Merseyland Alternative Radio

Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

M.A.R is once again broadcasting on 105 FM to certain parts of
Merseyside.

I was working late / early and so tuned in (well, via t'internet) and listened to some bloke called Steve Martin. (Hey what's the click on the mic opening and closing? Sort it out!) Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, I was listening to this Steve Martin bloke, right, and he committed an unforgivable sin. I may have to complain to Ofcom.

I'm not talking about the saying goodbye at 4am, only to then return 2 minutes later with a hello (same at 5am too), but I'm talking about the complete disrespect he had for the 12 hour version of Laurie Anderson's O Superman which he cut down to a mere 10 seconds. I had just stopped writing a script I was stuck on (no no, not 'The Script' as in Danny, Mark and Glen's band which Mr Martin also played) and shouted 'Choon' to somebody as I turned it up loud to brighten up an otherwise tiring night
/ morning and sat back in my sexy reclining swivel chair (don't ask) when, bugger me, this bloody Steve Martin starts talking all over Ms Anderson, fades her out and plays something from his more regular Tellytubbies type tunage.

Outrageous and Offensive. I've subsequently spent 15 hours of my life scouring the massively wordy MAR website looking for the complains department / procedure. Nothing. That is one heck of a busy website you guys have. Is it put together by this Andy fellow? He's got issues, man. Mainly about motorbikes. But issues. Mind you so has Steve West, looking at his biog. Raving mad, pal. Anyway, I'm talking about Steve Martin aren't I? Oh yes. So, I go to the pictures page, thinking the best thing for me to do is find out what this Steve Martin fellow looks like so's I can track him down and beat him with a cane for his indiscretions with Ms Anderson. Well, blow me down. Urm, maybe using the word 'blow' at this point is wrong. Anyway, blow me down, the gallery shows that everybody working for MAR is a blatant muscle-bound homosexual. And, no 'adults only' warning presented itself to me before I stumbled into this simply slimy and sordid part of the site!

Disgusting. Boycott this station!! (Too much Whitesnake on it anyway.)

From: "Christopher England" <...>

I was working late / early and so tuned in (well, via t'internet) and
listened to some bloke called Steve Martin

Cheers for the plug!

Even though you have outed us all as raving homosexuals:-)

Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

Cheers for the plug!

Even though you have outed us all as raving homosexuals:-)

Never mind that, young sir, what's happening about the public apology for the way Ms Anderson was so badly treated?
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* Christopher England just said that *

From: "Christopher England" <...>

Never mind that, young sir, what's happening about the public apology
for the way Ms Anderson was so badly treated?

Awful record!

I probably really should apologise for playing too much of that song :-)

From: "Christopher England" <...>

I was working late / early and so tuned in (well, via t'internet) and
listened to some bloke called Steve Martin. (Hey what's the click on the
mic opening and closing? Sort it out!) Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, I
was listening to this Steve Martin bloke, right, and he committed an
unforgivable sin. I may have to complain to Ofcom.

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Even radio legends have their off days you know :-)

http://download.yousendit.com/A05A36E720109260

Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

Even radio legends have their off days you know :-)

http://download.yousendit.com/A05A36E720109260

Damn you for this hideous point scoring.

Actually, to be fair, although I can't really remember it, this was very probably a 'bit'. I used to love doing continuity jokes with myself (sad b'stard, but hey I was young and happy then).

Here's the anoraky bit: You probably know Euronet was never live, but recorded at least two days in advance. It was all mastered onto an 8 hour slow running video tape which would auto-rewind and play out 3 times. I can't remember the exact time it started, it was I think 08:15, maybe 08:00, but the video was changed and started manually at Sky's then tiny Central Technical Area at dead on the right time each morning. It would play until it found no more recording, then it would auto-rewind and play again. The rewind would take (say) 4 minutes, and so the total recording on the tape would have to be (say) 7 hours 56 minutes. Thus the whole cycle of playing, rewinding and playing again took 8 hours. That kinda thing.

Asleep yet?

Anyway, I obviously had to do stuff to get it to time, so this was usually announcements of a continuity nature that would run to fill the last bit of the tape. The tape also opened with what appeared to be a continuation of those continuity announcements.

So, my little game would be to start the whole tape's recording with something that logically followed the 4 minutes of rewind time, and then 8 hours later record something that would be heard ahead of the 4 minutes of rewind time. In simple terms, I could start the 8 hour recording with (say) the answer to a question, and end the 8 hour recording with the question. The listener at home would hear "What's brown and sticky?" followed by 4 minutes of nothing, followed by the answer "A stick!", although in reality I'd recorded "A stick!", waited 8 hours and then recorded "What's brown and sticky?".

With me so far?

Ok, so the clip you have is of me apparently unable to find something, followed by a 4 minute gap, followed by me saying I'd found it. You guessed what I did yet? Yep, recorded the bit where I finally found it first, waited 8 hours then recorded the bit where I couldn't find it. See? Damn I'm good.

Having said that, I can't actually remember doing all that specific sequence and I've no recordings of the lovely Euronet to play to refresh my memories of how awful the station actually was. Sigh.

Anyway. I put it to you that rather than it being an off day it was in fact another demonstration of my sheer brilliance and indeed a very 'on' day. Wouldn't you agree? :-)
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From: "Christopher England" <...>

Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

Even radio legends have their off days you know :-)

http://download.yousendit.com/A05A36E720109260

Damn you for this hideous point scoring.

Sniggers :-)

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Anyway. I put it to you that rather than it being an off day it was in
fact another demonstration of my sheer brilliance and indeed a very 'on'
day. Wouldn't you agree? :-)

I'll take your word for it.
It is far too complicated for me to understand:-)
Although now you mention it, I seem to remember a local pirate used to broadcast 24 hours a day using a similar method back in the early 90's, so damn you, it probably isn't as silly as it all sounds!