I found Brian Deady, first on Ian Dempsey and then on D&D. They both used to have slots for new Irish music, which was great. Out for a walk earlier and looking through a playlist I found a song called Up with people by Lambchop - from I think, 2000. I heard it one morning, years ago on Ian's show, and went looking for it. Little chance of doing that these days. I would have thought that D&D and others would much prefer being able to change the music around and play other stuff.
The month of December was actually a welcome relief. The wall to wall repetition of the same songs from the current chart was replaced or at least supplemented with Christmas tunes. OK, a lot of those are crap too, but there's a few gems and at least it was a change up!
It was back to normal from Stephen's day...
Agree 100%, fergal darcys show on Sundays reminds me of some of the good music that got played at today fm. This has now been tucked away for Sunday mornings at 8am.
It boggles the mind that fontaines don’t get played, unlike 2fm who are championing Irish bands, even if they’re not particularly day time radio friendly - and that includes new Irish hip hop and urban music.
the music selection at today fm lacks any character and has 2 modes:
-current chart music
-now that’s what I call 2002 on rotation.
joke
Bring back Tony Cascarino's club classics! Matt!
I'm afraid I'm another who can't stand Nonie. I just don't find that kind of "comedy" funny. I'd put it in the same category as Mrs Browns' Boys which I also detest, but sketches like that clearly have an audience that does love it.
I do like D&D for the most part. The repetition and rehashing of interviews they've done (sometimes in the same show) is painful, but overall I'd miss them if they weren't on.
Where did I do that? I commented on something I can relate to, something she speaks about openly on her shows.
thats not what the perceived slight on her part was referring to either. You’re moving the goalposts now.
Yeah Nonie is terrible. They ditched Chug Stenson and kept her when the Silly Sports section was far superior. Even Tony Cascarino's dance classic is better than Nonie, Matt.
Discuss Today FM all you like. Don't go around sharing opinions on how a parent should or should not raise their own children. That's their private life. Don't cross that line.
I guess like anything else, but particularly commercial radio, familiarity breeds contempt.
I like most of Today FMs presenters, didn’t like Fergal D’arcy but after a few weeks of listening solidly they’d all begin to annoy me due to the repetition and filler. Take a break for a few weeks, come back and think “ah yeah, this is great” and then the cycle repeats itself!
On a thread, on a discussion forum?
ill be sure to run all my comments past you in future.
Dermot and Dave are great ye heathens. Absolutely hate the cash machine. The sooner gambling advertising is banned the better. Get your finger out politicians.
Guess again. You should have minded your own business.
She missed it by <> much!
I should have said partner, I guess.
Wait … my post was misogyny?
I was commenting as a parent! You do 5 days a week of all the early mornings or all the put downs and it’s a bloody tough gig.
Dempsey on his anniversary special specifically mentioned how great his wife was as she was around for much more of the early mornings with the kids and all that. Paula worked on that show, she was probably there.
If she was married to a woman I would have said “her poor wife”.
OMG, I hate Noni - and I’m from Limerick!
Ya, the show is really tired now. New some new ideas or else, as someone else said, they’ll be next for the chop.
I actually can't stand D&D now. Thing is I used to love when they were on 98.
I keep scrolling through clips of them on my facebook feed. I just don't see anything funny about that Nonie character? And "Daves bad jokes" is just a terrible segment. Lowest of the low. Anything Dermot does is met with exaggerated laughing by Dave too..like a laugh track at this stage subliminally telling us it's funny.
Used to love them on 98 when they had some Dub on talking about recipes with chocolate...always ended with "because everyting is bettah wih' choclah'" and "Say stuff that suits the music".
Yesterday on the Last Words music slot. They played the new Fontaines DC song.
Now the only people I've ever heard play Fontaines DC on Today FM were Fergal D'Arcy (sacked), Paul McCloone (sacked) who championed the band about 4 years ago and Ed Smith (moved to graveyard spot to make space for a clone daytime DJ).
John Claddell, who I believe is the man behind the music played on Today FM, called the Fontaines a great band.
Well John, perhaps grow a pair and have somebody who plays a bit of new, different Irish music to the daytime masses, rather than press play and rinse and repeat Ed Sheeran, Dermot Kennedy, Beyonce, Coldplay et al
I agree with everything you’ve said. I do think though that D and D will be the next to go. Their show is stale- the same thing over and over.
I know - it’s infuriating. You can tell by the way they make the calls to “the lucky winner”too. But I suppose they must be making money from it otherwise they wouldn’t keeP going with it. I genuinely hit the off button on the car radio when it comes on - that and the covid ad’s. Should really just move to Spotify permanently.
That "cash machine" is on all the Bauer Media stations. Each of them claim it as their cash machine, i.e. "newstalk cash machine", "spin103 cash machine", etc.! The giveaway statement is when they say "across the Go Loud network". I heard Jonathan Healy on Newstalk say this morning something along the lines of "across the Go Loud network of stations".
I like Paula. I hear about an hour of her early breakfast. She’s bubbly and lively and gets you going in the morning. I’m not sure how that’s going to transition to evening when people are winding down after the day. It’ll be a challenge to change the pace. Pamela will be good at lunch I think- I hope. Anyone has to be better than Mairead.
Ian is grand - soothing voice and I like him. Mario and gift grub have had their day though - it’s painful at times. Needs to be retired.
Delighted Fergal is going. Same thing every day, nothing new. Feigned nostalgia and ‘isn’t is great to be Irish’ sh**e. Used to enjoy Foley but haven’t heard since he left Todayfm previously and I’m 10 years older now.
I love D&D. Or, I used to love D&D. Lately find myself switching over more often. Repeated interviews - constantly. Same old, same old. Show is getting tired. They’re in bad need of new ideas.
But the biggest thing by a country mile making me switch the dial at the minute is this bl**dy cash machine. I cannot bare it and all the bl**dy pushing of it - constantly. I’m irrationally annoyed about it.
And was razorblunts comment in this thread misogyny?
If McSweeney was a man, would there be any comment about "his poor woman"? Comment #6944
Thats because it was.
If she was a man would there be a remark about ‘his poor wife’?
For some reason, I doubt it very much.
...yeah, it was.
And next post was an insult and she calls it misogyny...sigh
Congratulations. This comment made Paula's Instagram!
the poor lad😏
Foley has spoken about his mental health in podcasts, he said he felt worthless doing lunchtime on today FM from 2006 to 2012 because people used to say to him that he didn't have any listeners of his own, only Ray Darcy listeners who couldn't be bothered to turn off.
Raging they didn't put Ray Foley in at 12. There's a huge gap between 12 and 2. I've been listening to Moncrieff at 2 the last few years but will go back to Foley. If he'd been at 12 it would have been a great days radio. Dempsey, D&D, Foley, over to Moncrieff then 30 minutes to kill before Cooper at 4.30
I guess Ed isn't mentioned as his show is unaffected by the changes, same with The Last Word.
Pam Joyce and Paula mac I use to like, but after time I just find them way too giddy and talking deliberate shite to fill the gaps.
Where is Ed Smith gone? ? Hope they haven't got rid of him one of a v few actual decent DJ left on Irish radio.
