Thursday 11th March 2010

STUFF

January 1, 2010

global-warming
Happy New Year Shiptonblog readers. And I bring you news that every second you spend reading this you are hastening the end of the world. It would seem Googling has the same environmental impact of boiling the kettle for a cup of tea. This spurious now corrected article that probably isn’t true first appeared in the Sunday Times.

In other news check out this Mashable list on how to make your online presence more environmentally friendly.

April 18, 2008

George Lamb

Lamb Update 20th Sept 2009

Sadly for us, and the nation, Lamb is still on. If you are reading this and you don’t know who he is, you’re lucky. I’ve pretty much given up on 6Music these days. I can’t be bothered with the BBC entertainment radio premise of ‘employ tv celebrity to make a radio show’ for no other reason than they are a bit famous. Especially when they have no radio broadcasting skill whatsoever. As Lamb’s fame has grown over the years the negative google results have receded, replaced now with the online versions of sycophantic press articles that seem to coalesce around the mildly famous, doubtless penned by desperate hacks trying to get bread on the table by placating tyrannical entertainment editors.

I found what appears to be a George Lamb twitter feed and garnered the image below from it. Is it him?

George Lamb Private Eye

Original Post

look at this moron

Once upon a time I used to listen to BBC 6Music during the day. The Gideon Coe show was an interesting show featuring great music. But then along came George Lamb taking over Coe’s daytime slot. I am not sure but I think this coincided with the departure of the stations head during a Mark Thompson rigged phone vote pogrom. He is clearly a complete berk who has now, incredible been nominated for a Sony. Its all to do with the now controller of Radio 2 and 6Music, Lesley Douglas, and her evil plan to make as much of the BBC’s daytime radio completley unlistenable to by people with more than one brain cell. But don’t take my word for it, simply Googling George Lamb will provide you with dozens of sites demonstarting listeners disgust. And I have posted some of the best here:

Pretty good article that sums up 6Music politics quite nicely

‘...moving away from the knowledgeable remit of 6Music and moving towards a ‘dumbed down’ station that Radio Four’s own ‘Feedback’ programme dubbed “Radio One and a half” ‘
George Lamb’s BBC Homepage

Click on to Lambs homepage to see clips and listen again to the blithering idoit as he stumbles through his show. All the while supported by a load of sycophantic twats in a zoo format.

Get George Lamb of 6Music

2941 people have signed the petition so far.

Keep Lamb in

2042 people have voted to keep him. Obviously thought up by his PR and scattered with his stupid patois.

Lesley Douglas defends the indefensible

I wonder if she has actually listened to the show?? Critics claim the station has moved away from its original music-orientated remit in search of a bigger audience. One said Lamb sounded too similar to a Radio 1 DJ and accused him of broadcasting “meaningless drivel and street talk”. Drivel it is.

A page of George Lamb abuse.

“This gibbering, self obsessed, coke addled, sniggering twat of the highest order has single handedly fucked BBC6 up the arse and reduced what was a great morning show under Gideon Coe down to the equivalent of a Timmy Mallett name dropping wank session in which he says ‘ladies and gentlemen’ over and over again. Is there anyone on the planet who knows less about music then this twat? “

Quite cool ‘The Ever Project’ site

  • he’s stutters
  • he gets things wrong far too often
  • he pretends to be clever, but then comes a cropper
  • he’s annoying
  • he’s absolutely useless!
  • He know’s nothing about music
  • His fake cockney or ‘mockney’ accent is makes him sound a complete tool for one educated in such a posh school as St. Christophers
  • He’s a useless interviewer
  • He doesn’t play enough music, when he does play some he ruins it by either talking over it or using some stupid sound effect.

That Viz Strip in full

A Times article attempting balance

Youtube comments + arguments including the phrase ’shitweasel’

Update: George is still on the air. He has been revealed as the new host of Big Brother this year so we’ll possibley be seeing more of him. Unless you do the right thing and kick your telly in should he appear. Also there has been some confusion over his winning a Sony DAB Rising star radio award. As far as I am aware this is different to the prestigious Sony Academy Awards.

Update from Matt “We won! Don;t know why but decided to listen to the radio this morning (just in case he had given up using that damn air horn…) and at 12h30 he announced that as of week friday he will no longer be doing a week day show and will instead be doing a saturday morning show”

November 25, 2007

upsiders-t-shirt.jpgThere has been a new twist in the drama surrounding ‘The Upsiders‘. A US punk band I designed T-Shirts for and never got paid,despite the shirts appearance at the gigs.

I recieved communication from one of the band members, Andrew, who pledged to post me 5 T-Shirts (which have yet to appear). He stated there were hardly any shirts left (despite an earlier blog post that mentioned they had plenty of shirts). Meanwhile the bands MySpace Blog has been re-written with some startling revalations. And a personal message to me! Which I will repeat here:

This part is for Chris Shipton. Don’t believe the hype. Everyone knew the deal, 36 shirts in the sizes you specified shipped to you. As for you not getting yours, talk to andrew and tony once again. Ask them or pretty much anyone. The shirts were printed, counted and divided by four. Andrew/Tony hacked the myspace/email accounts, told me to fuck off and basically decided they were in charge of the band from that point on. If they decided that getting you 4 or 5 shirts was enough, then fuck it, thats what “the band” decided. Please contact our label (feeder fish records) its in our myspace friends and ask them if I didn’t call and specifically say that not a single upsiders robot shirt could be sold or given out because we don’t have any rights to the art until we give chris his shirts. Please ask him or call me and I’ll give you his number to verify that they made it impossible to get you the shirts AND that I notified our label that we were not allowed to do anything with those shirts till our dept to you is paid.

Bryce – formerly of ‘The Upsiders’

Sadly Feeder Fish records were unable to give me any further info on the T-Shirts – stating the hadn’t even got any.

So No T-Shirts yet and I am wondering if I can get Watchdog interested…

October 18, 2007

Chris Shipton

So I am NOT from Bath. Check out the coverage of the Birmingham Comics Convention at the media node that is the Birmingham Mail!

In fact the journalist and I discussed what it was like to live in Oxford!

February 8, 2007

New for Shiptonblog! My Flash Gallery of my day in the snow in Oxford. I have no idea how I made this, but it appears to work. My first real adventure in to the world of action script and xml. Great for when you’re defrosting!

February 5, 2007

birdflu.jpg

Mass turkey genocide in February indicates the seasonal return of Bird Flu paranoia. On Saturday I had some delicious duck breast that I cooked myself. 3mins on one side and 2mins on the other, it was bright purple and practically quacked as I stuck my fork in it. As far as I can tell I have not gotten Bird Flu yet.

Here is a very brief guide to Bird Flu:

  1. Bird Flu is not Bernard Mathews fault and is nothing to do with turkey twizzlers
  2. Can I re-iterate that Bernard Mathews is not to blame for bringing Bird Flu to Britain
  3. When we are all dieing of Bird Flu our thoughts of Bernard Matthews will simply be that of nostalgia for the soft focus adverts from the 80’s where he said ‘Bootiful’ and not bitter resentment for his bringing Bird Flu to the UK.
  4. A man who would refer to reclaimed turkey meat as ‘Bootiful’ in an advert specifically directed at young children is the sort of responsible chap who would never ever allow some terrible mishap to happen at one of his intensive turkey farms that could result a plague of death and destruction like Europe has never before seen.

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