The Fire And The Flame

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September 23, 2008
by James in
The new “remix” of the celebrated Cadbury’s Drumming Gorilla advert currently screening on television has inevitably prompted a surge of interest in the music used for the new version – ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’ from Bonnie Tyler. The direct result is of course a surge in downloads for the track [...]

The Oddest Mutual Friends

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September 17, 2008
by James in
Tick off another entry on the “list of things to do in life” list, because I can now say I have been to the home of someone with a fruit machine in their kitchen. My latest stop on the journey of interviewing Chart Show presenters took me today to the home of Joel Ross, better known in his [...]

A Flava of 1996 – Part Four

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September 8, 2008
by James in
You may have noticed that during this wander through the chart of 1996 I’ve made the odd reference to the dotmusic commentary I wrote for that particular week. For a long time I denied that I actually had a record of these old pieces, batting away requests from people wanting to know what I’d [...]

A Flava of 1996 – Part Three

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September 3, 2008
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Elsewhere in the outside world in September 1996, the Five Nations championship was in turmoil after England signed a unilateral deal with Sky, muderous warmonger Bush, er I mean Bill Clinton was shelling Iraq for some obscure military reason and hurricanes were battering America forcing thousands [...]

A Flava of 1996 – Part Two

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August 29, 2008
by James in
I don’t personally have too many direct memories of the summer of 96. At the time I was working a crazy schedule that would see me presenting overnight shows on the radio during the week, and then working most of the sports shows at the weekend. I’d do something like six shifts in four days and [...]

A Flava of 1996 – Part One

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August 28, 2008
by James in
The onset of September seems an appropriate moment to take another dip into the archives and count down an old Top 40 chart, as heard by one of the hundreds of tapes in my collection. Whilst the temptation was there to remain stuck in the late 80s and early 90s of my formative years, this time I [...]

Ninety Five Point Great

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August 21, 2008
by James in
Even we hardened professionals can be reduced to the level of excited fanboys sometimes. Such was the feeling that overcame me this afternoon as I finally set foot inside a very hallowed portal indeed. I’ve been passing through Leicester Square ever since I moved to London, and every time I did so [...]

Chasing The Chart DJs

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August 20, 2008
by James in
I current have a fun side project in the works. Inspired by continual comments from friends and on forums all over the place, the idea came to me to do a short piece in the weekly podcast about radio chart shows and just how we ended up in the situation where the Radio One chart show, at one time [...]

O Citizen

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August 14, 2008
by James in
Today it has finally happened. No longer am I the husband of an East European immigrant. Instead my beloved wife and I are both British citizens together, holders of the same type of passport and free to roam the world under the flag of Her Majesty (or something). This has of course been a long [...]

Stick The Camera Ear

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August 9, 2008
by James in
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been filmed doing my job. Strange as it may sound, whenever television shows run any kind of footage involving radio presenters, it is more or less obligatory to include some cutaway shots of studio activity, normally involving such cliches as dancing [...]
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