Radio 1 Roadshows

[Ray de Galles]

They were great, weren't they? 'Bits and Pieces', Smiley Miley and his mileage game, seeing actual R1 DJs in person ( we normally got Andy Peebles in South Wales but, hey, he was still sort of famous).

So where would I find a list of all of them with dates, for research purposes?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Radio 1 Roadshows

Goodie bags- I cribbed that from wikipedia.

[George]

Radio 1 Roadshows



Somehow it suddenly doesn't seem so appealing. Bates hated doing the roadshows apparently.

[Ray de Galles]

Radio 1 Roadshows

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Goodie bags- I cribbed that from wikipedia.

What am I not getting here?

[Sean of the Shed]

Radio 1 Roadshows

I went to the Skegness roadshow one year, it was hosted by Nicky Campbell. They did all the usual gubbins and a couple of popstars whose names I can't remember came on stage and mimed to their latest singles.
Utter shit from start to finish.

[Sean of the Shed]

Radio 1 Roadshows

There's a bit of history on this site, Radio rewind, with a bit of insight from the aforementioned Smiley Miley:

Tony Miles; Smiley Miley "my name was given to me because I'm always smiling"

Fuck me, that's a revelation and a half, eh? It even makes footballers nickname appear witty.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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We always used to get Ed "Stewpot" Stewart in Exmouth, because he was from there, as if that would somehow stop the local hard lads in their Harrington jackets and skinhead haircuts from lobbing bottles of piss at him while he was trying to host an impromptu game of "beat the intro" between two horrified and stage-struck nine-year-old girls.

And Steve Wright always used to do Fistral Beach one at Newquay in the 1980s, the week the World Surfing Championship Tour came to town. Every single time they did the roadshow at Newquay, I remember it would be a freezing cold day and invariably pissing it down, even though it was usually in mid-July.

[Nigelwyn]

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I work with Smiley Mileys daughter. She has lots of "confidence". If there's any kind of fuckup she'll always know exactly who is to blame. It's never her.

[Tony C]

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I went to a raodshow on holiday in Torquay when I was about thirteen or fourteen. Stuart Henry was the presenter and The Mixtures mimed to 'The Pushbike Song' on stage.

[willie1foot]

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"He is a laddie
A skinny hairy laddie
Who is working for the bonny BBC
He is playing all the records
The noisy poppy records
He's Stuart, the Scots DJ

On Your Radio"

(to the tune of 'I Love a Lassie')

edit: I always remember that jingle when Stuart Henry is mentioned, although that is not very often these days. He died pretty young, if my memory serves.

[The Alan Partridge Project]

Radio 1 Roadshows

My favourite Radio 1 Roadshow moment.