Forgettable Radio 1 or Radio 2 DJs
Andy23
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What forgettable Radio 1 or Radio 2 DJs can you remember?
Those that by the time they'd got settled in, they were leaving, or those that did hardly any shows and then disappeared without trace.
Basically those DJs that would be a Pointless Answer on Pointless if the question was 'Name a R1 or R2 DJ'
Those that by the time they'd got settled in, they were leaving, or those that did hardly any shows and then disappeared without trace.
Basically those DJs that would be a Pointless Answer on Pointless if the question was 'Name a R1 or R2 DJ'
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Paul Jordan (I remember listening to him but cannot remember his voice until I listened to Top of The Pops Playback a few weeks ago) I Don't now why he left radio 1.
Jenny Costello
Paul McKenna
Radio 2
Barbara Sturgeon
Nick Page
I bet a lot of people don't know that Phillip Schofield was a Radio1 jock
The Man Ezeke
"Radio Tip Top"
Mark Tonderei
Jackie Bird
Robbie Vincent
I don't think Robbie Vincent really qualifies at forgettable. He spent 6 years on Radio 1, followed by a very long spell on LBC, and shifts on Kiss and Jazz FM amongst others. The man's a legend.
Dixie Peach
Graham Bannerman
Gary King
Neale James
Clive Warren
Listening to them now they sound too old/posh for Radio 1, but it was a completely different station in the 90s I suppose.
Andy Peebles, after his memorable interview with John Lennon, never seemed to reach the dizzy heights. To me he'll be best remembered for a Friday night soul show, when soul music was at its lowest ebb, featuring football, something else going through a bad period in the eighties.
On Radio 2 I'd say Pam Ayres. She replaced Charlie Chester when he retired, try to do a similar show aimed at the elderly and didn't last/
Radio 2 - Debbie Thrower
Yes Glenn, i had forgotten about Pam Ayres (though she is well known and still on Just a Minute from time to time), but if you asked me who replaced Charlie Chester, I would have said Ed Stewart!
Robbie Vincent!!! You must be joking?? He is a Soul music radio legend, And anyone who knows about radio 1 should know about Robbie!!
But you have picked one or two Dj's who were very unforgettable in Mark Tonderei & Jackie Bird well done on that count,
She was on before Ed Stewart, but didn't last that long. Another not so memorable presenter was Judith Chalmers, OK best known for travel shows, but she did have stint on Radio 2 at the height of the Line era.
Couldn't disagree more, he was superb, and even covered the main breakfast show a couple of times!!
He did have a unique way of introducing the then latest hit by "Boosted"...
Graham Bannerman's show on Radio 1 was on Saturday evenings in a slot where they would try out new DJs for a couple of months at a time. The slot became free when Janice Long moved to weekdays in 1984 and also filling it was Ian Brass, presumably Radio 1's only ever recruit from Radio Devon, and Phil Kennedy, later of many other stations. Bannerman I think did a few other stand-in stints during his months at the station, but was never going to be a star as his name was too long to fit the jingles. That trial slot ended when Simon Mayo arrived in 1986.
They had a similar try-out slot in the Friday early show about five years ago, which I think was Fearne Cotton's first regular slot on Radio 1, wasn't it?
Mark Tonderai was a strange one in that he got quite a high profile when he joined because it was the start of the Bannister era and he and Danny Baker were the first two new recruits, so he got mentioned in all the press coverage, though nobody heard him because he did weekend overnights, and only very, very rarely ventured out of that slot - I think one of the few times he was on air before midnight came in 1994 when there was seemingly some kind of delay before Westwood could join so the new schedule began in November with Tonderai in his Saturday night slot before he took over in December.
And of course he did the Roadshow in the summer of 1994, but never again. The only time I ever heard him, and the only time I think he ever did a daytime show, was when he stood in for Kevin Greening on his weekend show in 1995, which seemed to come out of left field, and indeed I think he left about six months later. But then he became a producer and actually produced quite a lot of Radio 1's comedy output.
This is presumably the cue to start pondering, again, as to the identity of the "Tom Clay" who they mention in the book The Nation's Favourite is about to be dropped and replaced by "Clare Jones". Clare Jones is 100% definitely Emma B but given the timeframe and the fact they're talking about swingjocks I always assumed Tom Clay was Charlie Jordan and they'd switched the sexes. Given Moyles once said on air she didn't "deserve to be on hospital radio, let alone national radio".
Another obscure name, actually quite a good muso, Andy Batten Foster who briefly co hosted the Saturday Sequence.
- Clive Warren: I know he went elsewhere (Century/Real Radio being one place) but his time was not notable although maybe that was because I was a child at the time.
- Lisa L'Anson: Chris Moyles mentioned her in his autobiography saying she had a great voice but was not entirely certain on how to use it. Her show was very hip and urban and Chris said it did not really appeal to him. Again, I was a child when she was around so maybe that is why she was forgettable. I do know she went missing in Ibiza on a Radio 1 trip!
Lisa I Anson, embarassing to say the least, used expressions like wickid in every sentence as in where's da party, wickid, innit? Her presentation style was embarassing and probably had people turning the dial.