Sean Moncrieff - Newstalk

Birneybau · 17-11-2017 04:53PM

God, I really hoped that Mary cheat would have lost the quiz.

quintana76 · 28-11-2017 03:14PM

Did I just heard a woman on Tubridy saying all contraceptives should be on the medical card or just free.

Birneybau · 28-11-2017 07:02PM

quintana76 wrote: »

Did I just heard a woman on Tubridy saying all contraceptives should be on the medical card or just free.

Dunno. Good grief, This is the Moncrieff thread.

But yeah, Kate O'Connell.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/pharmacist-td-wants-free-contraception-for-women-zwblgfh7h

quintana76 · 28-11-2017 07:12PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Dunno. Good grief, This is the Moncrieff thread.

But yeah, Kate O'Connell.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/pharmacist-td-wants-free-contraception-for-women-zwblgfh7h

I blame predictive text. Be weird if Tubridy automatically turned up for Moncrieff.

Birneybau · 01-12-2017 04:11PM

Esther had neither seen nor heard of 'The Room'. What has she heard of? I know it may look like I have an axe to grind, I don't, I just don't see how such uniformed people can be used as reviewers. See also T.V. on the radio guy.

CatFromHue · 01-12-2017 11:00PM

Are you getting Room and The Room mixed up?

There's the film called Room which is the one about your one and the kid kidnapped and held in a room and then there's the film The Room which took $1600 at the box office and was made in 2003.

I thought she knew about both but hadn't seen The Room but had seen The Disaster Artist which was about the making of that film.

I'd never heard of The Room until Screen Junkies did an Honest Trailer of it this week

Birneybau · 02-12-2017 11:09AM

No, I'm not. It has been a cult film for years, guess I thought it was more known than it is.

My point is (and this will sound terrible) that even with a Monday-Friday 9-5 (normal office job) I regularly find myself knowing a helluva lot more about film than she does. And that's HER job.

CatFromHue · 02-12-2017 02:10PM

Fair enough, I'd never heard of it til this week.

I did think she said she'd heard of it though and had seen the making of film

Birneybau · 02-12-2017 02:22PM

It's breathtaking:

jooksavage · 04-12-2017 11:01AM

For the funniest appraisal of The Room, I'd recommend the "How Did This Get Made?" podcast with Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael. I believe it's been made available outside the pay-wall on the EarWolf website to coincide with the Disaster Artist (which all 3 also star in)

Ol' Donie · 04-12-2017 11:16AM

Best podcast ever, HDTGM.

kunst nugget · 04-12-2017 11:17AM

Birneybau wrote: »

Esther had neither seen nor heard of 'The Room'. What has she heard of? I know it may look like I have an axe to grind, I don't, I just don't see how such uniformed people can be used as reviewers. See also T.V. on the radio guy.

Yeah, I think most people with a passing interest in film would have heard about The Room at this stage.

I don't think the TV on the Radio fellow is that uninformed, I think trying to watch a lot of series can be more of a task than watching a couple of movies each week and if he hasn't seen something, he's at least heard of it generally. I do think the problem with the TV reviews is that he'll only get to watch maybe 2-3 episodes of something before reviewing it - a lot of times, the early episodes of a show can be exposition heavy and not really give you the proper flow of a show.

Say Your Number · 01-01-2018 03:44PM

Bodily functions are featuring heavily in this best of show.

Horse84 · 12-01-2018 04:12PM

I've said it before and i say it again but Esther mccarthy is absolutely abysmal. Her movie knowledge is laughably bad. Is this her full time job? I take it as a given that if she recommends a movie I know it's going to be bad and I avoid it.

Birneybau · 12-01-2018 04:32PM

Esther McClueless. Christian Bale's co star in 'Hostiles' is Rosamund Pike for those that were left hanging.

Horse84 · 12-01-2018 04:54PM

Waiting for the "hmmm yea I haven't heard of that one but I'll keep an eye out for it...." when she responds to texts from people who stupidly think she knows what she's on about

Say Your Number · 12-01-2018 04:57PM

Great to hear them finish with Motorhead today.

quintana76 · 18-01-2018 03:57PM

Serious "feminist" bull**** from someone on Moncrieff just now, basically saying that all men were born with a form of original sin ie: misogyny. She also claimed that a woman who had dropped a rape claim had done so because she has been "forced to rejoin the patriarchy" nothing to do with it not having happened. The implication being that women never lie and men are always guilty by their very nature . Sean has deferred the comments, it will be interesting to see what comes up (hope I am not reflecting the patriarchy in that expression) as he seems to think of himself as a "4th wave feminist"

CatFromHue · 18-01-2018 08:09PM

That was very strange about the dropped rape claim all right, they should have elaborated on that much more.

Dub13 · 25-01-2018 04:11PM

Tom standing in again today, more music talk. I am out.

jooksavage · 26-01-2018 10:27AM

Dub13 wrote: »

Tom standing in again today, more music talk. I am out.

I'll say it - I hate Tom Dunne. There.

I hate the way he's regarded as an authority on music because he used to be in a band. Something Happens were sh**. Not everyone will agree with that. That's OK but they were a bad, soft-rock load of balls. Listening to him talk about alternative music is as jarring as Larry Cunningham giving his tuppence worth on the grindcore scene.

Still better than Stuart Clark though.

Birneybau · 26-01-2018 02:29PM

jooksavage wrote: »

I'll say it - I hate Tom Dunne. There.

I hate the way he's regarded as an authority on music because he used to be in a band. Something Happens were sh**. Not everyone will agree with that. That's OK but they were a bad, soft-rock load of balls. Listening to him talk about alternative music is as jarring as Larry Cunningham giving his tuppence worth on the grindcore scene.

Still better than Stuart Clark though.

Stuart Clark is just...naff. He called Django Django an Irish band because the singer is from Derry. I think you'll find they're a Scottish band.

Very few musical authorities on Irish radio.

jooksavage · 26-01-2018 05:58PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Stuart Clark is just...naff. He called Django Django an Irish band because the singer is from Derry. I think you'll find they're a Scottish band.

Very few musical authorities on Irish radio.

I hope Sean won't have Clark back on again. He's terrible. He's like a hippy Alan Partridge; hopelessly out of touch and unable to string together a sentence without namedropping encounters with with past-it celebrities. Put him in a home for the irrelevant with Barry Egan.

CatFromHue · 26-01-2018 07:19PM

I like Tom on Tom's show. When he's covering for Moncreiff I think it shows that he just doesn't want to do it, though he does seem to get on well with the TV reveiwers.

I don't think he's regarded as an authority on music just cos he was in a band, more that he's had a good radio show on music for ages now.

Alicano · 30-01-2018 08:26AM

jooksavage wrote: »

I'll say it - I hate Tom Dunne. There.

I hate the way he's regarded as an authority on music because he used to be in a band. Something Happens were sh**. Not everyone will agree with that. That's OK but they were a bad, soft-rock load of balls. Listening to him talk about alternative music is as jarring as Larry Cunningham giving his tuppence worth on the grindcore scene.

Still better than Stuart Clark though.

Thank You. Saying it as it is!!!! SH were amazingly average. And yes, Tom hyping up some song from the indie/alt dept always ends in massive disappointment for my ears. I'd love to make him a Spotify playlist

In the interest of fairness and not just having a pop at his music preferences, I think he's quite genuine on air. I'd reckon he's the same off mic as on it? But best suited to music topics. Just wish he'd widen his horizon a bit.

Gwynplaine · 01-02-2018 10:22AM

Why are there so many Americans on the Moncrieff show? I like the show, but my brain tunes out when some yank comes on talking rot.

Also, Tom Dunne, not suitable to talk radio at all. Stick to the late night music show and living in the past.

i71jskz5xu42pb · 01-02-2018 10:37AM

Gwynplaine wrote: »

I like the show, but my brain tunes out when some yank comes on talking rot.

You're talking about the guy forecasting yet another apocalypse, right?

I'm in the same boat, switched off one minute into that guy. Love the show but spare me the obvious loons, it's not entertaining, there's literally no talking to these guys. And frankly it's bordering on exploitation of the mentally ill sometimes, e.g. in the case recently of the woman who wanted to marry some inanimate objects.

Of course then I had to time the switch back to catch Mairead Lavery

Conservative · 01-02-2018 12:03PM

I didn't mind that pastor guy so much but a lot of the interviews are not very interesting.

Why oh why have they not brought back the in studio interview to open the show.. that was Moncrieff at his best.

I can only think that it was difficult to book guests daily..?

jooksavage · 01-02-2018 04:35PM

Conservative wrote: »

I didn't mind that pastor guy so much but a lot of the interviews are not very interesting.

Why oh why have they not brought back the in studio interview to open the show.. that was Moncrieff at his best.

I can only think that it was difficult to book guests daily..?

I think that half hour was scrapped when they lost it to Hooks mid-day slot. It could be ok but was very hit and miss. I always ended up catching truly awful self-indulgent guests like Shane Byrne, Amanda Brunker and Ian O'Doherty.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 01-02-2018 05:10PM

In fairness to Dunne he has had a lifelong passion for music. He would have been involved in music journalism/radio with or without Something Happens.

Sean Moncrieff - Newstalk

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