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Lyric fm's Breakfast show presenter - Marty Whelan.
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Yeah. The idea that it should play Classical music rather than MOTR schlock punctuated by bozoid babbling is quite a narrow view, isn't it?
I think that there was some problem where he/she was replying to posts as Yvonne without bothering to change usernames.
Evidently the majority here thinks that Marty sucks and a Classical/Arts stations should be for Classical music and the Arts rather than a digout for a failed 2FM DJ pushing the same sub-Tubridean 2FM schlock that lost something like 50K listeners on 2FM. Most of us just want to listen to Classical music in the morning. Not the babbling bozo and his make-believe talking cat and friends. Just Classical music.
Regards...jmcc
I'm very broadminded and I know that all music is the same no matter what its provenence. I think you can get too much of the pure classical at that hoar of the morning. I don't mind light stuff like Morricone, Gabriel's Oboe, Cavatina, Alfie Bow, Strauss, the Sleepers' Wake, the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (which Mart says is really about Linda Martin
- that's an RTE in-joke), and so on. You can have your Brahms in the Coffee Concert later on. (Brahms was addicted to coffee incidentally, Marty told us last year on his anniversary.) Imagine if Marty started playing Brahms's Lullaby in the morning! Nobody would get to work. 
No, it's all about linking you see: the different kinds of music and building an audience. You can't make bricks without straw, you know. :cool:
I wish Liz Nolan [who is good at doing her program] would do a bit more of the funnies too. I heard her do the Muppets last week and that brought a smile to my face. "It's time to play the music," she said. "It's time to dress up right. For the Muppets tonight!"0 -
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Other than Marty, perhaps his production team, his travel agent and some character called Hugo Brady Brown? You see, Marty and the rest of them are background noise - the kind of thing that most people ignore. It becomes irritating when babbling bozos think that they are more important than the music. Perhaps in the cult of RTE and its "personalities" they tell all these sad non-entities that they are famous and are "personalities". People want to listen to music on LyricFM not some sub-talkradio wibbling from people who think they are being "creative" and "clever".
No. There is even a forum here called "Conspiracy Theories". This isn't CSI. This is the web.
Obviously you, Yvonne and closed accounts such as Almaviva, SaveOurLyricFM (who seems to have a rather similar posting style to you) and a handful of other single topic accounts seem to be promoting Martydom and his Opera tours.
This is the web and people have digital footprints. The shills and the sockpuppet accounts tend to be quite apparent. The classic example would have been Almaviva replying to a reply to Yvonne as Yvonne but without changing to the Yvonne account. Then there is the abrupt oscillation between the "ordinary plain people of Ireland housewife" and the person au fait with a lot of broadcast industry terminology like there were two people posting. The pro-Martydom posters seem to be quite a minority here so there may be a temptation to create multiple accounts to make it seem like there are more listeners than there are in reality and more people on Boards.ie who like the MOTR and can't figure out how to retune their radios to 2FM or some other station.
Regards...jmcc
It seems to me that some people want to keep classical/crossover music for themselves. What Mart does very successfully is he gives a leg up to ordinary people to get into the classical stuff without being frightened off. :pac:
I listened to almost the entire Marty Show this morning and it was a joy to behold. It must have sickened the snobs to know that Marty is held in the highest favour by the Wexford Festival Opera because he was offering a Gala Opening Night to the Wexford Opera Festival production of Salome to two loyal listeners with an overnight in the Ferrycarraig Hotel and a chance to attend a reception with Mart and the gang. For the second day running!
And there was great news on the Verona outing too but I missed the detail of that because I'd things to do. :eek:
And the Modern Major General was on with a really good joke about Sir Elton John who's birthday it is today. 67 years young! :cool:
Oh and I'm not the other person you mention or any of them. I think a person would want to be off her rocker to start spending their life on a thing like this arguing with themselves. Who has the time?
And I haven't a digital footprint either, by the way. I have a carbon one - would that do?
Keep it up, Mart! The majority - nay, the vast majority - of the plain people of Ireland are loving your work.
And to the small band of critics - all I can says is : try to be nice. It's only a radio show - even if it's too popular for the heavy classical pureists.0 -
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In the studio?I listened to almost the entire Marty Show this morning and it was a joy to behold.
You seem to be promoting whatever "competition" or tour that is on the show. Odd that. But then the Wexford Opera Festival might have some other random RTE personality promoting their little competition - it is all just marketing.It must have sickened the snobs to know that Marty is held in the highest favour by the Wexford Festival Opera because he was offering a Gala Opening Night to the Wexford Opera Festival production of Salome to two loyal listeners with an overnight in the Ferrycarraig Hotel and a chance to attend a reception with Mart and the gang. For the second day running!
And again.And there was great news on the Verona outing too but I missed the detail of that because I'd things to do.
Another one of Marty's "voices" like he does on the Tesco advert?And the Modern Major General was on with a really good joke about Sir Elton John who's birthday it is today. 67 years young! :cool:
The vast majority of Irish people are unaware of the existence of that radio show. If they listen to radio, they listen to RTE1, 2FM and other stations. But then your beloved Marty was fired from his natural home, 2FM, because he was just not bringing in the audience figures.Keep it up, Mart! The majority - nay, the vast majority - of the plain people of Ireland are loving your work.
It would be nice to think that there's a special place in Hell reserved for those who foisted the babbling Whelan on LyricFM where they have to listen to the babbling, his "jokes" and banter for eternity without any ad breaks or music. But then some, like you and SaveOurLyric(FM) might regard that as heaven.And to the small band of critics - all I can says is : try to be nice. It's only a radio show - even if it's too popular for the heavy classical pureists.
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Other than Marty, perhaps his production team, his travel agent and some character called Hugo Brady Brown? You see, Marty and the rest of them are background noise - the kind of thing that most people ignore.
So you might like to believe and have us believe.
But none other than the leader of our country, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, would disagree with you and is witness, even with his hectic official schedule, to hearing supporters and converts to the feel-good oasis that is MITM:Originally said by Enda Kenny TD
"Yet… in the worst of the economic downturn time and again we heard even news addicts say ’I couldn’t take any more of the bad news about banks and bailouts I switched to Lyric FM in the car in the mornings Marty Whelan makes me feel so much better.’"
http://www.merrionstreet.ie/index.php/2014/03/speech-by-the-taoiseach-mr-enda-kenny-t-d-radiodays-europe-conference-at-the-convention-centre-on-24-march-2014/?cat=11
So....the conspiracy theorists are correct.....finally unmasked....Marty, Almaviva, Yvonne, Hugo, SaveOurLyricFM..., on top of juggling the affairs of state.....juggling multiple boards.ie accounts, is..... our Taoiseach Enda Kenny !
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Did you forget the password for your previous account (if you had one)?SaveOurLyric wrote: »So....the conspiracy theorists are correct.....finally unmasked....Marty, Almaviva, Yvonne, Hugo, SaveOurLyricFM..., on top of juggling the affairs of state.....juggling multiple boards.ie accounts, is..... our Taoiseach Enda Kenny !
And people wonder why this country is f*cked.
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I do. :pac:DownBeaten wrote: »If you like schoolboy jokes, listen to Tubridy or Today FM. Leave the only music and arts channel available to us music lovers.
And I think we've a duty to attract schoolboys' to Lyric and to classical music and this is one sure way to do it. It's like laying a trap for the next generation with chocolate biscuits and getting them to stay for the roughage. :cool:
(Oh, and Ryan Uubridy isn't on Today FM, by the way: he's on 2fm, on national radio. ) 0 -
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I do. :pac:
And I think we've a duty to attract schoolboys' to Lyric and to classical music and this is one sure way to do it. It's like laying a trap for the next generation with chocolate biscuits and getting them to stay for the roughage. :cool:
(Oh, and Ryan Uubridy isn't on Today FM, by the way: he's on 2fm, on national radio. )
TodayFM is national radio as well and we have a duty to do nothing. IN my opinion, people tend to treasure what they have found more than what is rammed down their throats.
You're ramming pop music and nonsense down my throat in the mornings. There are umpteen radio stations in the country which do the same.
A beacon of calm would be useful. An island of classical music with no banter and chat, a nice way to ease into the day and remain calm in the face of traffic.
Instead, the choice is either politics or inane banter.
In other words, you've alternatives to Lyric if banter and drivel is what you want.
Unfortunately I can't get YLE K or Classic FM on the car in the mornings.0 -
I do. :pac:
And I think we've a duty to attract schoolboys' to Lyric and to classical music and this is one sure way to do it. It's like laying a trap for the next generation with chocolate biscuits and getting them to stay for the roughage. :cool:
(Oh, and Ryan Uubridy isn't on Today FM, by the way: he's on 2fm, on national radio. )
Thats so true and very well put.
Ireland lags behind our more sophisticated European neighbours in the widespread enjoyment of classical music in its widest sense. When Ireland was a poorer and more insular country, such music was only known or accessible to a very small minority. But the world has changed. Thank you prosperity, wider horizons, and the internet. And (despite the attitudes of some of the old guard http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055554034, and a few other sulking around these parts), the likes of MITM is at the cutting edge, providing a 'beginner slope' into classical music, sprinkling it as he goes with a smattering of 'cross-over', and assorted 20th century styles to attract all, and capture them to the fabulous world that is classical music (and all done with a delicious dollop of infectious good cheer).
Bravo Ireland on your maturity ! And thank you Marty !0 -
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