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From left: 2FM DJ Dave Fanning and E! host Ryan Seacrest

Yesterday.

Ahead of the Oscars, Dave Fanning appeared on The Marian Finucane Show on RTÉ Radio One to give his movie predictions.

Matters soon moved to the #MeToo movement.

Dave Fanning: “…The gowns and skirts have taken over have taken over. They’re much more important

…One of the guys who normally asks that question [‘What are you wearing?) the one we see on our side of the world is on E! channel and it’s Ryan Seacrest and hes the biggest in America  of all that  thing and, up to yesterday,  he wasn’t going to be allowed do it because he’s a victim, once again, of all the #MeToo thing as well.

He’s got this stylist [The alleged victim is in fact, a woman, single mother Suzie Hardy] who says that for seven years he’s been abused on some level [The claims include several acts of ‘unwanted sexual aggression’ against the E! presenter including grabbing Ms Hardy’s vagina]  for so there are a lot of victims out there and, in fast,  it’s going to change the Oscars tonight in certain ways.”

Marian Finucane: “Do you think?:

Fanning: “Well, I’ll tell you like, what do you call him? Casey Affleck…”

Finucane: “Yeah?”

Fanning: “…who has been accused of things before this supposed movement happened in the last while by Tamara Burke or Tamanya Burke, is that her name?  [It’s Tarana Burke] who started the whole thing and who by the way doesn’t care tonight whether people wear black, yellow, orange or red because the point was made at the Golden Globes.

But the point is that he (Casey Affleck)…normally  every year the best actor from last year gives the best actress award and vice versa and all the rest.. Well he won it last year for Manchester by the Sea and he won’t be there tonight. he will not be presenting Best Actor…Actress Oscar tonight.”

Finucane: “He was uninvited?”

Fanning: “I think he kind of might have uninvited himself. There’s a lot of that kind of thing. Like I mean even this week, Jeffrey Tambor who is a huge actor from Transperant on TV and that, he’s in trouble as well. He won’t be playing in the next series of Transparent if there is one at all, he’s been sacked or stepped down and you’ll know him from a thousand things in the past…”

Finucane: “Because you’ve been following the film industry for ever, you approve of this don’t you?”

Fanning: “Of what?”

Finucane: “Of the whole movement?”

Fanning: “I thought you meant approve of the Oscars. I don’t give a damn about the Oscars but it’s great fun. Well, yeah, the thing about it is. I’ll give you an example. Kylie Jenner, who like  is famous for being nothing, famous for being famous or whatever and the only reason all that family, there Kardashians, is actually so famous is because their father was a lawyer in the OJ Simpson trial and something happened in ’97 but we’ll put your family on TV and that.

Like you can give out about influencers, you can give out about people who are important and shouldn’t be important or whatever and a lot of people don’t like this backslapping stuff that goes on at the Oscars etcetera. I mean, she did a tweet last week about Snapschat about ‘ooh, I don’t like Snapschat“. One point four billion was wiped off the price of Snapchat the next day.”

Finucane: Really?

Fanning: “So don’t take away from whatever you might think about influencers they really do have . So the Hollowood people while they shouldn’t they really do have so when they do something or say something I do think it’s possible that corporate America might change the way it has been going on, the factories might change the way their going on and the film industry because it is a huge powerful movement…OK you throw out the baby with the bathwater in some cases.”

Finucane: Yeah

Fanning: “Some people will go ‘wait a minute, why am i getting it? or whatever but actually a pretty damn fine thing and I’m not against it. I think it’s about time.”

Neat, man.

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Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof spoke to Dave Fanning this morning on RTÉ Radio One, ahead of his performance with the Boomtown Rats at Electric Picnic this weekend.

After discussing music, the conversation turned towards refugees.

Dave Fanning: “Back in the Eighties, obviously everybody knows you saw [BBC’s] Michael Buerk on the television, you realised something had to be done, you jumped out of your seat and said, ‘we gotta do something’ and you did Band Aid, Live Aid, and the history is all there. And I’m reading from the headlines in just this morning’s paper, I got two here, the Irish Independent, a drowned toddler, ‘the harrowing symbol of a migrant crisis’ and The Guardian, ‘the shocking cruel reality of Europe’s refugee crisis’. Like I mean in terms of just, do you just look upon that as a dad or look upon that as maybe something you could do or something you’ve done before that you can do again or what way do you see it?”

Bob Geldof: “I look at it with profound shame and a monstrous betrayal of who we are and what we wish to be. That’s how I look at it. We are in the moment, currently now, a moment that will be discussed and impacted upon in 300 years time, a fundamental shift in the way the world has worked for the last say 600 years. Power has been sucked out of the West and moved East; technology, once it met money, was multiplied by human greed, collapsed the world economy. If there’s a new economy there needs to be a new politics, there isn’t and it’s a failure of that new politics that led to this fucking…sorry…this disgrace, this absolute sickening disgrace. And late last night, you know, I couldn’t get my head around this so, at about 12.30am I started banging out this piece and I said, ‘ok, let’s take on now, let’s put our money where our mouth is’, so I am prepared. I’m lucky, I’ve got a place in Kent, I’ve got a flat in London. Me and Jan would be prepared to take three families immediately in our place in Kent and a family in our flat in London immediately and put them up until such time that they can get going and they can get a perch on the future. I cannot stand what’s happening. I can’t stand what it does to us. I’ve known and you’ve known and everyone listening knows the bollix we talk about our values are complete nonsense. You know, once it comes home to roost you know, we deny those values, betray ourselves but those values are correct and it happens time and time and time again. So we are better than this, we genuinely are I don’t want to drag you back to the [Boomtown] Rats but, you know, that night on the Late Late where Bono and Gavin Friday were looking at the show and went, ‘what’s this’ and you know Joe O’Connor and various others were going, ‘yes, yes’. You know the point about Ireland at that point, I say to Gay Byrne, is that I always viewed Ireland as a sort of deep-diving whale that every Friday night it was allowed to come up and vent for two hours and then go back down again, get pushed back down again and in those two hours you saw an elegance, an intellectualism, a humanity, a maturity, that wasn’t allowed by the powers-that-be then and eventually of course it made itself known and felt. The same is true now. You know I do understand, of course I understand, the economics and the politics, ‘ah yeah but if we let some more in, we’ll…’ All right. All right. I do understand when [British Prime Minister David] Cameron says the root cause of this must be addressed. Yes it must but we are in a period of fundamental shift.”

“Twelve years ago, I was in Lampadusa, the island where first, you know the people were arriving from North Africa and I was with the Mayor and we went to a refugee camp because he told me every morning he woke up to the sight of men, women and children dead on the rocks around Lampadusa. So I started talking about this. Of course the Daily Mail, you know, were scathing and derogatory and saying, ‘Geldof, you know, doesn’t know what he’s talking about’.

They rang the mayor of Lampadusa and he denied he ever met me but it was happening then because when people are poor, they move. I am an economic migrant, Britain accepted me and let me got on with it. I couldn’t do it in Ireland which made me very bitter about Ireland but made me eternally grateful to the British people for saying, ‘Get on with it, dude’. And I did. The same thing is true of thousands of Irish, millions, in America, Australia, Britain, everywhere else, this is happening again except it’s people fleeing war not famine and economic hardship, that will increase as the environment decays. The environment makes people move from one area of a resource to another. It’s happening and has happened all over Africa. For 40 years, Dave, 30 years I’ve been dealing with refugees. Last year I was in the board of Somalia and Ethiopia like with the refugees from the Somalian war – all of this is happening now. We must have the politics and the humanity to deal with it. It makes me sick and a concert won’t do it.”

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Boomtown Rats at Electric Picnic