Is Glastonbury over yet? If not, can it be very soon please? On Jo Whiley’s exciting new evening show on Radio 2, the poor woman can still barely finish a sentence without referring to ‘Glasto’ or ‘the Pyramid Stage’ or whatever it’s called, where everyone who played was brilliant, as everyone always is in Jo’s world.
Is Glastonbury over yet? If not, can it be very soon please? On Jo Whiley’s exciting new evening show on Radio 2, the poor woman can still barely finish a sentence without referring to ‘Glasto’ or ‘the Pyramid Stage’ or whatever it’s called, where everyone who played was brilliant, as everyone always is in Jo’s world.
Like a few people I listen to the radio at certain specific times of day, in my case when washing up. The girlfriend will have previously retuned it to Radio 4 to listen to The Archers; I shall retune it to Radio 2 to listen to the early-evening specialist music shows and thereafter to Jo, who has controversially replaced Radcliffe and Maconie in the all-important mid-evening slot. Controversially, because Radcliffe and Maconie were fantastic broadcasters, and still are on 6Music in the afternoons. They love the music, for sure, but they are both instinctive contrarians who bicker on air as you and I would in the pub. (In addition, Stuart Maconie has a tendency to talk in complete sentences, including subordinate clauses, which I always warm to.)
I haven’t the slightest idea whether or not they were genuinely happy to be shunted off to 6Music, where they get a full three hours every afternoon, but have to play the sludgy guitar rock that dominates the station’s schedule. Maybe they were feeling marginalised and underappreciated at Radio 2, where their four shows a week had been reduced to three for no sensible reason.
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