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More than most *people* or more than most *rubbish disc jockeys* ?

yes.. i’ve seen scotty play…and i stand by my first comment. he obviously doesn’t know THAT much about music, and certainly not ‘more than most’.

> and that’s before you even have to listen to the crappy announcers who wouldn’t know real music, even if it came out as an annoying avertisement on their own station!

Scotty has been writing music & playing in bands for years, he’s quite a good guitarist. He’s also a very strong supporter of local music (local Australian & local Canberran). Like the show or not, fact is he knows more about music than most.

Speaking of the army of people out there cleaning up the event – sounds like a good thing to send a few of our regular Court goers to as Community service. Shoudl be more of it. Keep the place cleaner too.

As for Sky fire – missed it, didn’t see the traffic although was a big night out on the town. The street sweepers in the morning in Civic do a fantastic job. Look at it about 5am and its shite 2 hours later you wouldnt recognise it.

Lets be honest – Scotty and Nige are far better than any other DJ’s Canberra has (which isn’t many).
They’re not so PC as all the others that have been on. At least they stretch the boundaries slightly further than the previous morning folk. It’s not all sugar coated blah like lets-raise-money-for-some-guy-that-can’t-afford-to-by-a-tree-house-for-his-kids, while playing feel good music in the background. That’s ok once in a while but all the time – yuk I OD on the sugar. Can anyone remember Marty and Erica or even the 106.3 folk – I vomit a little just thinking about them!!!

lol @ les.

happy to be told i’m dreaming, but didn’t the skyfire thing sued to happen on sunday nights??

i used to cycle to event, was oftne home before much the taffic even began (then lived ainslie) only way to fly – as it were…

ant – given the “stupid boring silly games and promotions and other commercial radio crap” likely take up 75% of the talk time, I don’t think it matters how good they are. 😉

les – Of course there was going to be junk. 130,000 people were there. Yeah yeah, put it in a bin – every bin I saw was over flowing. Is it too much to expect people to take their own rubbish? Unfortunately, it is (people are lazy) – and that should come as no surprise to you or the army of cleaners or planners. Hence why they had an army of cleaners organisers.

I was embarrassed to be a canberran wandering through commonwealth park on sunday though. Seriously – what type of bogans head to skyfire? I’ve never seen such a dump… you could barely see the grass for all the bottles, cans and plastic. There were armies of cleaners but there’s no way they could get it cleaned in one day. Especially around easter there are heaps of tourists around here – what a hideous display. Who ever organised it should be embarrassed really.

Hate to say this, but I quite enjoy Scotty and Nigel on the morning radio. They seem to have the odd clue, and are sometimes rather funny. I normally hate commercial radio announcers (those two on 106 at the same time are bloody horrible), but barring the stupid boring silly games and promotions and other commercial radio crap, scotty and nige are surprisingly good.

The fact that you need to pay a price by listening to their tripe is a poor sign for them, no? 😉

Look, the last time I was at Skyfire (prior to this one) I was in 104’s function area as a guest of 104 management. All of the people are great, and they take pride in the success of the event. I’m sure “Scotty” and “Nige” are top blokes off the mic – but they’re complete morons on the radio.

Scotty and Nige is the price of admission. Sorry.

..hence i don’t go to skyfire. plus families bite.

the quality of 104 and 106 for that matter is SO sh*t. and that’s before you even have to listen to the crappy announcers who wouldn’t know real music, even if it came out as an annoying avertisement on their own station!

Sorry, they’re on Coma FM – that’s enough for me.

Ahh Skyfire, how many times can they run the same event and sell it a different way??? You’d swear by the attendance that Canberra has NEVER seen fireworks before.

Give Scotty and Nige a break though, they’re not bad blokes, and it’s not an easy job…

They’re definately the best thing that’s been on 104 in quite a while…

Completely forgot it was on until I hit that insane traffic jam on commonwealth ave bridge, trying to head across to the southside around 7pm. Didn’t help that nobody knew the left lane was closed until they actually reached the traffic cones blocking it off, causing a lot of confused merging/barging in/lane struggles. Cops galore directing traffic, but plenty of people running across the road in front of hordes of frustrated drivers with lead foots still…

We didnt have any problems getting in or out and we were over the Commonwealth Place side. I thought the display was good, as was the soundtrack. But I agree with you Cameron, the DJs from 104.7 are dead set wankers. At least in the mornings I dont have to listen to Scotty and Nige and their C-rap team, at Skyfire you have no choice.

I didn’t go to Skyfire, but saw pictures of the fireworks. I did go to Civic for NYE, and did see the fireworks. The pictures of the Skyfire fireworks look good. Much better than the NYE spaz effort. As you would expect.

I forgot it was on! Bah. Imagine traffic out was a nightmare, so trick would be to sit around and watch teh fights. I remember in years gone by you’d see people getting up and humping their deckchairs and blankets off twoards the carpark, before it’d finished! Seemed a bit pointless.

Traffic is rubbish everywhere – not surprising when there’s 100,000+ around the lake. The group I was with simply hung around for half an hour after the display – traffic was nonexistent when we left.

Visitor from Sydney was impressed – and they’ve seen some big displays there.
Better than our recent NYE fireworks I thought. Good show.
Don’t think I’ll go over Commonwealth Place again though – after traffic is far worse than the northside.

I could hear it from my house, but was the wrong side of Black Mt to see anything. And our cat didn’t seem bothered at all…