Hope he pulls through the best radio presenter by a country mile I download the Saturday Podcast which keeps me entertained on my way to work each day.
Think he's an excellent broadcaster and genuinely funny guy. It's always a disappointment to switch on his show on a Saturday morning and hear someone else doing it, because no-one else comes close. Here's wishing him all the best.
Danny Baker was a customer of mine when I worked in the Threshers at Blackheath Royal Standard. Thoroughly down to earth and utterly dedicated to Millwall, he's much better at taking the piss out of me than I of him. Always good banter and my opinion of him is based on that, he's a decent bloke. I wish him all the best.
What Shooters said, his show is great and I hope he will be around for years to come. As for him taking the proverbial out of Charlton, what do you expect?
He is a real football man, though and I wish him all the best.
And yes, he did say that the Valley should be preserved if only 10 grounds were allowed to be spared, so you know he likes us really ;/
Used to enjoy his scribblings in the NME all those years ago, and his breakfast show on GLR was the best thing on the radio. As for when he was on 606...pure anarchy, and he'd appreciate that description. Really hope he pulls through this and is back behind the mic soon. Good luck you old spanner.
Read the first part of thread didnt fully read the whole thing.Only just read the paper re his illness
So apologies re the tosser comment(removed)
I hope Mr Baker wins his fight against the big C and has many years with his loved ones and watching that pile of shit down at the New Den siting with all the real tossers.
tvBite is a really good, daily email providing tv previews and recipes. It's run by a Charlton fan. Here's what they said yesterday about Danny Baker:
[cite]Posted By: tvBite[/cite]Cancer, life
While today was lined up to be a diatribe about the sound on EastEnders (seriously, why is the background noise so high? Do we need to hear Samantha J.Anus zipping up her bag with such ferocity? Doesn't her (appalling) acting speak for itself?), we re-read it and found that tvBite's heart wasn't in it.
It's down to the news of Danny Baker's illness. For many of you, Baker is a new lad relic from the mid-nineties. A time when people thought Chris Evans was talented, footballers would never be more decadent than Gazza and Ocean Colour Scene were just another band. He's a football bore and Jack-the-lad cockney geezer, the Paul Ross who got lucky, if you like. Well, luckier than Paul Ross. Yes, he has nothing to do with TV. Apart from Pets Win Prizes and the disastrous talk show that was probably OK but we can't really remember it.
That's fine, we're not here to convert you or praise his televisual prowess. You can argue about that on forums elsewhere. Your opinion is not important to tvBite and it never has been. All we want to do is pay a little tribute to one part of Danny's career that has been skimmed over by most of the tributes we've read - his writing.
This is a man who throws out memorable phrases at the same speed that others um, er, discard tissues when they have colds*. To prove this, we've picked a section at random from an article at random from a clever search engine. And we can tell you in advance of picking it, it will have an original idea, some lovely imagery and nice wording.
"The telling fact is that opening ceremonies are never, ever shown in their entirety again anywhere in the known universe and for very obvious reasons. Correction. The director and chief choreographer very likely sit down together with a VHS and a glass of Kir Royale and weep silly silent tears while pondering upon the ultimately tragic transience of their gifts."
See? Here's another random paragraph, chosen genuinely at random:
"I am assured that to take up a seat among the traditionally acquiescent and meek Spurs supporters these days is no longer the invitation to a two-hour nap it once was but has become something closer in atmosphere to a radical Serbian mineworkers' meeting or a pirate ship that has announced a theft of its dubloons."
Well, that one doesn't work so well. Maybe our "passages of Baker at random" idea wasn't such a great one after all. But it's still funnier than a diatribe about Samantha J.Anus's handbag.
Anyhow, one night in 1977, Elvis's death is announced to a crowd of punks at The Vortex in London's swinging Soho. The assembled punks cheer. Baker leaps to the stage and grabs the mike. He begins an impassioned defence of Elvis, calling the crowd morons (one can't help but imagine at this point the amount of gob that must have sailed in his direction). Without Elvis, there'd be no punk, he roars at them. Well, without Baker there'd be none of this.
What Baker did with Sniffing Glue, NME and the whole punk hackery set the way for the best music journalism we ever had. You can keep Nick Kent's elegance and Burchill's tedious provocateuring, without Baker's constant phrase-making and inventiveness (lest we forget, he created the term Wacko Jacko), we'd have no David Quantick, no Stuart Maconie, no Tom Hibbert (though Hibbert himself wrote sniffily about Baker), and without Tom Hibbert you'd never have tvBite. We'd have chosen another career. And so, forgive us, jettisoning our planned EastEnders sound dislike feature just this once. We found that the snail is not on the thorn, the lark is not on the wing and all is not right with the world. And it won't be until he's better and back entertaining us again.
*See? It's not easy, particularly when you have a cold.
Anyhow, one night in 1977, Elvis's death is announced to a crowd of punks at The Vortex in London's swinging Soho. The assembled punks cheer. Baker leaps to the stage and grabs the mike. He begins an impassioned defence of Elvis, calling the crowd morons (one can't help but imagine at this point the amount of gob that must have sailed in his direction). Without Elvis, there'd be no punk, he roars at them. Well, without Baker there'd be none of this.
Danny was there but it wasn't him that said that ... I know because I was there that night. It was a Sham 69 gig and Jimmy Pursey made the comment to the mass of Skins and Punks ...Danny certainly agreed and made the point just as strongly in the audience but it was not him on the microphone.
[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]I have the copy of Sniffin Glue where he wrote an article about it. fantastic bit of writing which I'll have to dig out.
SG12 with Sham on the cover ... Kris Needs (great journalist) wrote the article but he got the wrong band .. said it was Rich Kids but it was Sham ... no surprise considering how out of it Needs was most of the time in those days.
[cite]Posted By: stonemuse[/cite]Anyhow, one night in 1977, Elvis's death is announced to a crowd of punks at The Vortex in London's swinging Soho. The assembled punks cheer. Baker leaps to the stage and grabs the mike. He begins an impassioned defence of Elvis, calling the crowd morons (one can't help but imagine at this point the amount of gob that must have sailed in his direction). Without Elvis, there'd be no punk, he roars at them. Well, without Baker there'd be none of this.
Danny was there but it wasn't him that said that ... I know because I was there that night. It was a Sham 69 gig and Jimmy Pursey made the comment to the mass of Skins and Punks ...Danny certainly agreed and made the point just as strongly in the audience but it was not him on the microphone.
Is it wrong that my kids (3 & 6) know the words to Borstal Breakout & sing them unprompted at randoom occasions!
[cite]Posted By: stonemuse[/cite]Anyhow, one night in 1977, Elvis's death is announced to a crowd of punks at The Vortex in London's swinging Soho. The assembled punks cheer. Baker leaps to the stage and grabs the mike. He begins an impassioned defence of Elvis, calling the crowd morons (one can't help but imagine at this point the amount of gob that must have sailed in his direction). Without Elvis, there'd be no punk, he roars at them. Well, without Baker there'd be none of this.
Danny was there but it wasn't him that said that ... I know because I was there that night. It was a Sham 69 gig and Jimmy Pursey made the comment to the mass of Skins and Punks ...Danny certainly agreed and made the point just as strongly in the audience but it was not him on the microphone.
Is it wrong that my kids (3 & 6) know the words to Borstal Breakout & sing them unprompted at randoom occasions!
LOL superb ... both my kids knew Sham lyrics when they were younger along with most Pogues, Clash and Stone Roses songs
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Get well soon Millwall bloke ;-)
He is a real football man, though and I wish him all the best.
And yes, he did say that the Valley should be preserved if only 10 grounds were allowed to be spared, so you know he likes us really ;/
Anyway, I'm not his greatest fan, but undoubtedly wish him all the very best for a speedy recovery.
Your some sort of Moron arent you.
Good luck Danny .
Get back in that seat ASAP, Danno !
Keep smiling and keep the faith.
The treehouse isn't the same without you.
MOG x
Get well soon Sir...............
So apologies re the tosser comment(removed)
I hope Mr Baker wins his fight against the big C and has many years with his loved ones and watching that pile of shit down at the New Den siting with all the real tossers.
Danny was there but it wasn't him that said that ... I know because I was there that night. It was a Sham 69 gig and Jimmy Pursey made the comment to the mass of Skins and Punks ...Danny certainly agreed and made the point just as strongly in the audience but it was not him on the microphone.
SG12 with Sham on the cover ... Kris Needs (great journalist) wrote the article but he got the wrong band .. said it was Rich Kids but it was Sham ... no surprise considering how out of it Needs was most of the time in those days.
Is it wrong that my kids (3 & 6) know the words to Borstal Breakout & sing them unprompted at randoom occasions!
LOL superb ... both my kids knew Sham lyrics when they were younger along with most Pogues, Clash and Stone Roses songs
NO
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