Lyric fm's Breakfast show presenter - Marty Whelan.

Yvonne23R

Someone asked if I had met Marty. I wish I had :on Winning Streak!!!

He was back with a bang today.

I saw Andre Rieu and the Vienna Phil Orch at the New Year and they were the same, both playing games, jokes and music: exactly like Marty!

I got to know Andre Roei through Marty. he reminds me of our own Sir Jimmy Galway, or Lennie Bernstein!

Dirigent

Why did Marty not interview Gerhard Markson, who conducted the two New Years Day concerts in the NCH? After all, why does he want to promote a foreign commercial orchestra instead of an Irish one?

Probably because Masetro Markson would expect intelligent questions and a basic knowledge of music from an interviewer!

Yvonne23R

Well, I suppose Marty Whelan was on his hols at the New Year. and he was AT the Andre Rieu recital, so he was qualified to comment. AS were maybe 10,000 others who enjoyed the gigs in the Point. Does the man you mentioned have good English for radio? I've never heard of him. on RTE or anywhere else!

Dirigent

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Well, I suppose Marty Whelan was on his hols at the New Year. and he was AT the Andre Rieu recital, so he was qualified to comment. AS were maybe 10,000 others who enjoyed the gigs in the Point. Does the man you mentioned have good English for radio? I've never heard of him. on RTE or anywhere else!

He was Principal Conductor of the NSO for about 8 years. Now just an occasional visitor. Speaks perfect English (albeit with a distinct Germanic accent).

Yvonne23R

Well then you've answered your own question. Haven't you? For the morning we don't want to be struggling with foreign accents. That kind of thing is fine for the eveningtime when people have the chance to concentrate. From next week I have to get the family out to school, work and college. I don't want my listening to be hard work.

And! I will be listening tomorrow to see if Marty Whelan's producers have taken notice of people here and dropped Neven Maguire for the New Year. Unless he proposes to give us tips on how to make curry from the carcase of a turkey!! That is!

Dirigent

Yvonne23R wrote: »

For the morning we don't want to be struggling with foreign accents. That kind of thing is fine for the eveningtime when people have the chance to concentrate.

Does Andre not have an accent? :-)

Yvonne23R

Very good! That's very good!:D But I thought you mean the accent on his name: Andre with the accent acute. (It's peculiar that he has that name Andre Rieu when he comes from Holland. If he came from Belgium in self I would not be surprised, but Holland is strange!)

Yvonne23R

He's on! So, obviously, he's off! (Neven Maguire has been switched off on the radio here.) I'm beginning to think that he's actually not as "nice" as he pretends to be. I think now that he's totally false & grasping, and that Marty Whelan is being used by a sharper operator. There is No Way today's one is live, but he's pretending to have "the Christmas" behind him, and talking about Amelda and the twins. Probably recorded last October.

Marty: this is sickening. please make it stop for God's sake!!!!!

Dirigent

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Marty: this is sickening. please make it stop for God's sake!!!!!

:rolleyes:

Aidric

Aidric wrote: »

If you don't mind me saying you seem to have an obsession with Mr Maguire.

Yvonne23R wrote: »

I don't have any obsession with Neven Maguire

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Neven Maguire

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Neven Maguire.....Neven Maguire

Yvonne23R wrote: »

no sign of Neven Maguire

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Neven Maguire

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Neven Maguire

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Neven Maguire

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Neven Maguire

Ok.

Yvonne23R

I guess from the swishy way you go on you are a thwarted individual used to laying down the law and getting your own way, maybe as a school teacher. I am only a parent and license payer. :mad:

I hoped that people with an interest in music on radio would gather if they though that what the Production people were forcing into Marty Whelan's programme could be stopped. Either they think it can't be stopped or they don't care or they think it is a good thing to have Neven Maguire on the programme every Friday of the year talking receipes like there's no tomorrow.

This has nothing to do with a music radio station. It is madness. If I though for definite he was being paid for it I would write to RTE HQ in Dublin to tell them it was wrong.

Does nobody care?

Why should Marty Whelan's abilities be misused like this on Lyric???:mad:

doomed

Yvonne23R wrote: »

I hoped that people with an interest in music on radio would gather if they though that what the Production people were forcing into Marty Whelan's programme could be stopped. Either they think it can't be stopped or they don't care or they think it is a good thing to have Neven Maguire on the programme every Friday of the year talking receipes like there's no tomorrow.

This has nothing to do with a music radio station. It is madness. If I though for definite he was being paid for it I would write to RTE HQ in Dublin to tell them it was wrong.

Does nobody care?

Why should Marty Whelan's abilities be misused like this on Lyric???:mad:

Yvonne, I think complaining about Nevin being on the El Prat show is like finding graffiti on your house and objecting to the grammar.

The fact is that neither EP nor NM has any business being on a specialist music station. What we have is a cheesy sub-2FM magazine show with celebrity chefs, bad music choices, embarrising witless banter and loyal listeners doing a turn.

Writing to RTE will have no effect. Do it anyway but the answer will read as follows "I am glad you like Marty's Programme and sorry that the Nevin Maguire segment is not to your taste. However it has proved popular with other listeners". While you are on why not ask them to move it to 2 FM where it belongs.

By the way I doubt that the production people are forcing this. Have you noticed that when EP is away most of the rubbish goes with him?

Knutsack

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Someone asked if I had met Marty. I wish I had :on Winning Streak!!!

No Yvonne. I asked you if you knew Hugo - the writer of tiresome letters to Marty in the Morning.
He is the same Hugo Brady Brown who posted on this thread for some time until he was banned.

Yvonne23R

Sorry I misunderstood you. I’m fairly sure Marty Whelan writes Hugo or a lot of it anyway. But yesterday he was laughing during it, so maybe he didn’t write that one. Actually I think the program has turned into a kind of a “Stock Exchange” where people all over share jokes and funny stories. I love it and the children love it and bring the jokes with them into school! And it means we don’t have to watch Breakfast TV.

And to get back to Neven. Have you noticed all the messages that come into Lyric from listeners giving praise to the show and for the work Marty is doing. The only thing that does not ever get any praise from the listeners ever is Neven Maguire. Rebecca Horan and the other presenters on AA Road Watch. The Hugo plays. The “What ARE We Talking About?” The stars of stage and screen that Marty Whelan has in to interview and perform. Marty himself. Even Trish. Marty reads out cards, texts and e-mails from listeners about them. And thanking Marty for how he is helping people forget the recession. (And some of the listeners are sending him in chocolate and cakes and drinks etc etc.) I wouldn’t go that far.

But nobody even gets on to the Show to thank Marty for having Neven Maguire on. This should be enough for RTE to see that it doesn’t belong on a music program like this.

Dirigent

I'm not in a position to discuss Hugo or Neven, never having heard anything they say.

However, I did flick over to Lyric this morning to avoid endless bad news. A nice violin concerto was being played. I (against my better judgment) decided not to instantly flick at the end, as I always do to avoid El Prat. I chose to listen for a second to hear who was the soloist and the orchestra (you can call me a music snob, I don't care). What I heard was something on the lines of "well, he's almost got the hang of that one". Needless to say I heard no more.

Obviously RTE management are complicit in this buffoonery that you wouldn't hear on the cheapest, nastiest pop station.

Yvonne23R

You missed something else then that I missed too. Marty had the new Bowie single on after I had gone to work, but I'm not able to listen to Marty at work. My husband said Marty said it was the first time it was played on radio. If I have time later on I'm going to hear it on the "RTE player". You should have stuck around.

Yvonne23R

Turned off this morning as soon as Marty Whelan started off with Neven Maguire. Gave it a few minutes, and soon he was having a really interesting and relevant interview with Julian Lloyd-Weber the cellist. I wish he had more of this and less of the other and it would be a perfect show. Lloyd-Webber is touring Ireland with his cello these days. (And the AA man told us that Springsteen is playing Cork, Limerick & Belfast in his upcoming tour.)

Dirigent

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Turned off this morning as soon as Marty Whelan started off with Neven Maguire. Gave it a few minutes, and soon he was having a really interesting and relevant interview with Julian Lloyd-Weber the cellist. I wish he had more of this and less of the other and it would be a perfect show. Lloyd-Webber is touring Ireland with his cello these days. (And the AA man told us that Springsteen is playing Cork, Limerick & Belfast in his upcoming tour.)

JLW's show is a most enjoyable evening, strongly recommended. Even El Prat shouldn't put you off. :cool:

Yvonne23R

Lovely story this morning on Marty from a customer who met Ennio Morricone in Antwerp because of Marty's programme. He got his photograph taken with Ennio (enclosed) because he had come across him from the programme. Even Marty himself hasn't got to meet Ennio yet. He has got within a few yards of him though. Lovely tale to hear on a cold and miserable morning.

Dirigent

Yvonne23R wrote: »

Even Marty himself hasn't got to meet Ennio yet.

I'm sure Ennio is waiting with bated breath. :eek:

Yvonne23R

It's Friday. Is he going to have Neven Maguire? What do you think? Will it be bearable? Is somebody obsessed? Has someone had a bad experience with Neven Maguire at some time? Is this right? Should it be on a music programme? Does anybody care?

europa11

Yvonne23R wrote: »

It's Friday. Is he going to have Neven Maguire? What do you think? Will it be bearable? Is somebody obsessed? Has someone had a bad experience with Neven Maguire at some time? Is this right? Should it be on a music programme? Does anybody care?

1:Yes......2:I don't think about it........3:even as someone who likes to cook, I don't see the point of radio bothering with a cooking slot, so no.....4:yes, I'm fear someone is........5:sounds like it.........6:best to switch elsewhere before the slot........7:of course not.......8 El Prats' and Nevins' agent does.

heybaby

Whatever about Marty, its Ellen Cranitch , the Grace Notes presenter and standin presenter for John kelly that I have a major difficulty with. according to the website she's been presenting on rte for 6 years, this amazed me, as she is incapable of getting through a single link without multiples 'em's pauses and generally sounding like she's never been on air before. Yet again the national broadcaster and might I add, the world radio station of ther year as they frequently tell us, manage broadcast standards which would be unacceptable on local radio.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Who is Hugo Brady Brown? A certain creature who went by that name used to post on this site, a well spoken chap with an obvious agenda, An acquaintance of El Prat or him himself?

born2bwild

I don't like the name -calling on this thread.

This 'El Prat' nonsense is juvenile and should not be allowed. It's ugly and abusive groupthink - everyone is calling Marty Whelan names so it must be acceptable.

You are bullies - nothing more, nothing less.

Yvonne23R

I have just noticed your message. I agree fully with you. It is sick the way Marty Whelan is made to look like a fool here. I have found only one failing on his show. I think he is not very responsible for it. I think it is RTE's management that forces it onto him. Actually there's nothing like him on radio at all. Especially at that time of the morning. And he keeps us all cheery with his music and chat, So I'm not one of the ones here who are saying very very harsh things about the progrramme. Nice to know that there are some other kind people here too! : )

doomed

Yvonne23R wrote: »

I have found only one failing on his show. I think he is not very responsible for it. I think it is RTE's management that forces it onto him.

No so sure Yvonne. Who knows ....

The door of the producer's office bangs open. Its Marty and he's angry. The moustache is bristling, never a good sign. "Nevin ****** Maguire?" shouts the silver haired maestro. "Cookery? This is the last straw. I put up with the tacky programme title, you wont let me put the Hugo letters through the shredder and as for this stuff you make me play." Marty throws the CD on the table. The producer looks at it. Its the latest copy of "NOW THATS WHAT I CALL SH1TE: 100 MOR classics". "You told me it was a classical music station. Rolf Haarrrissss????"

"Calm down Mart", says the producer soothingly. "That's what people want to hear in the morning. A whole national station for a few music snobs? I think not. We are taking Lyric back. Wouldn't it be great to have a station where Beethoven means a big dog and not a dead German"

Marty is not convinced but thinks of mortgages, putting food on the table and cost of moustache wax and his head sinks.

Knutsack

born2bwild wrote: »

This 'El Prat' nonsense is juvenile and should not be allowed. .

I'll tell YOU what's juvenile and should not be allowed....

A presenter in the final throwes of his national radio career pulling down a publicly funded music and arts service - the only one we have.

A presenter who hums and talks his way over the few bits of serious music left on that time slot and sniggers at and sends up the foreign names of composers artists when he can't pronounce them, which is often.

A presenter and production team who not only humour but also encourage the same tedious correspondence. Notice how the names of these hilarious people are the same day ofter day.

A presenter and production team who thinks that a three hour blow job for one TV chef's cook book is acceptable on Lyric FM.

A management in RTE which would be happy to see you go to jail if you didn't pay what is due to them but are unable/unwilling to keep their side of the bargain.

If there's groupthink going on, it's from the combined brains that think it's acceptable to bring us Daniel O' Donnell, Michael Buble, Walteufel, Genesis, Strauss, Katherine Jenkins, multiple Morricone and other elevator ****e on the national arts channel.

pconn062

born2bwild wrote: »

I don't like the name -calling on this thread.

This 'El Prat' nonsense is juvenile and should not be allowed. It's ugly and abusive groupthink - everyone is calling Marty Whelan names so it must be acceptable.

You are bullies - nothing more, nothing less.

I agree about the name calling, but Marty deserves every bit of criticism he gets from a quality point of view. The show is terrible, really bottom of the barrel stuff and is costing Lyric listeners, I have stopped listening to Lyric in the morning now. It is unacceptable to sully the quality of a great station like Lyric because "the boy needs a job". The same goes for Gay Byrne on a Sunday too. Lyric doesn't need so-called "personalities", it needs knowledgeable presenters which Marty is not.

Loafing Oaf

General question for you classical buffs, is a conventional radio station actually the best way for RTE to meet your listening needs? Supposing they were to close down Lyric and load all the classical music in the world onto a giant ipod, rig it up to a broadcasting desk, and leave it on shuffle, would that be nearly/just as good, or even better for you. I guess you would probably need to announce pieces, but I'm sure that could be automated too...