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Ok, now I often lurk on this page, but todays show compelled me to post a topic. I usually am pretty happy with the current state of Moyles' show, I read here that alot of people reckon its gone downhill, and overall I disagree. However, today's interview with Pink I felt was the weakest interview I've ever heard Moyles do. I fould it slightly cringeworthy, I thought it went on far too long, and Moyles perving his way though the interview was just plain wrong.

To be fair to Moyles, Pink was an awful guest. She hardly spoke, gave 1 sentence answers, and just fake-laughed her way through it. She put no effort into it. When she did speak, she said nothing of interest, was plain dull, and her segments slowed the whole pace of the show down. Didnt Moyles say 24 hours prior that if a guest slowed the show down, he would cut the interview short (& give the listeners a secret code), showing the guest how his desk goes up and down, meaning that there was 60 secs of the interview remaining. Why didnt he do that today then? That interview was needlessly stretched out over 40 mins.

Moyles even knew the interview was bad afterwards, because he got a flood of text messages telling him so, and felt he had to defend himself, saying that he thought the interview went well. Also Moyles cant seem to take critisism, his response is usually along the lines of "if you dont like it, shut up, dont listen then, blah blah" I dont want to listen elsewhere, because overall I liked the show 99% of the time, however I know a crap interview when I here one.

After the Pink interview finished, Moyles himself critisized Kanye West for not bothering during the interview last week, however I thought that interview was 1000 times better than todays. At least Kanye bothered to speak more than 1 sentence per answer, I had no problem at all with how he was considering he said at the beginning that he had pretty much no sleep and was really tired, I thought he still sounded more fresh and interesting than Pink, and was actually pretty funny. If you ask Kanye West about Chamois leathers and choc ices AT GREAT LENGTH first thing in the morning, and then - shock horror - he doesnt respond to it in a comedic way, should you be surprised?

Also, Moyles gave the interview NINE out of 10. NINE. Mainly because Pink was still in the building and didnt want to offend her. At least Rachel had some guts, she gave it 6/10, and even that is a bit too high.


Anyway, rant over, I actually thought the show was ok today, minus the Pink segments. I liked the "Cheddar" bits on beep beep busters. I just felt compelled to write this waffle, for some reason.
By mlawton
#221000
100% agree with u sir bob.
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By Quincy
#221001
i thought the kanye west show was alright. not heard pinky though
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By Travis Bickle
#221015
I didnt see what else Pink could do OTHER than fake laugh through it.
He really is dire when he has guests in.
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By fish heads
#221016
As always it depends on the guest. As pink is female and american - the worst 2 offenders on Chris's "potential crap interviews" list - I had a feeling it might not be the best
By Jono
#221028
It was Pink asking Chris questions and laughing falsely. So much for the 'hydrolic desk' exit line, I'm afraid it was pretty poor.
By GruntMitchell
#221037
I was so looking forward to this interview. It was really awful. Chris seemed to try and keep egging her on to say something but got nothing.
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By jamiec21
#221043
Another bad interview. It's starting to get a little uncomfortable now when Moyles starts his drooling, slobbering perv act. It seems to be Dom who does the most entertaining interviews now.
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By Sir Bob Marley
#221044
Yeah, he spoke about the hydrolic desk yesterday, directly after talking about the upcoming Pink interview, as if to suggest that if the interview was going badly, she's gone. Then he bottles it, & drags it out longer than he should have.

To be honest I have never been that bothered by his interviews, on the whole I think they are not bad. I remember the Drew Barrymore & Destinys Child ones being sub-par, however.
By David
#221045
In my opinion, the breakfast show has too many guests on these days.

But then again, thats probably what most normal people want.
By GruntMitchell
#221046
My fav interview tbh was the very first drew barrymoore one, that just had me in stiches. Theres a few others too, but most of the recent ones haven't been all that.
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By Adam
#221047
crums - thats a rant and half for a second post.

Sir Bob Marley - welcome to the board :)
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By jamiec21
#221048
Sir Bob Marley wrote:Yeah, he spoke about the hydrolic desk yesterday, directly after talking about the upcoming Pink interview, as if to suggest that if the interview was going badly, she's gone. Then he bottles it, & drags it out longer than he should have.


Well the team obviously that recent interviews haven't been up to much, otherwise they wouldn't have discussed the whole 'abort' thing in the first place. And they wouldn't have discussed it if it had been the odd one or two bad interview, they must know something isn't right. Personally, I'd let Dom do all the interviews, unless the guest is in the studio to do something, like play a song.
By GruntMitchell
#221050
Dom's interview with Derek Pakora recently made him a legend in my books. The "does busting make you feel good?" and "who are you going to call" questions were just sheer comedy!
By Asa
#221067
I'd agree with Sir Bob. It really was poor and apart from Chris doing his drooling act, he was actually trying his best with a terrible guest.

You can tell he's so much more relaxed with 'normal' (non-Hollywood/actresses/singers/up themselves) guests who he can have a laugh with.

Wonder what Pink's problem was? If it was too early then maybe they should think about pre-recording some in future and playing them out 'as live' the following morning.

Really wished he'd done the exit line earlier yesterday.
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By Chris4
#221077
pink was a crap guest, it was mostly waffle
By MC
#221078
Chris kept the interview going because he fancied her, pure and simple. Even he said that..

To give it 9 out of 10 though was a joke. (Btw, I will post a sticky with the guest scores on in the radio reviews section of the forum).
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By Travis Bickle
#221084
We use the word 'interview' a lot when describing Chris's guests but the precise problem is that he DOESNT interview them at all. All he does is chat to them and attempt humour. Now that is all very well and good if there is genuine chemistry there, but when there isn't it makes for truly dire listening.

Quite often people on here blame the guests, but the real fault lies with Chris. If he actually asked them a few decent questions and stopped talking about himself all the time it would make for a far better listen.
By donnie
#221097
yeah he can be a little bit self obsessed I have no idea y he brought up his en-suite shower or dwelled on it 4 so long who is gonna have the slightest interest in that?
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By Uglybob
#221116
surely we know by now any female that is half decent looking is going to be a crap interview. give me a good interview he has had with a decent looking female.

pinks been on before, and he was just like he was the other day.

Sat is up Thanks Ian