Just to let you know that in addition to the valentines 2000 show I have edited & sent three more shows to Chris, which are:
Saturday 8th March 1997 - Capital FM - The Late Bit: This is the first half only, unfortunately, but it's interesting to hear Chris on his own rather than with Comedy Dave or any of his team interacting with him. Guest is Andre Vincent, producer of The Bob Mills Show on Channel 4 (anyone remember that show? Thought not
).
On the show Chris discusses the "Information Super Highway" (which he calls the Internet at one point) with Mr Camp (one of two regular callers of The Late Bit, the other been Andy from Basildon FM, of which I have a clip of him on the other Capital FM half show I've yet to copy over) and slags off the Spice Girls of which today he gets on with the majority of them (although 11 years on still doesn't like Geri Halliwell
). Sound quality is clear enough although parts of it are damaged due to the age of the tape, plus also I used to listen to this tape alot, especially when he dissapeared off of Capital FM & I didn't discover him on Radio 1 until early 1999.
The show unfortunately suffers a bit from been an commercial radio broadcast so it's quite short (only 31:09) and there is a 2 minute section of just jingles and ads for Capital FM events & other DJ's, which I thought may be of interest to some. Also a third of the remix of Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes", which is due to Chris talking right at the beginning & then talking again 30 seconds later, however don't worry the rest of the song has been removed
Monday 11th September 2000 - Radio 1 - Afternoon Show: 4:00-5:30pm, last 15 minutes missing with the show cutting off at the beginning of "The Not", this has been removed as it's rather pointless to keep in the rather brief clip. Chris & Dave return after two weeks off on holiday, Rhys is still off on holiday but Melinda is there, and as it turns out wasn't on holiday when the other three were (they don't do that nowadays) & was on Richard Blackwood's show (who filled in for Chris whilst he was on holiday) and they have resorted to referring to Melinda as Mildred (it's explained on the clip).
Martine McCutcheon is the guest of the day in a rather brief interview (only two links, although IIRC this was quite a common length at the time), which unfortunately has a cut in it due to change over of tape (bugger) but the majority of it is there. No feature but the running theme was Richard Blackwood, with the team saying "Say My Name Baby" quite a few times. There's also talk of which of Craig, Anna or Darren should win Big Brother 1 (god that makes me feel old) but unfortunately no game on this one. The Bed Music on this one was only used for a very short while ( I only have one more show with it on), all in all a bit of an odd show.
Saturday 11th November 2000 - Radio 1 - Saturday Mornings: First half only, unfortunately, a novelty for Chris in this one, he's sober, which he normally wasn't on Saturday mornings, apparently. A early appearance by Rachel, who at this point was the Broadcast Assistant is rather jolly throughout & Producer Richard is there also (you know, the one who doesn't speak
). Loads of "My wife went on holiday to..." gags at the beginning of this one as well as Dave mocking Chris for falling off of his scooter at only 3mph doing a U-Turn.
Emma Bunton is the guest, unfortunately I didn't get any of this on the tape, however shows how much his opinion of the Spice Girls has changed since 1997. Chris also talks about builders whilst "Bob The Builder" plays in the background with him slagging off builders before trying to retract & justify his comments for legal reasons (you wouldn't get away with what he said on todays show with the current "Daily Heil complaining Organisation") The jingles here are rather, erm, absent, the bed music is the same as the afternoons of the time but there's no sound bytes on them, just the music (mainly because most of them mentioned Melinda and Rhys or Will). There's an edition of "Girls Going To Football" as well on this one.
I must also point out there is a rather odd bit of editing about two thirds of the way through, this was because of the minute silence for Remembrance day, as you can hear Chris handles this professional by playing four rather sombre songs rather than the usual Radio 1 playlist (except for Dido's "Here with me" & Robbie Williams' "Angels"), I decided to take out the chimes of Big Ben & the minute silence, mainly as I didn't think people would want this included however have kept the first 3 or so seconds of the songs either side of this.
This edition is perhaps one of the more random ones, but this may be because it's a Saturday Show, IIRC these were always rather random.
Unfortunately the second half has deteriorated a bit, either that or the "auto reverse" didn't record the second half very well, either way the sound is a bit muffled for half of it. Also, for some reason this one jumps like a CD from time to time, not only on songs but on speech
what makes it rather odd is that I copied this from a tape not a Mini Disc
Hope you enjoy them, more soon
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