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RTE ringing in the 2014 effort.

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    #32
    sanna
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭sanna


    If you can, next time you should watch either BBC1 Scotland or STV, been living here 8years and for first 3 I missed my Hogmanay fix.

    Even got my Irish Fiance now watching it, struggles with the accent but its miles better than watching either RTE or even Jools Holland.


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    #33
    Arrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Arrow.


    It was crap. Forced, cheap looking, not much atmosphere.

    Just what you expect from the incestuous RTE.


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    #34
    sanna
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭sanna


    If you can, next time you should watch either BBC1 Scotland or STV, been living here 8years and for first 3 I missed my Hogmanay fix.

    Even got my Irish Fiance now watching it, struggles with the accent but its miles better than watching either RTE or even Jools Holland.


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    #35
    Tommy Dillon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭Tommy Dillon


    RTE is pure gank....... what did you expect, it was the end of the gathering also so it was bound to be sh1t...


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    #36
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Jaysus, that's mad Ted.


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    #37
    kkhornet
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭kkhornet


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Who usually highlights those things.. Jedward or the likes?

    Having Madness perform was a step up from the usual shite

    You could say they went "one step beyond"


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    #38
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    It was all about the presenters and Joe Duffy going on about the TD's pensions. It was New Year's eve for feck sake not the Late Late. It was cringe pure and simple.


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    #39
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Glad to see their spending their massive budget on other things than big wages........ you know like quality programs and such like ... oh wait...


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    #40
    Los Lobos
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭Los Lobos


    kkhornet wrote: »
    You could say they went "one step beyond"


    Damnit i wanted to make that joke!


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    #41
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,230 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Daithi O Se, professional bogger.

    Also, he's not even 40, must have had a hard life.


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    #42
    LiamKK1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭LiamKK1982


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Daithi O Se, professional bogger.

    Also, he's not even 40, must have had a hard life.

    Jesus Christ, I just looked it up, he was born in 1976. I was convinced he was 50. I am truly shocked.


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    #43
    Mammanabammana
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    If you can, next time you should watch either BBC1 Scotland or STV, been living here 8years and for first 3 I missed my Hogmanay fix.

    Even got my Irish Fiance now watching it, struggles with the accent but its miles better than watching either RTE or even Jools Holland. :D


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    #44
    The HorsesMouth
    Registered Users Posts: 490 ✭✭The HorsesMouth


    Joe Duffys presence at it just sums up RTE's approach to everything. No imagionation, stale and riding on the back of complacency.

    This outdoor concert concept needs to change... No atmosphere or intimacy. They need to take a leaf out of Jool Hollands book except do it live.


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    #45
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Will switch between these three next year . . . .

    BBC1 London/NI for the London fireworks.
    BBC1 Scotland for Hogmanay/Edinburgh fireworks.
    BBC2 for Jools Holland's Hootenanny.

    My thoughts on RTEs offering, from another thread > http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88242180&postcount=266


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    #46
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Was at that concert last night and it was brilliantly organised and Madness (who I've been a fan of since I was a child) were brilliant. Didn't see the whole thing on RTE but I thought the whole thing in real life looked really impressive and did Ireland proud. Imo.


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    #47
    Technoprisoner
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭Technoprisoner


    i cringed when joe duffy started talking about the recession minutes before midnight. rte have no idea how to create a bit of atmosphere....maybe next year they should bring in some outsiders that have experience of putting on a good show...and as was said before madness was a step up from the usual tripe they have on nye


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    #48
    Shout Dust
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Shout Dust


    Technoprisoner wrote: »
    i cringed when joe duffy started talking about the recession minutes before midnight. rte have no idea how to create a bit of atmosphere....maybe next year they should bring in some outsiders that have experience of putting on a good show...and as was said before madness was a step up from the usual tripe they have on nye

    Didn't see it but would well believe it, remember one year they had the entire NYE show dedicated to negativity. The lad who does drivetime on the radio couldn't even wish people a happy new year, said something like 'we wish you, well not too optimistically, a happy new year'


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    #49
    StewartGriffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭StewartGriffin


    Looked at BBC's schedule for the Xmas - 2 Ronny's, Morcambe and Wise - followed by - more 2 Ronny's and a bit more of - Morcambe and Wise.

    Drag yourself out of the 1970's BBC. They're are all dead and gone.


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    #50
    grenache
    Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    That's not English he speaks, it's some dialect belonging to the Orangutan family.

    One of the few voices on TV where you're left putting the TV in slow motion just to hear him properly. Damien English is another that springs to mind...
    That's the beauty of regional accents and diversity. Give me a West Kerry brogue over a fake mid Atlantic D4 drawl any day!

    It would be a boring world if we all spoke Queens English.


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    #51
    FanadMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Had RTEs new year prog recorded just to see Madness (and nothing else!) and it was brilliant! Loved the energy and the nostalgia. I really hate this time of year but at least they brightened it up for me.

    Shame though having to even see Dathi and Joe being televised. Why the hell are RTE still wasting good airwaves on those two? :(


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