Potty-mouthed Tory toff Dave Cameron caused some mild controversy on Absolute Radio after using two swearwords that are now commonplace in most wokplaces, seminaries aside, and tame to what you'd hear in most schoolyards. Its breakfast DJ, Christian O'Connell, was delighted with Dave's outburst...
If you had been in any doubt this weekend must have cleared it up. It was kind of amazing. I don't know what happened, but I could not escape Twitter. It was literally everywhere I went: online, in print, on TV and radio. It was like someone flicked (Tweeted) a huge switch. Of course, there was the...
The Beatles' A Day in the Life finally heralded the death of Virgin Radio and the phoenix-like emergence of Absolute Radio this morning. After a slightly pompous mission statement about what the company thought ‘real music' is, which included the suggestions ‘gigs not photo shoots' and ‘built...
In the dimly-lit bedrooms of sandy-haired indie kids all over Scotland, you can just about hear tearful snuffles above the mournful wail of Joy Division's Isolation. And why shouldn't they weep? Indie station Xfm is to be no more, rebranded instead as part of the mainstream dance Galaxy network...
The news that former Xfm DJ Shaun Keaveny is to take over the BBC6 Music breakfast slot is the best news I've heard in a while. I used to really love the Xfm breakfast when it was presented by Christian O'Connell, before he left for the wastelands of Virgin (is that working out for him? Does...
There seems to be a trend to using real people in ads. Now James Nesbitt, he of 'Cold Feet' and Yellow Pages fame, has found himself losing out to a bloke from Autoglass. OK, losing out in the Xfm Scotland awards, but still. Breakfast show host Dominik Diamond asked listeners to vote for their...
