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Lyric fm's Breakfast show presenter - Marty Whelan.

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    #1322
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    jmcc wrote: »
    Any chance you could provide the frequency for bbd 4? :) And what do you think of the comedy show idea?

    Regards...jmcc

    I think that was a slip of the pen or of the autocorrect on Almaviva. It could be BBC 4 radio or television.

    Almaviva is the villain in the Barber of Seville which was used for the Lone Ranger - the original not the new one. So he has to be a man or a boy.


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    #1323
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Almaviva


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Almaviva is the villain in the Barber of Seville which was used for the Lone Ranger - the original not the new one. So he has to be a man or a boy.

    The villain ? :confused:
    I dont remember a villain.
    Is there a villain ?
    Confused.


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    #1324
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    Almaviva wrote: »
    The villain ? :confused:
    I dont remember a villain.
    Is there a villain ?
    Confused.

    You're right. I didn't google far enough. He was in the prequel - the Marriage of Figaro. I used to wonder why Mart called that the Nose of Figaro, but the original title is a bit like Nose! :)


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    #1325
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Almaviva


    Anyone remember Maggie McMaggie ?

    Anyway, back to the salt mines early in the morning.

    Toodle pip !


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    #1326
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    Where was Hugo this morning? Mart was talking about a newborn baby at Hugo Time who is half French and half Irish but no sign of Hugo the Writer. Neven is on now while I am writing this. :confused:


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    #1327
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Where was Hugo this morning? Mart was talking about a newborn baby at Hugo Time who is half French and half Irish but no sign of Hugo the Writer. Neven is on now while I am writing this. :confused:

    Maybe he was with the talking cat. Although if anyone should know of "Hugo's" whereabouts, you should :p

    A half-Irish/half-French baby, wow! world-shattering events live on Lyric, whuddaa thunk it was possible:rolleyes:.......was that yet another excuse for "Mart" to play "I Love Paris"?, it must be all of two days since the last time.

    Interesting that you at last mention you are posting during the Show, nice to know that you access can Boards direct from the studio.


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    #1328
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Almaviva


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Where was Hugo this morning? Mart was talking about a newborn baby at Hugo Time who is half French and half Irish but no sign of Hugo the Writer. Neven is on now while I am writing this. :confused:

    I think I heard someone say that he was off for the week. Good news for some.

    Neven the American cellist ?


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    #1329
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Where was Hugo this morning? Mart was talking about a newborn baby at Hugo Time who is half French and half Irish but no sign of Hugo the Writer. Neven is on now while I am writing this. :confused:
    Probably too busy replying to the wrong post. :)

    Regards...jmcc


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    #1330
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    europa11 wrote: »
    Maybe he was with the talking cat. Although if anyone should know of "Hugo's" whereabouts, you should :p

    A half-Irish/half-French baby, wow! world-shattering events live on Lyric, whuddaa thunk it was possible:rolleyes:.......was that yet another excuse for "Mart" to play "I Love Paris"?, it must be all of two days since the last time.

    Interesting that you at last mention you are posting during the Show, nice to know that you access can Boards direct from the studio.

    Yes, we had that around Hugo Time. It's a really suitable song.


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    #1331
    Aidric
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    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Yes, we had that around Hugo Time. It's a really suitable song.

    Who is the we you refer to?


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    #1332
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users Posts: 5,229 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    Aidric wrote: »
    Who is the we you refer to?
    Probably Yvonne23R and Almaviva.


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    #1333
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    I should have clarified that the French Irish baby we had the track for was named ........... Hugo!!!!

    Another little genius coming up and maybe another great comedian and writer.


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    #1334
    Aidric
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    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    I should have clarified that the French Irish baby we had the track for was named ........... Hugo!!!!

    Another little genius coming up and maybe another great comedian and writer.

    One can only hope. I fully expect Hugo to be revered in the same hushed tones usually reserved for Wilde in the years to come.


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    #1335
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Almaviva


    With Padraig O'Cionna's big move, I wonder what are the odds if good old Martino Uelano, getting his old gig back on Radio 2 in the big RTE reshuffle ?
    Wouldnt that really suit both his fans, and those less enamoured with his 'contribution' to Lyric ?


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    #1336
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Almaviva


    I might even start listening to the channel again.


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    #1337
    Aidric
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    Almaviva wrote: »
    With Padraig O'Cionna's big move, I wonder what are the odds if good old Martino Uelano, getting his old gig back on Radio 2 in the big RTE reshuffle ?
    Wouldnt that really suit both his fans, and those less enamoured with his 'contribution' to Lyric ?

    Makes eminent sense. Therefore don't expect it to happen.


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    #1338
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    I don't think that will happen because Lyric is a station for mainly older and old people and Mart is very well up on the music of when you all were young - and ma! Over on 2 the listenership is being grown from young people who are coming home from the pirates and from the profitmaking competition. We give them the range of choice across the services so that they can move up to Radio 1 for talk and to Lyric for entertainment in later life. Mart is able to make that move palatable and gets them interested in the light classical going to the National Concert Hall for say John Wilson and the Concert Orchestra for the Hits from Hollywood. We're not going to kill a golden goose.


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    #1339
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    The listener has been spared in the changes in News and in Light Entertainment in Radio Centre as Mart's name hasn't featured in informed newspaper reports.


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    #1340
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Almaviva


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    The listener has been spared in the changes in News and in Light Entertainment in Radio Centre as Mart's name hasn't featured in informed newspaper reports.

    The listeners might indeed be spared. No mention of El Marto suggesting he may be jettisoned altogether.
    Or could he be the rumoured 2nd high profile Newstalk poaching - their specialist for AA girl 'banter' ?


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    #1341
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    I don't think so because Marty went off one time to help one of the pirates get going and that didn't work out so well I think. I hear he's going to do some more demanding TV work going forward but it won't be announced until the end of August when everyone is back at work.


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    #1342
    Onthe3rdDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Onthe3rdDay


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    I don't think that will happen because Lyric is a station for mainly older and old people and Mart is very well up on the music of when you all were young - and ma! Over on 2 the listenership is being grown from young people who are coming home from the pirates and from the profitmaking competition. We give them the range of choice across the services so that they can move up to Radio 1 for talk and to Lyric for entertainment in later life. Mart is able to make that move palatable and gets them interested in the light classical going to the National Concert Hall for say John Wilson and the Concert Orchestra for the Hits from Hollywood. We're not going to kill a golden goose.

    The station is supposed to be for all age groups interested in Classical Music. Never has RTE or anyone else claimed that lyric was for older people. Obviously Marty does seem to encourage the hard of hearing to listen....


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    #1343
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    It's implicit in its remit that it's for old codgers like ourselves. Golden oldies.

    Mart is working on the script for the Marty Hanging with Vivaldi in Venice and the tour will get to see how a real pro does his pieces to camera in one take. Getting English speaking Italians for the bit of vox pop was the hardest bit of pre-prod, I'd say.


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    #1344
    Onthe3rdDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Onthe3rdDay


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    It's implicit in its remit that it's for old codgers like ourselves. Golden oldies.

    Seriously, Statements like that have to be backed up with facts. Nowhere does RTE market it as a golden oldies station. Until Marty Came along It was a Classical Music and Arts Station with some other specialist music shows.

    There are no programmes on Lyric aimed for older people as such. However, there is Classical Kids which goes out on Sundays. In a mad twist that show tends to play a lot more classical music than Marty.


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    #1345
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    Ian is a lovely lad and pushes through his impediment like a man. A very likeable little fellow who could do well, with a bit of coaching. But doing a feed from RTE Junior is very different from Mart's professionalism in primetime ad-generating slots, and all done by the seat of our pants.


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    #1346
    Onthe3rdDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Onthe3rdDay


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Ian is a lovely lad and pushes through his impediment like a man. A very likeable little fellow who could do well, with a bit of coaching. But doing a feed from RTE Junior is very different from Mart's professionalism in primetime ad-generating slots, and all done by the seat of our pants.

    Is this a glimmer of truth finally from Yvonne...That she/he is involved in some way with the Marty in the Morning show???


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    #1347
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Onthe3rdDay wrote: »
    Is this a glimmer of truth finally from Yvonne...That she/he is involved in some way with the Marty in the Morning show???
    Yvonne23R = Almaviva = ?

    Notice how the syntax and wording of these two posters has become synchronised since Almaviva's little posting faux pas the other night?

    Yvonne23R also started using technical terms associated with radio production and has dropped the poor old clueless Martydom fan act.

    But sometimes I wonder if they could tell the difference between Biber and Bieber. :) Perhaps Martydom and its fans only exist in RTE?

    Regards...jmcc


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    #1348
    real rocker
    Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭real rocker


    Has Marty featured anything from the above artist who won Lithuania's Got Talent. Martynas is a fine accordion player and I am sure Marty should include a track from his debut Decca album followed by Squeezebox from The Who. He has an Ennio Morricone double up on the CD to make it even easier.

    Just a thought.


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    #1349
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Over on 2 the listenership is being grown from young people who are coming home from the pirates and from the profitmaking competition.
    Has 2FM made a profit yet? 2FM was set up because the pirate radio stations were giving the people what they wanted to hear instead of the same stale RTE "personalities". It was a hell of an era and I think that even Marty got his first radio job on a pirate radio station.

    Regards...jmcc


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    #1350
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    real rocker wrote: »
    Has Marty featured anything from the above artist who won Lithuania's Got Talent. Martynas is a fine accordion player and I am sure Marty should include a track from his debut Decca album followed by Squeezebox from The Who. He has an Ennio Morricone double up on the CD to make it even easier.

    Just a thought.
    That could be an idea. The programme made Vladimir the Violin Virtuoso from the East. It's called Classical Twist the Album and he was in for a few interviews and plugs. Now he plays all over Ireland and is turning into our own Andre Rieu. He's represented by John, who'll be able to get him some good slots.


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    #1351
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    jmcc wrote: »
    Has 2FM made a profit yet? 2FM was set up because the pirate radio stations were giving the people what they wanted to hear instead of the same stale RTE "personalities". It was a hell of an era and I think that even Marty got his first radio job on a pirate radio station.

    Regards...jmcc
    The purpose of 2 is not Profit, it's Choice. That's what Public Service means.


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