Top 5 Reasons Why BBC
Radio 1 is Killing UK Music
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Cutting Steve Lamacq To An Hour
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Paying Celebrities to Present Shows
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The Libertines and The Arctic Monkeys
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Shrinking the Target Demographic
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Edith Bowman
John Peel is dead, so what do you do with the only other respectable face of music on Radio 1? You cut his show to just one hour for more Zane fucking Lowe and Colin Murray. You wonder how the controller explained that one.
Chris Moyles earns a staggering £650k a year to act like a prick every weekday morning. It seems Radio 1 has decided that getting famous faces, rather than playing good music, is the key to getting listeners. This may work, but sadly means that you get people with very little clue about music talking about the best "new music" and how great The Killers are day after day. Not cool, not cool at all.
We get it. You like them, the kids like them, and they are big business. But that doesn't mean that the only new music you should play either sounds exactly like either of these bands or has some sort of crap link such as "We saw The Libertines once, they were okay." It's just not cool.
It used to be that Radio 1 would aim for the 14-35 target audience by playing music that was very inclusive and having DJs that everyone could love. Somewhere in the last couple of years this has changed to the station aiming squarely at the student market. A bunch of thirty-somethings pretending to be just out of their teens screaming "brilliant" every few minutes is really off-putting for anyone that doesn't hit the Student Union every night dressed in a toga or some equally unfunny theme. It'd be nice if the station could get a few DJs that aren't absolute fools.
What a cunt.
(Peanut)
