[peel] Digest Number 203

[Aidan Warner]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:44:32 +0100 Stuart McHugh wrote:

> I've just finished reading "The Nation's Favourite", Simon Garfield's book
> on Wonderful Radio One.

Better late than never :) 

> The one person who comes from behind the scenes is one Jeff Smith who comes
> across as perhaps more close to being Radio One's antichrist than anyone
> else. He is in charge of playlisting, and goes in a right little strop if
> dj's deviate from this or dare to make fun of any of the records he's
> chosen. He clearly HATES Mark and Lard, and beileves that they talk too
> much. However, he thinks Chris Moyles is the bees knees. It's my guessing
> that he is actually behind the recent sacking of Kershaw, perhaps because
> he also has a northern accent. So presumably he has some incriminating
> photos of Andy Parfitt. That would explain the vague answers we all got
> from him.

Yes, I really, really, really don't like Jeff Smith, having emailed him
a bit, he's very stubborn. I mean, might be a nice bloke, but his ideas
for music on the station are very depressing. Still, last I heard he's
moving/moved to Capital FM (surprise!).

> I'm listening to a woman called Sarah HB (?) 

Yes, HB. Ugh. Used to work on some dance station (Kiss?) where she was
apparently the bees knees (if so, why did she go to a mediocre R1
job?)... and the thing is, her own show is pretty much standard playlist
stuff with the indie taken out, and a couple more pop-dance tracks
thrown in, and they call it specialist.



Aidan

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