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Brian Harvey Radio 1 remarks “absurd and offensive”, say BBC
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 28 January 2015
To be fair, they’d probably rather not have been asked to comment at all, but comment they have at the NME’s request, and the BBC’s opinion of former East 17 member Brian Harvey’s recent comments on their top pop radio channel? “These comments are clearly absurd and offensive”.
To recap, initially beneath of video of Rae Morris doing an East 17 cover on Radio 1’s ‘Live Lounge’, and subsequently on Twitter, Harvey wrote last weekend: “You will play anyone else as long as it’s not me eh. Well done Rae Morris, but Radio 1 you suck fucking arse you bunch of wankers. Everyone is scared to tell you but I’m not. You fucking paedo protecting, shit music playing, corporate wankstain fuck heads. Fuck you. Fuck your radio station. Fuck your staff. Stick your shitty commercial poo bag station up your peado protecting arse”.
To be fair, in return, to Harvey, while his remarks may have been a little “offensive”, his mission was clearly to “offend”, so that’s hardly a criticism.
As for “absurd”, well, his comments were mainly opinion surely? Assuming the “arse sucking” and “wanker” allegations were intended to be metaphorical, and the big bad ‘c’ word near the end was meant to imply Radio 1 is ‘commercial’ in style rather than status. OK, the “paedo protecting” bit is contentious and unproven, but it’s not an especially new allegation in the historic sense.
And I know for a fact that there’s at least two corporate wankstain fuck heads still working within the Corporation, so his use of the plural in that regard certainly wasn’t absurd. Though I’ll concede that it would indeed be more or less impossible to stick a shitty commercial poo bag station up any kind of arse, let alone one busy protecting peados.
But it’s possible I’m giving all this rather more consideration than was actually required. I’m mainly killing time really, while we await Harvey’s response to the BBC’s response, which I reckon will be YouTube gold. In fact, there’s an entire BBC Three series in all this. Or there would be if the wankstain fuck heads at the Beeb weren’t busy all but killing the channel off.
