Smell my Cheese

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Love this. It's the 1985 Radio 1 calender up for sale on Ebay and every DJ has signed it:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260427581684

One of those people is a former employer of mine! Would bid but it is likely to go for serious money (or at least more than I am willing to pay).

Click on the piccies for larger versions.

Cpt_Droman · **Joined:** 12th May, 2009 **Posts:** 597

Jeez, i had a crush on janice Long when i was nipper.

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

Fantastic!

Am I alone in detecting a hint of homoerotica in some of those pictures?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Nik wrote:

Fantastic!

Am I alone in detecting a hint of homoerotica in some of those pictures?

The one with jangle jangle and the very young Bruno for sure.

Malc74 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 15, 2009 13:24

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Nik wrote:

Fantastic!

Am I alone in detecting a hint of homoerotica in some of those pictures?

The one with jangle jangle and the very young Bruno for sure.

Surely "Brokeback Mountain" March is the worst of the lot.

Also, I like the fact that John Peel is the only one who has the common decency to look grumpy at being made to look such a pillock.

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

Malc74 wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Nik wrote:

Fantastic!

Am I alone in detecting a hint of homoerotica in some of those pictures?

The one with jangle jangle and the very young Bruno for sure.

Surely "Brokeback Mountain" March is the worst of the lot.

May's "truck driver and his mate" is pretty blatant.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Malc74 wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Nik wrote:

Fantastic!

Am I alone in detecting a hint of homoerotica in some of those pictures?

The one with jangle jangle and the very young Bruno for sure.

Surely "Brokeback Mountain" March is the worst of the lot.

Also, I like the fact that John Peel is the only one who has the common decency to look grumpy at being made to look such a pillock.

As per Radio 1 standard of the era, the DJ pairings are all people who didn't hate each others guts. The same applied to the Top Of The Pops pairings. Peel would often be paired off with Janice Long or David Jenson because they got on. You wouldn't get Bates and DLT together, you'd have to pair each of them off with someone else.

Which made the seething under the surface hatred in some of the group shots all the more endearing.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Nik wrote:

May's "truck driver and his mate" is pretty blatant.

To be fair Gambo is in shot so the campness does go up.

Malc74 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 15, 2009 13:40

Some more observations (yes, I'm bored).

The Gary Davies one is hilarious. He's obviously the pin-up boy, hence the daring exposure of chest hair, but the pose makes him look like he's got his elbow glued to the railing and he's trying desperately to look cool and nonchalant to divert attention from it.

The Simon Bates one looks like they've taken his head and stuck it on a photo of an actual jockey's body. It looks bizarrely out of proportion.

Were ginormous glasses ever really in style?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Malc74 wrote:

The Simon Bates one looks like they've taken his head and stuck it on a photo of an actual jockey's body. It looks bizarrely out of proportion.

Butch and sincere, but what was the year?

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Jun 15, 2009 13:51

Brilliant

Who the fuck is Robbie Vincent?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

kalmar wrote:

Brilliant

Who the fuck is Robbie Vincent?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Vincent

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Jun 15, 2009 14:00

Quote:

He would often present the shows with a romantic slant using phrases towards records such as 'this one has a government meltability warning' and 'open the fridge door and make sure it's packed with ice' with additional jingles such as 'jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz'

I appear to have entirely missed out on this. Never mind though!
R1 was so much better in the 90s.

Who's your former employee then Chinners?

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

kalmar wrote:

Brilliant

Who the fuck is Robbie Vincent?

For me he was the signal to switch off after Annie Nightingale on Sunday evenings.

Oh and he presented Go For It - low-budget fitness show in the 5:35 slot before Neighbours cancelled loads of shows at a stroke.

Bear or Bust · **Posted:** Mon Jun 15, 2009 15:38

Quote:

Oh and he presented Go For It - low-budget fitness show in the 5:35 slot before Neighbours cancelled loads of shows at a stroke.

Yeah I used to like Rolfs Cartoon club which they used to show in the same slot.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Bear or Bust wrote:

Quote:

Oh and he presented Go For It - low-budget fitness show in the 5:35 slot before Neighbours cancelled loads of shows at a stroke.

Yeah I used to like Rolf's Cartoon Time which they used to show in the same slot.

FTFY.

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Bear or Bust wrote:

Quote:

Oh and he presented Go For It - low-budget fitness show in the 5:35 slot before Neighbours cancelled loads of shows at a stroke.

Yeah I used to like Rolf Harris Cartoon Time which they used to show in the same slot.

FTFY.

Ultra-pedantic FTFY.

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

Malc74 wrote:

Some more observations (yes, I'm bored).

The Gary Davies one is hilarious. He's obviously the pin-up boy, hence the daring exposure of chest hair, but the pose makes him look like he's got his elbow glued to the railing and he's trying desperately to crank one out before the shoot is over.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Malc74 wrote:

Were ginormous glasses ever really in style?

Weirdly, they are now, among certain Shoreditch/Manhattan trusties.

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Smell my Cheese
The 1985 Radio 1 Calender

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Smell my Cheese
The 1985 Radio 1 Calender