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to wish that Steve Wright in the afternoon....

68 replies

singsinthebath · 08/06/2010 16:10

.... would stop singing over the bloody songs. He spoils my enjoyment of a few oldies on the school run.

If there is anyone who thinks this is interesting or amusing then I will stand corrected.

OP posts:
zandy · 08/06/2010 18:17

Would it be simplistic to ask why you don't find a different radio station to tune in to. There are a few out there. :D

GroovyGretel · 08/06/2010 18:18

I thought Graham Norton was fab when he covered for Chris Evans the other week..

Can't quite believe that SW is still going, why hasn't he retired yet? There are so many talented young presenters out there - he's a bit of a bed blocker imo

SparkleRainbow · 08/06/2010 18:36

Love Chris Evans, can't stand Ken I'm afraid, used to love Jeremy Vine, and still do really, but some of the extreme views he gives air time too leave me shouting at the radio......but Steve Wright....God give me strength, stop singing over songs, stop ruining the ending of songs, stop mispronouncing words on purpose it just isn't funny...just stop it....please.

bibbitybobbityhat · 08/06/2010 18:36

Yes, keep Zoe. She might even get the hang of Pop Master eventually.

Zandy - not all that many radio stations with no adverts. I can't listen to the afternoon play on R4 cos I always have to miss the end for the school run. I'd like to listen to music in the afternoons, anyhow. And SW just should be pensioned off now. He's been around for about 30 years.

SparkleRainbow · 08/06/2010 18:37

I love Zoe and Graham Norton was fab.... can they not permanently replace Ken and Steve....please BBC

madamebovine · 08/06/2010 18:43

So glad others feel the same. It's such a tired format. I used to love him as Steve Wright in the afternoons on Radio 1 with Mr Angry etc but that was about 15 years ago. Terrible, terrible show.

AlaskaNebraska · 08/06/2010 18:47

Lol @ bed blocker

ShowOfHands · 08/06/2010 19:31

Noooo. Zoe is too chirrupy and sunshiney. Ken's nice and dry. And she turns pop master into a comedy of errors.

Graham Norton was very good indeed though.

And to answer zandy, when you've been tuned in to Chris Evans while having breakfast, listened to a bit of Ken up to pop master, wandered off and done Other Things, when you come back the radio's still on 2. You flick it on, don't pay attention straight away and then it starts. The warbling over other songs, the sycophantic emails, the crap factoids.

Then when it can't get any worse seemingly, Mayo pops up.

ReshapeWhileDamp · 08/06/2010 19:32

He's a nobber.

SparkleRainbow · 08/06/2010 20:07

That is true showofhands, why can't chris evans do breakfast and drive time show....I miss him whilst I cook the dc dinner!

lottiejenkins · 08/06/2010 20:42

found this
ha ha
and this
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1205133/How-Steve-Wright-workout-just-Range-Rover-garage-hand. html

lowlibido · 08/06/2010 20:45

I agree. And he's so feeble at pronouncing names. I cringe for him.

Acanthus · 08/06/2010 20:55

AND that bloody repetitive thing about not guaranteeing other people's websites are safe for us to visit. Nobber. NO ONE else does that. And in stupid bloody voices too.

Fossil · 08/06/2010 21:15

Leave the poor guy alone willya! He reminds me of my youth, music where you could hear the words and it had a tune, the radio 1 roadshow, going camping after long summer holidays after exams... Ah, the 80s.

bibbitybobbityhat · 08/06/2010 21:22

Oh goodness. Just clicked on Lottie's DM link at his appearance.

And £440,000 a year! £440,000!!! four hundred and forty thousand ???

How much does Chris Evans get???

Jeez

OneTwo · 08/06/2010 21:24

I want to get Barry from Watford in an enclosed field at midnight, sit back with night vision goggles and a 12 bore...

Ah happy days

madamebovine · 08/06/2010 21:33

Oh and that "impression" of Elaine Page. ARGH!!!!!

whoopstheregoesmymerkin · 08/06/2010 21:44

yes what is it with the Elaine Page 'impression' I mean I don't rate her but he is vile and nasty when he does it.

Aled Jones to replce Ken Bruce!

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 08/06/2010 21:45

I loved it a few weeks ago when Zoe Ball stood in for Ken - she was ace.

allbie · 08/06/2010 21:47

I quite like him actually. Like Zoe. Cant stand Norton or Ken. Vines ok...Simon Mayo's ok too. Can't help having no apparant taste!

amothersplaceisinthewrong · 08/06/2010 21:49

Can't stand Dale Winton and prefer Jezzer to Steve. Steve Wrights Sunday Love Songs is utterly dire.

ThisCharmingWoman · 08/06/2010 21:50

steve's like a breath of fresh air compared with recent stand-in chris tarrant - what a tit.
love jeremy vine, lol at right-wing nutters ringing in each and every day

DarrellRivers · 08/06/2010 21:52

I like ken
Also love Zoe, she needs to replace Steve Wright
And are the factoids true or false???

And is JamieLeeGRace a real person?
I thought she was a country and western singer

almondfinger · 08/06/2010 22:19

Onetwo I'm with you on the nightvision goggles - Barry from Watford - WTF? The old Lady gets on my goat too.

I actually had to turn over when Chris Tarrant sat in a few weeks back.

Love Zoe and Graham was great.

I have to say I've warmed to Mayo big time. Was initially horrified that he was taking the place of CE atdrive time.

Have only got used to Chris recently in the morning. You cant beat Terry's dulcit tones to wake up to. When will they get rid of the 'You say hello, we say goodbye' shite? That is truly finishing the show on a bad note.

Aled Jones - is he a Eunoch?

ShowOfHands · 08/06/2010 22:20

Oh gawd, Chris Tarrant. Hello, I haven't a bloody clue what I'm doing or where I am even. I went out of date decades ago and my voice is very reminiscent of a slimy man whose hands wander to your knee accidentally. Bleurgh.

I very much like Aled Jones. It is a mad scramble to turn off Sunday Love Songs before it starts. Even if I have a morbid fascination with the make up and break up bit. 'ello Steve, it's Bernard here. Just got divorced from Pam but could you tell 'er I only ever loved her. She was the only one. Those others didn't mean a thing. Please Steve. Play Chris de Burgh for us, I'm a broken man, I loved her'. Weirdos.