Conference marvin::uk_music

> re: Note 1090.0 by WELCLU::GREENB "Lovers of Today"
>
>    is there any chance of me finding a radio station that plays less than
>    80-90% crap all the time?
    
	LBC

		Hi & Hugs...P1

Give up Bob.  The only good stuff on the radio is the static.  Oh, and that
station that changes pitch as your press the accelerator.

BTW, if you want to hear Pavement, they're playing Reading TUC this Sunday.

Lee

Babs,


Radio Phardle... especially good if you are near the planet Zog.


Hope this helps,

Stuart


<you omitted Carter from your list>

    Carter would fit into my category 3, Jet, i.e. stuff I would certainly
    like to hear, rather than category 2, which is stuff I would like to
    hear but know I have no chance of hearing during the day.
    
    There are one or two shows I quite like, f'rinstance some of what Gary
    Crowley plays on a Sunday afternoon, and Out On Blue Six when I
    remember to listen to it, but basically I think Lee's analysis of
    daytime radio is about right.
    
    Bob

    
    Unfortunately, you have to go the USA to get any sort of variety of
    choice of radio stations. In almost any major US city, you can find a
    choice of talk, classical, Top 40, oldies, rock etc. This does mean
    that you are unlikely to be introduced to a new genre by just listening
    to one station, however. When I was in Atlanta the last time, there was
    one that had the lengthy tag-line of "All the Great Hits of the 1980s,
    but without the Rap and Heavy Rock" ! 
    
    You can quite often find a rock station that specialises in what they
    call "alternative", which goes from Elvis Costello and the Cure up to
    some of the more modern British and US independent stuff. If you're
    ever in the Boston area, WFNX is a good example of this kind of
    station, and there's a similar one in LA, KROC.
    
    
    Trevor

The station you want is Couleur 3. I have a card that lists all its 
frequencies in the Lac Leman area. It says nothing about the M25 however.


Rod

    Ah yes, I wondered if any of these stations had transmitters powerful
    enough to reach the M40 between Uxbridge and Wycombe.
    
    Bob
    
    p.s. whatever happened to the 'High' in Wycombe?

    Trevor:
    
    It's KROQ, not KROC.  You forgot to mention all the college stations
    across the country that play anything they want sans commercials.  The
    best LA one is KXLU 88.9, if you happen to be in the area.  
    
    -Vicki

    
>    It's KROQ, not KROC.  You forgot to mention all the college stations
>     across the country that play anything they want sans commercials.  The
>     best LA one is KXLU 88.9, if you happen to be in the area.  
    
    I had heard about college radio stations, but can you receive them at a
    reasonable distance from the source (e.g, driving around) ?  The
    similar types of station in this country can only be received within a
    few hundred metres of the transmitter.
    
    Trevor
    
    p.s., an earlier note mentioned Gary Crowley on GLR. I won a
    competition on that show yesterday ! It was for a copy of the CD, which
    I can't remember the name of, on which various American bands play
    old-time punk smashes. 

    >I had heard about college radio stations, but can you receive them at
    >a reasonable distance from the source (e.g, driving around) ? 
    
    Yes, especially in a place like LA where colleges are spread out
    throughout the county (unlike Boston where they're all squished within
    a few miles from each other.)  KXLU (located at LMU near the airport) can
    be heard throughout LA (400 squ. miles).
    
    -Vicki

>BTW, if you want to hear Pavement, they're playing Reading TUC this Sunday.

Is this still true ?  I heard that the TUC (Trade Union Club?)
have lost their music license for being too noisy.


tp (Who won't be playing there a week on Saturday)

    Listen to the BBC World Service.   :-)