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Ray Darcy's radio show

  • 05-07-2005 9:31pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 14


    Hey there i was just wondering who did ray darcy say was gay this morning on his radio show cus my radio turned off before i could hear!! thank!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,177 ✭✭✭oneweb


    me

    It is what it's.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭Skitbra


    I have to say that is one of the worst shows. All its content is just from text messages. Especially today. With a bit of music thrown in. He gets paid for this! Amazing.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    Personally I think its great. Good laugh most days. Beats the crap out of Gerry Ryan any day,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Rew wrote:
    Personally I think its great. Good laugh most days. Beats the crap out of Gerry Ryan any day,

    Oh there's no doubt it beats seven colours of sh*te out of Ryan's show, but D'Arcy, especially on his friday show, brings his own brand of annoying. I like Ray himself, but the show get's railroaded with the same god awful playlists that daytime Irish radio as a whole seems to suffer from....As for that stuck up b*tch that does the...um..what does she do, apart from spew crap in that fake yank accent.
    The fix it feature annoys the hell out of me....I mean it's Google and listener's texts...wtf do they fix?

    All Irish radio seems to be is a corporate vehicle for promoting whatever it is the advertisers want to sell. At least TodayFM is self sustaining...RTE however has no excuse.
    Sorry for the rant....the Irish airwaves make my blood boil and I work outside the broadcast range of BBC R1...who's daytime playlists Irish radio stations could learn a LOT from...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭cashback


    Skitbra wrote:
    I have to say that is one of the worst shows. All its content is just from text messages. Especially today. With a bit of music thrown in. He gets paid for this! Amazing.

    I have to say I used to like it but i'm beginning to think more like Skitbra now.
    Listened to some of it this morning and it's the usual auld thing.
    Typical text : "well ray, i'm textin from me tractor and it's pissing rain! Tell Jenny i think she sounds quare sexy so she does! I'd say she'd look good in a pair of wellies... ho ho, hah?!"
    Maybe it's the way he reads them that annoys me more. And the music is crap, very predictable. Radio-friendly Irish stuff like Paddy Casey, Damien Rice, Snow Patrol, The Frames...ZZZZZZZZ
    By the way, I've seen Jenny and she ain't sexy!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,846 ✭✭✭Le Rack


    Ray D'Arcy rocks ass big time, has us pissing ourselves with laughter most mornings, althouh yeah Jenny's accent is darn annoying...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    All Irish radio, without exception, is substandard, amateurish, prurient, and aimed at the lowest common denominator.

    Buy a DABS radio and listen to some proper shows from across the water.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭shuushh


    lies ^^^

    plenty of good content on Today FM, Newstalk and RTE, actually ridiculously good content considering the size of this country


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    shuushh wrote:
    lies ^^^

    plenty of good content on Today FM, Newstalk and RTE, actually ridiculously good content considering the size of this country

    During the day? Don't make me laugh...we could do a lot better...but right now every Irish broadcaster seems stuck in some sort of rut as far as imaginative output goes.
    I'll not count Newstalk since I've not heard enough of/about it to comment.
    RTÉ? Pfft...2FM is supposedly a "youth" station (or at least it was when I was a kid), yet the average age of it's broadcasters are bound to be in the high forties? To me it's becoem the equivalent to BBC R2...with token additions of better musical content for a few hours in the evening. But enough of 2FM...the rest of the RTÉ stations aim themselves at 35+ demographic, and that's fine for over 35s, but where's the output for the younger generations?
    TodayfM is the best of a bad bunch...it get's a lot better at night.
    ...and that's the point, if they can all play a little more alternative stuff in the evenings, why not stick them in their playlists for daytime? The "groundhog day" effect of the way playlists seem to be formulated and executed is a complete turn-off; when it's on every number on the dial it starts to get very old...

    I know it's not fair to compare RTE and BBC; one is much smaller than the other and has less resources.
    But look at the talent this country outputs for it's size compared to the UK...why are our airwaves lagging behind?
    I'll close with this; I first heard the new music of two of this country's current big acts, Snow Patrol and Damien Rice on daytime 1FM...it wasn't until either chart releases or entries by either act, that any of the Irish radio stations gave them airplay during the daytime.
    What others bands ae they not playing out? Sorry but putting them on at 11pm just doesn't get them the market exposure they need.
    So much of our talent has had to go to the UK to break before they can make it any way big at home...that shouldn't happen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭shuushh


    well my comment in relation to Today FM was more pointed towards their evening programming, i can tolerate ray darcy but he plays mostly bad music

    newstalk have a very strong and solid weekday schedule (dunphy, kibred, moncrief, hook ) and their sports department is very impressive and its doing a superb job in covering Irish sports specifically the GAA and also the Eircom league

    ill agree that rte lag behind on the music side of things but their current affairs, news and documentaries are fairly top notch

    Irish radio stations play popular music during the daytime because they need to survive although I agree with you that most of the music is appalling it is an unfortunate fact of life for them to survive they need to get the most listeners possible during the daytime

    of course theres bad irish radio but to flat out state that all Irish radio is rubbish is just flat out wrong


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Easily_Irritated


    Gawd I love Ray, hes just great!!

    How many ppl will watch the rose of tralee this year just cos hes presenting?? I know I will :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    shuushh wrote:
    well my comment in relation to Today FM was more pointed towards their evening programming, i can tolerate ray darcy but he plays mostly bad music

    newstalk have a very strong and solid weekday schedule (dunphy, kibred, moncrief, hook ) and their sports department is very impressive and its doing a superb job in covering Irish sports specifically the GAA and also the Eircom league

    ill agree that rte lag behind on the music side of things but their current affairs, news and documentaries are fairly top notch

    Irish radio stations play popular music during the daytime because they need to survive although I agree with you that most of the music is appalling it is an unfortunate fact of life for them to survive they need to get the most listeners possible during the daytime

    of course theres bad irish radio but to flat out state that all Irish radio is rubbish is just flat out wrong


    The need for survival should surely be a catalyst for diversification in the music department, no?
    If all the popular radio stations already sound the same and play the same drivel day in day out, how do they expect to stand out from the crowd and attract an audience?
    In trying to appeal to, and aiming at, the lowest common denominator, they bellyflop into the concrete. It resulsts in bland "Smashey and Nicey" type output for the most part...I'm not saying the BBC are perfect but when you can hear diverse music alongside chart music and popular stuff and when the playlists are at least varied to some extent, listening to the radio becomes a little more involving instead of being dwnright annoying.

    Of course I'm going on about music; news output is fairly good to very good on the Irish radio stations, but only because you'd nee to be a complete tool to do it badly.
    News writes itself really...as a nation we love to talk...opinions and editorials are rife in our newspapers and on the air as well. TBH when I'm at work, I look for some entertainment from my radio listening; if I want news an hourly bulletin suffices. It's all about the music...which is why, anytime I have to work further south than Drogheda, it's on with the mp3 player.

    *shoots Easily_Irritate in the face*
    Rose Of Tralee? D'Arcy hosting? :rolleyes:
    Won't someone please think of the children?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    In trying to appeal to, and aiming at, the lowest common denominator, they bellyflop into the concrete. It resulsts in bland "Smashey and Nicey" type output for the most part

    Precisely


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭shuushh


    news/current affairs/documentaries all require skill to achieve a good quality if you choose not to listen to it grand but dont casually push it off its a big part of irish broadcasting

    the BBC can afford to be varied for quite obvious reasons the main one being they have the greatest resources in the world and are fecking massive.while im not excusing the music output on Irish radio daytime radio im just giving you the reasons for why it is and the music becomes far more varied in the evening slots anyway. Phantom FM and Lyric FM are the two stations that stick out in terms of their unique music selection


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    shuushh wrote:
    news/current affairs/documentaries all require skill to achieve a good quality if you choose not to listen to it grand but dont casually push it off its a big part of irish broadcasting

    the BBC can afford to be varied for quite obvious reasons the main one being they have the greatest resources in the world and are fecking massive.while im not excusing the music output on Irish radio daytime radio im just giving you the reasons for why it is and the music becomes far more varied in the evening slots anyway. Phantom FM and Lyric FM are the two stations that stick out in terms of their unique music selection

    All news and current affairs output requires is a half capable journalist/investigator and an editorial/production team. News writes itself IMO...it's for that very reason that there is so much news output on our airwaves. We have a lot of political stuff since this country is so politically diverse...we also have a lot of public opinion in relation to both news and politics, thus we have the ubiquitous phone-in shows.
    I'm not degrading ANY of this output...I'm merely commenting how relatively easy it is to do. It's one thing RTÉ excel at...in fact it's one of the only things ;)

    I already said that comparisons to the BBC are slightly unfair for the reasons both you and I gave earlier...but you won't see too many DJs or presenters on ANY of the BBC radio networks earning the extravagant sums that Montrose sees fit to pay many of it's lackeys...surely those resources could be a lot better spent else where...
    How about investing in some new blood or some new ideas for instance? The bland pack of middle aged men that make up the "primetime" face of 2FM are out of touch (with the exception of Larry Gogan)...instead RTÉ groom the likes of Tubridy for a boadcasting career for god knows what reason.
    As I already stated, we have ample talent in this country; why don't we get to see any of it?
    A few months back an unknown girl from Dublin was chosen to host BBC 1FM's midweek dance show...she's a very talented DJ and a pleasure to listen to...she sounds normal and down to earth...not some stuck up twat fresh out of a media studies course. Even their daytime DJs aren't "big names" or established over years and years the way RTE seem to do it - fresh blood, changing schedules, diverse musical content...it's not f*cking rocket science...all it takes is to put someone in charge that actually knows WTF they're doing. We all pay a license fee...is it too much to ask that we can ALL get some value for money in return?


    Oh and Magpie; can we receive DAB on the east coast? Is it clear? What sort of prices are we talking about for receivers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭StonedParadoX


    your right ..he does play the same old Crap day in day out but i love the texting thing and Fix it friday its bloody brilliant

    i saw Jenny in the papers in the evening herald BY GOd she was hot
    wasnt that cork lady do something Cam?.. like Beadles about thing?

    today they couldnt decide what the **** to talk about and it sucked ass but normally its funny stuff

    jesus The radio is very misleading

    i thought Will was a small Lad untanned white black haired lad ..but he aint and mary has the voice of a fox but .. heh .. aiint ..and theres the black has me feckin arse

    http://www.todayfm.com/photoWallPhoto.asp?wallID=5582&photoID=1062746

    and why the **** doesnt jenny have pictures same with Maeve and the other one who works with jenny


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭Ooly


    nikkc17 wrote:
    Hey there i was just wondering who did ray darcy say was gay this morning on his radio show cus my radio turned off before i could hear!! thank!!
    I don't think he actually told us who was gay, but Ray Foley was on after D'Arcy & kept saying it was D'Arcy that was gay!!! :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,937 ✭✭✭fade2black


    So the answer to the original question is?....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭StonedParadoX


    was there a question?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭iMax


    Can they pick up X FM American stations ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭moshpit77


    Jenny Kelly

    560687.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭StonedParadoX


    you sure?

    what about the otherS?


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    Yeah thats Jenny alright. There is another bird on the show who is hot though, forget here name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭StonedParadoX


    mairead? or the one from cork?.. is mairead the one from cork?

    your talkin about the hyper one aye?

    where did u get the jenny kelly pic?


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    Yeah mairead is the hot one. The pic is on the today FM site AFAIK


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭moshpit77


    the jenny kelly pic came from this page

    http://itof.fimc.net/showdj.asp?djid=19661

    this is mairead

    760110.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭StonedParadoX


    afaik?

    maireads the cork one right?

    whose the other?


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    No Maibh (sp?) is the cork one


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭mickd


    shuushh wrote:

    the BBC can afford to be varied for quite obvious reasons the main one being they have the greatest resources in the world

    There is one simple principle that makes the BBC what it is. No one is bigger than the organisation. Unfortunately RTE has been slow in realising this from Gay Byrne is a classic example, Kenny and Ryan another. Culchies love Ray D'arcy . Its inane rubbish if you are into that thing Overall we do chat/current affairs radio far better than than the British (from Morning Ireland to the Last Word). Our daytime music radio is appalling with the exception of Pet Sounds mainly due to Tom Dunne's presenting style in which the music takes precedence.

    BBC Radio 1 is by far the best station around with no commercial remit its specialist shows are the best with its commitment to indie,rock and dance unparalleled anywhere. Its being broadcast coast to coast in the states from next month so it should shake up the scene there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    mickd wrote:

    BBC Radio 1 is by far the best station around with no commercial remit its specialist shows are the best with its commitment to indie,rock and dance unparalleled anywhere. Its being broadcast coast to coast in the states from next month so it should shake up the scene there.

    Now that I wasn't aware of...a lot of it's shows already have a big net following stateside, but actual broadcasts would reach a huge audience, and having heard a bit of what US radio had to offer, it wouldn't have an awful lot of competiton. US stations tend to be niche broadcasters; it's rare you'll get rock played alongside RnB or hiphop, and I rarely if ever heard non-commercial dance on the wireless over there...lots of country though :D They all seem to pick a genre and ru with it...since they depnd solely on advertising revenue, that's not so surprising.

    Got a link to the story/release about ths move?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭mickd




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    Ray Darcy is a smarmy bastard these days. I thought he was ok a while ago but now I can't just stand him. He reads some text about himself like 'Hi Ray, you're a sex machine' and then he says 'Oh I don't know about that' and pretends to get all embarassed. His head is going to be too fat soon to get into the studios.

    For someone with real wit and humour, listen to Sean Moncrief on Newstalk at 2:30 Monday to Friday. He show also involves listeners texts but in a much better way, none of this "I love you {insert moronic presenters name here}" texts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭ClareBear


    Don't diss The Ray!!! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Jip wrote:
    Ray Darcy is a smarmy bastard these days.

    That's a bit harsh.

    I only started to listen to his show because when I started in my current job 5 years ago it was either that or Gerry "I know all there is to know about women's problems" Ryan and I can't stand Ryan.

    I like the style of Ray's show, light hearted, easy listening, that appeals to most. Perfect to have on in the background while working. I agree that the playlist is a bit too commercial at times, but what do you expect, it's commercial radio, and he can't be blamed for that.

    Did anybody see his interview on the Miriam O'Callaghan show on Saturday? I caught most of it. But did did I hear correctly that he's actually going out with Jenny now?

    B.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    BaZmO* wrote:

    Did anybody see his interview on the Miriam O'Callaghan show on Saturday? I caught most of it. But did did I hear correctly that he's actually going out with Jenny now?

    B.

    Yeah, I heard that too, was a bit of a surprise.

    Its a great show btw!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    Texting in is wrong. The vast mass of humanity are halfwits, which is why they don't have their own radio shows. Ergo, why the hell should we be subjected to their imbecilic views?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    magpie wrote:
    Texting in is wrong. The vast mass of humanity are halfwits, which is why they don't have their own radio shows. Ergo, why the hell should we be subjected to their imbecilic views?

    Well in all fairness mate, the same could be said about you after that reply.

    B.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    Actually, I contradicted myself. Halfwits do have their own radio shows, e.g. Ray D'Arcy.

    As you were.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    magpie wrote:
    why the hell should we be subjected to their imbecilic views?

    Indeed....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭Lilly81


    ray darcy show is great. anyone hear them touring around ire in a camper van at the mo? so funny. some really funny people on the show today. esp the laughing kid :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    I think the word we're looking for to describe the show is 'whimsical' and by its very nature it'll appeal to some and others'll hate it. Meself, I'm in the former camp and found that back-in-the-day when i could listen to his show in the office, it cheered me up no end. There's no shortage (pun intended) of him having the mickey taken, and everybody else on the show is fair game, but unlike say what Chris Evans used to do with a rentamob gang of lackeys, his sidekicks are as essential to the show as he is.

    As indeed are the listeners. Somebody made the comment about 'who cares about texters' and ordinarily I'd agree. F'r instance when I see those polls on the news 'Tell Us What You Think of the Bombings' etc - well like ****ing DUHHH! - I feel an urge to put the aul size nines thru the telly/radio, but in the case of this particular show it seems to work.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    You're messing with my perception of reality. On the one hand quoting "Exile on Main Street" and on the other listening to Rat Arsey. Does not compute... :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,572 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Its usually a fun show, but they've really pushed the boundaries of taste this week with Mairead puking on Tuesday (while milking a cow!) and Jenny puking this morning while emptying the sewage from the camper van....

    And lilly81, I agree, that kid was hilarious! :):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    magpie wrote:
    You're messing with my perception of reality. On the one hand quoting "Exile on Main Street" and on the other listening to Rat Arsey. Does not compute... :p
    Like I say laddie, whimsy, innit!!! :D

    like so many other things, it boils down to 'what are the alternatives'? Leaving aside the 'Listen to a cd/mp3 player' and assuming you HAVE to listen to something, my own pref is that D'arcy is less objectionable, by a country mile, than the opposition - if the market you're in is 'bit o'chat, bit o'music, bit o'craic'.

    Ryan Mk1 (Gerry) just annoys me, and has done since the inception of his show all those years ago
    Ryan Mk2 is good, I suppose, but I find the 'young fogey' schtick a tad wearing.

    Do not, upon pain of death, start me on local radio. Paul pi$$ing Claffey on MWR, with the fella that does the weather forecase based upon sheep droppings, or something...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    Lyric is one of the less objectionable choices


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭GreenHell


    I like it in small doses, used to listen to it every morning while working last summer and I just got bored of it. Ear it every now and again these days and its still very funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭StonedParadoX


    did any of you's know jenny and ray were a couple?
    it was in the mirror today middle page


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    did any of you's know jenny and ray were a couple?
    it was in the mirror today middle page

    Great...maybe it'll shut her the hell up...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    that could get very awkward.


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