Woah
this is fun, i can remember when Dave Pearce used to play on Radio London.
Then he went to Kiss
Then like a lot of Kiss dj's, Judge Jules, Danny Rampling etc, he got poached by big bad Radio 1.
The scandal used to be that he could't mix and used to have a 'friend' who mixed all the tunes he picked (allegedly).
Fact is Big Daves gone the route of most of the Radio One djs since the year dot.
Once they start earning the money they have to toe that corporate line that your licence fee pays for, they make extra by personal appearances and running their own nights.
At that point they have to appeal to the masses and that's easily digestable 'whatevers the most popular at the time' music.
Point of fact, Judge Jules, wicked funky sets and used to play at the original warehouse parties ala Norman Jay.
Won't even pay for the deposit on his next Porsche, so, play whats popular, play to the masses, use Radio One as a vehicle to promote himself and his own tunes, and the genre that's paying his mortgage.
I'm so bored now even with Pete Tong, every week, same old usual suspects, same old bodies, bloody hip hop etc, and he's still A+R for London Records, so guess which side his bread is buttered!!
And that's all i've got to say.