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RTE ringing in the 2014 effort.

  • 01-01-2014 04:28PM
    #1
    Western Pomise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭


    Don't know what others felt but I couldn't believe how pathetic dull and cheapskate RTES offerings to ring in New Year were...
    For gods sake 'Madness' as the main musical highlight.....that said it all.


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  • #2
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    What's wrong with Madness?


  • #3
    LOSTfan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭LOSTfan57


    That ****ing Callan twat was a gob****e started it off worryingly. Where was Auld Lang Syne aswell???


  • #4
    wiz569
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,737 ✭✭✭wiz569


    I suppose it depends on your age and musical taste :)

    I grew up listening Madness,The Specials,Bad Manners and Ska music in general and I thought it was great,obviously they dont sound like they used to,but hey we all get old eventually ;)


  • #5
    LiamKK1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭LiamKK1982


    I think Laura Whitmore had a little trouble counting backwards from 10 -1, poor dear.


  • #6
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Why are people always surprised when the RTE New Years show is awful, when has it ever been good? Jools Holland or Graham Norton are the way to go.


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  • #7
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    wazky wrote: »
    What's wrong with Madness?

    The reason reflects their name.


  • #8
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    The reason reflects their name.

    Its RTE?, better then Crystal Shwing.


  • #9
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I didn't even consider watching it. I very very rarely watch RTE and I resent the fact that I have to pay a license fee.


  • #10
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    Graham Norton wasn't even on at midnight.

    I'm not part of the demographic RTE New Years is aimed at. My parents enjoyed it. But Madness was a bit of fun.


  • #11
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 56,584 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Jools Holland was good.


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  • #12
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Western Pomise wrote: »
    For gods sake 'Madness' as the main musical highlight.....that said it all.

    Who usually highlights those things.. Jedward or the likes?

    Having Madness perform was a step up from the usual shite


  • #13
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    wazky wrote: »
    Its RTE?, better then Crystal Shwing.

    RTE stands for Rubbish Transmitted-as Entertainment


  • #14
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    RTE stands for Rubbish Transmitted-as Entertainment

    People know this yet they still complain about their programming?, why watch it?


  • #15
    Shout Dust
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Shout Dust


    I only saw the bit around midnight, they cut from Dublin, which actually looked good tbf, after a few seconds, going back to the studio which looked like an awkward dinner party before showing pre-recorded clips from a few random places around the world, and they couldn't even get the names of those places right, confusing Moscow with Singapore and getting more confused when it switched again


  • #16
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    awec wrote: »
    Jools Holland was good.


    Jools Holland was Brilliant, even if it was pre recorded.

    Nearly 2 1/2 hrs of Rock, Pop, RnB, Dance, Reggie, Ska, and Auld Lang Syne.

    BBC2 was the way to go last night, BBC2 England more so if you could get it.


  • #17
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,889 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Madness have played at Jools' New Years Eve show before. Who would people have preferred to play?


  • #18
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    In the process of taking down the tree and decs, this Christ and news years has felt Too long.


  • #19
    Shout Dust
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Shout Dust


    dmc17 wrote: »
    Madness have played at Jools' New Years Eve show before. Who would people have preferred to play?

    Well I couldn't care less and like Madness but I thought they'd have an Irish band seeing as they were making a big deal about the Gathering


  • #20
    Me?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭Me?


    John Newman on Jools Holland was terrific. I also had the cringe inducing few minutes of Neil Delamere on RTE, trully awful uncomfortable viewing.


  • #21
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    RTE broadcast it but how much of a hand did they have in the concert organising?


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  • #22
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,154 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    yer wan that plays trish in love/hate is some bit of stuff.

    Saw madness in play in Waterford last june and it was a good gig


  • #23
    LOSTfan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭LOSTfan57


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    yer wan that plays trish in love/hate is some bit of stuff.

    Saw madness in play in Waterford last june and it was a good gig

    Love her accent


  • #24
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,304 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    LOSTfan57 wrote: »
    Love her accent

    Cant say the same for the other two bogger fools presenting, couldn't understand a word coming from their mucker mouths


  • #25
    cailinardthair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭cailinardthair


    Jools Holland now was the way to go...watch it every year and never fails....i switch over to sky or bbc scotland to watch the fireworks at 12 and the back to bbc 2


  • #26
    Gael23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,177 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    Daithi o Se is painful to listen to so I didn't watch it.


  • #27
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    LOSTfan57 wrote: »
    Love her accent

    How you doin?...... *purred in a beautiful Monaghan accent........


  • #28
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    wazky wrote: »
    People know this yet they still complain about their programming?, why watch it?

    Because when there's little else on TV, it's a good excuse to find more reasons to dislike RTÉ.


  • #29
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    ryanf1 wrote: »
    Daithi o Se is painful to listen to so I didn't watch it.

    That's not English he speaks, it's some dialect belonging to the Orangutan family.

    One of the few voices on TV where you're left putting the TV in slow motion just to hear him properly. Damien English is another that springs to mind...


  • #30
    Marcus Halberstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭Marcus Halberstram


    They did the countdown at the concert in Limerick after midnight :D


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  • #31
    sanna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭sanna


    If you can, next time you should watch either BBC1 Scotland or STV, been living here 8years and for first 3 I missed my Hogmanay fix.

    Even got my Irish Fiance now watching it, struggles with the accent but its miles better than watching either RTE or even Jools Holland.


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