RTE Gold discussion thread

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122251887#Comment_122251887

On RTE Gold? Bit of an oxymoron!

On 2fm for sure.

byte

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122251815#Comment_122251815

Yeah, same problem here and for others. Seems to affect any internet radios with Frontier Nuvola which includes Kenwood and others as well.

A thread was started here:

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058355295/rte-streaming-roberts-radio-shoutcast-changes

tommythecat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122252336#Comment_122252336

Thanks a mil for the info! What a pita! Hopefully it gets sorted soon.

ford fiesta

why arent some of the RTE Gold weekend shows/specials not also aired on Radio 1 during the night, in place of "The late debate" or on Bank Holidays such as Pat O'Mahonys "For The Record" and the recent Dave Fanning series?

ZaK23-54

Brilliant suggestion..

I would also add John Connolly’s and Living in the 70’

There are so many older listeners who do not know how to get RTÉ Gold

RINO87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122263324#Comment_122263324

Once they leave John Kenny and Caravan Radio in place for summer too!!

ford fiesta

I like John Kenny when he pops up doing the Rock Hour on Radio 1 occasionally since Covid, however a lot of the time he reverts to the same tracks and featuring the same classic albums, for example Metallica The Black Album or The Clash London calling, as with previous shows. Just an observation, not a criticism.

RINO87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122266061#Comment_122266061

Ya you're right on that one... Still the novelty of hearing Slayer and Megadeth on R1 hasn't worn off !!

zoobizoo

WIll Leahy stated this morning that he believed that Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus's song from the former's recent release "2 Wanted' would become a country classic like Rhinestone Cowboy.

Don't think so Will.....

lertsnim

It annoys me when he plays new music. Defeats the purpose of the channel.

its_steve116

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122279337#Comment_122279337

If it's from artists who aren't aimed at 2FM listeners then I don't think it's so bad.

Glaceon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122279841#Comment_122279841

He regularly plays Dua Lipa, who I’d consider to be 2FM material.

ford fiesta

He plays the odd current hit, as he sees them as being 'future Gold' just like Tony Blackburn does on his BBC R2 oldies show.

zoobizoo

Rick O'Shea playing Lupe Fiasco 'Kick Push' followed by OPM 'Heaven is a Half Pipe'....

Keep up the good work!

thejuggler

RTE gold stayed in automated mode for much of the first hour of Will Leahys show this morning - perhaps linked to the crowdstrike incident. Seemed to be a playlist of 70s music. He was back on air live at 8am.

ford fiesta

Rick is filling in for Sean Rocks on Arena Radio 1 next Monday and Tuesday

Glaceon

Al Dunne filling in for Will Leahy for the next two weeks. I have to admit, I prefer Al’s music selection, you won’t be hearing any Sabrina Carpenter or Dua Lipa!

lertsnim

I was delighted when I heard Will was off. As you say the music is so much better.

Declan A Walsh

I was going through all the current presenters on the RTE Gold schedule. It looks like John Connolly is the only presenter who was not involved at some stage with any of the FM-based RTE stations or RTE television. In case you are wondering about Al Dunne, he was with RTE's then Dublin station Millennium Radio in the late 1980s. John Connolly's ABC to XTC was originally on another RTE online station 2XM, but has been on RTE Gold for some time now. The other presenters that I am aware of (and all with RTE experience), with some help from the schedule, are: Will Leahy, Aidan Leonard, Michael Cahill, Ronan Collins, Rick O'Shea, Dave Fanning, Micky Mac/Michael McNamara, Amanda Fennelly, Pat O'Mahony, John Daly, Eric Moore and Carol Moran. Are there others I am unaware of who, like John Connolly, came without previous "mainstream" RTE experience?

ford fiesta

John Daly and Pat O'Mahony are not part of the current schedule, if you are solely focusing on current presenters.

John was not previously on RTE radio.

Neither was former Gold presenter Karl Tsigdinos, he had no previous RTE shows as far as I know.

Declan A Walsh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122443131#Comment_122443131

I am focussing on the current schedule and those names came up against some of the programmes shown on the schedule. According to his Linkedin profile, John Daly has produced programmes for RTE both on radio and television, and I was talking about any connection to "mainstream" RTE. I wasn't looking at former RTE Gold presenters, but Karl was briefly a presenter of some motoring show on RTE television.

Incidentally, I was looking at Karl Tsgdinos's Linkedin page and I don't think he updated it in a while. It still shows him as a presenter on RTE Gold. While I am there, I found a few unrelated errors. It says he started on 4FM in February 2008 - it was actually 2009 (that's when the station started!). His start and end years with Radio Ireland/Today FM should be 1997 to 2003, rather than 1998 to 2004.

ekkinak

I Am The Greatest by A House playing now.

RINO87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122443131#Comment_122443131

I ramber Karl Tsigdino's "River of Soul" on Today FM... what a different station it was then! I wonder was he still producing/presenting Drive! On Rte TV at the same time as being on today fm?

Declan A Walsh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122449440#Comment_122449440

Drive! - thank you! I knew he had an RTE connection.

ford fiesta

2 1990s songs were played on todays "All 80s Saturday" with amanda fennelly they were marc almond "days of pearly spencer" and maura o'connell "summerfly", both from 1992.

Even if the presenter/producer of the show is not familiar with the songs years, with info on songs easily accessible on the web and on playout systems, you would think errors like this would not happen.

I only tuned in twice today for a few minutes and heard these so maybe they are others from other decades ?

GSF

Maura O’Connell was definitely released late 80s

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122461859#Comment_122461859

It was released as part of "A Womans Heart" album in 1992

its_steve116

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122460348#Comment_122460348

1990-1992 was the 1980s in all but name, in my view.

GSF

A woman’s heart album was basically a compilation album of songs that’s had been previously released on other albums. I suppose you have a point if they played the version off the Women’s Heart album

xxnza.com

Two certain songs from the early 90s, The one and only by Chesney Hawkes and Friday I'm in love by The Cure often get played on 80s shows and 80s stations, they were playlisted on Today FMs old 7pm Friday Night 80s show all through it's 18 year run, presumably because they sound so 80s.

its_steve116

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462225#Comment_122462225

It's still the cultural 80s in my view, the first three years of the 90s.

"It Must Have Been Love", "Show Me Heaven", "Everything I Do", "Wind of Change", "Enjoy the Silence", "Sacrifice", "November Rain", "King of Wishful Thinking", "U Can't Touch This" - all released between 1990 and 1992. To name but a few!

Pat James

Summerfly was a track on Maura O'Connell's 1989 album Helpless Heart

ford fiesta

The more music drive with carol moran has no presenter this week, just wall to wall music with no 'more music drive' liners

GSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122484582#Comment_122484582

no holiday cover so just automated

ZaK23-54

just listening to Micky Mac all 70’s show on RTÉ Gold..

He played a vinyl copy of Ten to Eight by David Castle and mentioned that in the early days of Radio 2 DJ’s as well as cueing the vinyl - they also played the Adds from Carts. ‘There was no voice tracking in those days in those days’ he said. Jocks certainly earned their money then.

I take it he hardly voice tracks the show if he includes vinyl? He must be hitting 70 so knows his seventies music 🎵!

ford fiesta

the show is not live as far as i know, although micky gives the impression it is. no weekend show on Gold is live and never was. i would estimate that micky is around 73.

in relation to the david castles song, like a few songs on the Gold playlist, it wouldve been ripped from a vinyl record and uploaded as a file to the computer system for playout.

RTE dont play vinyl "live" in their studios, I would say there is a turntable in at least one of their production studios in dublin for such vinyl uploads.

I've also heard other Radio 2 dj's describe the early days and the process was that the ads were played by a technical person in another studio from cart. the dj only played jingles on cart and records.

on the pirate stations the dj wouldve played the ads, so they did everything for playout

TheBMG

I’ve never seen that David Castles tune on CD, so it’s very possible Gold only have a vinyl rip.

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513661#Comment_122513661

Even if it's not on CD in their library, radio stations such as Gold no longer source their songs from CDs, there are plenty of music services on line such as "ilikemusic" that will provide a song file in seconds. I'd say the David Castles song was vinyl ripped by John Clarke during his 2FM days, nowadays he'd just source the song on line.

I'd say most of the RTE Gold playlist was built from these music providers, it's much handier than going to the physical music library finding a CD and then ripping it just for one oldie. Although I quite like the picture in my head of CDs or vinyl being used for these sourcing purposes.

ZaK23-54

I had forgotten how beautiful Ten to Eight by David Castle was until I heard Micky play it….earlier today.

cml387

One aspect of RTE Gold is starting to annoy me…repetition.

Saturday morning: they play Tainted Love by Soft Cell

Saturday mid day the featured year is 1981 and they play…..Tainted Love by Soft Cell.

Sunday Morning Ireland's Biggest jukebox they play Killer Queen.

Sunday Afternoon the DJ chooses to play two songs by Queen one of which is …Killer Queen

And Ronan Collins' mystery year today is ….1981. Again. So we've had Ghost Town by the Specials..again.

In the old days this might be called "excessive rotation".

tommythecat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518590#Comment_122518590

Yes there can be a fair amount of repetition sometimes alright. I'm noticing Damn I wish I was your lover by Sophie b Hawkins a lot at the moment. Still not half as bad as other stations.

Declan A Walsh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518590#Comment_122518590

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518839#Comment_122518839

You would have thought, though, that a full-time oldies station might be able to play more than one song by Soft Cell.

ekkinak

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518865#Comment_122518865

Absolutely,

Bedsitter, Say Hello and Torch were all top 5, (think Torch reached no. 2)

Guy_In_Cognito

RTE Gold definitely suffer from repetition, I presume there's a reason for that, but as others stated, still better than other stations. Classic Hits seem to play Toto's Africa ten times a day.
RTE Gold are very fond of You Got It by Roy Orbison, and can be a bit boy band heavy at times, but it's still by far my favourite Radio 'Channel'.

GSF

I guess it’s the weekend shows not being integrated into the playlist so if they play a song as part of the chart countdown they don’t count that as a play when doing rotation. Other than that some presenters seem to have favourites that keep popping up.

But if you only listen for an hour a day would you notice?

zoobizoo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122523422#Comment_122523422

I was only commenting to my wife this afternoon when I heard Toto's Africa being played on East Coast FM..... (we had heard it yesterday as well).

"It's funny how some songs are chosen to represent the 80s... I'm sure they're playing it more now than they did back then".

And it was probably rarely played in the late 80s and throughout the 90s.

ford fiesta

with so many 80s songs forgotten about during the 90s as cumbersome CDs was the main playout method, computer playout has made these songs very overplayed these days.

GSF

some songs just sound better on the radio. From the chart of August 1983 for example Come Dancing by the Kinks sounds much better than Walking in the rain by Modern Romance

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122525609#Comment_122525609

all down to personal taste, but come dancing wouldnt be the kinks finest moment.

cml387

Ah ,I quite like "Come Dancing",especially if you know the rather sad story behind it.