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Lyric fm's Breakfast show presenter - Marty Whelan.
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So you are actually a lot younger than you claim to be?You have confused me with someone else. And nobody controls what Marty plays. It's whatever comes up from Marty Recommends or from who died today or what the listener wants. If you asked him nicely I'm sure Mart would oblige if it was suitable for the program. I thought William Shatner was an actor not a zinger but I suppose the old trained actors learned singing too. He's surprisingly elderly now and not the spring chicken he was when he created Captain Kirk.
Who could forget Shatner's 'Transformed Man' album.
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So you are actually a lot younger than you claim to be? Who could forget Shatner's 'Transformed Man' album.
Regards...jmcc
I don't claim to be any age. That's a lady's business!
And no - I hadn't heard of a record by William Shatner but I suppose he could turn his hand to anything if he put his mind to it. Is it an oldie and a goodie? What did he cover? 0 -
Well anyone who seems to know of Morcambe and Wise, Peter Sellers and a lot of 1960s/70s music would. Unless, perhaps, you have a limited experience of music and are relying upon Marty. But even Marty might know this one.I don't claim to be any age. That's a lady's business! And no - I hadn't heard of a record by William Shatner but I suppose he could turn his hand to anything if he put his mind to it.
The galaxy.Is it an oldie and a goodie? What did he cover?
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Well anyone who seems to know of Morcambe and Wise, Peter Sellers and a lot of 1960s/70s music would. Unless, perhaps, you have a limited experience of music and are relying upon Marty. But even Marty might know this one.
The galaxy.
Regards...jmcc
I don't claim to know a lot about music but I know what I like. And it seems millions of other people like the same as me. Mart had Gilbert O'Sullivan on this morning and it caused cheering in our home and Mart was reading out cards and texts goodo from the listener about it after. I don't think William Shatner is for me though because I think it could be a bit Andy Williamsy for me and I don't care for him so much although Marty says he was possibly the third or fourth best of his class in his time.0 -
But they don't listen to LyricFM, do they?And it seems millions of other people like the same as me.
Well he was big in the 1970s.Mart had Gilbert O'Sullivan on this morning and it caused cheering in our home
But how did the cards arrive? They would have had to have been sent yesterday to have arrived in today's post. Were the texts really sent?and Mart was reading out cards and texts goodo from the listener about it after.
And Marty was probably plonked in front of the TV watching the Andy Williams Show hoping that he would grow up just like that.I don't think William Shatner is for me though because I think it could be a bit Andy Williamsy for me and I don't care for him so much although Marty says he was possibly the third or fourth best of his class in his time.
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Y23R a troll ????
Of course. How could I have been so blind ?
But of course ! Nobody could really be happy with the destruction of a good radio station. What better than to pretend to enjoy its most dreadful presenter and the bottom of the barrel schlock that he passes of as music.
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Has it come to this now here that a person can't say a word that you all don't agree with but they're shouted down. If my 9 year old did this defaming my text like you did I'd have him out picking a switch out of the hedge I can tell you! He'd learn his lesson fine and quick so he would.I think you are going to need a bigger spray can.
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Millions of people from all walks of life take pictures of the Mona Lisa.
I think feeling embarrassed that you reside in the same country as Marty because of this is bordering on juvenile.
There's no question that Marty's personality, musical taste and smutty remarks towards Rebecca have no place on Lyric. But what's really embarrassing is his listenership figures for a morning breakfast show.
Hear! hear! :cool:
People here will be pleased because this morning we had a man in from Danish Lyric FM in Copenhagen chatting about how it's done there which is like the way it's done here more or less. He's a musician too himself. Listen back on the Player after 9 for the interview. And as well as Bruce being in town today is the Edge's birthday who Mart called him The Hedge when he was dedicating a tune to him.
Everyday is like this.
Wonderful wonderful Copenhagen as Mart said. :eek:
And Anton phoned in to say he loves the show and had it on everywhere in the house and in the garden and car. Mart asked him to stay on the line to hear Niall Carroll who is coming up. 0 -
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Yvonne23R,
How come you never post during Marty's show?
Regards...jmcc
Oh come on, give him/her a break
Those Hugo essays, adoring letters from the Brigadier, The Talking Cat and all those text messages from his legions of devoted 'fans' don't spraypaint write themselves you know
It's busy, busy time for Y23R during the show methinks.0 -
It might explain how those cards praising Marty's choice of music are delivered to RTE before the music is played.Oh come on, give him/her a break Those Hugo essays, adoring letters from the Brigadier, The Talking Cat and all those text messages from his legions of devoted 'fans' don't spraypaint write themselves you know
It's busy, busy time for Y23R during the show methinks.
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Hear! hear! :cool:
People here will be pleased because this morning we had a man in from Danish Lyric FM in Copenhagen chatting about how it's done there which is like the way it's done here more or less...........
Never heard of "Danish LyricFM" but whatever it's called I doubt if there's any classical radio station in the world, and least of all in Denmark, that would lay claim to "doing it like the way it's done" by Marty Whelan.
The Danes wouldn't put up with it. Somehow we do.0 -
I know of someone who worked for a few weeks on a radio programme with Marty. She was on a college placement, so she was basically on the lowest rung of the ladder as regards office politics, with Marty being on the highest one. Well, he treated her like pure garbage for the month she was there. Now, she has a rather large proboscis which Marty proceeded to mock her over for the duration of her stay by making honking noises, putting bogeys in her sandwiches and calling her Pinocchio. But, she said that when anyone attached to even the slightest hint of celebrity came in, he virtually prostrated himself before then and engaged in toe-curling sycophantic banter. She said that he is one of the nastiest people that she has ever had the displeasure to meet.
Well this morning Mart had some very nice things to say about Hayley Westenra when the man from the Danish version of Lyric was in. He's a composer and a musician himself as well as a classical DJ. He went round the desk to do the intro to the track for Mart. He fronts a show like the Marty Whelan show on Lyric in the mornings over in Denmark in Copenhagen and was in for some training with Mart which was nice I think.
I think he had Jonathan Lemalu on a few weeks ago on the playlist. And of course everyone on the programme here just loves Kiri. 0 -
Must have been tough for Marty being replaced by a show called "Colm and Jim-Jim's Breakfast show". Perhaps the imaginary friends is a reaction to that? Wasn't the show meant to be coming from Venice or Verona this week?
Just reading the Indo's coverage of Marty's other breakfast show being axed ( http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/alarmed-rte-radio-axes-martys-show-26280022.html ) and it appears that "The poor performance was having a knock-on effect on the Gerry Ryan show, so it was decided to bite the bullet.". It appears that the opposite is happening on LyricFM where listeners who switch off when Marty's show is on actually return when his show is over. Perhaps that trip to Venice and Verona might be a one way ticket?
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But didn't the security guard know that Marty was special? Don't they have LyricFM in Paris? He's RTE's national treasure - buried along with all of RTE's other antiques on LyricFM. Didn't Marty tell them that he was going to be interviewing Leonard Devincy on his show and that he wanted a selfie of himself in front of the painting to show his listeners?Ugh, bloody philistines everywhere.
Actually limnam, no they don't... signs up, rules forbidding it, security, blah blah blah.
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But didn't the security guard know that Marty was special? Don't they have LyricFM in Paris? He's RTE's national treasure - buried along with all of RTE's other antiques on LyricFM. Didn't Marty tell them that he was going to be interviewing Leonard Devincy on his show and that he wanted a selfie of himself in front of the painting to show his listeners?
Regards...jmcc
It's very easy to sneer. If you had heard that part of the TX you'd know that Mart was telling the story against himself! "With the big red embarrassed head on Me while your one was going on and on and on at Me. In French!." (It was a lady security woman.)0 -
So when is the Leonard Devincy interview?It's very easy to sneer. If you had heard that part of the TX you'd know that Mart was telling the story against himself! "With the big red embarrassed head on Me while your one was going on and on and on at Me. In French!." (It was a lady security woman.) I suppose the rules for RTE personalities are different those that apply to ordinary mortals.
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A professional term or abbreviation in the midst of an ordinary post? That's a bit odd Yvonne. Perhaps you know more about the radio business than you let on.
Regards...jmcc
That mask is not so much slipping, but sliding off his "big red embarrassed head" (if you don't mind me quoting you Marty-Hugo-Yvonne) by now. :pac:0 -
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Actually the signs say no Flash photography so she was being heavy with a foreigner who was in the Louvre incognito and making no fuss. I thought it was a bit hard, a bit harsh. You don't get that in Florence or Firenze as they call it where you can take pictures of David by Michaelanglo til the cows come home.Unfortunately a lot of people don't take heed of those signs or rules.
Much like a traffic light doesn't stop most cyclist breaking red lights. blah blah blah.0 -
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Unfortunately a lot of people don't take heed of those signs or rules.
Much like a traffic light doesn't stop most cyclist breaking red lights. blah blah blah.
It's unfortunate alright. Don't get me started on cyclists and red lights.
That segment about the photo anyway was just a terrible bit of radio. It ended with a 3 or 4 second clip of the middle of some classical piece, and then flicked back to marty, saying he needed calming down, and then started into something totally different. The whole thing was just totally amaturish. Sounded like they were just mashing the buttons in there.0 -
Actually the signs say no Flash photography so she was being heavy with a foreigner who was in the Louvre incognito and making no fuss. I thought it was a bit hard, a bit harsh. You don't get that in Florence or Firenze as they call it where you can take pictures of David by Michaelanglo til the cows come home.
Isn't Michaelangelo's David a statue? Not quite the same sensitivity to twits with cameras.0 -
Perhaps he was reading this thread or the cat had started writing to him again?That segment about the photo anyway was just a terrible bit of radio. It ended with a 3 or 4 second clip of the middle of some classical piece, and then flicked back to marty, saying he needed calming down,
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It's unfortunate alright. Don't get me started on cyclists and red lights.
That segment about the photo anyway was just a terrible bit of radio. It ended with a 3 or 4 second clip of the middle of some classical piece, and then flicked back to marty, saying he needed calming down, and then started into something totally different. The whole thing was just totally amaturish. Sounded like they were just mashing the buttons in there.
I thought it was a lovely light piece of radio giving people something for their "water cooler" moment later in the day where they could have the doctor's missing finger from the David statue to talk about and have the sour puss one from Paris who gave Mart a telling off unfairly! And it brings Mart down to the level of the listener instead of just being a big radio personality above underground in Radio Centre.
And anything can go wrong in a studio console when you're doing the fades like even a cup of scald getting tipped over or the newspapers getting in the way. It's all part of what brings live radio to life - the live interaction between the listener and the talent in "Real Time."
And if we're being picky it's actually MichelAngleo's David, not Michaelangelo's because he was a Italian not Irish and it's pronounced Mikkelangelo too, for what it's worth. Bah-bumb-tish! Only joshing you! 0 -
There's that problem again, Yvonne,I thought it was a lovely light piece of radio giving people something for their "water cooler" moment later in the day where they could have the doctor's missing finger from the David statue to talk about and have the sour puss one from Paris who gave Mart a telling off unfairly!
Few people who listen to LyricFM care what happened to Marty and they would probably have seen the story about the statue (it wasn't Michelangelo's statute) on the web the day before. Many of us do not have "water cooler" moments just as we don't read the Sun or the Star. We listen to LyricFM, or rather used to listen to it, for the music. It used to be an oasis of calm in a desert of mediocrity and self-important nobodies on the Irish radio spectrum.
It seems that Marty needs to come up to the level of the average LyricFM listener than down. Some of us may have hundreds of classical (and probably other genres) CDs, records, tapes and MP3s. This isn't some audience of drooling fans in awe of an RTE personality so don't treat it like that.And it brings Mart down to the level of the listener instead of just being a big radio personality above underground in Radio Centre.
Again with the technical terminology? There's a noticable change in your syntax and choice of words. Are we to take it that Yvonne is gone?And anything can go wrong in a studio console when you're doing the fades like even a cup of scald getting tipped over or the newspapers getting in the way. It's all part of what brings live radio to life - the live interaction between the listener and the talent in "Real Time."
If you want to be picky, then it was di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni's (more commonly Buonarroti, I think) David. And he wasn't technically Italian as Italy had not been united at that time in its history. He would have been Florentine rather than Italian as we now know it. (Well some of us anyway.And if we're being picky it's actually MichelAngleo's David, not Michaelangelo's because he was a Italian not Irish and it's pronounced Mikkelangelo too, for what it's worth. Bah-bumb-tish! Only joshing you! )
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