Comments on: And the award for disappointment goes to… http://james.cridland.net/blog/and-the-award-for-disappointment-goes-to/ From a radio futurologist - where broadcast radio and new platforms collide. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:26:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: steve martin http://james.cridland.net/blog/and-the-award-for-disappointment-goes-to/comment-page-1/#comment-7587 steve martin Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:56:38 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/04/20/and-the-award-for-disappointment-goes-to/#comment-7587 The funniest bit of the St Paul award was after the dull man pictured finally got to his clumsy and long overdue reveal. Immediately after deflating the entire room like Edward Scissorhands on a bouncy castle, the man announced that he himself would accept the award on Paul's behalf. At which point some wag at the back shouted "speech!!, speech!!". The funniest bit of the St Paul award was after the dull man pictured finally got to his clumsy and long overdue reveal. Immediately after deflating the entire room like Edward Scissorhands on a bouncy castle, the man announced that he himself would accept the award on Paul’s behalf. At which point some wag at the back shouted “speech!!, speech!!”.

]]> By: Paul Easton http://james.cridland.net/blog/and-the-award-for-disappointment-goes-to/comment-page-1/#comment-7572 Paul Easton Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:08:46 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/04/20/and-the-award-for-disappointment-goes-to/#comment-7572 I'm another who was rather disappointed not to see Sir Macca receive his award in person - with all due respect to Jonathan Morrish from PPL (pictured above). Also disappointed at the complete lack of food at the Cafe de Paris bash - in previous years it's been rather good so I was somewhat surprised not to be offered anything at all this year. Maybe the Radio Academy's money all went on the free bar. The conference itself wasn't too bad overall. Like you I liked the 'Words Don't Come Easy' session, although I felt it was a bit rushed and could have done with a bit of extra time to help make it work. The importance of using 'YOU' cannot be over-stated. I also have to say that when I saw the initial line-up at the time of booking and reading 'Total Bollox - Rod Liddle, Kelvin McKenzie...' my initial reaction was "No change there then". I’m another who was rather disappointed not to see Sir Macca receive his award in person – with all due respect to Jonathan Morrish from PPL (pictured above). Also disappointed at the complete lack of food at the Cafe de Paris bash – in previous years it’s been rather good so I was somewhat surprised not to be offered anything at all this year. Maybe the Radio Academy’s money all went on the free bar.

The conference itself wasn’t too bad overall. Like you I liked the ‘Words Don’t Come Easy’ session, although I felt it was a bit rushed and could have done with a bit of extra time to help make it work. The importance of using ‘YOU’ cannot be over-stated.

I also have to say that when I saw the initial line-up at the time of booking and reading ‘Total Bollox – Rod Liddle, Kelvin McKenzie…’ my initial reaction was “No change there then”.

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