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- Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:08 am
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Posted this Private, at Aled's request.
For those who aren't aware - Aled interviewed Producer Will, Radio 1 recently for his podcast and asked him about his best bit on the show and what he's currently doing at Radio 1.
I've done my best to transcript it. You can download the podcast at http://www.aledhaydnjones.com
A = Aled, W = Will
A: And now its time for my special star guest on the forum podcast, please welcome Producer Old Grey Head Will!
W: Hey Aled
A: Hey Will, how are you?
W: Very well thank you.
A: The reason I’ve got you on here is there are some forum members, one in particular called Kate who just goes on about you all the time, no matter what new stuff we do on the show, no matter what new style of producing I’ll try to bring to the show they always bring it back to the days when Old Grey Head Will was there and they loved it.
W: The best days Aled.
A: Really?
W: Yeah
A: Okay, fair enough. I enjoyed it
W: The heydays, the great days.
A: They even liked more when Lizzie was there, before I was even on board so that's how far they are going.
W: Lizzie and Me, Chris, Dave, that's all you only ever need in a radio show Aled. You don't need Aled, Rachel, thousands of people, Unit Assistants, Broadcast Assistants, Press. We didn't have any of that when we did afternoons
A: Back to when it was simple.
W: Back to basics, that's what people loved Aled.
A: So I thought I’d get you in here and ask you a couple of questions from the time when you were producing Chris and the show. Like.. What was your best moment?
W: The best moment was the U2 Wind up with Chris - shall I tell the story?
A: I heard that it was horrible
W: Chris went on and we always do something special for Chris' birthday right and in the background when you work in the show, his birthday is February isn’t it?
A: Yeah
W: So from like October he's on about his birthday. Genuinely - what we gonna do, where we gonna go, what guests are you gonna get on for me? So, he nagged and nagged us so me and Dave hatched this plot because at the time he was a massive fan of U2, still is and we said we are going to try and get U2 on. We genuinely called the record company and they said no, there's no way in the world. So we thought we'll have a little fun with this then.
So I went down to the BBC the extensive BBC Archives and got out a live U2 session from a few years ago which was on Simon Mayo's show and then we fed Chris this line that his special guests which we couldn't tell them him who they were on the line from another part of the world and they'd done a special song just for him and basically it was guy upstairs in another office pressing play on a tape recorder into the studio and at the end we faked up that the line had gone down, there was a lot of noise so obviously Chris couldn't talk to them live and yeah, he fell for it.
A: The amazing thing is he didn't see it coming.
W: No, he didn't see it coming and he completely fell for it. And then because we thought he'd never fall for it, we didn't have an escape plan and then, so that evening was his party right so me and Dave and a couple of others who were in on the secret were like mortified because all we could see was Chris going around the party going "Yeah, yeah, it was great, did you know we had U2 on?" and he kept telling everyone, like all these famous people at his party and it took us, we went on holiday I think it was Christmas, I cant remember! It took us months and one day we admitted it on the air.
A: Wow,
W: So yeah good wind up, better than I thought
A: The time for me because I was sort of around the area because I was doing Big Brother and stuff. The time for me I really noticed the show was when you went to Los Angles.
W: Yeah that was stressful.
A: Was it?
W: Stressful
A: It didn’t come across like that
W: No, it didn't the show were really really good. We worked very hard, we all work hard- Chris and everybody. Erm, alot of travel. I naively probably made too many things to do because we did the show silly o'clock in the morning
A: Yeah
W: Then we were finished by 9 o'clock or something, then it was like a tiny sleep, maybe breakfast and then I was onto studio tours, meeting people, Jonny Rotten from the Sex Pistols; interviewed him on LA Beach and I stacked in so much to do and then Me and Lizzie had to go to a hotel room and do the editing done get it ready for the next morning - we absolutely exhausted. And also I just I wasn't as well organised as should of been in terms of trying to produce the radio show, the same time your also doing travel arrangements, booking cars, making sure Chris has got a hotel room, we are getting him from A to B and that stress linked up with trying to get the show together - it was really really hard work.
A: And you moved as well didn't you, it wasn't one place for the whole week?
W: We moved twice - we went from LA to Las Vegas and then back to LA
A: Blimmin' eck
W: So you've got two sets of studios to set up as well. So it was good, the show were good and because we did so much stuff we had loads of material for the radio show.
A: And put that into context, and when it came to Red Nose Rally as of just two years ago we had you, me, Rachel, the whole team, we had people around us and we still didn't have enough team around us to make it work.
W: No, I know. Rachel was talking about the plans for what we might do for Red Nose Day this time around, and hopefully it will come off. It's a plan but I’ve already said to her you’ve gotta throw organisational people at it. Don’t, because I was trying to run the transport and do, help the radio show and do some TV. Its impossible for one person to do!
A: And in Los Angeles it was just you and Lizzie.
W: Me & Lizzie and Pete doing bits of telly in the background. But no its fine, looking back on it I absolutely adored it but there was some moments of pure anger
A: Wow, I did not know any of that
W: Really bad, ah honestly. Me and Chris fell out big style!
A: So for Will fans – what are you doing now because you still work at radio 1
W: Yeah. I’ve got ambibitions to move into television and I do lots of television stuff. Radio 1 has lots of visual things on the website, films that we make. You can watch some concerts on the Red button, you can watch one big weekend on bbc 3 sometimes. So all the stuff that involves TV or visual goes through me at Radio 1. that’s my job, to look after the visual aspects of Radio 1.
A: Without giving anything away ….
W: Yes?
A: Anything cool coming up?
W: As you listen to this, Lamar is happening on Saturday and that will be on Red button next week so hopefully if you’re catching this soon you’ll know that's on there. The, Basically anything that Radio 1 does over the coming months for the New Year, Christmas, hopefully they’ll have a Red Button, online or some sort of visual impact – we are working on about four or five projects
For those who aren't aware - Aled interviewed Producer Will, Radio 1 recently for his podcast and asked him about his best bit on the show and what he's currently doing at Radio 1.
I've done my best to transcript it. You can download the podcast at http://www.aledhaydnjones.com
A = Aled, W = Will
A: And now its time for my special star guest on the forum podcast, please welcome Producer Old Grey Head Will!
W: Hey Aled
A: Hey Will, how are you?
W: Very well thank you.
A: The reason I’ve got you on here is there are some forum members, one in particular called Kate who just goes on about you all the time, no matter what new stuff we do on the show, no matter what new style of producing I’ll try to bring to the show they always bring it back to the days when Old Grey Head Will was there and they loved it.
W: The best days Aled.
A: Really?
W: Yeah
A: Okay, fair enough. I enjoyed it
W: The heydays, the great days.
A: They even liked more when Lizzie was there, before I was even on board so that's how far they are going.
W: Lizzie and Me, Chris, Dave, that's all you only ever need in a radio show Aled. You don't need Aled, Rachel, thousands of people, Unit Assistants, Broadcast Assistants, Press. We didn't have any of that when we did afternoons
A: Back to when it was simple.
W: Back to basics, that's what people loved Aled.
A: So I thought I’d get you in here and ask you a couple of questions from the time when you were producing Chris and the show. Like.. What was your best moment?
W: The best moment was the U2 Wind up with Chris - shall I tell the story?
A: I heard that it was horrible
W: Chris went on and we always do something special for Chris' birthday right and in the background when you work in the show, his birthday is February isn’t it?
A: Yeah
W: So from like October he's on about his birthday. Genuinely - what we gonna do, where we gonna go, what guests are you gonna get on for me? So, he nagged and nagged us so me and Dave hatched this plot because at the time he was a massive fan of U2, still is and we said we are going to try and get U2 on. We genuinely called the record company and they said no, there's no way in the world. So we thought we'll have a little fun with this then.
So I went down to the BBC the extensive BBC Archives and got out a live U2 session from a few years ago which was on Simon Mayo's show and then we fed Chris this line that his special guests which we couldn't tell them him who they were on the line from another part of the world and they'd done a special song just for him and basically it was guy upstairs in another office pressing play on a tape recorder into the studio and at the end we faked up that the line had gone down, there was a lot of noise so obviously Chris couldn't talk to them live and yeah, he fell for it.
A: The amazing thing is he didn't see it coming.
W: No, he didn't see it coming and he completely fell for it. And then because we thought he'd never fall for it, we didn't have an escape plan and then, so that evening was his party right so me and Dave and a couple of others who were in on the secret were like mortified because all we could see was Chris going around the party going "Yeah, yeah, it was great, did you know we had U2 on?" and he kept telling everyone, like all these famous people at his party and it took us, we went on holiday I think it was Christmas, I cant remember! It took us months and one day we admitted it on the air.
A: Wow,
W: So yeah good wind up, better than I thought
A: The time for me because I was sort of around the area because I was doing Big Brother and stuff. The time for me I really noticed the show was when you went to Los Angles.
W: Yeah that was stressful.
A: Was it?
W: Stressful
A: It didn’t come across like that
W: No, it didn't the show were really really good. We worked very hard, we all work hard- Chris and everybody. Erm, alot of travel. I naively probably made too many things to do because we did the show silly o'clock in the morning
A: Yeah
W: Then we were finished by 9 o'clock or something, then it was like a tiny sleep, maybe breakfast and then I was onto studio tours, meeting people, Jonny Rotten from the Sex Pistols; interviewed him on LA Beach and I stacked in so much to do and then Me and Lizzie had to go to a hotel room and do the editing done get it ready for the next morning - we absolutely exhausted. And also I just I wasn't as well organised as should of been in terms of trying to produce the radio show, the same time your also doing travel arrangements, booking cars, making sure Chris has got a hotel room, we are getting him from A to B and that stress linked up with trying to get the show together - it was really really hard work.
A: And you moved as well didn't you, it wasn't one place for the whole week?
W: We moved twice - we went from LA to Las Vegas and then back to LA
A: Blimmin' eck
W: So you've got two sets of studios to set up as well. So it was good, the show were good and because we did so much stuff we had loads of material for the radio show.
A: And put that into context, and when it came to Red Nose Rally as of just two years ago we had you, me, Rachel, the whole team, we had people around us and we still didn't have enough team around us to make it work.
W: No, I know. Rachel was talking about the plans for what we might do for Red Nose Day this time around, and hopefully it will come off. It's a plan but I’ve already said to her you’ve gotta throw organisational people at it. Don’t, because I was trying to run the transport and do, help the radio show and do some TV. Its impossible for one person to do!
A: And in Los Angeles it was just you and Lizzie.
W: Me & Lizzie and Pete doing bits of telly in the background. But no its fine, looking back on it I absolutely adored it but there was some moments of pure anger
A: Wow, I did not know any of that
W: Really bad, ah honestly. Me and Chris fell out big style!
A: So for Will fans – what are you doing now because you still work at radio 1
W: Yeah. I’ve got ambibitions to move into television and I do lots of television stuff. Radio 1 has lots of visual things on the website, films that we make. You can watch some concerts on the Red button, you can watch one big weekend on bbc 3 sometimes. So all the stuff that involves TV or visual goes through me at Radio 1. that’s my job, to look after the visual aspects of Radio 1.
A: Without giving anything away ….
W: Yes?
A: Anything cool coming up?
W: As you listen to this, Lamar is happening on Saturday and that will be on Red button next week so hopefully if you’re catching this soon you’ll know that's on there. The, Basically anything that Radio 1 does over the coming months for the New Year, Christmas, hopefully they’ll have a Red Button, online or some sort of visual impact – we are working on about four or five projects
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