[Closed] DJ MIke Read in the news

Hum, not the brightest that's for sure. It would have been better if he'd found an ethnically Caribbean singer if they wanted to go that route. They wheeled out a bunch of such party members at Westmister a few months back to show they where multi-cultural.

He really is a knob.

However, I don't think there was any intent, just a breathtaking lack of taste.

And I look forward Shane MacGowan's apology for singing in a fake Irish accent for years.
The utter, utter bastard.

I thought all DJs should be investigated for ... you know ... 😯

And I look forward Phil Collins' apology for singing

[i]I thought all DJs should be investigated for ... you know[/i]

The BBC are giving this BBC DJ story so much cover because

a) it's a ukip story

and

b) he's *only* a racist.

I look forward to all the none native English speakers to apologie for mimicking the Queens accent ... 🙄

I thought he was dead
(this thread has ruined my day)

Relax folks...

He always was an idiot and nto very nice IMHO UKIP are beyond parody

Did he 'black up' when he sang it?

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Nothing inherently wrong with putting on a terrible Caribbean accent and being hopelessly unfunny.

Lenny Henry's been doing it for years.

I thought he was dead
(this thread has ruined my day)

This thread has made my day 😀

Lenny Henry was awesome on Tiswas! He's also an accomplished thesp these days too.

As for Mike Read, I only recall him being mediocre on Saturday Superstore. I only watched the latter to gawp at Sarah Greene anyway.

LOL at Rusty Spanner. The same could be said of Sting, and the bloke out of UB40. Thoughh they weren't particularly trying to be funny.

Neither of them could hold a candle to Buster Bloodvessel of Bad Manners fame.

PJM1974 - Member

Lenny Henry was awesome on Tiswas! He's also an accomplished thesp these days too.

🙂

He was great on Tiswas, true & Rudy's Rare Records is excellent.
But have you SEEN Chef?
It makes Tommy Walsh's Eco House look like The Godfather.

I think last time Mike Read was in the news it was for refusing to play Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Relax and making it the biggest single ever!
Maybe he's thinking that if he withdraws this single it will have a similar effect.

I saw him in an early serious role back in 1991 called "Alive and Kicking" or somesuch opposite Robbie Coltrane. He was utterly captivating in it.

Still 2-0 to the Lennster.

I love UKIP, I mean I don't love Their politics or the fact that they're really just a party for closet racists, xenophobes and simpletons...

But I do love their [i]unconventional[/i] choices when it comes to choosing Spokesmen, especially on contentious issues...
They really know how to quickly and concisely confirm any negative ideas you might have formed about them, IMO that takes a real skill...

Which other "Celebrity" supporters do they currently have?

like most Radio Deejays from the 80's... an absolute tool...

I hope they're going to make UB40 apologise for decades of being crap as well!

PJM1974 - Member

I saw him in an early serious role back in 1991 called "Alive and Kicking" or somesuch opposite Robbie Coltrane. He was utterly captivating in it.

The road trip one?
I enjoyed that.

He was really good as Othello on Radio 4 a couple of years back too.

I think last time Mike Read was in the news it was for refusing to play Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Relax and making it the biggest single ever!
Maybe he's thinking that if he withdraws this single it will have a similar effect.

Jef ,that was my first thought when I read the story. 🙂

Ah no...he was a recovering heroin addict, played a thoroughly nasty piece of work.

The road trip one was "Coast to Coast".

Nihal didn't hold back there 😀

I think last time Mike Read was in the news it was for refusing to play Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Relax and making it the biggest single ever!
Maybe he's thinking that if he withdraws this single it will have a similar effect.

Now there's a thought, could a re-release of 'Relax' as an Anti-UKIP protest song, work?

Especially with a mash-up Video, made using news footage of UKIP's various [i]personalties[/i] lip-syncing the lyrics...

They should get a response from Nihal about Jake's song 😉

Mel and Sue on Great British Bake Off were doing some horrendous mocking of dutch and eastern european accents, but that appears to be considered a laugh, is it because they are white?

No, it's because they're not making an totally misjudged effort to be inclusive/provocative.

Singing a song condemning immigration in the accent of a place that provided vital labour and expertise to a completely knackered post-war Britain could appear to be tasteless and ignorant.

I'd like to think they're too stupid for that and put it down to general stupidity.

its funny that racisim doesn't extend to other ethnic minorities that arent colour orientated.

It does, it's called xenophobia.
🙂

To be fair, Mike Read does have some fans..

4 mins 5 secs onwards...

Get a grip you numpties,
West Indies is a place were people who grow up there have a West Indian accent,

RIP felix dexter, a very funny man.

Met a lady of Scandinavian origin (very blonde/blue eyed) who grew up in Jamaica and could do the most extra-ordinary accent, she had us in absolute fits of laughter over a story of when once she opened the door to a very well spoken black postman and for a joke gave him the full West Indian treatment complete with local dialect stuff. She said the postie nearly fainted !

Just spotted this,

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https://twitter.com/MichaelAbberton/status/525018484842192897/photo/1

I did read the UKIP claims that seemed to amount to them saying withdrawl of the single would cost [i]Charadee[/i], and of course it was down to the [i]lefty[/i] Anti-UKIP lot (who were quite unlikely to buy the single) but then it was actually withdrawn from sale by it's creator:

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So Technically hasn't Mike now deprived [s]UKIP[/s] a fictional Red Cross Ebola programme of valuable funds the UKIP faithful would have happily thrown at him in the knowledge their money was helping save Africans?

Right?...

Perhaps it would be best if Mike now suggests that all those [s]closet racists[/s] UKIP supporters who would have purchased his song (once their nephew had shown them how to use iTunes) just give a small donation directly to [url= http://www.msf.org.uk/make-a-donation ]MSF[/url] who are actually tackling Ebola on the ground, although they are a bit French sounding...

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Quiet you...

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One is a cartoon character. The other is Jack Skellington.

We saw Mark Steel live last week and he was doing an anecdote about white people in Barbados (apparently 1/5 of the population is white.) He said a white man came up to him in a bar and said:
"You waaaan game Pool?"
Steel looked around and whispered, "You can't take the mick in here!"

I used to play cricket with the best mix of stereotyping I think you can ever hope for.

Neville Murphy was, as the name might suggest, the descendant of irish settlers in Barbados. He had a classic bajan accent, which confused the hell out of most people given he had typically irish complexion and went bright red at the merest hint of sunlight. He combined a daftness bordering on being a risk to his own health, with the laidbackness of the Caribbean, which meant he often found himself fielding in positions of great danger (like at silly point when i was bowling my right arm filth) but simply couldn't be bothered to take evasive action most of the time as that would have meant exerting some effort.

However, put a bat in his hand and he'd come alive - if we'd found a way to harness the output of his outrageous swings and wafts we could have powered the national grid for days on end. If he came off, it was devastating - memorably making 100 out of an opening stand of 113 in one game - but usually it didn't and he'd trudge off after having scored 20-odd in 8 balls, to relax with a pint of Guinness and a sleep.