Following on from main thread in Current Affairs about Tubs in general (now closed and mod suggestion that Entertainment category is more suitable).
Indeed, entertainment in certain respects is what Tubs has provided, albeit perhaps in a way not intended. And still awaiting 150k payback to the licence fee holder.
And of course, his new career in Virgin Radio which is imminent.
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The musical group or the drink?
It isn't that outrageous, art and hedonism do mix:
Listening on Q102 today. There are lots of audio issues: dead air, McDonalds advert being played over a song and the opening minute of another song then a quick switch to a new song
None of this is Tubs' fault of course but there did seem to be technology issues today
Had a listen for about 10 minutes earlier, he sounds very amateur and nervous, like it's his first time ever on radio, he had a lot of pauses in his sentences and a lot of "err""emm" and 'ands.
Except again, he can never quite carry it off. For example it should be an art gallery. I've never heard of an art museum. Now you could forgive this, but he talks so fast, he doesn't actually think about what he's going to say and blurts it out wrong. And trips over his words because of the fast talking. He needs to slow down and think about what he's saying. His mouth and brain are not fully connected.
Chris Evans has had that high-energy Laddish style for years. Tubridy hasn't. The last word that anyone would use to describe Tubridy's style is "Laddish".
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Funny thing is an art museum is the last place tubs would go on a stag weekend
Very unlikely to be the pop group.
And I should add Alan Partridge.
Gay was a stickler for enunciation and he was right. It's not a matter of coming across as some posh British public school knob, it's simply about your voice being the tool with which you do your job and that tool should be honed to do the job properly.
I think he had a fairly low opinion of Tubs as a broadcaster and was probably perplexed that he should have risen to his own level in the organisation and gotten the top job and ludicrous money along with it. But Gay knew it was himself who bucked the trend in RTE. He and the DG of the day stood their ground against Tubridy's own grandfather's interference and wish to get Gay thrown off his own show. Nepotism and elevating mediocrity with the right connections is what RTE is all about.
RE: Tubs vs Chris Evans, would invite everyone to Youtube Evans interview James May on his radio show last week. Notice how engaged he is. How he actually read Jame's books and could speak comfortably from a position of a bit of background knowledge on a variety of topics. He does his homework, out of respect for the guest and the listeners. A real pro and it's no surprise he earns the big moolah. Tubs isn't fit to shine his shoes and it's laughable that he sits in his seat at 10 every morning.
Is the general consensus that it is going really well then?
apart from how carcrash of it all....there's one thing I've noticed that makes me wonder if this is just a very short term gig....
there's not a whisper (I've not seen anything anyway so far) about the new star in any of ze English newspapers or his show....not Tubridy, the celeb guests and what they wore last night on the town, nothing
usually (good or bad) there'd be something suchandso about the thing
Also - no mention of the Virgin gig in his profile page on his agent's website
Not us he needs to impress.
Even though his salary might be covered by Paddy Power and syndication, he still needs to bring in advertising revenue. Loss of UK listeners means loss of Virgin Ad revenue. Appealing to Irish listeners will only get him so far.
And there'll come a point too when he reaches the end of the contacts list on his phone, and there no more Russel Crowe's, Conan O'Brien's or Andrea Corr's etc to phone in a favour from to appear on the show... and then he'll really be on his own..
In fairness to Tubs, a stag was not mentioned as such - but Steve the builder had heard Dublin was a 'good place to go' and wanted recommendations etc. You could tell from his tone that he was a bit underwhelmed with Tubridy's cultural advice.
What is it about this Irish listenership that he’s leaning towards? It makes no sense for virgin radio Uk in my view- why alienate what’s possibly your biggest cohort audience for 3 hours? It’s mad Ted, mad.
It's always being about keeping face, being able to say they wanted me in England just to have an angle to squirm back into rte at a later date.
It could simply be that the only listeners who are interacting with him are the Irish. Not only is that a bad sign, it's creating a bigger problem. If his UK listeners hear nothing but Irish comments and Irish references, they'll quickly decide they don't belong in the club. It's like a reverse Atlantic 252, where a lot of its shows were broadcast from Meath but it always seemed like a British station.
For example it should be an art gallery. I've never heard of an art museum.
The Irish Museum Of Modern Art, in Kilmainham, Dublin, is very well known.
Internationally, you'd have MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also in New York, the UCL Art Museum in London, Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the various separate Museums of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Los Angles, Sydney and Tokyo.
That's just to name a very few, very famous, art museums with the word "museum" in their name. It's not to mention that the term "art museum" is also commonly used by "art galleries" themselves, or by people talking about art galleries.
So no, there's absolutely nothing unusual about using the term "art museum", and the claim that you've never heard of the term is indeed surprising.
But I think you have of course heard of the term, and you're just trying too hard to nitpick, but not quite pulling it off.
There's 101 valid things to criticise Tubridy for, but using the term "art museum" is in no-way one of them.
i think I’m moving towards the conspiracy theory of all of this is - the show, the paddy power sponsorship - is all just an elaborate plot to get back into RTÉ 😀
I mean no reasonable person could call the show structure/design good, regardless of presenter- it’s a complete pig in a poke so there has to be more to it than that - on any level it makes no sense
She is a genuine bookworm....
Tubridy hasn't the patience or intellect to be a genuine bookworm. All silly childish reading, and pretending he's devouring real content. Obsessed with the idea of being a bookworm is all.
Another favorite bullshit of his is pretending that he's some U.S. political anorak...absolute spoofer
I remember an author (can't remember exactly who, it was a decade and more ago) being asked about the rise of ereaders and kindles and if they thought they'd negatively impact on reading, and their reply was they they didn't care how people read, as long as they read.
The whole bookish persona is very much an affectation, and naught to do with literature of any type.
Did he not claim to have read Finnegans Wake ?
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Andrea Corr interview.
Title - legendary!!: "The ever-charming Andrea Corr joins the legendary Ryan Tubridy on Virgin Radio" 😂
Either way Steve the Builder or whatever his name was is hardly interested in going to an Art Museum on a visit to Dublin.
That of course is a completely different criticism.
And it may well be valid. But, it should be noted, being a builder doesn't prevent someone from being interested in art. In fact Damien Hirst worked on building sites in London before studying art, and becoming one of the most successful artists of our time.
If "Steve" is a stereotypical builder who's just interested in finding a pub, he hardly has to phone a radio show to find one in Dublin.
And in any case, even though the interaction between a caller and a host may seem to be a private conversation, only relevant to them - the fact is that it's a very public conversation, and Tubridy isn't just talking to "Steve", he's talking to the whole of the UK.
Who knows, maybe Dublin's various and esteemed art museums will see an uplift in visors over the coming months? The mention certainly can't have done any harm.
And, at least, they are free here.
Art museums would be a minority interest. He needs to know his audience. I doubt the average Chris Evans listener goes to Art Museums on holidays. He should have said Guinness Storehouse and moved on, instead of trying to appear intellectual and shoe-horning arty farty stuff into everything. He's over compensating at this stage.
