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Dave Pearce: New Year's Eve on BBC Radio 2
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Good News! Dave Pearce is back on BBC Radio 2 yet again.
After his last outing on BBC Radio 2 on Monday, 29 December, 2008 at the 8-10pm slot,he is back again with his Dance Anthems show.
But this time he's back to usher in 2010.
He will be on BBC Radio 2 on New Year's Eve, 10pm - 1am.
It'll be interesting to see what the radio listening figures will be on that night as on BBC Radio 1 and on BBC Radio 1Xtra its MistaJam from 9pm to midnight.
After his last outing on BBC Radio 2 on Monday, 29 December, 2008 at the 8-10pm slot,he is back again with his Dance Anthems show.
But this time he's back to usher in 2010.
He will be on BBC Radio 2 on New Year's Eve, 10pm - 1am.
It'll be interesting to see what the radio listening figures will be on that night as on BBC Radio 1 and on BBC Radio 1Xtra its MistaJam from 9pm to midnight.
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Early acid house, rave etc is around 20 years old now, and the people listening to it back then (like myself) would be mid to late 30's now, which is in the Radio 2 target age range I believe.
I will write to the BBC Trust demanding a daytime rave show because we the ravers are under-served on Radio 2.
But first I will make a Youtube video and moan on forums a bit.
Are Radio 2 aiming for ex-radio 1 listeners form the 80's/90's...or ex-'light' programme listeners form the 50's? The whole concept of the output somewhat baffles me due to their varied and diverse output with specialised programmes.
Radio 2 should remain more 'mainstream' because at least listeners will know where they are, because at the moment it is all over the place and many listeners do not know what to expect...especially of an evening or a weekend.
Joking asside, you're right. Many of today's listeners who are now within Radio 2's remit grew up listening the music you have mentioned.
Perhaps Annie Nightingale could be persuaded to switch to Radio 2 playing the stuff you have mentioned?!
I agree with this. The last thing Radio 2 needs is to be hauled back to the 1970s. Radio 2 has evolved but sadly, some listeners are so stuck in the past that they still think Radio 2 should play Max Bygraves and Vera Lynn all day long. :sleep:
I'll give Dave's show a go but what might he play to a Radio 2 audience? Adeva? M People?
Whatever next, Judge Jules and Pete Tong on Radio 2 and perhaps before too long Mark Goodier on Sunday nights with "Our Kind of Music"
It's a far cry from the Radio 2 my grandparents used to listen to with Benny Green, Anne Robinson, Charlie Chester, Gerald Harper, Gloria Hunniford, Jimmy Young, Sing Something Simple et al!
I would also love The Request Show with Annie Nightingale to return to a Sunday night on R2/6Music!
Sorry, but you're wrong. R2 should provide programmes which the commercial sector can't or won't.
Its remit is to target from age 35 up, so it should be targetting both "ex R1 listeners" and ex-Light programmes. This means that listeners probably won't like or appreciate all of the output, but that should be a measure of how well it does its job.
If you want mainstream, then you've got Heart / Magic / Capital. Mainstream is the last thing R2 should be - if it goes more mainstream then it should be "privatised" as it won't be justifying its access to the licence fee - which is meant to be funding public service broadcasting - not a mainstream, predicatable output.
With regard to "Dance Anthems" on New Years Eve, I have a concern that the BBC will probably have a programme on R1 at NY Eve which is playing a very similar genre of music - albeit more recent. Which means the BBC isn't offering much in the way of choice. It would be equally indefensible if R2 had a classical concert when R3 will probably have that. Not everybody likes "dance / club" music - if R1 has that, then R2 should have something different.
Try the centreforce sessions on time 107.5fm playing soul and house from back in the day the original pirate dance station now legal and using the original djs from back then
www.centreforcesessions.com from 8pm midweek and from 12 miday saturdays and sundays
Radio 1 have Mistajam on until midnight so it will probably be urban music, so radio 2 will be playing something different.
It's a pretty fine line - your average listener probably couldn't tell the difference - in the same way they couldn't tell the difference between Beethoven and Copeland and would just say they are 'classical'.
R2 really should have done something like a 'Northern Soul Party' with Stuart Maconie or Rock n Roll using Mark Lamarr. That would have been genuinely distinctive and different.
Yep I knew it would be some crap like that. Most people will be listening to Dave Pearce for dance music. Fancy playing urban music on NY eve!!! Thats what 1extra is for!
You don't think most people could tell the difference between Dave Pearce's commercial dance music and "Mistajam's" hip-hop?
They're very different sounding genres.
Well, I'd struggle (I'm in my mid 30s before you ask) mainly because I've never liked the house / rap / rave / club / dance / urban music - all sounds the same to me and don't like the style.
I'd guess R2 listeners in their late 40s, 50s or 60s would be similarly unable to tell you the difference either. And it's worth remembering that's R2's target audience, not just "30 somethings" who remember this music from first time round.
The kind of stuff Dave Pearce plays: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syiIGRsyvI
The kind of stuff MistaJam plays http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GYSei66Rh4&feature=channel
If you think they sound the same you need your ears srynghing.
Annie Nightingale could replace the awful Alan Titchmarsh!
I dont think so, Mark Goodier is now on Smooth, think he grew tired of waiting for a slot on Radio 2 despite doing plenty of stand ins for Ken Bruce.