Gay is back

Scaramanga 4

Sunday 2 till 4 on Lyric Fm.

sligojoek

He never went away, you know.

Scaramanga 4

I always wondered why he retired from weekday radio so young ?

heybaby

This is nuts but most typical of montrose. How old is Gaybo now ? 78 ? A legend he is, certainly, but seriously rte does not need gaybo anymore. Who are they indulging by putting him back on the air after a 6 month break, him? themselves? both ? Move on Gaybo, you've had your 50 years in the spotlight, time to give youth a chance.

armchair fusilier

I wonder is Gay this person...

One worker described as "part-time/casual" was paid between €100,000 and €150,000.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-pays-80-staff-10m-on-top-of-3m-for-star-broadcasters-29166095.html

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danjo-xx

heybaby wrote: »

This is nuts but most typical of montrose. How old is Gaybo now ? 78 ? A legend he is, certainly, but seriously rte does not need gaybo anymore. Who are they indulging by putting him back on the air after a 6 month break, him? themselves? both ? Move on Gaybo, you've had your 50 years in the spotlight, time to give youth a chance.

So they are all tuned into Lyric.fm between 2-4pm every sunday.........:eek:


and here was I thinking they were all watching footie or GAA or listening to 2fm.

heybaby

danjo-xx wrote: »

So they are all tuned into Lyric.fm between 2-4pm every sunday.........:eek:


and here was I thinking they were all watching footie or GAA or listening to 2fm.

By virtue of the fact that Gaybo is 78 years of age, 'youth', by comparison could be anything from 30 - 60 years of age.

Roxee

Right....would it be wildly off-topic to actually discuss the show and not his age?

Because fact is, the Lyric show is fantastic and has been for years - it's a masterclass in music broadcasting, frankly. I adore big band and New Orleans jazz so I love the music (and his absolute passion for it is infectious) but aside from that, his delivery of stories and observations between songs is just incredible.

So 78, 88 or 98, I'm thrilled October is here and that he's back.

Expunge

Gotta disagree there, Roxee.

Musically, his first two seasons were very good and focused on his favourite Dixieland and, for want of a better term, Grandad Jazz.

Since then, because of a change of producer I'd suspect, the music has been awful and all over the place. In his last series, it included Merseybeat and Daniel O'Donnell and Ray Conniff style elevator muzak. Terrible stuff.
This would suggest to me that he was a great expert on a certain genre of Jazz when there was a producer there to get the stuff and write a few notes for him. Now, it seems, the latest producer is unwilling to spoon feed the great man.

There is no doubt he is a fabulous raconteur - the best there's ever been on radio perhaps. Now, however he's reduced to 'auld wan' style lectures on road saftety and what premiere he and Kathleen attended during the week.
It is self-indulgent clap-trap.
It further re-inforces the notion in my mind that RTE exists to serve the people in it and not the Irish public in a meaningful, specialist way.

Forgotten but not gone. Gay Byrne - probably our greatest ever.
Time for him to go or continue to cause some damage to a great great legacy.

PaulieBoy

A disaster! He plays the worst Jazz imaginable and bores us between said deplorable rubbish with inane brainless "banter".

dawa43

Thanks for the warning. When I want a decent jazz programme, Donald Helme gives the masterclass. More music, less gibberish.