Kevin Greening 1962 - 2007
I was shocked last night to hear on the news that Kevin Greening had passed away in his sleep at the young age of 44. I am not often moved by the death of someone famous but this really hit hard; I’m gutted.
Kevin was an intellectual, dry witted, interesting and down to earth broadcaster who loved music. When he finally left Radio One it marked the point when I started to no longer listen to the station; I sent him a good luck email to which he replied which is more than I would expect from many people in the public eye. Some memorable moments:
- Prince walking out of an interview when Kevin asked him how to pronounce the symbol (if anyone has the video of this could they put it on youtube? I can’t find it anywhere).
- The Zoe Ball walk out april fool (which I so hoped was true).
- All of his silly characters (Major Holdups, Raymond Sinclair, Eric the Gardener, Blowchap amongst others).
- His championship of Mike Flowers Pops.
I didn’t know he had reappeared on Smooth FM so never caught him there but his passing on is a sad loss from the world of Radio and music.
Rest in Peace, Kevin.
Links:
- Kevin’s wikipedia page
- There is a facebook group to join if you have memories to post.
- The BBC Obituary.
- Simon Mayo’s tribute
- The Kevin Greening Story
- Smooth FM’s condolences page
- BBC’s Have Your Say page
- Some clips (except they seem not to work :-()
- A Radio Rewind page, including some clips
- No Rock and Roll Fun’s DJobit
- The Evening Standard’s Obituary
Windless London
A few weeks ago I was atop the Tate Modern. There had been no wind for a couple of days by that point and these photos really show the pollution build up that occurs:
Rubbish terrorist threat of the week 3
Written in today’s Metro by David Hill of the World Innovation Foundation
‘Government business secretary John Hutton’s announcement that Britain could have one wind turbine every half-mile along the nation’s coastline by 2020 is a terrorist’s dream come true. For, if we are to become so reliant upon this isolated energy generation, there is no way to protect them.’
He does go on to make some slightly better points but this just caught my eyes as a really spurious use of the threat of terrorism to argue the case against something he doesn’t like.
To use it as the opening argument of his correspondence really does smack of desperation as well.
As for the WIF, a quick google shows that the only person who really talks up WIF is David Hill. The few others that discuss it either believe it is a hoax or a well meaning, but ultimately flawed organization.
