The chrismoyles.net TV & Radio Show Reviews
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1. Eminem - The Real Slim Shady, 2. Kylie Minogue - Slow, 3. The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button, 4. Liberty X - Jumpin 3:30 NEWS 5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fortune Faded, 6. Justin Timberlake - I'm Loving It, 7. Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name, 8. Fatman Scoop feat The Crooklyn Clan - Be Faithful, 9. Sugababes - Too Lost In You, 10. Eve & Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind, 11. Christina Aguilera - The Voice Within, 12. Avid Merrion - Proper Chrimbo 4:30 NEWS AND SPORT 13. Outkast - Hey Ya, 14. Shakedown - At Night, 15. U2 - Beautiful Day, 16. Coldplay - Clocks 5:00 NEWS AND SPORT 17. Oakenfold - Starry Eyed Surprise, 18. The Lost Brothers - Cry Little Sister (I Need U Now), 19. Michael Woods - Solex (Close To The Edge), 20. Room 5 feat Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv, 21. Michael Andrews feat Gary Jules - Mad World, 22. Jinny - Keep Warm (Tedious Link), 23. Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch, 24. Ultrabeat - Feelin’ Fine

Just six afternoon shows to go and Chris was glad to be back in his own studio after yesterdays debacle of a show in Inverness. He said ‘There’s nothing better than sitting down behind your own radio desk’. After the big Christmas Lights Switch On last night, the team were into bed at 2am and up again at 5.30 to catch the 7.00 plane back to Gatwick. They then didn’t see any point in going home so as a result had been in the Radio 1 building since 10.15. With just 3 and a half hours sleep each they were all totally knackered.

Chris spent the first half hour of the show looking back over the past 48 hours and their Inverness trip. Chris revealed that on Wednesday night Gerry Reynolds had one too many whiskeys and got slightly tipsy. He also said that in The Yard pub, all sorts of classic Moyles catchphrases were being shouted at them by random drunk Scottish men, such as ‘Come On!’ and ‘Hop On Baby’. Chris has been allowed to keep his kilt with his special McMoyles tartan but Dave and Aled had to give theirs back. As for the actual lights switch on itself, it all went rather swimmingly. Aled had recorded some audio from the lights countdown and while Chris was giving it his all on the large microphone on stage, some random person by Aled was counting down half a second late, which Dave found very funny. Chris said ‘Daniel Bedingfield eat your heart out son’ as soon as the lights switched on.

After the event, Aled took up the role of Garth Crooks and interviewed Rachel and Dave about how the evening went. Rachel said ‘very nice’. Chris paused the tape here and said that after all the hard work, time and effort put into it, a more in-depth answer rather than ‘very nice’ would have been welcome. Dave talked for ages and after he had finished his answer you could hear Rachel in the background saying ‘It’s only Aled...not some proper journalist’. Chris thought the funniest thing of the whole night was the voice of Father Christmas, who had been on stage alongside them. Aled recorded an interview with him and he sounded like a cross between Zippy from Rainbow and a darlek. He also wished Aled happy Xmas in Gaelic for about 30 seconds. Chris and Dave found Aled’s response funny - ‘the same to you’.

Chris was on the phone during Georgina’s news at 3.30 so didn’t hear any of it. She suggested she read it again then. He said OK and played the news jingle. He told her just to read the last bit but Mickey who was pressing the buttons couldn’t find the right stab. Chris had been going on about a Scottish cartoon he watched as a kid called ‘Nessy’ (topical). George, Aled and Rachel remembered it but Dave didn’t have a clue what he was going on about. Chris played the Nessy theme (Rachel had found it for him) and him and George sang along. Mickey from newsbeat recorded it and quickly stripped the music and Chris’s voice to leave George singing ‘kissing kind’ (and badly at that). Chris played the clip all over the next record. George threw a calculator at Mickey, making her feelings clear. Chris sent out an appeal for pizza. He said he felt hungover even though he wasn’t. He wanted any meaty pizza without mushrooms, Rachel wanted tuna and sweetcorn, Aled extra ham and Dave was fine. Chris said his power was obviously diminishing as no free pizzas arrived. Chris also stated his intentions to book Sara Cox (as a guest) for next weeks show. He wanted to make it clear that he said 'book' her. Presumably he is wanting to introduce her to her new audience easily in the hope we might tune in next year. Good luck with that one Chris. There are more surprise guests booked for next weeks final shows but Chris hasn’t announced them yet.

Paddy O’Connell was back on from Celebdaq after 2 weeks off the show. He said that he thinks Rachel is trying to get him axed from the show and doesn’t like him. There is obviously a bit of friction there but after Paddy’s rather bizarre and poor performance I’m starting to see where Rachel’s coming from. It does appear that Paddy will be on at breakfast though as Chris made a point of saying next week will be their last ever chat in the afternoon.

Chris - ‘Next week will be our last chat in the afternoon forever..’
(long pause)
Paddy - ‘I’m amazed that you let me stay this long’
Chris - ‘So am I’

Chris’s price is £2.30 and Chris told Paddy about the whole him and Will Young dropping trousers scenario. Paddy said a picture of him and Will in their pants would have got him inches, so to speak. His top tips for this week are Britney, Tom Cruise, Justin Timberlake and Will Young. He talked briefly about the whole Justin and his grandma trousersnake situation (she apparently said it's not small at all as Britney had suggested - Dave sounded appalled) and he also talked briefly to Chris about the video for Proper Chrimbo. He then went off on a bizarre tangent about the word 'roasting' and Chris decided to quickly wrap things up.

There was another guest on the show at about 4.15. It was an unscheduled one at that. It was Mr Avid Merrion live on the phone. I was going to transcribe the interview but he’s a guest on Monday anyway plus the fact that I can't be arsed. Basically Avid wanted Chris’s help. He had been interviewed on BBC Radio Nottingham and had said something about an issue he can’t talk about (if you know what I mean). He said BMG were not happy with him and were considering dropping him before the single is even released. (Cue hefty plug for the single on CD & DVD plus Bo Selecta Series 2 Video & DVD plug) Avid said the BMG bosses said a word to him that's similar to French connection. Chris again didn’t sound too in control and it felt like Avid was going to go off on in Ali G stylee at any second. But he’s always like that I suppose. After a few blags for Puma trainers and Sky Plus, Avid urged Chris to play his single and thanked him for appearing in the video for it. He then went about plugging it again so Chris cut him off and said he'd lost the line. Chris and Dave attempted to sing along with Proper Chrimbo but screwed up the words. It’s not really that hard but Chris said he couldn’t remember them when he was in the bloody video either.
On the BBC online site, there are pictures from their Scotland trip including a person from the Highland Gunners called Richie Cunningham. Dave asked if that was where he ended up after Happy Days finished. Chris had a signed poster to give away from U2 as a promo to their new DVD U2 go Home, a live concert from Slane 2001. Chris had two callers to play U2 Introductory Service. The problem was that Chris played the tracks that came from the live DVD and so was harder for people to get but that made no excuse for the callers to humm and haaa over Where the Streets Have No Name. Chris gave them the clue It would be the worst thing to happen to a postman and the callers decided it was that famous U2 track No Letters. Chris talked about the new Top of the Pops very briefly saying that the new host was Pat Cash or Johnny Cash. Chris decided to imitate Johnny Cash if he was presenting the show... beyond the grave supposedly.

Daves Tedious Link
Proclaimers Im Gonna Be 500 Miles - The Proclaimers are a pair of twins as are the Cheeky Girls - The Cheeky Girls are from Transylvania and feature on the Transylvania alumni along wth Franken-Furter and Dracula -Dracula is probably the worlds most famous vampire - Vampires are only out after dark much like Jordan - Jordan is in the middle east along with Dubai and Qatar - Catayr of a different sort is a symptom of cold and flu - A flu is a type of chimney - A chimney is crucial if you want to enjoy the benefits of a log fire - Logs come from trees - Trees grow in the ground as do carrots - Carrots are a strong source of beta kerotine which helps improve your night vision and despite not being big eaters of carrots, certain eagles can spot a rabbit from approximately 4 miles away and rabbits are covered in fur which is like their very own natural coat allowing them to combat the elements and keep warm - Which links us to Jinny and Keep Warm.

Chris and Dave had an argument about the Proclaimers being a pair of twins. Chris said that a pair is two and twins are 2 so that would mean 2 pairs of twins so that it should have been a set of twins.

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