Vintage 2FM Discussion Thread

liam7831

Maybe he will team up with Jim Jim again!

robo

liam7831 wrote: »

Maybe he will team up with Jim Jim again!

They stopped talking after Jim Jim was dropped from 2FM from what I remember reading before...think when Jim Jim saw Colm's salaray compared to his, he was not too happy

liam7831

Maybe he could replace Yates on NT Breakfast if getting back wit JJ ain't a runner ?

maxwell smart

ThisRegard wrote: »

He's actually leaving RTE and working on off air projects by the sounds of it.

Off Air......best place for him :D

AwaitYourReply

thejuggler wrote: »

I remember in the early years of the Gerry Ryan show Colm used to do some sketches with Gerry - Dr Kalagari and the 3 old men in the pub were two regular sketches he contributed to. He may have been presenting the midday to 2PM show at that stage (89/90ish)

Ha Ha, I used have a recording on a cassette tape of a sketch from the Gerry Ryan Show days when Dr. Kalagari passed out with good ole Gerry calling out his name repeatedly: Dr Kalagari? Dr Kalagari? and the unique sounds from the computer sounding contraption would eventually fade away into the background of an early Kylie Minogue hit "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourqoui". Gerry Ryan always seemed to be in his element when acting in various character roles in sketches on Radio/TV.

Beechwoodspark

Was gobsmacked to see his reported salary. I never listened to him much. Very average, boring often, never bothered himself too much which is why I'm amazed at how much he was earning from the state coffers

AwaitYourReply

liam7831 wrote: »

Maybe he could replace Yates on NT Breakfast if getting back wit JJ ain't a runner ?

Shane Coleman(political editor, NewsTalk), Collette Fitzpatrick(TV3), Paul Williams(Independent News+Media) and Alan Quinlan (ex-Irish Rugby player) are to anchor the new Breakfast Show on NewsTalk 106-108 from Monday 5th of September. (Business Editor Vincent Wall will continue his successful 6:30am Breakfast Business 30minute slot) As far as I know, there will only be two co-presenters in the main 7:00-9:00am slot on a given show which is a similar arrangement to Morning Ireland presentation on RTÉ Radio 1. The Pat Kenny Show will then commence at the earlier time of 9:00am which will be followed from 12:00-2:00pm Lunchtime with George Hook. Moncrieff takes over in the 2:00-4:00pm slot and then a new show called: Drive with Sarah McInerney (The Sunday Times political correspondent) and Chris O'Donoghue from 4:00pm-7:00pm and from 6:30pm the Off The Ball team will bring regular sports issues in advance of their show.

http://entertainment.ie/trending/news/Newstalk-have-made-massive-changes-to-their-schedule-today/382489.htm

AwaitYourReply

squonk wrote: »

No, it wasn't that late. I'm guessing it was maybe between 5:30 and 7:30 when I heard him. Come to think of it, I'm guessing it was when I was in first year of secondary i.e. late 87-first half of 88. It was over the winter months anyway as it was getting dark. Reckon I'd finished the homework and was just sorting books for the following day so, come to think of it, probably around 6:30-8 perhaps.

If it was Monday to Friday early evenings, maybe Colm Hayes had filled in or had a short stint presenting Drivetime between 4:30-7:00pm time slot although they experimented with various start/finish times with the Drivetime slot. After 7:00pm on weeknights you would have had the 2FM Hotline (with the Hotline Hitlist published nightly in the Evening Herald) which was presented by Barry Lang or later Tony Fenton and from 8:00pm it was usually Dave Fanning if I recall correct?

liam7831

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

Shane Coleman(political editor, NewsTalk), Collette Fitzpatrick(TV3), Paul Williams(Independent News+Media) and Alan Quinlan (ex-Irish Rugby player) are to anchor the new Breakfast Show on NewsTalk 106-108 from Monday 5th of September. (Business Editor Vincent Wall will continue his successful 6:30am Breakfast Business 30minute slot) As far as I know, there will only be two co-presenters in the main 7:00-9:00am slot on a given show which is a similar arrangement to Morning Ireland presentation on RTÉ Radio 1. The Pat Kenny Show will then commence at the earlier time of 9:00am which will be followed from 12:00-2:00pm Lunchtime with George Hook. Moncrieff takes over in the 2:00-4:00pm slot and then a new show called: Drive with Sarah McInerney (The Sunday Times political correspondent) and Chris O'Donoghue from 4:00pm-7:00pm and from 6:30pm the Off The Ball team will bring regular sports issues in advance of their show.

http://entertainment.ie/trending/news/Newstalk-have-made-massive-changes-to-their-schedule-today/382489.htm

Ya I know that but they prob did this before they knew Colm was available. Or could he take over from Hookie ?

Fran1985

liam7831 wrote: »

Ya I know that but they prob did this before they knew Colm was available. Or could he take over from Hookie ?

No. Dreadful idea. Sorry to say.

I heard colm a few weeks ago for the first time in years. It was actually sad to hear because it was so bad. Him and jim were the only radio to listen too when they were on 104. It was great stuff. To me, It came across that they were too managed in RTE and had too many hoops to jump through to get their ideas to air. They never reached the highs of 104. The reason they fell out never surfaced but its unfortunate because together they were brilliant. Now, separated they are both weak.

liam7831

Fran1985 wrote: »

No. Dreadful idea. Sorry to say.

I heard colm a few weeks ago for the first time in years. It was actually sad to hear because it was so bad. Him and jim were the only radio to listen too when they were on 104. It was great stuff. I think they were too managed in RTE and had too many hoops to jump through to get their ideas to air. They never reached the highs of 104. The reason they fell out never surfaced but its unfortunate because together they were brilliant. Now, separated they are both weak.

I miss Jim Jims Dad too, was hilarious segment

marno21

Newstalk getting Colm Hayes in to do breakfast would be a good idea if they wanted to drive away all their listeners and bankrupt the station.

squonk

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

If it was Monday to Friday early evenings, maybe Colm Hayes had filled in or had a short stint presenting Drivetime between 4:30-7:00pm time slot although they experimented with various start/finish times with the Drivetime slot. After 7:00pm on weeknights you would have had the 2FM Hotline (with the Hotline Hitlist published nightly in the Evening Herald) which was presented by Barry Lang or later Tony Fenton and from 8:00pm it was usually Dave Fanning if I recall correct?

It could have been drivetime. I've a feeling it was one of those evenings I flew through the homework so I'd say it was about 6:30/7 and might have been a little later in the year, maybe october. It's funny, now that I'm interrogating the memory, it's becoming less clear

ButtersSuki

Fran1985 wrote: »

No. Dreadful idea. Sorry to say.

I heard colm a few weeks ago for the first time in years. It was actually sad to hear because it was so bad. Him and jim were the only radio to listen too when they were on 104. It was great stuff. To me, It came across that they were too managed in RTE and had too many hoops to jump through to get their ideas to air. They never reached the highs of 104. The reason they fell out never surfaced but its unfortunate because together they were brilliant. Now, separated they are both weak.

The reason they fell out allegedly (!) was that Hayes was getting a multiple of Jim Jim'a fees.

I never found them funny collectively or individually. To me they were the radio equivalent of Mrs. Brown's Boys.

ButtersSuki

marno21 wrote: »

Newstalk getting Colm Hayes in to do breakfast would be a good idea if they wanted to drive away all their listeners and bankrupt the station.

Never happen, he's too light and fluffy for a serious show,

As for driving listeners away from the station, they're making a good effort at it with these changes.

liam7831

Would he fit in with PJ and Damo on 4fm ?

ford fiesta

squonk wrote: »

It could have been drivetime. I've a feeling it was one of those evenings I flew through the homework so I'd say it was about 6:30/7 and might have been a little later in the year, maybe october. It's funny, now that I'm interrogating the memory, it's becoming less clear

This Thread started by saying Colm was on lunchtimes in 88/89 with his own show. As well as having a show at weekends initially, he may have filled in on other weekday slots back then.

ford fiesta

Final show underway..

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/my-anxiety-was-so-bad-i-used-to-vomit-before-going-onair-colm-hayes-ahead-of-his-final-show-on-2fm-34925756.html

Red Fred

ford fiesta wrote: »

Final show underway..

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/my-anxiety-was-so-bad-i-used-to-vomit-before-going-onair-colm-hayes-ahead-of-his-final-show-on-2fm-34925756.html

The account of the day Gerry Ryan died is inaccurate. Hayes and JimJim were doing breakfast as usual and it was Fiona Looney who covered Gerry's show that morning so I don't know how he could have been covering for Gerry when he "failed to show up for work".

Also Gerry didn't "fail to show up". He rang his producer the night before to say he wasn't feeling great and wouldn't be in for his show the next day.

Cliff Walker

i don't know how colm could have been in the running for the pd of 2fm job the day before ryan died when John McMahon had already gotten that job just a few months earlier ?

Cliff Walker

Colm and jim jim did do an extra hour until 10 tho the day ryan died, as it was normal for his stand ins to only do two hours.

Red Fred

Cliff Walker wrote: »

Colm and jim jim did do an extra hour until 10 tho the day ryan died, as it was normal for his stand ins to only do two hours.

Fair enough. Obviously my memory is a little bit "hazy"!!

ford fiesta

I have uploaded 4 videos of the 15th birthday in 1994 on "Network 2" television, can upload better video and sound quality another time, but for now.....:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPl0IMd774

Clonmel1000

I have fond memories of 2fm also in the late 80s. Did Lorcan Murray present a show 10 to midnight with a class tracks feature on it whereby a secondary school class would send in a list of songs and he'd pick 3 to play.

Declan A Walsh

ford fiesta wrote: »

I have uploaded 4 videos of the 15th birthday in 1994 on "Network 2" television, can upload better video and sound quality another time, but for now.....:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPl0IMd774

I remember tuning in around that time. I remember the novelty of having a different presenter each hour. Pour old Duty Rhodes, the new guy, had to mind the place that evening as the rest of the crew went out and celebrated!

Larry Gogan and Dave Fanning are the only regular presenters left from 1994. Aidan Leonard is still there but mainly as a producer on 2FM.

Drag00n79

I remember Paul Clarke doing a mid morning show on 2fm. Maybe around 1980/81?

ford fiesta

ford fiesta wrote: »

I have uploaded 4 videos of the 15th birthday in 1994 on "Network 2" television, can upload better video and sound quality another time, but for now.....:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPl0IMd774

Gerry Ryan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gNQ3kAqJw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdJBDferxSU

Larry Gogan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV4bD7RrkoU

Declan A Walsh

Drag00n79 wrote: »

I remember Paul Clarke doing a mid morning show on 2fm. Maybe around 1980/81?

I remember his show - it was there from 1979. It's a long time since he was with the RTE organisation. For most he is associated with UTV over the years - presenter, newsreader and even continuity announcer!

Aside: many years later, Phantom had a deejay called Paul Clarke in its pirate days. When it went legit, he went by his real name of Aidan Lynch!

Another name from 2FM's early days was Paul Blanchfield - it's on that schedule. Whatever happened to him?

Looking back at that schedule, I see Gerry Ryan was on Saturdays mid-morning to lunchtime!

Joe_ Public

Not sure if the Pat Kenny Album show was the same one co-presented by BP Fallon, but I'm sure I remember them doing a show together which reviewed new singles and albums with people calling in to give their two cents.

ford fiesta

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Not sure if the Pat Kenny Album show was the same one co-presented by BP Fallon, but I'm sure I remember them doing a show together which reviewed new singles and albums with people calling in to give their two cents.

Pat Kenny was there on his own. BP may have been a reviewer at times. But BP got his own show in mid 80s on a Saturday (at around 6pm) the BP Fallon Orchestra where he would interview a music artist.

Gerry Ryan on Lights Out did get callers to phone in to review new singles and apparently thats where Bill O'Donovan got the idea to move him to mornings for the 3 hour talk show.

Joe_ Public

ford fiesta wrote: »

Pat Kenny was there on his own. BP may have been a reviewer at times. But BP got his own show in mid 80s on a Saturday (at around 6pm) the BP Fallon Orchestra where he would interview a music artist.

Gerry Ryan on Lights Out did get callers to phone in to review new singles and apparently thats where Bill O'Donovan got the idea to move him to mornings for the 3 hour talk show.

Mustn't have been with Kenny then, but Fallon did have a singles or album review show with guest reviewers from the general public each night. Could have been with Dave Fanning, my memory is a bit sketchy on that. I only recall it because a friend of mine was on as a reviewer one night and there was another occasion when Julian Gough, of Toasted Heretic fame, made a telling contribution and regularly had both of the hosts in stitches.

ford fiesta

38 years old tomorrow.

cml387

ford fiesta wrote: »

Pat Kenny was there on his own. BP may have been a reviewer at times. But BP got his own show in mid 80s on a Saturday (at around 6pm) the BP Fallon Orchestra where he would interview a music artist.

Gerry Ryan on Lights Out did get callers to phone in to review new singles and apparently thats where Bill O'Donovan got the idea to move him to mornings for the 3 hour talk show.

I remember Gerry at night!

One "expert" brought in to debate some topic or other confidently stated that "You know, Lucozade causes cancer".
There was a swift cut to an advertising break and a chastened Gerry assured the public that there was no substance in this allegation.

Joe Duffy.

30 years ago he was on weekend's at 6pm, the same shift Will Leahy does now https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/21768357_2073666869528259_7369689548424637736_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=62d5a304b98e5f2533578d3de9a8c0de&oe=5A450070

MikeyTaylor

Joe Duffy. wrote: »

30 years ago he was on weekend's at 6pm, the same shift Will Leahy does now https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/21768357_2073666869528259_7369689548424637736_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=62d5a304b98e5f2533578d3de9a8c0de&oe=5A450070

Interesting weekday schedule. Marty Whelan on breakfast (returned from 2005-07), Jim O'Neill on drivetime, Barry Lang in what'd become Gerry Ryan's slot, Ian Dempsey on lunchtime and Larry Gogan on mid-afternoons. Followed by Fenton, Fanning and Ryan through the night!

Ursus Horribilis

And Philip Cawley was on 2FM's books. Didn't know that!

ButtersSuki

Joe Duffy. wrote: »

30 years ago he was on weekend's at 6pm, the same shift Will Leahy does now https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/21768357_2073666869528259_7369689548424637736_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=62d5a304b98e5f2533578d3de9a8c0de&oe=5A450070

That line up is so bad and dated it looks like 2fm's current schedule.

mrsdewinter

What a blast from the past! It's mad to think that Poparama had already been dropped from the schedules. Now I feel *really* old.

ford fiesta

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

And Philip Cawley was on 2FM's books. Didn't know that!

See Gerry Stephens (Stevens) / Lang on there too !

Fuzzy Clam

mrsdewinter wrote: »

What a blast from the past! It's mad to think that Poparama had already been dropped from the schedules. Now I feel *really* old.

According to that schedule, Poparama was still on at 8 am on Sunday.

Gheadphone

Good ould JK. He was a great man for some Sacred Reich, i remember this track in particular, Just Like That from 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsNsCx4aZco

seachto7

Used to listen every week

Arghus

It was crazy when you think back to the time around '00-'03 when the likes of nu-metal and so on was blowing up and getting loads of youngsters like myself into metal and all things heavy that there was basically nothing vaguely resembling metal to be heard on the radio. I used to listen to 2FM late at night quite a lot back then - pre-internet and all that! - and I would never hear any of the stuff that I listened too.And that stuff was immensely popular: there were "moshers" and metal-heads everywhere. I'm not saying that, looking back now, the music was any good really, but it sure meant a lot to young music fans at the time. But largely as far as Irish radio was concerned music heavier than the odd Smashing Pumpkins tune didn't exist. Talk about keeping their finger on the pulse of the nation.

I do remember occasionally JK used to fill in in the odd graveyard slot and he'd play stuff you'd never, ever, hear on 2FM any other time. I still remember him playing The Grudge by Tool one random night and being thrilled just to hear it on the radio. Top Bloke.

thejuggler

Not my genre but I remember Zag (aka Mick O'Hara - later to host on Phantom FM) used to popup occasionally as guest presenter

Tabnabs

Arghus wrote: »

. But largely as far as Irish radio was concerned music heavier than the odd Smashing Pumpkins tune didn't exist. Talk about keeping their finger on the pulse of the nation.

If you were lucky enough to live in Dublin, there was an excellent pirate radio scene in the 90s including the likes of Alice's Restaurant (went on to be XFM), Radio Active and later on, Phantom. There was plenty of metal to be heard, you just had to know where to dial it in.

Arghus

Tabnabs wrote: »

If you were lucky enough to live in Dublin, there was an excellent pirate radio scene in the 90s including the likes of Alice's Restaurant (went on to be XFM), Radio Active and later on, Phantom. There was plenty of metal to be heard, you just had to know where to dial it in.

I was a country bumpkin - no such options round here!

Mossy Monk

I remember he played a Metallica concert one time and played So What with no cuts. Woodstock I think it was.

Tabnabs

In fairness to him, Dave Fanning was no stranger to metal either. I have a copy of Iron Maiden at Donington Park on tape somewhere up in the attic!

ford fiesta

Is his show the JK experience still on digital station RTE 2XM?.
No sign of it on the schedule.

andy1249

Long shot but does anyone remember the two instrumental tunes they used to play right before programming started for the day?
If so, does anyone know what they were called?

One of them sounded like a great time at some mexican festival.