well...no idea if something happened, but James emailed me the next
day to say that he couldn't believe how awful the callers were and
that it wasn't like that in his day. Whereas, probably, it was. He
was rushing off somewhere anyway. I will find out more...

Yes, I too listened on Wednesday and was delighted by the way in
which he despatched that complete idiot BNP member. But yes, most
of the callers wanted to talk about how far it is between Worsley
and Walkden which, as we all know, is not very far at all.

From a pure factual point of view, Stannage is in fact quite bad. I
mean, I'm sure he's better than nothing, but his displacing of James
H Reeve as the late night phone in queen for Manchester is nothing
short of scandalous.




--- In jameshreeveappreciationclub@..., merlotsteve
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
> Well, I only listened on the Wednesday night. From 11 till 2. It
> seemed to me he'd been getting a few "you're dead rubbish/not as
> good as Stannage/ type ejits phoing up in the first hour. Anyway,
> between 11 and 12 he told one such woman to piss off, then said
that
> Stannage had recently done a similar thing and had had a run-in
with
> the bosses. He carried on dealing with the callers in his sleep,
> including that regular BNP caller and the youngish scary guy who
> always phones in, before saying he wouldn't be on at all Thursday
> night and Tiger Face wrom Phoenix Nights (forgot his name) would
be
> taking over.
>
> There was a bit of defiance at the end ("I don't care, better
things
> to do" ect) before he signed off. Must admit, though he still
> handled things with the usual swiftness he did seem a bit fazed. I
> looked at the website and yes, he was down to be on Thursday
night.
> Does this flounce mean the end? Is he turning into the Scott
Walker
> of Independent Local Radio? Does anyone know if something happened
> earlier that night or on Monday or Tuesday - how did it go? Please
> tell! It was bit like Michael Owen last season under Houllier; he
> was good but had to make do with no help at all.
>
> P.S: Jim, if you read this, I hope the stools are back to normal.
>
>
> --- In jameshreeveappreciationclub@..., ujffc
> <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> >
> > although...actually...he's meant to be on tonight as well and
> > there's some rough sounding bloke talking with one of those
> > Manchester accents, as popularised by Oasis.
> >
> > How strange.
> >