150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

Do you need a new email address aswell everytime you do this?

It must be all consuming.

If I didn't know better I'd say somebody is trying to get the thread closed down.......

Yeah, no-one in England knows who Chris Evans, Graham Norton, Jayne Middlemiss and Ricky Wilson are

Some day he might even read a book over 400 pages long! I know there's many here waiting for his review of Wuthering Heights.

In theory going to London is a good plan. We know he's not going to be returning to RTE in the short-term. None of the other Irish stations seemed to be biting. When you're in the entertainment business, the only thing that's worse than being talked about is not being talked about. He was starting to become yesterday's man. His radio show and the Late Late are doing fine without him. So what's left for him to do other than post on Instagram and turn up to open things in Connemara? He's not even trying to tailor his shtick to suit a British radio audience which makes me think this is a short-term gig to keep him occupied until something opens up back in Ireland. Maybe he'll become a permanent Q102 presenter and they'll quietly shelve in him London.

I think his MoS diary said he bought a lamp in Argos in Kilburn (he was recognised by a fan in the queue), but he may very well have bought seating for the apartment in St. John’s Wood somewhere too.

Think it fairly transparent, to everyone, that the despicable bookmaker is paying for his gig there.

So if by confounded you actually meant he has compounded the idea that everything in his life has been laid on for him then yes that’s 100% correct.

I don't think he was ever smart enough to play thick.

As pointed out earlier in this thread he adopted the mannerisms and style of a well known US host and never really veered from that jittery interpretation since.

He actually might have a chance to reinvent himself if he embraced England and forgot about Ireland for a while.

"He actually might have a chance to reinvent himself if he embraced England and forgot about Ireland for a while."

100%.

There is a massive TSA of 64+ million there and even if Virgin's DAB only reaches 83% or so of that - its all to play for. He is up against Ken Bruce, Vernon Kay, Radio X, Radio 1, Heart, Smooth....Magic... Kiss! And soooooo many many more!!

"Keep it tight, sound butch, play the Hits... "Buddy" lol to quote a certain well known Dublin Radio consultant, buddy!

One / two thoughts per max 30/60/90 sec link / break would suffice. Keep it topical, relevant, friendly. Talk "Up" your listener - don't lecture them!

Instead each day the listener is treated to what sounds like an either adderal or coked up hot mess who talks like a 2am pissed pub goer in D4 indecipherable always dragging the ten unfinished topics in every 4minutes + to (what feels like) 3hour link to his all time favourite topic - himself.

You can fool some of the people some of the time...

This one has NEVER bought his BS since first listen maybe 25-30 yrs ago on RTE R1 Summer Schedule when Heino-head was handed his first nepo-show of a saturday morning.

It is a pity he escaped from the complete amateur hour Zoo that is RTE and now infects the commercial waters with his cringe making "musings". A worse pity we Irish condoned and still condone such over inflated salaries where they out in Montrose-World earn more than a Taoiseach or a top life saving surgeon or heart doctor... some of the highest paid at The Beeb are not on that kind of insane money.

Is he put there to reinvent the wheel or music radio?

The majority of Virgin listeners I know in The Uk have listened to him once or for half an hour on day 1 and will NOT be tuning in again.

Edit:

"Are you hairy Mary" sounds like an average day average caller for The Toyman: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0RaFcVoBZA/?igsh=MWtod2gyNTY5dnJpbw==

"Keep it tight, sound butch, play the Hits... "Buddy" lol to quote a certain well known Dublin Radio consultant, buddy!

One / two thoughts per max 30/60/90 sec link / break would suffice. Keep it topical, relevant, friendly. Talk "Up" your listener - don't lecture them!

Amen to that Enda. Imaging the snoop tape session if Tubs was sitting across the desk from that particular radio consultant?

Do you think there will be a bit of "talent coaching" for him at Virgin or will he protected from that?

@Gregor Samsa I don't fully agree with you ... but no matter how you look at it Tubs has landed on his feet.

Everyone can put their conspiracy theory on his appointment to Virgin Radio in London, but even if those conspiracy theories prove to be true hasn't he landed on his feet regardless?

At the same time I have no problem being a begrudger when it comes to Tubs, or others begrudering Mr. Tubs. Only time will tell what happens. But Virgin Radio and most radio station take longer than TV to make a decision on presenters and schedules. Tubs is there for 2024 at least, unless the mid-year results are terrible.

Virgin could be onto something offering rehab services for celebrities requiring a retreat

Far too early to make a judgement on Tubs success or failure outside RTE. The fact that NK landed "the Irish broadcasting legend" that little number is not as revealing as how long he will last at it, or indeed what his next gig will be after it.

I remain unconvinced that Tubs can adapt to a UK radio show and bring any sort of audience with him. If he could, he would have kept up his summer stints at the BBC. He didn't because he was found out and wasn't invited back.

Everything about this little London adventure points to temporary and an agenda to remain relevant in Ireland and to get back there ASAP. As for RTE never taking him back, I see that abit like Bertie and FF. In the right climate, at some point in the future, of course they'd take him back.

I hope he proves me wrong. For many years to come!

If virgin doesn't work I'm sure radio Norwich will sell him a slot.