B*****R &K*****Y rock! (Radio in general)

Member Name:

Product:	Radio in general
Date:	05/01/02 (11 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Its funny, Its different, Its clever

Disadvantages: One hour, They will be sacked again

The New Year has been welcomed in with the brilliantly mouthy Baker and Kelly show. The boys were kicked of two years ago from Britain’s premier sports station for being too much for the staid BBC and have been shunted around ever since.
Even Talk Radio didn’t want to know as the controversial, but in reality over intelligent for sports stations broadcasters never were allowed to find their spiritual home.Wrighty and Brighty who couldn’t be further from the type of show the irreverent intellectuals blast out have been retired for the foreseeable future.

The later are amiable and easier on the ear to the gobby Londoners and have lots of footballing mates to ring up between the call in punters and lightweight material. The opposite is apparent with Baker and Kelly as the callers are few and far between with the two chubby presenters go on a severely bitingly funny diatribe all of there own.

They spare no prisoners either as the categories of discussion can some times be very x rated. Baker himself describes his style as a top shelf magazine show for the more mature punter.
These topics of discussion have included footballers in full kit outside the ground after kick-off in unusual places. The winner I recall was Imre Veradi of Sheffield Wednesday on the London Underground twelve minutes after the final whistle.
Women who have slept with footballers, which set of a series of calls from a blonde who claims to, have slept with half of London’s finest. We never did find out if it was a wind up or if there is a soccer muse roaming the streets.

Today’s first show was such a welcome relief to most football fans who are fed up with welders and White van drivers ringing in24/7 to Talk Sport with inane dribble. Too many men of average or minimal intelligence can take the game far too seriously.
Baker and Kelly have blossomed as the game and the listnership has become more middle class and demand som
ething more to the match day chants.”Your s**t agghhhhhhhhh”is not enough to make a good day out for a successful accountant.

It so important for good radio on the drive to the big match, especially if you have a six hour road trip. A lot of the day is about meeting other fans on the train and motorway service station. Fish and chips in a thousand different shops. A good footy show on the way down for the fans is a must.
Ok the first one was shortened due to the truncated FA 3rd round TV extravaganzas but long enough for a dip in the sea before they jump in the ocean next week.

The format is supposed to be a phone in show but the boys ranting allowed only nine people to get through.
The subjects up for discussion today included the ultimate player made up of others clothing idiosyncratic habits.
Tiery Henrys habit of one sock higher than the other was the left leg and Verons mystery taped right leg was the other. But it dissolved away as the boys went on a rant about something else.
A man tried to ring in and promote his wares after claiming to be responsible for one of the less glamorous shirt sponsorships. He was duly dispatched for not having a humorous anecdote to follow.

This show is about being clever and ridiculing the thicker supporters (there are many out there) who fester on talk radios smaller market share. This show is for people who like a laugh on football day and long for the moment we get a comedy station instead of all this mindless dance music and college rock.
Looking at the lighter side of the match may not be allowed in the ground by most like the clapping off the opposition scoring a great goal. But outside of the stadiums we should be allowed to have some fun.

Fundamentally though this show is extremely funny and entertaining of you get the joke and irony. If you have white van drivers brain capacity at traffic lights then you wont get it, hence the existence of Talk Sport. <
br>I like some controversy on the radio and DJs who throw the lay list out of the window on day one. What’s worse than drive time radio with presenters prattling on about nothing. Who cares if theres a traffic jam, they are there every day of the week mate. And you are part of the problem.

I want intelligent radio without having to tune in LW and Rdio Four.It makes you feel old and dull on the death band. Lets liven up daytime shows with more comedy and cutting stuff. Let’s get some of those R4 shows on the mainstream bands.

The rest of the station’s run of the mill with the most tedious being between 12 and 7.Simon Mayo talks crap for most of the after noon although theres a good hour with the BBC’s film critic on Friday.
The commentators for nearly every match played are headed by the obese gobshite Alan Green who has moaned and groaned his way out of that lucrative take over of the coveted Motty mic.
Jonathan Pearce from Channel Five and more prestigiously Robot Wars has been bumped up to TV over the equally chubby Green.

If you haven’t heard Baker and Kelly’s brilliantly naughty show then 10am-12pm is where you need to be on Saturday morning before the game. And even if your are not a fan its still worth a nibble. Great funny radio is few and far between around sport so be there!.

Summary: