Radio Ga-Ga
This week I’m participating in the RAJAR National Radio Listening Survey, which produces the official audience figures for UK radio stations. Now by my reckoning, I have the power to add nearly 19,000* extra listners to a radio station’s figures. Of course if there are any DJs or radio station executives reading this, I want to make it quite clear that as I couldn’t possibly consider accepting any bribes for inflating their audience numbers. No way. Bribes might take the form of cash, drugs, or advance copies of the new Foo Fighters and White Stripes albums, and would, needless to say, be totally unethical.
Speaking of which, I see the Foo Fighters’ new album In Your Honor is going to be a double album, released in 18 days (maybe less for me if there are any enterprising, go-getter radio people reading this). Really looking forward to hearing it, as One By One was such a corker, and also because according to Dave Grohl there were “Many viewings of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE” during its mixing, which is definitely encouraging.
Speaking of which, two Napoleon Dynamite links for you — a sweet soundboard with some great lines, and even better, Learn to Dance with Napoleon. (Both require Flash). For those of you who haven’t seen Napoleon Dynamite, it’s just come out on DVD, so close your browser and go and watch it immediately.
* My calculations may be way off, but are as follows: RAJAR surveys 2,500 adults every week. There are about 46 million adults in the UK (I used 46,913,776 from the 2001 census), so presumably one survey is extrapolated to represent approximately 18,765 listeners.
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