The Slate

Shorty

December '02
Issue No.20

Page 21 under Guitar Stuff;

"Phantom FM are great for their persistant attempts to get a legal radio license and their constant efforts to cause trouble for Country FM, who were awarded a license ahead of them recently. But lots of the music they play is absolute rubbish. There's too much bad pop punk, over-hyped NME bands and brutal Irish music for it to really stand out as a station."

thedrowner

in fairness, thats rich coming from a magazine that is mostly full of ****e-there's more ****e in their magazine than their is played at phantom. after the first 4 pages, the magazine gets boring.

Ste k

I think the slate is humerous and find it asking some serious questions with possible too much satire. I get the impression from it though that its not one opinion from the paper, there are loads writers trying to get ahead by making exagerated "evening hearld" sensationalist remarks.

Too take them too seriously is probably a waste of time but enjoy the 4 pages of reading it provides for you. Mind you they predicted the anti-car day fighting protests right

Kopf

People take the slate too seriously. calm down. so what if they're defaming your favourite radio station - they're just taking the piss.

and anyways, phantom do play a lot of ****e a lot of the time, but you can't please everybody.

Monkey

there are loads writers trying to get ahead by making exagerated "evening hearld" sensationalist remarks.

bull****, they don't even publish any of the writers names so it'd hardly be any sort of way to make a name for yourself.

Gar_ptc

the slate is wquite cool indeed,takes the mick when the mick needs to be taken;

everyone gets offended by the slate at sometime or another, AND SO WHAT!

it does have much better opinions -in its serious articles- than the rest of the irish publishing nation put together!

thedrowner

doesnt change the fact that its still boring
couldnt b arsed reading it for a few witty pages
and thats exacvtly what i was thinking, sensationalist, but nothing much to back the sensatialism up

Muppet Monarchy

Again with the taking it too seriously. It's satire . If you don't think it's funny, don't read it.

But seriously, those photos from the nightclubs and such ; PRICELESS.

Raggamuffin

slate = funny

stupid people = funny

acquiescefc

'blacks in the jacks'....funny but true

BrianD

Hey, we get worse critcism on this board! If we can't stand the heat we should stay out of the kitchen!

BTW we don't try and cause problems for Country 106.8FM but we do question the policy and actions of the BCI.

Keithaburke

Country 106.8 fm Rules!

What about a jingle for that popular station...

Country 106.8 - Where you can hear the mullets in the music.

or

Country 106.8 - Mullets make the music better.


BTW... the slate is a great magazine. Irish universities halved their spending on toilet paper following it's introduction.

johnnynolegs

the slate is good i think - sure it slags people off but that is the whole point of it

the fnj

The Slate is the best publication in this city, and if they say Phantom is crap then phantom must be crap, the news of the world must be run by satanists and being a kiddy fiddler must be ok.

it's just a joke

don't take it so seriously

Graemo

I thinkit's fantastic that they take the piss out of us.
It's all publicity and besides, if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

Graemo
mon 7 pm-9 pm
91.6

madeline

Jaysus but this is so serious, i agree with graemo, you have to take the piss out of yourself!! One article isn't going to change the fans' minds!!!
And while we are on the subject why has no one mentioned the very funny picture of a certain phantom dj trying to look all evil and stuff!! teehee soz pete couln't resist, i know you'll appreciate it though!!!
Phantom, feck the begrudgers, keep up the good work , I'll toast ye all at Phundraiser:D

tony 2 tone

I read the artical and must have missed the part where they were having a laugh, taking the piss.The piece was on the indie/specialist shows. It was aimed at more electronic crowd. They are right though, there is a lot of bad music on Phantom, the station could do with more specialist shows, more under groundy stuff, some of the shows/presenters are too samey.

The Slate never really goes for the guitar, live band sh1t any way, just read their gig guide for example, oh this band are crap ,so are they, oh this experimental band with a lad beating a hamster off a box of christmas decorations........CLASS................. so cutting edge, avant garde what ever................


Thats what I made of it..........if some people dont like it fair enough, at least I read it.

Raggamuffin

I rtemember when they slagged off the music and the strokes.
hahaha so funny

and they were right too.

stickinikki

ahh cmon now lads, the slate is class..."so cheap its free".suure i was a lil pissed off with what they sed bout phantom but all they really do is take the piss..hence the name of it..u know...slating stuff...:rolleyes:
anywhoo...any publicity is good publicity..if ppl read that its ****e, then they're gonna wanna check out just how ****e it is..and then they'll find how goddamn good phantom is..bada-bing bada-boom!

-->nikki

Shorty

Kopf, I never said whether I agreed or disagreed with it. I merely quoted. XFM got a good review, and they seem happy enough. Check out their board.

dathi1

actually...if the slate takes the piss you're doin something right.....when they throw u compliments..... D.

roxy

My main problem with The Slate is that it’s so badly written.

The writers - anonymous and all as they are; I wouldn’t lend my name to such rubbish either - have no journalistic ability whatsoever and, content-aside, it makes for very poor reading. If they succeeded in doing satire with any sort of style and wit then they would draw more readers and more respect. If you’re going to slag everything in sight to shreds, it’s not enough to rely on unfounded hard-nosed comments like “Phantom FM plays too much crap music for it to be…”…whatever. That’s criticism for criticism’s sake and is just pathetic. There’s no grounds for the condemnation is that instance other than the writer’s personal taste which isn’t of any major concern to the readers. It’s the job of the writer to convince us that the music is crap for some reason or another and if he can’t do that, then he has no case.

If the writers had any cop on they would realise that putting a bit of thought and flair into the writing would go a long way. Even the radical step of using a thesaurus would probably work wonders. The nice people at The Slate might be shocked to know that there are actually copious synonyms of the word ‘crap’, each more exciting than the last. I dare say that with a bit more flair in the writing, even the subjects of their worst tirades might chance a grin.

As it stands, the writers come across as exceptionally thick. I say slag anything you want to slag, but Christ, make it interesting. The Slate thinks it does satire, but in reality all it does is subject the reader to a whiny near- incoherent teenage lament which is a long way off appealing to the intellect of their readership. The way they write is incredibly lazy and exceptionally dull and the magazine is little more than an opportunity squandered.

Roxy.

Raggamuffin

really roxy.................................

i've always just read it and laughed.....

Morn

It's a nice magazine - but does have a tendency towards wearing a bit thin if read all at once...

I find the writing style quite conversational - it's not all about using a thesaurus to find words that you wouldn't use normally anyway...