Posted by Trom_man on 12/27/06 00:51

I thihk he meant to say "If he listens to Capital Radio then he has no
musical taste"

Didn't The Clash say "Capital Radio, in tune with nothing"?


<MI5Victim@mi5.gov.uk> wrote in message news:m06112619322205@4ax.com...
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> Capital Radio DJs have been "in on it" from the start. One of the first
> things I heard in the summer of 1990 was from a Capital DJ who said, "If
> he listens to Capital then he can't be all bad" (supportive, you see.
> We're
> not bastards). Much of what came over the radio in 1990 is now so far away
> the precise details have been obliterated by time. No diary was kept of
> the
> details, and although archives if they exist may give pointers, the
> ambiguity of what broadcasters said would leave that open to
> re-interpretation.
>
> In spring 1994, Chris Tarrant on his Capital morning show made an aside to
> someone else in the studio, about a person he didn't identify. He said,
> "You know this bloke? He says we're trying to kill him. We should be done
> for attempted manslaughter".
>
> That mirrored something I had said a day or two before. What Tarrant said
> was understood by the staff member in the studio he was saying it to; they
> said, "Oh no, don't say that" to Tarrant. If any archives exist of the
> morning show (probably unlikely) then it could be found there; what he
> said
> was so out of context that he would be very hard put to find an
> explanation.
> A couple of days later, someone at the site where I was working repeated
> the
> remark although in a different way; they said there had been people in a
> computer room when automatic fire extinguishers went off and those people
> were "thinking of suing for attempted manslaughter".
>
> Finally, this isn't confined to the established radio stations. In 1990
> after I had listened to a pirate radio station in South London for about
> half an hour, there was an audible phone call in the background, followed
> by total silence for a few moments, then shrieks of laughter. "So what are
> we supposed to say now? Deadly torture? He's going to talk to us now,
> isn't
> he?", which meant that they could hear what I would say in my room.
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