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Ken Bruce Live From Glasgow
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Ken Bruce Radio 2 show is live from Glasgow until next Friday. He will be showcasing live bands. Today it was Hue and Cry and the lead singer sounded terrible.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023hp08
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023hp08
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Heard Ken yesterday doing Popmaster live with people in the audience and it took me back a bit to the old Radio 1 Roadshow days when they'd get contestants up on stage to do Bits n Pieces.
Aye, they were the days.
I remember bits and pieces. Went to many roadshows.
Oh yes, summer of 84, Radio One Roadshow in Scarborough with Mike Read. Hot sunny day, attractive girlfriend with me.
Good days indeed.
Indeed that was right for the time I suppose but I always wondered how entertaining the roadshow was to listen to.
Great if you're in the 0.5% of the audience who can see Mike Read in a badly branded jacket making a tit of himself. For me living 500 miles away it never really had the same appeal.
I switched on and heard that, then immediately switched off again..........awfull
I always thought it depended on who was doing it, some were clearly uncomfortable doing it, others (and to give him credit, Steve Wright) really made it work.
How much of the show was actually different though? Was it the same mudic and features? If so then it was basically the same show.
He is hardly standing on a stage in George square doing bits and pieces!
His Wednesday Show was on stage outside Pacific Quay (was Nick Grimshaw doing the same for Radio 1?).
Would as i mentioned on previous Ken Bruce thread (how many KB threads do we need?) love even a Saturday Morning Out and About show with different R2 presenters around the country, it is a National Station, tour the nation, eight shows a year?
That would have been a better idea than having the likes of John Bishop and Patrick Kielty sit in for Graham Norton. Two shoiws already sorted both from Carfest which would just leave another 6 weeks presented by Ken, Simon, Jo, Dermot, Alex & Wogan (with Wogan coming from Hyde Park in the Last Night of the Proms day).
Perhaps the BBC have blown the budget on the Commonwealth Games seemingly on 24/7 at the moment.
Or Newquay, or Lake Windermere
No I suppose it wasn't too bad in the end - especially as I got 30 points on p/master.
Nowhere near as bad as Evans' live rubbish on Fridays.
As I have said in the past I went to see Gary Davies[Brighton, 1987], Bruno Brookes[Margate, 1988], Phillip Schofield[Margate, 1989], Mike Read[Margate, 1990], Steve Wright[Margate, 1991], Mark Goodier[Eastbourne, 1992], Gary Davies[Blackpool, 1993], Simon Bates[Blackpool, 1993- For Blackpool Illuminations Switch On], I can not remember who it was in 1994 but who did Blackpool?, as for 1995 I saw Clive Warren in Margate and then Mark Goodier in Blackpool and Lisa I'anson in Blackpool, 1996 although 1996 should have been Nicky Campbell but he was studio bound due to having caught a bug while on holiday.
I also saw Mark Goodier in 1994 at The Cutty Sark in Greenwhich as well as was it also 1994 at The Science Museum in London as part of National Science Week, and in 1993 or was it 94 I saw Ed Stewart at Blackpool's Central Pier along with The Grumbleweeds etc.
If Radio 2 were to do a summer roadshow season during Graham's holiday we should not leave out Tony Blackburn, here is one to think of for next year Mr Shennan. Having said that would it not be even better if it was to be done in 2017 for the anniversary of BBC Radio 1, 2, 3 and 4?, time for the BBC to really think about it and put it into action.
I went too see many Steve Wright in Windermere. Remember going too see Bruno and Liz in convent garden.
Back to topic Charles Nove was running the desk in London on Wednesday.
Remember Adrian Juste used to be waiting back in the studio in London incase the signal went down during the roadshows.
Possibly with all the technology and equipment they have to move.
Nonsense. The Bruce will be around for years to come.
With a live programme, in the open air, interacting with the audience then they would probably have it done by someone else anyway so have that person back in London where they can take over if there are problems.
Nothing needs to be physically moved (from Radio 2's studios) but these days it seems the Beeb insist on the show being 'driven' from Western House, regardless.
I assume that was even the case a few years ago when Ken presented his show from NRK's studios in Oslo, (and you can't get a safer pair of hands than NRK when it comes to provision of studio facilities)
What technology and equipment to move in this day and age?