Robert Elms

[HonaloochieB]

I ate 'ot dogs last night. Blimey, that was a bit American.

Anyway Elms said that the Mott The Hoople 'four fer' was one of the greatest he'd ever hosted.

You don't even have to have heard of Mott The Hoople to love the bones of the man for making such a statement.

Sure, you don't.

[SeanMacGabhann]

He's dead right about the Beatles as well

[PeckhamRose]

He is such an accent chameleon. When someone with a working class accent rings in he acts all chummy and makes out he understands everything the person is on about and so on, but when someone from a different class comes on sure enough he ups his class-ness a couple of notches. He just doesn't seem to be genuine; there's nothing real about him, as if he doesn't have his own personality. He's also very anal retentive like a lot of right on liberals. He asked me on air once what my favourite shop was. At the time it was the Sh! Women's store in Coronet Street N1, so I said so, and you could see the beads of sweaty embarrassment come out the radio and he just couldn't cope with it. How we laughed.

[RosieH]

Should I be really ashamed to say I've never heard him?

It seems perhaps I should. I feel I am likely missing out on something.

[HonaloochieB]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> He's dead right about the Beatles as well

He isn't. Not liking the Beatles, is a stance, a pose, a posture.

A meaningless cough against a cultural mountain.

'She Loves You' has greater significance, beauty and class than whatever everyone on the EDF will write on here to the end of time and what Robert Elms has ever written, particulary in The Face. And I quite liked most of that stuff.

Anyway.

[????]

I'm gonna get that Spandau Link with him if i can find it it....

[????]

Nope, darn

[RosieH]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > He's dead right about the Beatles as well

>

> He isn't. Not liking the Beatles, is a stance, a

> pose, a posture.

> A meaningless cough against a cultural mountain.

> 'She Loves You' has greater significance, beauty

> and class than whatever everyone on the EDF will

> write on here to the end of time and what Robert

> Elms has ever written, particulary in The Face.

> And I quite liked most of that stuff.

>

> Anyway.

HonaB, I think it possible that I love you more daily.

[woofmarkthedog]

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> I'm gonna get that Spandau Link with him if i can

> find it it....

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OK..

You both like to dress as "Rudolh Hess" on the "quite" ( like )

[????]

yeah we are architects of our own downfall

[woofmarkthedog]

????

I can see you dressed in fetching Violet Leather Jackboots/jodhpur/tunic/cape & hat combo ( cape is optional BTW )

Though R.E with his reddish freckly tinge,riding a bike might struggle to carry it off

"Nah wot I meen Guv"

W**F

( I still listen to his show, It's far better than any other station offers , unless "money box live" floats your boat, "Hello Brenda from Guildford".... )

[jimmy two times]

I like Robert Elms. He's not a Mockney. He is a Londoner and is genuinely from a working class background. Nothing wrong with him retaining that part of his identity.

[womanofdulwich]

I think Robert Elms strikes a chord with a lot of us of a certain age that benefitted from a state education and free university ( often being the first in our family). We came out being educated in life as well as academia. We might feel comfortable /uncomfortable in some social spheres ( like the sch! comment, and sometimes our parents attitudes) but we are basically ok and know who we are and where we came from. We love life and what it throws at us and we generalyy LOVE London.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I think if Elms was REALLY perspiring at PR's shop answer, it had more to do with internal BBC guidelines and time of day transmission and what his producer might say post-broadcast

[steveo]

And when you hear what a pig's dinner Phil Jupitus is making off DB's show, it makes you realise how good DB is.

Jupitus has never made me laugh... not once

In fact this is worthy of its own thread

[flapjackdavey]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> He's dead right about the Beatles as well

that might be your view Sean , gonna have to beg to differ there ol' son .:))

[????]

I think he can be a bit pretentious and the Way we Wore I thoroughly enjoyed but it did make him seem a bit of a knob. He makes me laugh how he completley dismissed Acid House when really it was just that suddenly he was too old! However, on the few times I've listened to him on the radio he's been good and as others have pointed out he is a genuine Londoner.

PS That Spandau Ballet introduction is excrutiatingly pretentious though

[HonaloochieB]

???? Wrote:

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> I think he can be a bit pretentious and the Way we

> Wore I thoroughly enjoyed but it did make him seem

> a bit of a knob. He makes me laugh how he

> completley dismissed Acid House when really it was

> just that suddenly he was too old! However, on the

> few times I've listened to him on the radio he's

> been good and as others have pointed out he is a

> genuine Londoner.

>

> PS That Spandau Ballet introduction is

> excrutiatingly pretentious though

Of course it is Quids, but then so were he and they at the time. It was the way of things.

The Spandex Bullies (copyright NME) went on to become right royal knobjackets, who lest we forget inflicted 'True' on an innocent and trusting world.

We didn't ask for it, but the bastards just smashed us in the face with it regardless.

Robert went on to have sex with Sade (everyone's jealous, come on, just bloody own up, any man who carps at Elms has this as a base motive, you do and you know it), and inflict jazz and such on the listening public of some parts of London.

However he brought that ginger architect to our attention and that interesting sounding etymologist, so pretty damned good so far as I'm concerned.

I'm going to file him under 'alright'.