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Lyric fm's Breakfast show presenter - Marty Whelan.

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    #1412
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    That was an error.


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    #1413
    Almaviva
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    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    That was an error.

    Happens to the best of us.


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    #1414
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    Lots of new stuff on the programme this morning including Bolero by Ravel that was done at the Proms. Mart is able to draw the sting out of even long heavy-going numbers like that and make them palatable to all.


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    #1415
    real rocker
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    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Lots of new stuff on the programme this morning including Bolero by Ravel that was done at the Proms. Mart is able to draw the sting out of even long heavy-going numbers like that and make them palatable to all.

    New stuff - surely this is what might be called skating on thin ice of Olympian proportions. UnRavel that one.


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    #1416
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    That took us a while to figure out! Torville & Dean! Yes, but it's new to the Marty show, because its a difficult number due to being so long. The programme points mean it's hard to squeeze in.


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    #1417
    europa11
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    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    That took us a while to figure out! Torville & Dean! Yes, but it's new to the Marty show, because its a difficult number due to being so long. The programme points mean it's hard to squeeze in.

    Another bit of in-house jargon.

    What a shill!


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    #1418
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    No sign of Hawley here recently, for whatever reason. Hmmm. A Byzantine or perhaps a Baroque operatic plot unfolding? Do come back, Hawley! We're getting those North Island Blues without you.


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    #1419
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭jmcc


    europa11 wrote: »
    Another bit of in-house jargon.

    What a shill!
    Must be the Boards.ie chapter for the Association of imaginary friends/fans of the Martydom show. :)

    Regards...jmcc


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    #1420
    DownBeaten
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭DownBeaten


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Lots of new stuff on the programme this morning including Bolero by Ravel that was done at the Proms. Mart is able to draw the sting out of even long heavy-going numbers like that and make them palatable to all.

    Must be the first time I've ever heard Ravel's Bolero being described as a "long, heavy-going number".


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    #1421
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    For listeners cutting their teeth so to speak on the real classical its a fairly big ask but Mart has the skills to sugar the pill and show that if he likes it it can't be too bad.

    For only €1 099, all or any of ye could be winging it with Marty to Italy with half-board as a special deal. Mart is going to sit at a different table each evening. And you could have got to see how a pro does music radio up close - plus recording the location shots in Venice for Marty in the Footsteps of the Red Priest - Il Pretty Rosso (working title).

    Listen up for more.


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    #1422
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    For only €1 099, all or any of ye could be winging it with Marty to Italy with half-board as a special deal. Mart is going to sit at a different table each evening.
    All aboard for the Martydom love boat? Kind of a sad comedown. Is RTE now selling tours and travel packages with its "stars"? Is this a real venture?

    Can we can save €1099 and be fully bored by listening to Marty's show? :)

    Regards...jmcc


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    #1423
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Almaviva


    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    For listeners cutting their teeth so to speak on the real classical its a fairly big ask but Mart has the skills to sugar the pill and show that if he likes it it can't be too bad.

    For only €1 099, all or any of ye could be winging it with Marty to Italy with half-board as a special deal. Mart is going to sit at a different table each evening. And you could have got to see how a pro does music radio up close - plus recording the location shots in Venice for Marty in the Footsteps of the Red Priest - Il Pretty Rosso (working title).

    Listen up for more.

    This is fricking outrageous. Has boards.ie policy changed to allow free advertising ? Or has this thread not been given its own 'Talk To' forum?
    Bolero. FFS.

    @Marty. Thoughts on @Pat Kenny getting the Newstalk gig?great. Deserved it!

    @Marty: How do you feel about your show today? Tried 100% all the way!

    @Marty: Marty will you just STFU and go and learn how to play music!!! Will you get a life first?

    @Marty: don’t rise to it mate. Just sick of negative a..holes sat behind a keyboard with a pitiful life mate !thats all!

    @boards: Like I give a XXXX what the haters say! That’s life ! Some people will always be just a little bit better and work just a little bit harder

    @boards: Bored now. Marty out.


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    #1424
    Yvonne23R
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    Almaviva wrote: »
    This is fricking outrageous. Has boards.ie policy changed to allow free advertising ? Or has this thread not been given its own 'Talk To' forum?
    Bolero. FFS.

    @Marty. Thoughts on @Pat Kenny getting the Newstalk gig?great. Deserved it!

    @Marty: How do you feel about your show today? Tried 100% all the way!

    @Marty: Marty will you just STFU and go and learn how to play music!!! Will you get a life first?

    @Marty: don’t rise to it mate. Just sick of negative a..holes sat behind a keyboard with a pitiful life mate !thats all!

    @boards: Like I give a XXXX what the haters say! That’s life ! Some people will always be just a little bit better and work just a little bit harder

    @boards: Bored now. Marty out.

    It's not advertising. The musical four of Verona opera and Vivaldi's Venice with Mart booked out solid and is in train. You can't advertise after the fact. And everything is public service, including getting a really good deal from our friends in the Travel business. 140 punters can't be wrong!

    It'll be a bit of craic for the lucky party following Marty and for those out there in Radioland. The food in Venice has to be seen to be believed.

    Andrea will be offering himself to Mart, and am intensive with Ludovico is on the cards for Il Prete Rosso TV Special, with a new arrangement of Oh Holy Night with Katherine Jenkins by special satellite link to Venice Cathedral. It will be a humdinger for the schedule. Do you remember the Perry Como Does Christmas in Dublin? Like that only updated.


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    #1425
    Almaviva
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    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Andrea will be offering himself to Mart
    :eek:

    Anyone else think Longford's cathedral is nicer than Venice's anyway ?


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    #1426
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    Almaviva wrote: »
    :eek:

    Anyone else think Longford's cathedral is nicer than Venice's anyway ?

    That's the one that burned down. Mart was saying that the old opera house in Venice was called La Fenice but boy because that's the Italian for Venice but because its a nickname because it used to get rebuilt from the ashes like the Phoenix. Like in the Phoenix Park. They've run out of money because Silvio wasn't ready to shell out again for an inflammable opera house out on an island. Carla Bruni should have said something to him.


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    #1427
    Almaviva
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    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    That's the one that burned down. Mart was saying that the old opera house in Venice was called La Fenice but boy because that's the Italian for Venice but because its a nickname because it used to get rebuilt from the ashes like the Phoenix. Like in the Phoenix Park. They've run out of money because Silvio wasn't ready to shell out again for an inflammable opera house out on an island. Carla Bruni should have said something to him.

    What'chu talkin' bout Y23R ?
    La Fenice is well and truly rebuilt.

    Is there a bunga bunga party organised for the lucky 140 as party of the Martyfest ?


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    #1428
    Almaviva
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    (this is like a real conversation between two people)


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    #1429
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    Almaviva wrote: »
    What'chu talkin' bout Y23R ?
    La Fenice is well and truly rebuilt.

    Is there a bunga bunga party organised for the lucky 140 as party of the Martyfest ?
    The site of the Phoenix Opera House as Mart calls isn't on the itinerary. There's a lot to see to fo Venice in a few days so you've to concentrate on the main sights.


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    #1430
    Yvonne23R
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    Would you support doing Verona with Milano next year? To cover Maria Callas and Tullio Serafin? They're getting in some of her costumes to Newbridge Silverware next year all going well so it could be an ideal tie in. The punters love the Newbridge Silverware jewellery.


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    #1431
    DownBeaten
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    Almaviva wrote: »
    (this is like a real conversation between two people)

    No sane human could possibly write the cringeworthy drivel that Y23R comes out with.


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    #1432
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Almaviva wrote: »
    (this is like a real conversation between two people)
    The key word being "like"? How do you keep track?

    Regards...jmcc


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    #1433
    Frank Grimes
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    DownBeaten wrote: »
    No sane human could possibly write the cringeworthy drivel that Y23R comes out with.
    Well I can think of at least one other person who can/has.


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    #1434
    Yvonne23R
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    I think I see a few choleric men of a certain age who might benefit from an 8-day coach tour of Verona, Venice & Mantovani territory with Marty!

    Mart can and has thawed the most crabbèd ice-bound heart of the sourest Victor Meldrew in his time with a few gentle broadsides of his irrepressible infectious wit.


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    #1435
    Almaviva
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    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    I think I see a few choleric men of a certain age who might benefit from an 8-day coach tour of Verona, Venice & Mantovani territory with Marty!

    Mart can and has thawed the most crabbèd ice-bound heart of the sourest Victor Meldrew in his time with a few gentle broadsides of his irrepressible infectious wit.

    Hugo ! :)


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    #1436
    Yvonne23R
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    Almaviva wrote: »
    Hugo ! :)

    Are you thereby admitting something, dear Count Almaviva?


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    #1437
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Almaviva


    Welcome SaveOurLyricFM !

    Do you think Marty is the route to salvation, or the death knell ?


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    #1438
    Almaviva
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    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    Are you thereby admitting something, dear Count Almaviva?

    Me auld flower.


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    #1439
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    Marty's panache and lightness of touch are the pattern of what's to come. No longer Musical Snob FM, but pleasant, soothing music in daylight, with more user-generated content, competitions, phone-ins, requests, and a recalibration of the service to slightly lighter repertoire. Links with sponsors, and subtle inserts and placement. All integrated organically, with a suite of meaningful Pavlovian jingles. Stripping sports news on the hour and other news on the Hal hour. Plus much, much more. And travel opportunities for talent & punters throughout the year. Synergies with commercial supporters and cross-fertilisation with the other services.


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    #1440
    DownBeaten
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    Yvonne23R wrote: »
    I think I see a few choleric men of a certain age who might benefit from an 8-day coach tour of Verona, Venice & Mantovani territory with Marty!

    Mart can and has thawed the most crabbèd ice-bound heart of the sourest Victor Meldrew in his time with a few gentle broadsides of his irrepressible infectious wit.

    From someone who posts that Ravel's Bolero is a "long, heavy-going number"!

    Actually I checked the playlist, the piece listed was an excerpt from Bolero.

    @Y23R: For a wind-up merchant you're getting quite boring at this stage.


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    #1441
    Yvonne23R
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yvonne23R


    With only 17 posts, are you in a position to pronounce on anything here, young sir? Or, indeed, about our output!


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