Radio Challenges

Its a tough time at the moment. Sara Cox is currently sitting in for Scott Mills on Radio 1's drivetime and the show is a single file conduit for Cox to polish her ego. Many have criticised Chris Moyles' team for being sycophants, but such a word could pale into insignificance compared to how Becky of Mills' team fawns over Cox.

Anyway, the net result is that i've been struggling to find something else to listen to. I've tried Andrew Collins on 6Music (too much chatter for a supposed music purists station, and contained an atrocious edit of the Doves' There Goes The Fear), Kiss (identikit presenter, too many adverts), Heart (just bland) and Amazing Radio (promising, but radio by democracy doesn't work as you always end up with the least offensive songs on the playlist).

So where do i go from here? Westwood on 1Xtra? The risk of some clueless it-prick on XFM? I don't know. I suppose my ideal would be someone broadcasting solid 24 hour archives of Armin van Buurren's A State of Trance show, then i could always lose myself in something.

Anyway, the other end of the day is just as bad. Dev's early breakfast show on Radio 1 is offensively bad. His sit-ins for Greg James were erratic, but passable. Now he's on his own, the ideas are about as poor as bad commercial local radio gets. Having heard Dev pricking on about how he was "going to enjoy destroying" something earlier today, I even toyed with the idea of listening to Sarah Kennedy instead this morning (and i fucking hate Sarah Kennedy) before discovering that Matt & Caroline on Kiss 101 start at 6am. Their Duracell Bunny-esque levels of energy are a bit disconcerting for 6am, but entertaining nonetheless. Its just a shame that everything good on the radio seems to be concentrated in a small part of the day. Perhaps we could have a channel on DAB called "Breakfast Radio" which just broadcasts hour long best-of selections of the best breakfast shows from around the UK.