Saturday, June 14, 2008

Winding Up (In Both Senses)

I'm finally onto the final day of Refreshers Week 2008 where Chris and Pete on their breakfast show had definitely played their "Good Mornin' jingle to the point that it was irritating.
If I'd had any sense on that day I would have changed it as a joke, possibly replacing it with "You Suffer" by Napalm Death which holds the record as the shortest song.
Tudor had played it on his show the year before during our Red Nose Day marathon
scaring Chris, also in the studio who wasn't expecting it!
Aside that it was a rather enjoyable show with Goodlass and Marshall being pranked by the pair into believing that they were being sued for their Leona Lewis parody
"Keep Being Snubbed".
Ricky seemed to have an idea as to what they were up to but Ross was rather surprised which turned out to be the funnier reaction.

Also on offer were Impey and The Brain who throughout the week were doing their ever popular feature with another annoying ID, "Cheese On Toast".
However I gave that a makeover on the last day, by making Sam sound like she was on helium accompanied by the noise used to accompany a gunging on Noel Edmonds House Party.
I'm still looking for a clean copy of that by the way.

If there's anything I would like to see less of next year however it would be any feature that has the word "Challenge" preceeding it.
During Refreshers Week there was "Challenge Nan" on Goodlass And Marshall,
"Challenge Chilvers" on Chris and Pete and "Challenge Sirin" on Smoke Signal with
Steven and Caroline although the latter didn't happen as planned due to
Sirin arriving late.
This is basically what happens when the members of the station aren't in the same boat as each other resulting in shows having very similar features to each other which is why since the likes of Dan P and Tom and Maz disapeared from the station there's been a lack of creativity within the daytime shows from my point of view.

I'm hoping that the shows this coming Freshers Week will be more adventurous than they were last year with the worst of which included an individually lead show talking about sex, money and other things "Freshers related" which didn't work at all and was a letdown compared to the previous year's "Freshers Blind Date".
If the weather's good I would definitely be up for another water fight on the courtyard which if promoted on campus would go down well.

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