You had to be there

Controversial, yet hugely popular, the DJ pulls in more than seven million listeners to his Radio 1 Breakfast Show, but has never come close to achieving the same success on TV.

He’s been pretty much ever-present on our screens this week though as the new series of Chris Moyles’s Quiz Night was preceded by the first live transmission, via the red button, of his radio show, which was touring the UK as part of the station’s Access All Areas week.

A friend and I sat in on the show at Portsmouth’s New Theatre Royal on Monday and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

We cheered at the top of our voices at every mention of Southampton, much to the disgust of most of the remainder of the 400-strong audience.

We laughed at the bloopers from surprise guests The Saturdays, chuckled as Chris and ‘Comedy’ Dave Vitty read out our names in the Duck Register and groaned as two members of the audience failed spectacularly in the Car Park Catchphrase while sat astride two ride-on children’s cars.

We had a great time and it wasn’t until I’d listened to the remainder of the week’s broadcasts that it dawned on me that it was rather more fun for the live audience than it was for the seven million listening in their cars, their homes or their offices.

Hearing the tour from Darlington yesterday morning while I jogged on the treadmill, I had the feeling of listening in on someone else’s party.

Perhaps merging radio and TV is not such a good idea after all. Like him as I do, maybe Moyles really does only have a face for radio.

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