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Lyric fm's Breakfast show presenter - Marty Whelan.
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Does anyone have any info or contact details for Y23R ? Its now two days since her last post feeding us fascinating titbits of Marty.:(
Am getting a little worried I think.:( Is my number 3 on the boards.ie Matchmaking 'now your lovin'' facility so I feel a little responsible.
Or are Lyric staff on holidays for the long weekend? I didnt see any mention of that.
Or maybe a number mobile number for Marty ?
It really is a long time without an update I think.
In the absense of any service from Lyric over the last few days I have been listening to concertos by Giuseppe Tartini (I know...heaveeeeee!, well not really
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I don't know what is going on. I turned on the radio when the alarm went this morning and - There Was Marty! I'm certain I heard him saying he was going to Verona and Venice. First I thought he was broadcasting from Italy because of all the Italian music he was playing but it seems he is still in Lyric HQ.
Mart was telling us that he has done an interview with Ludovico and that they are going to play it in the next few days when they find where they put the tape.
He played a great sketch called the Reading of the Wills. I hadn't heard it before but I don't think it was Hugo but it was nearly as good. And then he said he would like to go to Zurich sometime to visit his money!:D
Some really lovely soothing music this morning, You could be in Napoli listening to it. We have the weather here nearly.0 -
.......... First I thought he was broadcasting from Italy because of all the Italian music he was playing but it seems he is still in Lyric HQ..........
Ah yes, I can imagine Mart, Hugo and all the others fitting right in in the land of opera, olives and ice cream. Hopefully to be snapped up RAI Classico where he could offer an unsuspecting Latin audience the following.....
A daily treble from Ennio Morricone, nonstop repeats of Sophia Loren's comedy duets with Peter Sellers, some Andrea Bocelli thrown in and who knows, instead of the daily homage to James Bond themes, he could play the theme to "The Italian Job" instead, until it, like "I Lurvee Paree", becomes another mind-numbing Mart staple, there's always "The Godfather" to fall back on.....and he might even re-invent Y23R's beloved talking cat incarnantion, this time with an "Eye-tal-ian" accent to keep comedy fans happy, Hugo would make a similar effort I'm sure and the radio cookery tips take on a similar flavour (pun intended!).
Who knows, Vivaldi, Montiverdi, Rossini or Verdi might even make the occasional appearance, but only their "funny stuff", the ones that you can fingertap or hum along to over the track.
Wouldn't Italy be all the better off for it. :rolleyes:0 -
Actually Mart was really "on the ball" this morning because he had announced the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba and even made a joke about Linda Martin who was in Sheba and then the record didn't play properly. So what did he do only say "off the cuff" that the "Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba has been delayed because She was probably coming by bus!"
Maybe we'll have her tomorrow say's he!
And earlier the girl from the AA Roundup didn't call in when he expected her to and he made a good joke about that too but I forget what he said then.0 -
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Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi - all memorable. But you, his most avid fan cannot even remember ever word that Marty said? I'm surprised that you don't tape his shows. (That 'Frasier' episode with the tapes springs to mind.)
Regards...jmcc
I don't get you.
I didn't like Frasier because it was very hard to follow and fast and on late. And you don't need to tape the Marty Whelan Show because if I miss it I can listen to it back on the Player to enjoy at a later stage. Sometimes I do this for the competitions especially. 0 -
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He had suggested to Miss AA road watch that she had to deal with the "serious" people who take over his show while he's off.
It's as if he understands he is in fact the worst person to present his own show.
Hmmm!....Doesn't that sound a very familiar description of Trish from someone around here 0 -
It was about a lot more than that - totally unlike Marty's show.No Frasier was just all about snobs.
Actually the numbers for Lyric FM are falling and it has lost almost 30% of its audience in the last two years.Mart and I and thousands of loyal listeners have no time for snobbery and signs on the listening numbers are way up Marty has told us!
A bit of reverse snobbery there? What's next on the Martydom show, the theme from Coronation Street or Eastenders or Fair City? Bach wrote many fine pieces so one is not limited to a single track.Only the snobs want to be listening to Gilbert and Sullivan and Bach at their breakfast all the time. Volare!
Perhaps some might prefer the listen to Bach in the morning rather than someone of limited taste wibbling away as if the world cared what he thought. Even you, his most loyal fan, were not paying attention this morning. That does point out the ultimately forgettable nature of Marty and his show. Now if only Lyric FM could forget to renew his contract.
Regards...jmcc0 -
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It was about a lot more than that - totally unlike Marty's show.
Actually the numbers for Lyric FM are falling and it has lost almost 30% of its audience in the last two years.
A bit of reverse snobbery there? What's next on the Martydom show, the theme from Coronation Street or Eastenders or Fair City? Bach wrote many fine pieces so one is not limited to a single track.
Perhaps some might prefer the listen to Bach in the morning rather than someone of limited taste wibbling away as if the world cared what he thought. Even you, his most loyal fan, were not paying attention this morning. That does point out the ultimately forgettable nature of Marty and his show. Now if only Lyric FM could forget to renew his contract.
Regards...jmcc
You're wrong actually. As we said last week there were something like 20,000 listeners to the Marty Show who weren't listening last year and this is a big spurge upwards. Some of the heavy music shows have dropped off listeners like John Kelly who is always playing unlistenable to classical music in the middle of the day with jazz and pop music thrown in too.
I could laugh at Marty all day if he could have the energies to go on but he probably has other things to do like preparing for the show the following day.0 -
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But Marty was on so he would have accounted for the bulk of them.Well actually my serious young man the Marty Show is very popular for the fun and jokes as well as for the music. Lots of people were on today to say how much they missed Mart last week and not all of them could be put on air.
Cruel and unusual punishment for those suffering and incarcerated.And I believe the show is put on in a lot of hospitals, jails, psychiatric hospitals,
So the numbers for the show are being cooked - like that famous Sindo claim of having million readers while only selling a few hundred thousand copies?bed and breakfasts, guesthouses, doctor's surgeries, cafes, hotel dining rooms and places like that
So Marty gets something wrong again - it was a default password consisting of zeroes. But then he's just a DJ rather than a technologist. Toilet humour on Lyric FM - and to think that the station once had standards.Mart had a good one today about that electric toilet in Japan that answers the mobile phone but where every toilet has the same number.
Regards...jmcc0 -
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Of that I have no doubt.
On a serious aside to that point, the people who pipe Lyric through their systems think that they are providing some laid-back, classical music with minimal voice interruption by the presenter to patients and others who hardly need the rambling inanities of a pop station d.j. - i.e. the kind of claptrap available practically everywhere else on the dial.
But instead our mental intitutions are bombarded by a man who not alone never ceases to be fascinated by the sound of his own voice, but also the imaginary "letters" allegedly sent in by his imaginary friends, among them a strange man with a manic family life which revolves around Martyworld.....an Admiral of the British Empire (or something similar)...and belatedly, a talking cat. Not to mention vintage humour, tiresome double enterdes with the road-traffic girl, Peter Sellars repeats and a musical choice, well, enough has been said here about that!
Maybe they should relay the reaction to MITM from the hospitals back to studio.
Well I for One have never heard anything like Hugo Time anywhere else on radio. I think Marty should go "on the road" with it like Eamon Morrissey did with The Brother. Someone else suggested Mart should go on a world tour with it but I think it's a bit Irish except maybe in America. :pac:
The cat hasn't been heard of in a while but I'll never forget the story Marty read from the cat about the chicken breast. I can't remember the punchline but it was very good! The Brigadier is super too the way the last line is a punchline that works with the earlier part of the story. He had one about Bono paying for somebodies dinner in a restaurant a while back that was hilarious.
You say it's claptrap but I and thousands and thousands of others think its out on its own and it's the very best claptrap on radio.
The only thing I can say about double entendres is that I can't even spell them!
So - more Hugo Time - more of the Brigadier - and more of Marty's cat! As he said himself "I taught I taw a puddy cat!" 0 -
Well the scenes with Lieutenant Steven Hauk in 'Good Morning Vietnam' are probably quite close.Well I for One have never heard anything like Hugo Time anywhere else on radio.
It will probably bounce back right before the show is cancelled.The cat hasn't been heard of in a while
The "very best claptrap on radio"? But it is still claptrap and it should be on some talk radio station where such claptrap is appreciated.You say it's claptrap but I and thousands and thousands of others think its out on its own and it's the very best claptrap on radio.
So you are saying that Marty is behind all these characters?So - more Hugo Time - more of the Brigadier - and more of Marty's cat! As he said himself "I taught I taw a puddy cat!"
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Well the scenes with Lieutenant Steven Hauk in 'Good Morning Vietnam' are probably quite close.
It will probably bounce back right before the show is cancelled.
The "very best claptrap on radio"? But it is still claptrap and it should be on some talk radio station where such claptrap is appreciated.
So you are saying that Marty is behind all these characters?
Regards...jmcc
Yes, jmcc I think the cat is finally coming out of the bag. 0 -
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Only the snobs want to be listening to Gilbert and Sullivan and Bach at their breakfast all the time. Volare!
Good one
Slipped in there beside Bach !
Neatly done. Very drole :pac:
ROFL
As if even Lyric's audience could sink so low as to consider Sullivan music for snobs
ROTFLMAO
Felt sorry for it when no one else thanked or acknowledge this little burl.0 -
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Good one
Slipped in there beside Bach !
Neatly done. Very drole :pac:
ROFL
As if even Lyric's audience could sink so low as to consider Sullivan music for snobs
ROTFLMAO
Felt sorry for it when no one else thanked or acknowledge this little burl.
Actually our favourite burl is Burl Ives singing "The Ugly Bug Ball." 0
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