Steve Wright and the art of Music selection

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now, and some recent comments have galvanised me into action.

Just what is it with Steve Wright and the music he plays? I’m not sure quite how these things are decided or selected but I have this picture in my head where each week all the day time jocks on Radio 2 get together to choose who gets to play what songs – only the problem is, Steve Wright is too busy laughing at his own jokes and bigging himself up to TPT (Toss Pot Tim) and the Veggie, to understand what’s going on.

Consequently he is left with the musical equivalent of that gunge you scrape off your shoes, that you never quite know if it was just crap of someone’s old chewing gum they spat out, but either way you wished you hadn’t stepped in it. This is pretty much how I feel each time I listen to most of the songs He plays.

Interestingly I had the unfortunate occasion of working completely through the night on Monday with nothing but Radio 2 to listen to, and without question all the shows I heard where better hosted, had a much better rapport with the listener and had better music selections.

This only serves to prove to me that everyone at Radio 2 thinks his show is complete tripe too, which is why he gets all the ‘golden oldies’ that no-one since Jimmy Saville have wanted to play.

WA