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Bring back "No Disco"

  • 03-01-2017 12:50am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭


    It must be off the box for over 10 years now but rte haven't had a decent music show since.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭GuitarTown


    You're in luck, I just seen the other day they just have, well kinda. Donal Dineen from the original is involved in it and its just online. Seems interesting

    https://arbutusyarns.net/2016/12/25/this-aint-no-disco-episode-i/

    https://thisaintnodisco.ie/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be

    Whisper words of wisdom

    It was dung


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭lc180


    It must be off the box for over 10 years now but rte haven't had a decent music show since.

    But sure RTE have the Nathan Carter show, what more do ya want in life......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I'll stick with John Creedon on the radio, I think.


    Radio 1, I must be getting old.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Most of the young ones here will have no idea what the OP is talking about.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,980 ✭✭✭wyrn


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Most of the young ones here will have no idea what the OP is talking about.

    Oh no! When did I get old?

    RIP Uaneen Fitzsimons :-(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    It must be off the box for over 10 years now but rte haven't had a decent music show since.

    Let me tell you about a little show called Other Voices.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,807 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Let me tell you about a little show called Other Voices.
    I loved No Disco but could never warm to Other Voices at all. I know I might be getting on a bit now but I don't think that's the reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,876 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Let me tell you about a little show called Other Voices.

    They always seem to have too narrow a musical focus when compared to No Disco.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,876 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    It must be off the box for over 10 years now but rte haven't had a decent music show since.

    Just set up the petition and I'll sign it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    He used to say mellifluous a lot. Mellifluous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    maudgonner wrote: »
    I'll stick with John Creedon on the radio, I think.


    Radio 1, I must be getting old.

    +1 for Creedo, always a great show.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Let me tell you about a little show called Other Voices.

    Is that even still on?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    I loved No Disco but could never warm to Other Voices at all. I know I might be getting on a bit now but I don't think that's the reason.

    Other voices is for neck beards


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭henryporter


    judeboy101 wrote: »
    Other voices is for neck beards

    Beard necks even


  • Site Banned Posts: 33 O. K. Corral


    Yer man Leagues O'Toole was an awful gob****e

    Uaneen tho :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭ahlookit


    gramar wrote: »
    He used to say mellifluous a lot. Mellifluous.

    He also used to play Protection a lot.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Yer man Leagues O'Toole was an awful gob****e

    Uaneen tho :(

    Terrible loss :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,876 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Dear RTÉ, please bring back that show that very few people watched. We all promise to series link it and fast forward through the ads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭buried


    I memba one episode, that particular night it p!ssed down with snow outside, you just knew none of the country lane school buses would even start the next morning and there would be a definite day off. Sat down beside the fire watching No Disco with a hape of toast and tae with no worries about not doing your homework for the grim bastards up in their grey $hitkeep in the morning, was brilliant.

    Make America Get Out of Here



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Donal Dineen was a decent dj, think he used to play in RiRas on Wexford St in the late 90s and churn out a set unlike any other, FSOL, the Aphex Twin etc.


  • Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ah memories. I was sad when Uaneen Fitzsimons died. I remember thinking how cool and interesting she seemed.

    Yer man Leagues though. Wtf sort of name is Leagues?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,859 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Definitely was a highlight of weekly TV watching for me as a teenager growing up - introduced me to a lot of bands and genres of music. Despite how old fashioned a programme of it's type is now in the world of Youtube and Spotify et al I certainly think it couldn't do any harm if it was reinstated to the schedules. Something like double bills of 2 Broke Girls might have to make way but, hey - no pain, no gain. Or, in that case - no pain, all gain.

    I remember hating that Leagues fellow at the start, but I dunno he seemed to me to be alright really. Just a big music fan, who knew his stuff and, in particular, put in a lot of work to help to bring about a renewed appreciation of Planxty among people who largely wouldn't be caught dead listening to anything resembling traditional music. He deserves credit in my view.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    It must be off the box for over 10 years now but rte haven't had a decent music show since.

    Other voices is decent I find ,no disco was great though, the era of rte making anything decent is long gone now though, most of there money is spent on there so called "stars" salaries :rolleyes: is it any wonder they can't make anything decent when tubby is getting half a million a year!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Other Voices seems to cater mainly to that "guy with guitar softly singing about girl who doesn't love him" genre, no?

    No Disco had stuff like Jah Wobble and Orbital and Bjork and was actually interesting.


  • Site Banned Posts: 33 O. K. Corral


    Anyone remember The Sound Room on TV3 with Darragh Purcell?

    Introduced me to the Manic Street Preachers

    Good times

    Oh how I long for the halcyon days of yore


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭ahlookit


    Anyone remember The Sound Room on TV3 with Darragh Purcell?

    Introduced me to the Manic Street Preachers

    Good times

    Oh how I long for the halcyon days of yore

    Does anyone still have their "Darragh Purcell is a spa" t-shirt? Used to spot a couple of them at gigs ... probably circa Witness festival, so round about 2000.

    As for Leagues, didnt particularly like him as a TV presenter, but he's brought some good acts over under his Harmonics presents promotions in recent years. Having said that he was facing an impossible task in replacing Uaneen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭Pete Moss


    Let me tell you about a little show called Other Voices.

    Other Voices mainly feature SCWAGs (Some c*nt with a guitar) singing softly and drenched in reverb. It's OK in small doses, but generally, the show lack variety


  • Site Banned Posts: 33 O. K. Corral


    Purcell was so far up his own hole lol


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    Pete Moss wrote: »
    Other Voices mainly feature SCWAGs (Some c*nt with a guitar) singing softly and drenched in reverb. It's OK in small doses, but generally, the show lack variety

    Ireland seems to produce an unusually high number of ugly men with a beard and a guitar singing about unrequited love. They usually tend to go for women who appear emotionally cold, and who they always spot riding around town on her bicycle following the rejection.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,123 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Ah memories. I was sad when Uaneen Fitzsimons died. I remember thinking how cool and interesting she seemed.

    Yer man Leagues though. Wtf sort of name is Leagues?

    His given name is Laurence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,649 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    I have a rake of No Disco episodes (or parts of) recorded on VHS in the attic. If I ever get around to digitising them I'll stick them on youtube and post a link here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,123 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    To be honest I always found Dineen's delivery a bit flat... I would've preferred just the videos / music without all the links in between. Could've done it like the old Chart Show with a banner with some facts and figures relating to the video being played.

    Anyway with YouTube and the way music is consumed now, there's virtually no need for a music video TV show. You can watch whatever music videos you want on YT, you don't have to wait to be shown something.

    The only option would be a live performance TV show, but again that's been tried many times in many ways. Jools Holland seems to be the only one that's kept on going. And again, you can watch live performances on YouTube, from gigs often the same night as the gig.

    Perhaps a new No Disco could become more of a magazine show - music news, interviews, some video and live content, and short, documentary style "articles".

    However, the problem is that back then, No Disco catered for the "indie" crowd, playing that kind of music (a broad definition for sure). Nowadays, that doesn't really exist anymore. Besides the fact there aren't really any indie labels left, the modern millenial music listener doesn't care if the music they listen to is on a big or small label, or what category it falls under. Just look at Pitchfork - they feature any kind of music, from R&B to rock, metal, electronic, and jazz - so what kind of music would No Disco feature? Get that balance right and they've got themselves a worthy show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭O'Neill


    I don't really agree that No Disco catered for just the 'Indie' crowed to be honest. I always thought it was the closest thing that Ireland ever got to a John Peel. I don't think such shows are irrelevant, if you're on YouTube, it still depends on your own personal taste or knowledge in order to seek out certain music, whereas No Disco would play stuff you probably wouldn't have thought to search for on YouTube. In terms of music TV, there wasn't even a TV show like it in the UK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭s8n


    More of a beatbox fan myself


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭ahlookit


    Plastic Orange was clearly the jewel in RTEs musical crown


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