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it's all gone pete tong

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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited August 2011
    The Sun reports Nelson was banned indefinitely from contacting Tong, 51, or his friends and family.

    51? and he's a radio 1 DJ?? Its like the 80's all over again. But then they put that beside this image.

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    Come off it!! pfft how old is that picture then??
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  • psj3809psj3809
    edited August 2011
    Sad seeing Shara Nelson go downhill like this, obviously Unfinished Sympathy is a classic and now shes acting like this. Hopefully she'll get some much needed help
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited August 2011
    Pete Tong? First I have heard of him. Honestly. Does he like modern music?;)
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited August 2011
    yeah but John Peel was ancient, and more forward looking and open minded than dj's much younger than him
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited August 2011
    It sounds like wotsists, thingymajig syndrome, as featured in series 2 of Wire in the Blood
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited August 2011
    I don't listen to radio much

    "thingamajig" - thats going back abit, you must be at least as old as me ;)
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited August 2011
    I don't listen to radio much, I remember hearing Unfinished Symphony, I didn't know what the song was called back then, or the group.

    "thingamajig" - that word goes back abit, you must be at least as old as me :smile:

    Sorry, double posted my edit somehow
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited August 2011
    dmsmith wrote: »
    Pete Tong? First I have heard of him. Honestly. Does he like modern music?;)

    Arguably one of the greatest house DJs to ever grace a set of turntables. :smile:
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited August 2011
    The pic definitely looks like someone in their 30s. 40 max. I'm 39 an he has more hair than me!
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited August 2011
    dmsmith wrote: »
    The pic definitely looks like someone in their 30s. 40 max. I'm 39 an he has more hair than me!

    He's 51. :p
  • DarenDaren
    edited August 2011
    51's nowt. Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood is pushing 54.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00drr1p
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited August 2011
    Daren wrote: »
    51's nowt. Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood is pushing 54.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00drr1p

    I assume that Tim Westwood is every bit that pretentious idiot now that he was when I last had the misfortune to hear him?

    Can anyone remember the name of that quite good rap show that was in the mid to late 80's? It was broadcast on independent radio stations, syndicated, at 9pm I think (possibly later) and was hosted I think by a man called possibly David Alan?

    I really liked that. He wasn't a black american rapper, nor did he pretend to be, he knew his stuff and asked intelligent questions in interviews, and played a big range of rap music in that small time slot.
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited August 2011
    Tim Westwood I would have found difficult to guess the age of. 54 isn't that old though. :-)

    Looking at the pic on the website though, I can't quite see the jacket but it looks a bit retro. Varsity jackets? Not knocking, just not well up on this stuff
  • milemile
    edited August 2011
    dmsmith wrote: »
    Tim Westwood I would have found difficult to guess the age of. 54 isn't that old though. :-)

    its certainly too old to be refering to yourself as 'tha big dawg'
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited August 2011
    Agreed Mile.

    Looking at the BBC site DJs page they have same pic of Pete Tong. Could be recent.:eek:
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited August 2011
    thx1138 wrote: »
    I assume that Tim Westwood is every bit that pretentious idiot now that he was when I last had the misfortune to hear him?

    Can anyone remember the name of that quite good rap show that was in the mid to late 80's? It was broadcast on independent radio stations, syndicated, at 9pm I think (possibly later) and was hosted I think by a man called possibly David Alan?

    I really liked that. He wasn't a black american rapper, nor did he pretend to be, he knew his stuff and asked intelligent questions in interviews, and played a big range of rap music in that small time slot.

    Yep, Mike Allen's (Daevid Allen was the frontman for Gong :p) show was awesomeness, if 80s electro hip-hop was your thing back then (which it was for me, can't stand the hip-hop of today though, give or take a couple of artists). He used to pull in some big names at the time for interviews and stuff (Mantronix, Davey DMX etc.), seems they all had a lot of respect for him.
  • HerculesHercules
    edited August 2011
    dmsmith wrote: »
    The pic definitely looks like someone in their 30s. 40 max. I'm 39 an he has more hair than me!

    Do a Bruce Forsyth. Rip your pubes out, and stick him on your head.

    bruce-forsyth.jpg

    ... Good game, good game!

    :lol:
  • fogfog
    edited August 2011
    westwoods a plank, always has been .. there is even a hip hop song about him ...

    he don't give a 4x about UK hip hop, because he's always been in with the US lot.

    bet pete has a painting in his attic hehe

    but some people really don't look their age.. look at macca until recently he looked younger than he was.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited August 2011
    Whilst you may justify old R1 DJ's due to John Peels brilliance, John peel was Genre-less and so would try and could play truly innovative Genre breaking music. Pete Tong how ever good he might be has been doing the same thing now for too long, its like dance music got to 1998 then stalled.

    Pete Tong should be on R2 playing dance music, house, acid and techno tunes classic and new for the likes of us, not our kids. As for Tim Westwood, that's just weird when there are plenty that should be taking his place.

    Chris Moyles is 37 and plans to go on for at least 4 more years making him 41 at that point. Scott Mills is also 37, as are Sara Cox, Vernon Kay, Edith Bowman, Rob Da Bank and Daniel P Carter. Zane Lowe 38. Judge Jules and Grooverider are 44. Trevor Nelson and Giles Peterson are 47. Annie Nik tingale is 69!!?!

    I think radio 1 needs to clean out the cobwebs and do some spring cleaning. You can't have a properly represented youth station full of radio two demographic. No wonder there is no innovation in pop these days, the DJ's have their feet under the table and like things to stay the way they are.

    Its just a shame that just as with high street fashion, music has little in the way of innovation or the uniqueness we and our parents had. It's a shame the youth do not have their own music and fashion movement that we as the previous generation of yoofs shake our heads at and claim 'that's not music lad'.
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  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited August 2011
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    I think radio 1 needs to clean out the cobwebs and do some spring cleaning. You can't have a properly represented youth station full of radio two demographic. No wonder there is no innovation in pop these days, the DJ's have their feet under the table and like things to stay the way they are.

    Give em all Relax to play and see if any quit on air, or at least refuse to play it :lol:. As to Tim Westwood, he gets the interviews with the big Americans e.g. Jay-Z or Eminem. No idea why as Westwood is a cock. A few years ago I went to see Jay-Z at the Manchester Evening News arena. During the support acts (Kano I think) a guy came on stage with a Mac laptop, went to a podium, plugged it in and started banging out some music. Got the crowd going. I found out later it was Tim Westwood. So in a live DJ situation he seemed to know his stuff. Jay-Z rocked ("hip hopped"?) btw.
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