Ian MacMillan

[dellzeqq]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/vr9l2/

I got a call from my brother who said I should listen to Desert Island Discs. I'd never heard of the man. He's Barnsley FC's poet in residence. That's what I call a job....

Anyway, the programme is really pleasant listening. I wondered if anybody had seen him live?

 

[Riding in Circles]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/vr9l2/

I got a call from my brother who said I should listen to Desert Island Discs. I'd never heard of the man. He's Barnsley FC's poet in residence. That's what I call a job....

Anyway, the programme is really pleasant listening. I wondered if anybody had seen him live?

Listened to him on R4 quite a lot, very entertaining.

 

[srw]

He's on Radio 3 (the radio station for people of taste and discernment) regularly. The bits between MacMillan aren't bad either.

 

[frank9755]

Listened to him on R4 quite a lot, very entertaining.

Ditto. I've enjoyed listening him for getting on for 15 years or more, so recommend getting tapes / podcasts.

One of his programmes a few months ago revolved around a joke stemming from a confusion between 'Billy Joel' and 'Village Hall'. The main character had a phone call to book him to play in the latter but thought it was to play with the former. A couple of us took great pleasure in trying to re-create it while touring in Albania this summer!

 

[Riding in Circles]

Every time I hear him I think it is Jim Bowen incognito.

 

[rich p]

I heard the prog last week and I didn't warm to him as much as I expected to. His music choice was pretty hard to like as wel, especially as the one record he'd save from the 8 was John Cage's 4m 33s of silence.

 

[ASC1951]

Every time I hear him I think it is Jim Bowen incognito.

What? Jim Bowen is from Accrington. Different side of the Pennines, so a different dialect and a very different accent. There again, being from Kent I expect you sound just like Ian Holloway and Justin Lee Collins......

 

[philipbh]

Seen him twice at the recording of The Verb - which is the R3 programme he fronts

Excellent before during and after the recording IMO

 

[Jezston]

Didn't recognise the name but as soon as you mentioned Barnsley I knew who you meant!

I could listen to this guy talk all day. Really enjoyable to listen to him talk, whatever he's talking about!

 

[Yellow Fang]

I not that keen on Desert Island Discs, but I may have to listen to this. May I put in a word for Brighton and Hove Albion FC's poet in residence - Atilla the Stockbroker? I've seen him many times, though not recently, and is reasonably entertaining.

 

[Amanda P]

He came and played Terrington Village Hall last year. Quite an intimate venue. Enjoyed it immensely. Recommended.

 

[perplexed]

Ian sounds like a top dude. He appears every so often on local BBC news (Look North).

I heard the Desert Islands Discs programme and enjoyed it.

Funnily enough, it turns out that I have seen him live, albeit without realising, many years ago.

He mentions playing as a drummer with "Oscar The Frog", a folk-rock band from the late 70's, and I was taken as a kid to see them by me mum and dad! (They were bloody good as I recall!)

 

[taxing]

I really detest him. I'm surprised that I'm the only one actually, I find him so intensely irritating that I just assume that everyone else must feel similarly annoyed every time he opens his stupid "I'm a bloody Northerner, me, an' ah tells it lahk it is" mouth.

 

[Archie_tect]

... surely not more irritating than Geoff Boycott- the slowest man in the history of mankind- or how about Gervais Phinn? or Ricky [spit] Gervais? At least this man is a poet so for 99.9% of the time he keeps out of people's way.

 

[Arch]

I loved the bit where he talked about being at school and writing that 'what the future will be like' essay - all the kids wrote that people would eat pills for meals, and use hovercars.... to go to work at the pit. Because all but two in his class had Dads down the pit, and they saw no reason why it would ever change.