Is Zane Lowe joking?

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Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

He has singlehandedly converted me to Radio 4. The station, not the group.

Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked him a lot when he first arrived at MTV (doing Brand:New), he seemed genuinely in love with music and that was/is extremely unusual, especially for TV presenters.

Now, in this post Simon/Miquita age, he's a bit annoying really.

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Word, MC. Sad thing is at 23 I'm not supposed to be doing that, and it is a bit twee over on R4. But I spent my teenage years listening to [Jo&]Stoive, so... it was time to switch.

Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

...but where to switch in the evenings? unfortunately 6 music is just as crap with the dry and boring Tom Robinson who plays all the oldies you have heard before and mostly rubbish new rock [trad brit-rock, retro rock, rock singer-songwriter and alt.country]

Therefore i avoid Zane Lowe and Tom Robinson.

DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The other day I caught him playing BRMC. He said it was recorded for 5 bob in Old Street (why do the French go all the way to the Pacific to test their weapons when Old Street is like only 100 miles from 'em?) and that 'the revolution has started -- you just need to buy a bus ticket'. I mean, really.

Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't listened to the radio in yonks... I might give it a go tonight, except I vaguely remember Peel having someone rubbish in session tonight.

Thing about Zane Lowe, the feller they've replaced him with on XFM is even worse - all of the arrogance, none of the charisma.

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't listened to the radio in yonks

= since Sunday????

Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

That's not the radio. Not properly.

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Though that has just given me quite the idea...

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yesterday am Sara Cox played Tone Loc's 'Wild Thing' but usually there's nothing quite so exciting. I remember asking someone what 'get-up eye' was, back inna day.

Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i avoid the radio at all costs and the only time i would ever listen is at work. why bother when i can make my own playlist at home?

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

It's nice to be surprised.

Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

when was the last time you were surprised by a radio dj (other than John Peel)?

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Jo Whiley was in the Guild of Birmingham Uni a couple of years ago, which surprised me.

She's quite short, y'know.

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

And still Radio 4 won't give me a series...

But yes, anyway - It's the music I prefer to be surprised by, not the DJ. They really should've left it to Lammo - he didn't have much personality, but he seemed a decent sort.

(His autobiography is rub, though)

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

What I find surprising is how Jo Whiley considers herself to be a hiphop guru but in her britpop days was quoted as saying something along the lines of "I don't believe anything beneficial has come out of the hiphop genre".

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Zane Lowe is such a car crash presenter. I feel compelled to watch Gonzo simply for the between video banter, where he talks at a band for nintey seconds before they say 'yeah' for thirty. He seems so unsure of himself/unbelievably self-absorbed that he can't bring himself to breathe, in case a new emo band 'blows up' while he's respiring.

He is the most watchable MTV type since that Russell Brand guy who did DFC left. Although for completely different reasons.

Why did Brand leave? I saw that series he did for Play ages ago but since then he's disappeared.

Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't been able to take him seriously since Adam & Joe's uncannily accurate spoof of Brand:New.

(Not that I ook him seriously in the first place - a David 'Kid' Jensen for our times, methinks)

laticsmon (laticsmon), Thursday, 6 November 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

when was the last time you were surprised by a radio dj (other than John Peel)?

John Peel plays horrible noisy crap. Cox surprised me with Tone Loc. That's what I'm talking about!

Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 6 November 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Zane Lowe actually did some Ok hiphop himself once upon a time, w/Urban Disturbance. They had a track ("Robert Jane"? Something like that), it was built off a Dylan guitar sample, it was really pretty good. Great Kylie "Come into My World" sort of video, too, but much cheaper. If he's propping up the BRMC nowadays I'm sort of bummed, he wouldn't pull that crap if he was still in NZ (hopefully). It's still strnage to think of him and see him mentioned as a minor UK personality guy.

Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 6 November 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim Robinson otm

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I once saw Jo Whiley in a snowboarding shop in Northampton, which surprised me. She is indeed very small. And crumpled.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, Zane Lowe is ht eindie Westwood and as such I can't wait till he gets shot, or something. What do indies do when they fall out? They'll probably steal his hair-grips rather than shoot him.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Jo Whiley lives on the outskirts of Northampton, or "London", as she called it on her show. She was at the Idlewild gig at the Mender few years back, I know that.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Aye, I know. I saw her in the 'Mender a couple of times too. 'Outskirts' of London = Northampton is the last place on the line north out of Euston that still has those underground-guard things to stop you getting onto the station.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I once saw Jo Whiley in a snowboarding shop in Northampton, which surprised me. She is indeed very small. And crumpled.

I once saw Sara Cox in my local newsagents on a Sunday morning, completely off her face (which didn't surprise me) with some Hoxton twat with a half drunk pint of beer in his hand doing the one-legged Glaswegian two-step - she is indeed very tall.

Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

She went to NSG, like Lesley Joseph. When that's your alumni...

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Beth Gibbons in the Cavern in Exeter once - she looked like Jo Whiley.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
I'd just like to remind everybody that Zane Lowe is the biggest cock on God's Green Earth.

Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

Zane Lowe is ht eindie Westwood

will "ht e... " become the new teh?

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

he's good at telly

Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Hitler does better box office.

BARMS, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

He's quite fun to imitate.

Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

i would like to see that

Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Don't mention the bore.

BARMS, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

why would anyone listen to radio over radio 4?!?!!?!?!

ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

i know the name, but, ive never seen or heard this person

still, i find it sort of puzzling, that there are threads on people like this, but that there has never been a thread on Stu Phillips

charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

did ambrose mean to put a '1' in there?

i'm not convinced that you genuinely find this puzzling lidofox

Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

stu phillips=

beyond the valley of the dolls
FOLLOW ME (still not reissued:(:(:(:( - hence my searching for a thread
battlestar galactica
knight rider
quincy

and a million other things

yet, no thread on ilx. why would this not be puzzling?

charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

it is puzzling that you did not start a thread about him already i grant thee

Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

i just did

charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

programmes such as just a minute and the "now show" are so revolutionary that they cannlot be thought of in terms ofthe "radio" format. so i take radio 4 over radio


(yes i forgot a 1) but i would put anything on radio below radio 4, (except rinse, de ja, resonance, and 1 xtra) pretty much

ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

John Humphries on a grime track - ambrose heaven

Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

humphries should totally roar GET ME everytime he wants to batter a interviewee on the today programme. it would cut short those interminable fights hey always have on there. actualyl he should have a sort of smaple of bruza that he can trigger, like gun shot noises and siren noises that they have on westwood and 1 xtra an all that.

in fact he shoudl use all of them on his show! that would be awesome!

ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

The reception in my area is so crap I am stuck with radios 1,2 and 4, Heart (I am not a taxi driver), Jazz (surely the most missnamed station ever?), various pirates (not so into grime) and a couple of Turkish language ones.

I have to flip between the BBC ones. I'm quite keen on Mark Lamar's show on Radio 2. You may get me into country yet Charlton L.

Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

i can but try

how about suburban californian christian dayglo acid sunshine pop from 1970?

or italian/swiss/german prog-lounge-hashish-electronics from 1972?

charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

isnt jazz fm now called smooth fm or something now!?!!

ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

actualyl he should have a sort of smaple of bruza that he can trigger, like gun shot noises and siren noises

no way, i wake up to radio 4. he's bad enough as he is, bellowing me out of my peaceful slumbers.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

" he should have a sort of smaple of bruza " -- this sounds like some kind of cookery instruction.

now i have digital tv, i never listen to any radio, partly cos i can't tune in to any one station without some other stuff interrupting it.

N_RQ, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Really, it's all about the shipping forcast.

Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

the shipping forecast scares me shitless. mrs fiendish used to get up at about 5.30am, so the radio would come on and i'd be woken up by a sinister voice talking about finisterre ... six ... rising slowly ... brrrrr, it was fucking horrible.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

this morning "today" did a lengthy piece about, er, joy division. for no apparent reason other than, umm, new order have a new album out and, er, some mooks are doing a cover of love will tear us apart. oh, and there's the deborah curtis film. you know, the one everybody's been talking about for years.

seriously: this was one of the least timely pieces of "news" ever. but hearing "dead souls" on R4 was ace. yay for "today".

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

they should have done a piece on joy division 26 years ago, when they needed it. i expect that "today" in '79 was probably still creaming itself over zep at knebworth.

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

i expect that "today" in '79 was run by people who'd never even heard of led zep. this sort of thing is essentially the new elite doing what new elites always love doing best: underlining their difference from the old elite.

although saying that they apparently had a feature on jilted john in '78, when brian redhead realised for the first time what the "gordon is a moron" badges he was seeing all over manchester referred to. what would ian trethowan and monica sims have thought?

robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

On a trailer for some piece of MTV2 shit, Zane Lowe actually says, without irony, "either go hard or go home". While talking about Gallows.

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

not Leonard Cohen then?

Mark G, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 07:56 (eighteen years ago)

lol he's a tit

pc user, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

He is the most watchable MTV type since that Russell Brand guy who did DFC left. Although for completely different reasons.

Why did Brand leave? I saw that series he did for Play ages ago but since then he's disappeared.

-- Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:23 (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

lol drive-by wankers

Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

I was gonna say "he's more palatable on TV than on radio, as he doesn't feel the need to shout in order to make up for people not being able to see him", but that "go hard or go home" line is awful. Also, I've not seen him on TV in probably three years.. Go me!

Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

I used to like Gallows. The new stuff I've heard is a bit shite, mind.

Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

that "go hard or go home" line is awful

also really wessswoo stan-ish, like THE KLAXONS ARE GONNA BANG IN YOUR FACE, HOLLA.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

THE KLAXONS ARE GONNA BANG IN YOUR FACE, HOLLA.

^^^sounds like a coverline for The Guide

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

Coming on all westwood over shitty indie lammo bands should in theory be hilarious, Lowe just doesn't bring h te funneys though somehow.

Pashmina, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

That Fast Show sketch where the dude bigs up some indie band about how they are the most dangerous angry motherhuggers on the planet and then they start playing and it's some sub-first-Primal-Scream-album-ooh-girlie-girl-i-wuv-you-can-i-hold-yr-hand-pleez-pleez-pleez booshit still OTM.

Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/12/28/JTDITTO_narrowweb__300x395,0.jpg

IT'S A STRONG LOOK BABY

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

The winds of fortune
Don't blow the same
She had to get out
And make a change
She had a kid now
But much too young
That baby's daddy's
out having fun

He's saying
I'm on a roll
With all the girls I know
His baby momma
She ain't so slow
He's saying
I'm on a roll
With all the girls I know
I know you wanna hit that
I know you wanna hit that
All the world is
gettin' with, I say
Consequences are a
lot, but hey
That's the way it
That's the way things go

What was a family
Is now a shell
We're raising kids now
Who raise themselves
Sex is a weapon
It's like a drug
It gets him right into that
Grave that he just dug

She's saying
I'm on the run
I'm chasing guys for fun
Her baby daddy
It ain't his only one
She's saying
I'm on the run
I'm chasing guys for fun
I know you wanna hit that
I know you wanna hit that
Everybody's
gettin' with, I
say
Consquences are a
lot, but hey
That's the way it
That's the way things go

Well it winds up
Broken up
Really such a shame
But why not
Take a chance
Everything's a game
And it don't stop
Hooking up
Nothing's gonna change
The more he's trying
The more he's buying

He says
I'm on a roll
With all the girls I know
His baby momma
Don't need to know
He's saying
I'm on a roll
With all the girls I know
I know you wanna hit that
I know you wanna hit that
All the world's
gettin' with, I say
Consquences are a
lot, but hey
That's the way it
That's the way things go

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

omg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/westwood/soundboard.shtml

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

now you can pimp heavy hit after heavy hit whenever you want

I wish we could c&p these onto ILM

Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

"put your finger in the air and press it four times"

what does that even mean?

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

I still love WesWoo tho.

Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

That westwood flash thing is great! I keep pressing the bomb button.

Pashmina, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)


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