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Sean Moncrieff - Newstalk

madmaggie

Anyone else listen to Sean Moncrieff in the afternoons? I couldn't take anymore Joe Duffy, the misery was wearing me down. I'm not decided if I like Sean's programme or not, but it's a change from the unrelenting tales of woe.

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Alicano

The woman who "tells us some good things to do this evening". Claire I think? She is awful. Nice person I'm sure but truly awful at speaking. Voice sounds so scared. No natural tone. Ehm's everywhere. And sounds very unprepared. She's been at it ages you would think it'd become more natural by now. It's like a work experience kid being handed a sheet of paper and told "read that".

Birneybau

Moncrieff loves the mentalists. This one gone from being able to talk to spirits to being able to talk to animals.

marieholmfan

bmc58 wrote: »

Have to agree about Joe Duffy of late.So many sad stories lately and especially today with a man almost loosing it about abuse he suffered as a youngster and the bitterness in his voice was hard to listen to.Joe could't cut him off as it would have been rude to,had to switch off.

He had a right to be angry in fairness.

bmc58

madmaggie wrote: »

Anyone else listen to Sean Moncrieff in the afternoons? I couldn't take anymore Joe Duffy, the misery was wearing me down. I'm not decided if I like Sean's programme or not, but it's a change from the unrelenting tales of woe.

Have to agree about Joe Duffy of late.So many sad stories lately and especially today with a man almost loosing it about abuse he suffered as a youngster and the bitterness in his voice was hard to listen to.Joe could't cut him off as it would have been rude to,had to switch off.

jooksavage

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

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.

Having a passion is one thing but listening to the writer-performer of Something Happens unremitting, anemic slush explaining Mark E Smith and the Fall is excruciating.

DEFTLEFTHAND

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.

jooksavage

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.

Conservative

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..?

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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

Gwynplaine

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.

Alicano

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.

CatFromHue

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.

jooksavage

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.

Birneybau

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

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.

Dub13

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

CatFromHue

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

quintana76

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"

Say Your Number

Great to hear them finish with Motorhead today.

Horse84

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

Birneybau

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

Horse84

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.

Say Your Number

Bodily functions are featuring heavily in this best of show.

kunst nugget

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.

Ol' Donie

Best podcast ever, HDTGM.

jooksavage

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)

Birneybau

It's breathtaking:

CatFromHue

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

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

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