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I'm sure you'll miss reading the text messages intended for the fitba' folk!

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A wee typo is hiding within the parenthesis.

Who's that making the monochrome rude gesture?

#3 James Sexton Traynor?

#4

He's digging a hole for himself..............

I believe it's a prototype voting machine for the Euro election. You'll have a choice between the Greedy Bees and the Angry Wasps. Either way you get stung.

Which button do you press for a referendum?

OK - who's the joker with the Superglue!?

Good news GIO is back on the medium wave. It means I don't have to go into the computer room to listen online.

Living around 60 miles from the border I get Radio Scotland fine on medium wave but no joy on FM.

It would be good if GIO stayed on the MW now.


Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.

Good stuff - means I can keep listening in once I get out of the car and into the house, as we're all DAB-ed up at home.

And the Saturday show is great too. I'm sure there are a few regular bloggers who'd volunteer to be guest producers if the team don't fancy working weekends.

I'm a little upset that sportsound is off the air as while I enjoy the format of Get it On I am constantly frustrated by Bryans' choices of music and cannot listen to the show at any great length without thinking of the words wet, twee, lightweight, poppy and wet. Very little room on the show for rock and certainly no Hard rock or metal but plenty of country and music that Bryan wishes he had been into in the early eighties.(e.g rezillos) And try to get through two sentences without saying em or eh please.

#11

I could posit the argument that the listeners choose the music, but I know what you mean. I cannot, however, agree with the adjectives you employ, particularly the superfluous 'wet'.

Speaking for myself, I enjoy the show even when the standard occasionally dips. And this week has been, IMHO, very good indeed.

#12 The choices remain (too) self indulgent which I suppose is the perogative of the presenter, but in my opinion if you listen to the program more than occasionally you will be annoyed by the lack of balance which does not feel quite right on what is supposed to be a listener lead request show. How many of GIO shows for instance have the same people namechecked on EVERY show? And how many people are suggesting things that they know Bryan wants to hear just so that they will be namechecked?

Maybe it's a generation thing. Most of the bloggers seem to be between 40 and death, so presumably grew up with the same or similar musical influences.

I would hope that it's more about the music than the namechecks, but again I can speak only for myself.

Many requests are rejected on the grounds that it is, essentially, a teatime cum drive-time show, and many people are listening en famille around the dinner table.

As for the perceived lack of balance, you are correct. We need more Country!

#13

Warren, you can't blame the presenter for any perceived 'blandness' (which I generally disagree with) as it's the producers who run the show! Yes, Bryan can 'do the pointy finger' when somebody suggests a great track that he likes, but it still needs the producer to allow the play.

Warren - if you think you dont like the show that's fair enough, but stick with it is not as bland as you may first think...some nights are better than others but that can only be expected. I think a lot of really great music is played, Clash, Skids etc are hardly bland!

JimFaeErskine, stop it now. The producers revolve and we still get the same sort of balance ot tracks i.e. leftfield 80's, country, Scottish acts who really were no bigger than local attractions and deservedly so.

Norriemaclean - I never once used the word bland. At some point I like most of the music played, I just think the balance is skewed which leads to a frustrating listening experience from what should be a good concept with thoughtful and intelligent suggestions being put forward. I find myself frustrated by the great suggestions which are passed over in favour of staple favourites by regular contributors (Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, The Smiths....) and as I said very little rock and no metal or dance.

Warren - you did not use that word, my apologies.

Warren

If you look at what the 'regulars' actually suggest (rather than what gets played), you'll see it's far more eclectic than you'd think, and I don't think any (many) of us suggest stuff just to get namechecked. We've been trying to get some Tull played for months now and I still think my pride moment was getting a Richard Thompson cover of Britney played; we're almost at the level of playing a game to see what we can get away with being played.

In the show's defence, though, I do recall that what drew me into the programme was what John Peel would have called "2 minutes of noise, probably" which I later discovered was .

Come over to (aka the Tull/Bragg/Floyd nexus AKA The Dark Side)... I think you'd have a lot in common with us 'regulars'.

CaptRamius,
You are misunderstanding what I am trying to say: I am putting the blame for the lack of balance on the show fairly and squarely on the presenters shoulders. It is HE (and to a lesser extent the producer) who ignore great suggestions so that he can follow his own musical agenda.
You defeat your own argument and help my own, I think, when you say that the eclectic suggestions of the regulars are not what is played which suggests that the program itself is not fully eclectic.
And by definition a music program cannot be eclectic if it continually ignores some musical genres. Also a listener lead request show cannot funtion to the satisfaction of the listener (me and some like me possibly) if the presenter/producer goes into the session with a closed mind to certain musical genres.

Warren

Come over to the and I think you'll find some like minds there...

But Jim's right, I don't think we'll get much change in overall direction for a drive/tea-time show - the editorial policy is set, even if we do try to blur the edges a bit. If there were an equivalent show being run by Vic Galloway at about 10pm, I think it'd be a whole other kind of show.