[peel] Andy Kershaw & the Hairy Cornflake

[ivan thomasz]

Hullo,

For those who who don't know already, the Hairy Cornflake is none other  than that utterly vile scourge of the BBC Wild Service (as HC called it), Mr.Jolly Good Show, Dave Lee Travis, esquire. Just thought you'd like to know. We used to get him over here in Singapore on Saturday afternoons at about 0815 GMT. 

We listened to his show cos there wasn't any decent request shows going on in local radio at the time (there still aren't any). We just get mostly braindead  totally robotic programmed local radio. Cornflakes notwithstanding, we put on the Jolly Good Show just to hear the odd request for Ziggy Stardust or Talking Heads' Burning Down The House amidst the usual demands for Top 40 sludge like Whiney Houseperson or the Backside Boys.

DLT's sense of humour is as his detractors' nickname for him suggests, and on some occasions it was worth putting up with for 15 minutes or so until he played a really brilliant song like Blue Monday that we just never get to hear anymore on any of the Singapore stations. Here in balmy (barmy?) old Singapore you've got to get your kicks wherever you may find them as they're extremely few and far between. So you lot in Dear Old Blighty ought to count yer blessin's, ay?

Anyway, if Andy Kershaw's show gets the boot from Radio 1, it probably means we won't get to hear him on the World Service(study this well, DLT) anymore, either. Shame, shame, shame on the beeb. Let's all flood Andy Parfitt's mailbox with piles of putrid codfish.

Ivan