The Ray D'Arcy Show - 13th. February 2016

Welsh Megaman

Spend Saturday night in with RTE's overpaid golden boy.

But enough about Nicky Byrne, Ray's here too. :pac:





Nicky Byrne will perform Ireland's Eurovision entry Sunlight for the first time on the Ray D'Arcy Show on RTÉ One on Saturday night. The 2fm presenter and former Westlife star co-wrote the song with songwriter Wayne Hector and award-winning composer Ronan Hardiman. He has been in Eurovision rehearsals in recent weeks ahead of his Ray D'Arcy Show appearance on Saturday at 10:05pm.

"I can't wait to perform in front of Ray's live studio audience and everyone watching at home," he said.

"I'm so thrilled to be representing Ireland at Eurovision in Stockholm this year. I'm looking forward to seeing how people react to the song - the feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive and the good luck wishes have been flooding in."

"We're delighted to have Nicky in studio with us this Saturday," said host D'Arcy. "I'm a big fan of Eurovision and Nicky's song. I'm looking forward to chatting with Nicky, meeting his band and hearing all about their preparations ahead of Stockholm. I wish them all the very best of luck."

Byrne will perform in the second Eurovision Song Contest Semi-Final in the Globe Arena in Stockholm on Thursday May 12. The final takes place on Saturday May 14.

Byrne's creative team for the Eurovision is led by Tim Byrne who worked on The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent in his former role as Creative Director of Syco Entertainment at Sony Music. Another member of the team is Lee Lodge, whose production credits include the Oscars and MTV Music Video Awards. RTÉ's Head of Delegation for the Eurovision, Michael Kealy, will collaborate with the production team on the performance of Sunlight in Stockholm.

Songwriter Hector's clients include One Direction, Britney Spears and Nikki Minaj, while composer Hardiman's credits include the soundtracks to Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance and Feet of Flames.

Hardiman produced Sunlight in Dublin and the track was mixed in Los Angeles by Serban Ghenea. He has worked on Taylor Swift's Shake It Off and Uptown Funk from Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, among many other hit singles.

jimmynokia

FFS.. Who else is on that Ray can make a bags of interviews with?

Warped Hyperdriver

Long live Nicky Byrne!

Skid X

jimmynokia wrote: »

FFS.. Who else is on that Ray can make a bags of interviews with?

"Ruth Fitzmaurice joins Ray to speak about how her film-maker husband's life with motor neurone disease inspired her to write, and Belfast Cereal Killer twins Alan and Gary Keery explain why their Shoreditch cafe only sells cereal"

Two annoying hipsters and someone talking about her Husband's crippling degenerative disease.

Happy Saturday!

Red Kev

Johnny Logan wasn't very complimentary about the way RTE get the Eurovision song these days, he'd like a return to the old days of a National Song Contest.

Ryan laughed nervously and panicked inside as it sounded like Johnny was going off script. He managed to shut him up fairly quickly.



I was looking at the puppy GIF. Jayzus, but I'd love to give him a hand out of that bowl. It's driving me nuts looking at him.

PeterTheEighth

Warped Hyperdriver wrote: »

Long live Nicky Byrne!

Ah Nicky seems like a decent lad. Here he is with the other Westlife members, when they recently went to visit Shane Filan's "Shopping centre and apartment complex" in Sligo Town.

CatFromHue

Meow, saucer of milk for Peter

:pac:

amdublin

I really enjoyed the lls and the lls thread last night. Come on Ray this is your chance! Do it for the boardsies!

Heckler

Skid X wrote: »

"Ruth Fitzmaurice joins Ray to speak about how her film-maker husband's life with motor neurone disease inspired her to write, and Belfast Cereal Killer twins Alan and Gary Keery explain why their Shoreditch cafe only sells cereal"

Two annoying hipsters and someone talking about her Husband's crippling degenerative disease.

Happy Saturday!

are you serious ? a misery slot and those two wanker hipsters who charge 4 quid for a bowl of rice krispies to the bigger **** who'll pay for it....

CatFromHue

I think the cereal lads could be interesting, well not boring anyway.

They do have a story to tell anyway.

Heckler

CatFromHue wrote: »

I think the cereal lads could be interesting, well not boring anyway.

They do have a story to tell anyway.

Had an idea. Got a loan. Hardly the most enthralling.

Grew the same beards and got the same tattoos like thats not at all odd.

Spend the day serving shoreditch brick lane hipsters overpriced food.

Atlantic Dawn

amdublin wrote: »

I really enjoyed the lls and the lls thread last night. Come on Ray this is your chance! Do it for the boardsies!

He should track down Dean from LLS last night and interview him for 20 minutes or until he stops being funny.

Skid X

That gobshite David McSavage is also on.

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

https://twitter.com/Rubberbandits/status/694866681877938176

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

That gobshite David McSavage is also on.

I remember him being quite funny at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

:pac:

Ol' Donie

Okay, well that's one great achievement for the Ray D'Arcy show.

Making fellas who make breakfast cereal the most interesting guests on the show. Did you ever think that was possible? I didn't.

Ol' Donie

Second Toughest in_the Freshers wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Rubberbandits/status/694866681877938176

:D:D

Ol' Donie

Skid X wrote: »

That gobshite David McSavage is also on.

Uncomfortable viewing ahoy!

Atlantic Dawn

Skid X wrote: »

That gobshite David McSavage is also on.

Perfect, I hope he makes it pure car crash, won't be much of a challenge

Welsh Megaman

The cereal cafe was SO popular, it caused a riot... :pac:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/27/shoreditch-cereal-cafe-targeted-by-anti-gentrification-protesters

Ol' Donie

amdublin wrote: »

I really enjoyed the lls and the lls thread last night. Come on Ray this is your chance! Do it for the boardsies!

I suspect whoever it is that sells restraining orders enjoyed it too.

(I know, I know...)

Skid X

I predict a rambling unfunny anecdote about Ray writing Valentine's Days cards for his kids.

Or his kids writing Valentines cards for him.

Or another whammy about a wardrobe falling on someone in Ikea.

Ol' Donie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

The cereal cafe was SO popular, it caused a riot... :pac:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/27/shoreditch-cereal-cafe-targeted-by-anti-gentrification-protesters

Who riots because of a shop that sells cereal?

Weeta-pricks, if you ask me.







*cough*

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Who riots because of a shop that sells cereal?

I'd say there were some repeat offenders involved...


wait, no

jimmynokia

Skid X wrote: »

"Ruth Fitzmaurice joins Ray to speak about how her film-maker husband's life with motor neurone disease inspired her to write, and Belfast Cereal Killer twins Alan and Gary Keery explain why their Shoreditch cafe only sells cereal"

Two annoying hipsters and someone talking about her Husband's crippling degenerative disease.


Happy Saturday!

Mother of god,im out.. Although I might hang about for the folk working up a lather for Nicky Sh1te pedal pushing crap from RTE

Welsh Megaman

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Who riots because of a shop that sells cereal?

Weeta-pricks, if you ask me.







*cough*

Donie, I'm not shreddie for all these cereal puns.





*thud*

Ol' Donie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Donie, I'm not shreddie for all these cereal puns.





*thud*

Ah come on, they're pretty sweet.

Or should I say

*ahem*

Sweetos?

Welsh Megaman

Dare I say it, but Ireland's Eurovision 2016 song is...not bad :eek:

I think it'll actually do well in the contest.

And, of course - I will edit this post after Ireland fail to reach the final.

PeterTheEighth

Okay, I'm working on the perfect Saturday lead up to watching The Ray D'Arcy Show. Here's what I've come up with so far. Now bear with me, cos this is only a shower's worth of material. :pac:

HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE RAY D'ARCY SHOW. Rev 1.0.

- Fix some porridge, loads of fruit. ABSOLUTELY NO SUGAR ALLOWED IN ANY FORM. Especially not those imitation sugars, which are really just as bad as normal sugar and I dont know how they are allowed to advertise that they are not ... etc etc.

- **bonus points** If a neighbour should call in at any stage, introduce him to your Jenny missus as Jack Nicholson, while laughing like a hyiena. When she's not impressed, blame somebody else.

- Go for a run. While running play Paulo Nutini on the ipod. Play the wrong song. Say "aaah.. No not that one". Find the right song eventually. Blame Apple for the f**k up

- **bonus points** If you bump in to the local priest while running, bawl him out of it for having to get Tom baptised to get in to the local school. (improvise by mentioning Kate, or Tom & Kate)

- When home turn on the TV in preparation for the show, switch it to the wrong channel. Say something like "haaaa.. where is that one now". Blame it on the TV. Finally, pour yourself a glass of beer, then *SIGH* and pour it down the sink. .

PeterTheEighth

I dont know what it is, but I cant take Gerry Ryan Junior seriously when he's reading the sport.

PeterTheEighth

Jaysus could he at least PRETEND that he enjoys the job.

Ol' Donie

Jesus. Ray's tie doesn't even reach his belt.

Is it a kids tie?

Welsh Megaman

''Did you watch the rugby?''

I sure did

RobertKK

No Ray, didn't watch the rugby, gave up watching a good while back.

Harry Angstrom

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Jesus. Ray's tie doesn't even reach his belt.

Is it a kids tie?

He borrowed it from Tom. It's his school tie.

amdublin

I haven't heard the song. Looking forward to hearing it.

RobertKK

Imagine if he was singing in front of a dead audience...

amdublin

Has Nicky had hair transplants at the front do you think???

sudzs

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

He borrowed it from Tom. It's his school tie.

Who's Tom??

The Royal Scam

Nicky Byrne....... You know when youv'e been Tangoe'd

Welsh Megaman

PeterTheEighth

it's my first time singing on my own without westlife.

No, that's not right, try this.

it's my first time singing on my own without westlife.

No, that's just not right either.

it's my first time singing on my own without westlife.

That makes much more sense.

Ol' Donie

One suspects that yes, Nicky has spent some time in front of a mirror with a hairbrush.

testicle

Ray is a gimp.

RobertKK

Wow, Ray is able to add 7+1 and know it is 8.

He is so clever.

amdublin

We won it 7 times. And if you win it, it'll be 8.


You and your fancy maths sums. No one likes a show off Ray.

Ol' Donie

testicle wrote: »

Ray is a gimp.

Ah, leave our little Raydar alone.

Atlantic Dawn

Could RTÉ afford to stage it again?

Ol' Donie

Lads, is it not time to accept this stupid ship has sailed?

And while I'm at it, is it not time to admit winning a competition for crap songs isn't that great?

Yeah, I said it.

PeterTheEighth

When Nicky left Westlife he wanted to get in to presenting.
When Filan left Westlife it was all about getting in to........ another country so that he could declare bankruptcy.

RobertKK

I remember Johnny Logan winning the first time, even though I was only 4.