen despite, not because of, the current music he plays. That was previously the case with Mayo at the end of his Radio 1 tenure, and Tarrant when he left Capital. The shows had got out of sync with what surrounded them to some extent, and their moving on was necessary.<br /><br />What I resent is the idea - implicit in the commercial radio attacks on Radio 1's *very existence*, as distinct from someone pointing out Moyles' increasingly anomalous position - that everyone over a certain age will be a bitter, fearful musical reactionary. I'm 31, and I listen to most of 1Xtra's evening output because I feel a greater affinity to it than most of what's out there. The idea - put forward on another forum a while back - that Radio 1 should be "repelling everyone over thirty" reveals a fundamentally Mailite view of humanity, which not all of us fall for.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.com