The Axis of Awesome broke the internet with their viral '4 Chords Song,' showing how dozens of hits-from Journey to Justin Bieber-use the same four chords.
This is my 28th year in breakfast radio.
My love for the medium and its power and potential deepens all the time. As does my anger at the amount of formulaic coasters, poseurs and curated personas diluting what radio should be about.
My job isn't to uphold the conventions of the format, it's to evolve out of what's worked before. Right now in a divided and angry world, radio can be a force for unity, empathy, shared experience, realness, and JOY.
Time for the pros to rise up, drop the acts and really show up. Play with the unparalleled possibility radio offers above any other medium.
I'm still yet to hear anyone play with radio greater than @prodnose. He still inspires me like Steve Wright did.
Video didn't kill the radio star, but mediocrity will.
When we invented cricket around 911 CE, about 400 years before the English, we had unruly matches that sadly ended in several brawls & murders. The Icelandic Sagas documented the lot. Since we introduced our Code of Conduct in 2020, the number of deaths in play has dropped a lot.
@thepaulwilliams Do you think we’re getting more bitter as a nation? I hope not…..
The only way to stop some people frothing at the mouth, is to get everybody frothing at the mouth-scrap all 4 and go East/West with alternate venues for home venues.
Italians are upset over a German boardgame that makes light of being in the Mafia. Fortunately British businesses would never try to cash in on such lazy cultural stereotypes