Jedward-RTE Radio

ghiertal

Is there some kind of new law after being enacted in RTE where Jedward have to be mentioned on every single show?

They were even mentioned in an interview between Pat Kenny and a US immigration lawyer. Now on Liveline in relation to the Olympics. It is just absolutely ludricous. Has anyone else noticed this or am I going off my head? Their act is so threadbare it's a wonder how they garner such publicity. I'd love for someone to conduct an extended 2 hour interview with them, their heads would probably expolde.

SEPT 23 1989

How about members of Rte have shares in the Jedward company and the better they do the more the members of RTE earn

chasmcb

They were on Morning Ireland today as well, it's absolutely ridiculous, as if RTE regard them as a modern version of Lennon & McCartney. And they've been asked to carry the Olympic torch???? Sheesh!

steelcityblues

Can't wait for those two ultra annoying airheads to have their 'Milli Vanilli' moment.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Overexposure that will lead to their popularity burning out in the near future. I suspect the lads to be a couple of alcoholics with a heroin problem before they're thirty.

europa11

At which stage some fossil in RTE will drag them out for their "comeback" concert.

(wonder will they still be talking like nine year olds with an ailment when they get to the big 3-0?....... but maybe that's for another day...)

As regards OP, well observed. It's as if there's been a compulsory order issued by the Montrose mandarins to promote this pair of talentless jackasses at every given opportunity.

Meanwhile, and certainly by comparison, kids with genuine talent up and down the country are roundly ignored.

plasmaguy

Lowest common denominator I suppose. RTE have been scraping the bottom of the barrell for years now when it comes to "entertainment".

I just hope once Eurovision is over, we never hear from Jedward again.

Lapin

Seven posts and not even a mention of The Mooney Their Own Show.

Wow !

vard

I've been living in the UK. Haven't heard crap about Jedward - thank **** for that.

Sure, their supposed popularity will be perpetrated in small and insignificant circles across Ireland, but the rest of the world won't give a toss.

Celebrity status in Ireland is like being the most popular kid in senior infants class 2.

europa11

vard wrote: »

..........
Celebrity status in Ireland is like being the most popular kid in senior infants class 2.

You've just tapped into the Jedward Target audience

......and of course "small and insignificant circles across Ireland" that sums up the RTE "celebrity" obsessed mentality perfectly.


Good post.

goose2005

steelcityblues wrote: »

Can't wait for those two ultra annoying airheads to have their 'Milli Vanilli' moment.

or a Mark Chapman moment...

Ol' Donie

I've wondered about this for a while...seem to remember marty whelan taking every opportunity he could to praise the hell out of them in and around eurovision time last year (and, for that matter, on that weird late late show where they selected the entry for this year). He seemed determined to tell everyone how amazing they are, based entirely on the fact that they are really nice lads. I would have thought that some sort of singing ability and, god forbid, some sort of coordination (of either individual's limbs or between the two of them) would be more important for an act like theirs, but not so in this case.

I'm all for showing support to local lads especially when they appear to work pretty hard, but the airtime these lads get is way, way out of proportion with their severely limited talents.

And dont give me "the kids love them" b*llocks. Kids love plenty of crap, but i dont remember the late late being built around Ben10 (or whatever that yoke is called).

Russell_James

The Jedward obsession is this months topic of choice.

The last few months has been The Voice of ireland being discussed at every available opportunity.

I bet once July comes along, every show won't be aired without profiling an Olympic athlete representing Ireland.

It is lazy content creation.

Ol' Donie

What the hell??

Just went over to the tv forum to see who is on the late late tonight, and lo and behold, there they are, top of the list?!

This is ludicrous. I guess eurovision must be on soon, or something, but jeez louise surely there must be someone more substantial out there for tubridy to interview?!

sudzs

They're on Playback now. :rolleyes:

ghiertal

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I've wondered about this for a while...seem to remember marty whelan taking every opportunity he could to praise the hell out of them in and around eurovision time last year (and, for that matter, on that weird late late show where they selected the entry for this year). He seemed determined to tell everyone how amazing they are, based entirely on the fact that they are really nice lads.

tubridy was at the same craic this week with some band called the stripes. Said that they are really nice lads, decent, mannerly and well brought up and that he would like to do well in some record company audition happening later that day in London. Half of RTE's DJs seem to be in Louis Walsh's pocket. I'm sure the other acts in the Eurovision qualification stage must have been pee'd off with the way tubridy, Mooney and Whelan all promoted Jedward before the Eurosong final. RTE released this photo before the final. Apparently these clowns say that they are from the UK when they are in America so i'm not sure if they are even fit to represent this country abroad.

dechecho

ghiertal wrote: »

tubridy was at the same craic this week with some band called the stripes. Said that they are really nice lads, decent, mannerly and well brought up and that he would like to do well in some record company audition happening later that day in London. Half of RTE's DJs seem to be in Louis Walsh's pocket. I'm sure the other acts in the Eurovision qualification stage must have been pee'd off with the way tubridy, Mooney and Whelan all promoted Jedward before the Eurosong final. RTE released this photo before the final. Apparently these clowns say that they are from the UK when they are in America so i'm not sure if they are even fit to represent this country abroad.

BIB - I don't think there is any truth in this at all! I've seen them interviewed a few times on US TV recently and they have always said that they are Irish. Americans sometimes mistake their accent for British (which is ironic as in the UK they get accused of sounding American!)

MJ23

I hope Borat's family capture them and eat them when they go to the sausagefest contest in Kazakhstan or wherever it is. Two hyperactive airheads. Louise Walsh has a lot to answer for. He should be in the European criminal court for crimes against hearing. 14 years of Westshìte, and now these weirdos.

my friend

dechecho wrote: »

BIB - I don't think there is any truth in this at all! I've seen them interviewed a few times on US TV recently and they have always said that they are Irish. Americans sometimes mistake their accent for British (which is ironic as in the UK they get accused of sounding American!)

by whom? Louis as he's tagging them

talent is a requirement of US success

my friend

dechecho wrote: »

BIB - I don't think there is any truth in this at all! I've seen them interviewed a few times on US TV recently and they have always said that they are Irish. Americans sometimes mistake their accent for British (which is ironic as in the UK they get accused of sounding American!)

a first poster one poster defender, that's interesting !

dechecho

my friend wrote: »

a first poster one poster defender, that's interesting !

Yeah I'm a Jedward fan, so what? And guess what else - I'm not Irish so I shouldn't even be on here

ShelleyJ

Jedwards path is a strange and difficult one.
Sometimes nature plays tricks on us and we imagine we are something other than what we truly are

ghiertal

dechecho wrote: »

BIB - I don't think there is any truth in this at all! I've seen them interviewed a few times on US TV recently and they have always said that they are Irish. Americans sometimes mistake their accent for British (which is ironic as in the UK they get accused of sounding American!)

JEDWARD engaged in a little name-dropping as they jogged along Hollywood Boulevard to complete the Los Angeles marathon at the weekend.
Asked who they were by a local TV station, the 'X Factor' sensations replied: "We're Jedward, we came all the way from the UK and Ireland... and we met Barack Obama in Ireland."

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/jedward-take-leading-roles-in-hollywood-as-they-complete-the-la-marathon-3054783.html


So these two fairies are getting endless free publicity on Irish public radio but they are too ashamed to say that they are Irish when they go abroad.

my friend

ghiertal wrote: »

JEDWARD engaged in a little name-dropping as they jogged along Hollywood Boulevard to complete the Los Angeles marathon at the weekend.
Asked who they were by a local TV station, the 'X Factor' sensations replied: "We're Jedward, we came all the way from the UK and Ireland... and we met Barack Obama in Ireland."

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/jedward-take-leading-roles-in-hollywood-as-they-complete-the-la-marathon-3054783.html


So these two fairies are getting endless free publicity on Irish public radio but they are too ashamed to say that they are Irish when they go abroad.

I have done a little digging...

http://www.lamarathon.com/

the only Grimes that finished the LA Marathon was a 63 year old Jim Grimes, I think the 2 fairy boys just jumped in on the Boulevard, I note the absence of Race Numbers on them....



Attention Seeking Fail

ChocolateChip

It is incredible the level of begrudgery and incessant complaining you get from people with regard to Jedward. They are two young fellas who do not drink alcohol, campaign against drug use and also bullying.

People always criticise the young people of today, yet these two lads are the complete opposite of binge-drinking, drug-using sociopaths.

Jedward will always be in the news and media. Get over your pathetic nagging and jealousy. They're there for the long-term.

The anti-Jedward brigade are getting pretty pathetic and laughable at this stage.

serfboard

my friend wrote: »

I have done a little digging...

http://www.lamarathon.com/

the only Grimes that finished the LA Marathon was a 63 year old Jim Grimes, I think the 2 fairy boys just jumped in on the Boulevard, I note the absence of Race Numbers on them....

Attention Seeking Fail

Good spot. The only Irish person that finished was a 32 year old man from Dublin.

So it's complete nonsense. However, this kind of thing goes on in the entertainment industry the whole time - it's anything to keep someone's profile up. Louis Walsh has even admitted to doing that in the past.

One only has to think of talentless people like Jordan to see how it's done. (Is she ever off supermarket checkout magazines?)

Papers don't refuse ink, and it's quick and easy to copy and paste a press release.

ChocolateChip wrote: »

It is incredible the level of begrudgery and incessant complaining you get from people with regard to Jedward. They are two young fellas who do not drink alcohol, campaign against drug use and also bullying.

People always criticise the young people of today, yet these two lads are the complete opposite of binge-drinking, drug-using sociopaths.

Jedward will always be in the news and media. Get over your pathetic nagging and jealousy. They're there for the long-term.

The anti-Jedward brigade are getting pretty pathetic and laughable at this stage.

My opinion on these two lads is that I find them mildly amusing. I've no doubt that they are nice young fellas and that's one of the reasons why people don't mind helping them out.

However, their "talent", such as it is, is fairly limited and I believe they are getting over-exposed - particularly on RTE radio, leading to fatigue.

I mean, there's only so often you can hear something described as "coooooool" and "amAAAAAAAAAzing" etc. before you get pretty tired of it.

L.Jenkins

steelcityblues wrote: »

Can't wait for those two ultra annoying airheads to have their 'Milli Vanilli' moment.

Tasteless, but I love it :pac: Maybe they'll go up like the Olympic torch with all that gel in their hair.

Lapin

ChocolateChip wrote: »

It is incredible the level of begrudgery and incessant complaining you get from people with regard to Jedward. They are two young fellas who do not drink alcohol, campaign against drug use and also bullying.

People always criticise the young people of today, yet these two lads are the complete opposite of binge-drinking, drug-using sociopaths.

Jedward will always be in the news and media. Get over your pathetic nagging and jealousy. They're there for the long-term.

The anti-Jedward brigade are getting pretty pathetic and laughable at this stage.

Few will argue that the twins are a clean living pair of lads with good heads on their shoulders.
And I don't have a problem with them exploiting whatever market they can sell their brand to.

But lets not confuse popularity with talent here.

Brand Jedward are a product and there is a market out there for what they sell.

But they cannot sing.
And thats what annoys me about RTÉ's sycophantic fawning over them in recent weeks. Our state broadcaster is sending them to the worlds biggest song contest at the expense of someone with genuine talent.

I wish them luck but I wouldn't be naive enough to think they're here for the long term. (In their current guise anyway).

Popularity wanes over time. Talent, on the other hand is permanent.

Just look at any of Louis Walsh's former "projects".

Ol' Donie

Lapin wrote: »

Just look at any of Louis Walsh's former "projects".

Don't be so cynical. Sure didn't i see that band Six on the tv a few weeks ago?

Now what was the name of the show they were on again? Oh yeah, The Late Late Show.

four18

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Overexposure that will lead to their popularity burning out in the near future. I suspect the lads to be a couple of alcoholics with a heroin problem before they're thirty.

With bulging bank accounts too !

ShelleyJ

Eyes are the mirror of the soul, someone has said

real rocker

my friend wrote: »

I have done a little digging...

http://www.lamarathon.com/

the only Grimes that finished the LA Marathon was a 63 year old Jim Grimes, I think the 2 fairy boys just jumped in on the Boulevard, I note the absence of Race Numbers on them....



Attention Seeking Fail

I was on the LA Marathon course a number of years ago ( during the race ) and won a KEarth Radio T shirt for my knowledge of The Beatles back catalogue. Maybe, had I got an interview, I might be famous too.

dechecho

Lapin wrote: »

Few will argue that the twins are a clean living pair of lads with good heads on their shoulders.
And I don't have a problem with them exploiting whatever market they can sell their brand to.

But lets not confuse popularity with talent here.

Brand Jedward are a product and there is a market out there for what they sell.

But they cannot sing.
And thats what annoys me about RTÉ's sycophantic fawning over them in recent weeks. Our state broadcaster is sending them to the worlds biggest song contest at the expense of someone with genuine talent.

I wish them luck but I wouldn't be naive enough to think they're here for the long term. (In their current guise anyway).

Popularity wanes over time. Talent, on the other hand is permanent.

Just look at any of Louis Walsh's former "projects".

They can sing. PLEASE look at this if you don't believe me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnK8AyEgipw

ghiertal

Will someone pass on this message to Derek Mooney, Marty Whelan and Paul G.

We're just days away from Jedward making the nation proud/suicidal during the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals and the duo have been busy refuting those nagging gay rumours.

Me and Edward are straight," John -who only gets one measly letter from their group name - told The Irish Sun. "You don’t know the stuff we get up to with girls.

“We have loads of girls so sorry to all the guys out there — you are still awesome but no, not this time.”

How much is it costing the taxpayer for Derek Mooney to engage his Jedward/Eurovision fetish?I feel like making a Jedward-RTE watch. Yet again on Pat Kenny's show this morning in the middle of a conversation with Eddie Hobbs + on Hector,Tubridy, Colm Hayes and Morning Ireland already today.

Gergiev

Lapin wrote: »

But they cannot sing.
And thats what annoys me about RTÉ's sycophantic fawning over them in recent weeks. Our state broadcaster is sending them to the worlds biggest song contest at the expense of someone with genuine talent.

Couldn't have put this better.

And the chickens really came home to roost tonight with their flat pitching which made their performance sound second-rate and amateurish compared to the other acts.

Not even the "Jedward-Occupied Territory" - otherwise known as the Mooney Show - will be able to spin this away.

But tune in on Monday afternoon to hear them do it anyway, breathlessly exclaiming how they were the life and soul of Baku, gave everyone a 'lift' (whatever that means - are they driving a taxi in their spare time?) and were completely let down by the voting system and those nepotistic Slavs, etc.

Yes, folks, we've heard it all before.

But don't take it too seriously - we're all underwriting this fiasco...

Yakuza

Gergiev wrote: »

And the chickens really came home to roost tonight with their flat pitching which made their performance sound second-rate and amateurish compared to the other acts.

It was cringeworthy, indeed.

Gergiev wrote: »

But tune in on Monday afternoon to hear them do it anyway, breathlessly exclaiming how they were the life and soul of Baku, gave everyone a 'lift' (whatever that means - are they driving a taxi in their spare time?) and were completely let down by the voting system and those nepotistic Slavs, etc.

Yes, yes, all is well, they "done us proud" etc. Bah. It will be Spin City.

As I've said elsewhere on these boards, I don't begrudge them their success, but I genuinely wish they don't have any further involvement with the Eurovision in this country. In my opinion, both times they went they took the place of someone far more talented. Let them stick to their pantos, mobile phone promotions, charity singles etc but leave the Eurovision to others.

RTÉ should start to swiftly turn down the exposure these two are getting.
While they're at it, they should sweep out the same old hacks that they have been falling back on (Lynda Martin, I'm looking at you) and let some new blood sort out our next EV entry.

ghiertal

Gergiev wrote: »

Couldn't have put this better.


Not even the "Jedward-Occupied Territory" - otherwise known as the Mooney Show - will be able to spin this away.

Yes, folks, we've heard it all before.

But don't take it too seriously - we're all underwriting this fiasco...

They're on Mooney again today. Mooney needs to be taken aside by someone in RTE and told to just stop it. A grown man giggling over two boys and all the sexual innuendo that lies within is not really suitable daytime radio.

Neeson

ghiertal wrote: »

They're on Mooney again today. Mooney needs to be taken aside by someone in RTE and told to just stop it. A grown man giggling over two boys and all the sexual innuendo that lies within is not really suitable daytime radio.

Mooney is just trying to tells us all something about himself without actually having to come out from inside the closet.


Inappropriate behaviour with two young fellas.

ghiertal

Neeson wrote: »

Mooney is just trying to tells us all something about himself without actually having to come out from inside the closet.


Inappropriate behaviour with two young fellas.

You are probably right there, it's odd that he has never acknowledged it and yet has numerous segments within the show promoting gay rights such as adoption and marriage(+ legal rights). If Jewdard weren't managed by Louis Walsh or gay there is no way that he would have had them on as much. If he is such an advocate for gay rights then it is time for him to come out, that is if he actually is gay. Otherwise all of what he is doing could be seen as counterproductive for the community, a gay man on a gay crusade but unwilling to expose himself.

Neeson

True. All his listeners must be thinking there's something wrong with being gay. He has to keep it a secret to keep the afternoon tea granny brigade on board though.

GJF

Are you saying that you think that Money should come out as being gay? If so you have missed it, he did so a couple of yeard ago and makes reference to it from time to time on his show.

Apologies if I have picked you up incorrectly

Neeson

Didn't know Derek Mooney came out as gay at all. :eek: I suppose that explains the regular gay agenda on his show.

ghiertal

GJF wrote: »

Are you saying that you think that Money should come out as being gay? If so you have missed it, he did so a couple of yeard ago and makes reference to it from time to time on his show.

Apologies if I have picked you up incorrectly

You posted this last week but Derek Mooney only came out yesterday. Are you Marty McFly? He has never mentioned it on his radio show by the way and it adds a new dimension to his obsession with those boys. I've come to the conclusion that half of RTE is gay, I'm not going to get into listing them but if someone as obvious as Derek Mooney can deny it then how many others are trying to land the gay/Jedward agenda down on us.
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/derek-mooney-finally-reveals-he-is-gay-and-insists-that-its-no-big-deal-3191313.html

Splinter

I don't see what difference Derek Mooney's sexuality has in this situation. lets keep it on topic folks

Neeson

Haha Jaysus. It's about time. Why didn't he do it years ago and then he wouldn't have all the people sniggering about his Jedward antics.

Father Damo

steelcityblues wrote: »

Can't wait for those two ultra annoying airheads to have their 'Milli Vanilli' moment.

I reckon they are too self adoring to consider topping themselves

Bodhran

Yeah but you kinda have to like them all the same.

Neeson

Bodhran wrote: »

Yeah but you kinda have to like them all the same.

No. They're beyond liking. They could just act normal but of course if they did then jedward would no longer exist. I'd imagine they'll soon get sick of this image they've made for themselves as two thick teens. They're not children anymore but have to act like imbeciles in order to keep the cash cow going.