Brilliant, you guys have made my night. I am crying with laughter listening to thoe old clips. Space oddity was absolutely fabulous!
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CAN YOU BACK OFF THE MIC A BIT.
I worked shifts many years ago 🙂 and had the joy to finish at 2200 in the evening & could listen to them on the way home each day. What a great way to pass the time on the motorway.
After some promotion at work & their move to breakfast I was able to listen once more.
Always thought I was a bit odd for enjoying it as most folks I knew then thought it was tosh (I'm a midlander by the way)
Still have my treasured Shirehorses CD in the car. Franny Lee indeed….
Just for the record I also recall Chris Moyles being on before the breakfast show during my shiftworking days & he was actually good to listen to then. His arrogance seemed ironic at the time but as time passed by it became clear he really was a to$$er…
I used to love their show. As people have already said – work stopped for some of their regular items.
It was also great to hear Radio 1 DJs who actually admitted to not liking some of the crap they were forced to play!
The only time I've had to pull over & stop driving for laughing was listening on the way home one xmas – 'Rev. Ian Paisley sings the Beatles Greatest Hits'. Any passers-by probably thought I'd been through a messy break-up, with tears streaming down my face…
+ they always played 'Xmas Wrapping' by The Waitresses…
I did a 60min tape of Fat Harry White's.
I remember the plumber one above.
Amazed that they got away with it in the afternoon.
Bloody brilliant. Was working shifts at the time & always home to listen.
Must look for the tape.
If only podcast's had been available back then, missed almost all their stuff due to work but everything I ever heard was sheer brilliance, and as said above, they knew their onions when talking about music, not sucking up to the latest wannabes as per Jo Whiley etc.
Will be researching those links when I get home tonight.
I am listening to them now, on a made up afternoon show by me.I downloaded lots of their stuff just after they packed it all in., most of its been taken down now. Now how lucky was that.
I fell out with Radcliffe's Dad years ago. I delivered Sunday papers to their house but always shoved em down a grid cause there was a fookin massive wasps nest right at their front door.
They were dead funny though. How they got away with half the stuff Fat Harry came out with was beyond me.