WedNov08 Holy Fuck...

2006-11-08T03:09:00.000Z

Spotted this restaurant in China Town in London while we were off on holidays a few weeks back. Just found it on my camera now, so thought I'd share.

Mess around with the words.

Ray

TuesNov07 It's-A-Me...

2006-11-07T15:01:00.000Z

Mario!

SunNov05 The Flute Dancing Video...

2006-11-06T00:01:00.000Z

See Foleyblast.bebo.com

Now!!!

Ray

SatOct28 FUCK THIS!

2006-10-28T01:18:00.000+01:00

THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I'VE ATTEMPTED UPDATING THIS STUPID FUCKING BLOG.

The first two timesI wrote an essay and the publishing failed, so if you're here to see what I've written, sorry, but tough luck. Those pricks at google who own blogger.com and Picasa2 made a bollocks of my updating this weekend. And I wouldn't mind, but it was really good too. All pictures and jokes, and about the new show, but their site is shit so it's forever lost in cyberspace. Fuckers.

Yes, I'm angry.

Ray

TuesOct24 Pics of Chicks...

2006-10-24T16:12:00.000+01:00

Pics from Friday night's radio awards show. Here's that photo of me & the lads from the band. Bear in mind I'm over 6'3" - so imagine how tall this pair are:

As you can see, I was a bit tipsy:

Laura and Jo make one kinky couple. They didn't even charge me for the photo:

While I get a good look at Mary's kinky couple. She charged me for the photo.

God, I love girls.

And I'm leaving the show. More later.

Ray

SunOct22 Two Fun Weeks...

2006-10-23T03:04:00.000+01:00

Well, that was a good couple of weeks off! I was off and home for the first week's holidays and then we went to London for a few days last week. We went to The Tower of London and The London Eye. Boring! It didn't go fast or anything and no-one fell off.

Then on Friday it was the PPI Radio Awards 2006. Jeez - that year went fast, didn't it? No, didn't win. Again. Had a load of great laughs even though some RTÉ chick was pig ignorant to me just as I arrived and they didn't have any extra cabbage at the dinner. I formed a boyband with the bloke who everyone fancies from the Blizzards (no, they don't work in radio) and the leg-end Dan Hegarty from 2FM. I was the singer (obviously) the Blizzards dude was the dancer and Dan was there to look pretty. We could've made it too. I have a photo somewhere.

Had a great time taking the piss out of one station that COMPLETELY LOST THE FUCKIN HEAD screaming and shouting when their station name was either mentioned or shown on screen. Basically, there are a load of awards being given out after a shortlist of nominees is announced. Each nominee is mentioned with their name on the big screen, and each station - which would have a couple of tables each (this station had 42 tables, I think) - would give a cheer of support as their name is read. These eejits FLIPPED THE FUCK OUT!!! "OH MY GOD!!! YEAH!!! I WORK THERE!!! AAAAGH!!! WOOOOHOOO!!!" Their table was next to ours so I joined in every time. They didn't like it. I did.

The reason one must take the piss out of this sort of thing is because a radio station is just like any other place of work. You go there, you do your job and have a laugh as much as you can (and there certainly is more of a chance of having one in a radio station) but you go home and have a life afterward. Not everyone likes all of their co-workers, not everyone has a good working relationship with their boss. Not everyone is über-excited about being there. It's just where you work. So they were just being stupid.

It is possible, of course, that everyone in this particular station SCREAM LIKE BLITHERING IDIOTS whenever they see their station name in writing. Which is probably a pain in the tits for the receptionist every morning.

So, I got home at five on Saturday morning. And got engaged on Saturday night. No, not to JP.

Speaking of whom, he's off for an extra week - in Spain playing golf. No, I'm not joking.

Ray

TuesOct10 Hei. Hvordan er De?

2006-10-10T10:08:00.000+01:00

Who exactly is this Ray Foley dude who calls hisself The Nation's Favourite Radio Presenter? Ahh, they mean a small nation of deaf elves off the west coast of Norway do they? That nation! To both citizens, I say: "Hei. Hvordan er De?" Not that they can hear me.

I'm in Tuam on 27th & 28th of this month if you're about:

And I'll be in Castlebar the same weekend - more details to follow...

Ray

MonOct09 Offoffoffoffoffoffoffoffoffoffoff!

2006-10-09T21:19:00.000+01:00

We're off.

But we're thinking of you. Honest.

And we'll be back in full fighting form from Sunday night, October 22nd.

In the meantime, why not enjoy the Blast with Derek Flood all this week, or Tim Kelly next week? Or a podblast, perhaps? Exclusive new internet-only audio available this week! See iTunes Music Store and do a search for PodBlast. It's free!

Later

Ray

SunOct01 Salidas...

2006-10-01T23:23:00.000+01:00

The only Spanish word we know other than ethethethethethe (is that even a word?) is salida. We say it on the show all the time.

So what does it mean?

You learn a new thing every day.

Ray

ThurSept28 As Freddie Mercury Once Sang...

2006-09-28T11:49:00.000+01:00

BARCELOLONAAAAAAAA!!

We're in Spain eth eth eth eth - lovely Microsoft took us over to play games for two days at X06.

JP and a sexy Spanish babe. He didn't.

Games!

JP and a cock. His name's Jonathan.

Gears of War is out soon on Xbox 360. It's one of the best games I've ever played. More on this to come...

Back in Ireland today, back on the radio Sunday night from 10!

Later

Ray

FriSept22 Get Online...

2006-09-22T02:22:00.000+01:00

Well, you already are. Hey, while you're here, why not check out the podblast, which is downloadable from iTunes - you can find the full how-to here.

In the latest episode, JP and I talk about... well, fuck all. It's 15 minutes of us trying to think of something to say.

And once you're done doing that, see SecondLife.com - the site I was telling you about in my last post. It's a life-sucking addiction. It's great.

Thanks a million for the birthday wishes yesterday. I got: a t-shirt; a jumper; a watch; a putter set; a steamer; a magazine; a bottle of whiskey; a tin of PAL dog food; a clay pigeon-shooting voucher and three cards. My tightarse brother still has to give me a present.

Finally, all the best to Today FM's earliest bird, who's marrying her bloke today. Happy Wedding, AM Kelly!

Have a good weekend.

Ray

WedSept20 What Is He Wearing?

2006-09-20T16:35:00.000+01:00

Here I am: making the effort as promised.

Jumping on bandwagon number one, if you haven't seen it yet, check out Johnny Logan and Kaye Styles, with the cover version of Logan's Eurovision classic, "Hold Me Now". I want a white leather tracksuit.

And the second bandwagon is Second Life. I'm sure you've heard the hype about this over the past few days - it's all I've heard since I woke up this morning. Adelle from The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show team emailed me and hooked me up, and it's quite bloody addictive!

Forget your Bebo and MySpace: Second Life is the future. In fact, it's pobably too much like the future. You need a good, solid broadband connection for it though. I still don't really get it yet, but I'm working on it.

Ray

MonSept18 Live!!! Again!!!

2006-09-18T13:33:00.000+01:00

Hi to everyone who showed up online to kick our asses on Call of Duty 2 on Friday night:

We were pretty bad.

And I'm delighted to say: WE'RE BACK ON THE BLAST FROM 10PM TONIGHT!!! AND NO MORE FLIPPIN' FILLING-IN! (apart from one more day, then I'm done).

Ray

SunSept10 LIVE!!!

2006-09-10T15:22:00.000+01:00

Check dis out:

The Blast! presenters Ray Foley and JP from Today FM will be taking time out to pit their gaming skills against Xbox® Live™ members and Today FM listeners on Call of Duty 2.

Ray & JP will be chatting and playing exclusively online with Xbox Live gamers on Friday, 15^th September between 7pm and 9pm from the Xbox Live Gaming Centre in South William Street, Dublin 2.

All Xbox Live members need to do to pitch their skills against Ray & JP is:

1. Sign into Xbox Live

2. Add Ray Foley’s and JP’s Gamertags to your friends list:

Ray Foley

jpblast

3. After that, gamers just need to go onto Xbox Live Friday, 15^th September from 7pm – 9pm to check if they have been invited to join in a game and if they have then… The Game With Fame is on!

Sat02Sept Crazy...

2006-09-02T05:08:00.000+01:00

From Bebo, CrazylilBridie writes:

Brid O Dwyer Update ur blog at rayfoley.net....im sick of lookin at ur eye............

Job done!

Once I'm back on the Blast properly, I'll give this site a kick in the arse, and maybe even a makeover! Excited? No, didn't think so.

I'm sick by the way. Can't sleep: I'm all sweaty and have a killer headache. That's why I'm on here at five in the morning. Care? No, didn't think so.

I've been reading this. It's good.

I've been watching this (brilliant - it's on Bravo or you can download it).

I've been playing this, this, and this.

I've been replying to this.

And I've been eating loads of this. Except not Heinz. You can get it in tesco and put it in the microwave. I feel so sick.

Later

Ray

WedAug23 Demon Eye...

2006-08-23T16:10:00.000+01:00

My right eye is not-so-right:

Ew!

Ray

WedAug16 Bills, Bills, Bills...

2006-08-16T15:09:00.000+01:00

I saved €97.63 on my mobile phone bill this month! Changed over to a new tariff, spend all my free time making calls, and still saved nearly a hundred squids. Sweet!

Speaking of paying the bills, Rick clarifies 2FM's position with regard to where the money comes from. You'll remember my earlier post where I wish I worked in RTÉ, just so I can have an extra pair of hands to write my blog for me. I did actually know 2FM makes enough money to run itself and my licence fee doesn't go toward Gerry Ryan's bacon butty's or Marty Whelan's step classes. I was just bitching for the sake of it.

Although it's nice to know you're reading here, Richard. Unless you get one of your minions to read it for you and give you notes. That's N.O.T.E.S. dear. Two sugars please.

Joking!

I don't take sugar.

Ray

ThurAug10 Phone Pics...

2006-08-10T09:33:00.000+01:00

This exciting set of images was trapped in my phone (Nokia 6230i), but now they're free! Free to roam the informationsuperhighway forever more!

An arty ad for Henieken:

JP auditions for a George A. Romero flick:

Me. Or is that Justin Timberlake? Yeah, it's just Justin.

The madra.

Adios.

Ray

WedAug09 Taxpayer's Money...

2006-08-10T01:52:00.000+01:00

I see RTÉ are spoiling their DJ's with far too many staff with far too much time on their hands. You can see for yourself on Rick O'Shea's blog, where he has some RTÉ minion writing his blog for him now! So now you know where the tax dollars are going, floks. The bloody Rick O'Shea weblog, that's where.

How cushy is that? If I asked Today FM for a lackey to do my blog for me I'd be asked two questions:

What's a blog?
What's a blog?

Then I'd be told to fuck right off. JP? Fuck's sake, he can't even write his own name, let alone a blog entry.

Oh, I wish I worked in RTÉ.

That's all I have to say.

Ray

SunAug06 Back Online...

2006-08-06T15:22:00.000+01:00

... and the livin' is easy!

So, here I am, back online and better late than never. There's been some shit going on for the past couple of weeks not to mention the filling-in for other people, etc, etc - anyway, I'm back now and fully committed to the website again.

It's fucking August already! That means September's only a few weeks away, and so is school and college! Bollicks! I was thinking of going back to college myself this year (hey, quit laughing there at the back) to study History (I said quit the laughing) but I couldnt be arsed. I wouldn't mind doing something, but I don't want to do a four-year degree again. Sure, my first one took me six years to do. So no college for me. For now.

Hi to the lovely guys on boards.ie again. I had a look over at their radio board, where I'm called a whole range of expletives. Limerickman asks an innocent enough question, to which the reply is all dicussion about the Blast is banned! BANNED I tell you! I couldn't be happier.

Anyway, he wants to know if the PodBlast is back, and yes - yes it is! Two new episodes are online on iTunes for you to "enjoy"." You can get episodes 10 and 11 now! Click here for more info on the iTunes magic. In episode 11, you can hear us talk about this:

and this:

What an eejit. Download the PodBlast for more.

Anyway, I'll be updating a little more regularly from now on...

Ray

SunAug06 One-Liners...

2006-08-06T10:25:00.000+01:00

Moz emails:

I'm so hungry I'd eat a small child

She had a face on her like a well slapped arse

Your' as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit

My mouth's as dry as a nuns crack

He thinks manual labour is a Spanish musician

As funny as a burning orphanage

He's so camp, he shites tent pegs

I'm as sick as a plane to Lourdes

I feel like a boiled sh1te (hungover)

(when leaving) I'm off like a debs dress

As busy as the dalkey dole office

Sweatin' like a paedophile in a Barney suit

As tight as a nun's knickers

I'm so horny I'd get up on the crack of dawn

I'd crawl a million miles across broken glass to kiss the exhaust of the van

That took her dirty knickers to the laundry.

Up and down like a hoor's knickers

No show pony but would do for a ride around the house

Did your mother find out who your father is yet?

What would ye expect from a pig but a grunt

I left her with a face like a painters radio

A mickey the size of a double-value can of Right Guard

Jaysus, she could breastfeed a crèche

As fit as a butcher's dog

She ' s got more chins than a Chinese phone book

Not even the tide would take her out

Mother Teresa wouldn 't kiss her

Daz wouldn't shift her

Des Kelly wouldn't lay her

A sniper wouldn't take her out

Jaysus, ya wouldn't ride her into battle

If I'd a bag of bruised willies I wouldn't give her one

She has a face on her like a bulldog that's just licked p*ss off a nettle

She wouldn't get a kick in a stampede

She had a f@nny like a badly packed kebab

If I'd a garden full of mickeys I wouldn't let her look over the wall

TuesJuly25 Hoff His Rocker...

2006-07-25T10:51:00.000+01:00

Just saw the most bizarre music video online:

Check it out here.

Ray

SunJuly23 Back In The Saddle...

2006-07-23T10:18:00.000+01:00

After four weeks off filling-in for Ray, Tony and Iano, we're back on air tonight from 10!

But first:

They were selling vibrators in the jacks. In the jacks!

Giant seagulls in Howth.

Some burds, wha? Wha??

Gig in the TF, Castlebar last weekend - where one dude got a little too close to the DJ box...

And see the duck in the picture below? She's nesting three stories up, outside the office window of the boss of Universal Music. Dave says she's there every year, and she and her ducklings walk four streets through busy Dublin traffic to the pond in St Stephen's Green. The office is next to the DIT on Aungier St in Dublin. Mad or what?

I'm just proving I've had a life over the past four weeks.

Now it's back to nights. And no life.

Sniff.

Talk at 10pm! Man, I'm looking forward to coming home!

Ray

SatJuly22 In The Doghouse...

2006-07-22T22:05:00.000+01:00

Been busy all week with the new arrival:

Her name's Izzy and she's the dumbest, craziest, lovliest ball of fur ever.

The funniest pic below was when her yelping brought me to the kitchen, to find she'd got her head stuck down behind the table leg. Maybe it was a tad cruel to take the picture before freeing her, but it was just so damn funny.

You can see, she's giving me a dirty look.

FriJuly21 Bore-ya Wit Flora...

2006-07-21T19:12:00.000+01:00

Aren't Flora taking the piss?

As it is, their marketing has me in a state with worry that I'll have a heart-attack or stroke if I don't eat it, but it's likely I'll have a heart-attack brought on by stress from worry that I'm not eating the right type of Flora.

And don't get me started on the Flora frying spray oil.

SunJuly09 Oxegen Part 3: The Grub

2006-07-09T21:18:00.000+01:00

So I'm back from what looked set to be the better of the two Oxegen nights and pissed off about it - because I'm on for Ian Dempsey tomorrow morning. Managed to catch some Bell X1, Manu Chao and Kooks before I left this afternoon though.

The food was mighty again this year, with two noodle bars and the usual lovely Welsh lamb burgers to be enjoyed.

And I notice Haribo

Are targeting a more adult audience these days:

In the "meeja" area, we could enjoy a temporary Hard Rock Cafe structure, where JP had a cheeseburger:

And managed to meet his hero:

Tom's actually calling security.

Talk tomorrow morning 7am.

Fuck, that's early.

Ray

SunJuly09 Oxegen Part 2: The Weather

2006-07-09T21:03:00.000+01:00

Although the news kept saying things like "it may be pouring, but that hasn't dampened the spirits here at Oxegen" they lied. The mood was as foul as the shite weather. Not only was it raining, but there was a wind blowing that'd cut through you.

JP's nipples were so hard you could cut glass with them it was that cold.

So I bought the last available rain poncho.

Looks good, eh?

The daft thing was that EVERYONE, yes EVERYONE felt the need to tell me it was a girl's poncho. Yes, I knew that. But it was pissing rain. And I was dry. A big dry girl.

SunJuly09 Oxegen Part 1: The Ladies

2006-07-09T20:59:00.000+01:00

I haunted the media room of Oxegen for the day on Saturday, since it was pissing rain and the foxy ladies of MCD were there:

They're like Charlie's Angels - only they don't kill people or work for someone called Charlie.

FriJune30 "When He Chooses To Be..."

2006-06-29T23:53:00.000+01:00

Kind words from one Richard O'Shea in interview here. Of course, I always choose to be, so I'm always great. No smiley face, because I'm not kidding.

It's pishing rain in Dublin tonight, and there's a big barbeque piss-up planned for tomorrow evening which might be a washout - but sure, as long as the beer's on tap I'm there.

I'm doing my last day on the Ray D'arcy show tomorrow. It's been great craic, but I'll be glad to be finished. It's the closest thing I've done to hard work in about four years. Just to update you on the next few weeks, there have been some changes.

Next week (3-7 July) I'm on for Tony Fenton 12-2pm

Then the next two weeks (10-21 July) I'm on breakfast for Iano.

Then it's back home on nights from Sunday night, the 23rd July.

Went to Take That on Wednesday night. May have had one drink too many, but it was a brilliant show. Click on the pics for bigger images.

Of course, it's a pain in the balls when you spend two hours trying to get a fucking taxi in Dublin:

It's absolutely unbelieveable. The biggest event in the city is on, and taxi drivers avoid the area like the plague. Duh! God bless you Cork, Limerick, Galway and every other township beyond the pale: you don't know you're born.

later

Ray

ThurJune29 Helena!

2006-06-29T12:15:00.000+01:00

Met Helena Christensen today. As you do.

She's very cool.

She also has her hand on my ass.

Ray

ThurJune 22 Test The Nation...

2006-06-23T01:13:00.000+01:00

Go take a look at the new flash on me Bebo.

Not a big footie fan as you know, but Jesus - Ronaldinho is just amazingly talented. The video is accompanied by a tune I rather like too: Fort Minor - Remember The Name

This girl was on holidays and I'm sorry I didn't have my proper digital camera with me for the pics, becasue she looks EXACTLY like Miriam O'Callaghan, her off RTE telly.

She's actually quite a bit younger than Miriam in person, but to look at her, she's the spit. IS it rude to sit next to someone's table and take a picture of them?

Finally: no show for 3 weeks! Very friggin' sorry about this. Floody will as usual cover superbly as I go daytime again (lord help us).

26th June - week filling in for Ray D'arcy

3rd July - week filling in for Ian Dempsey

8th & 9th July - OXEGEN!!!

10th July - week filling in for Tony Fenton

I think I'm now officially the fill-in bitch. So I'll hopefully be back with you on Sunday 16th July. We'll have some cool podcasting stuff for you too while we're off, so keep checking it on iTunes, and I'll be here on rayfoley.net too.

Here comes the weekend...

Ray

TueJune20 Paparazzi...

2006-06-21T02:52:00.000+01:00

Finally got the Samsung phone to give up the photos I've taken over the past couple of months, though I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed with the quality of them compared to the Nokia.

Anyway, here's my brother in Eason's, where he's made a new friend:

Taken on holiday, I had the feeling something was familiar about this book, but I have no idea what...

Deep breaths, Rick.

And finally, in Castlebar on Friday night a guy called Mouse showed me his nubbin:

Yes, that's a wee baby thumb growing out of his proper thumb - he calls it his rampant rabbit.

See his website here.

Tomorrow: pics of a girl in Lanzarote who looks EXACTLY like Miriam O'Callaghan. Exciting stuff you'll agree.

Back on air, 10pm.

Ray

MonJune19 Very Board Now...

2006-06-19T14:08:00.000+01:00

Well, boards has whipped itself up into a frenzy over my reply to them.

What have they said?

Well, they've slagged my hair. They've asked who the hell I am (which is fair enough).

They've said they'll beat me up.

And my favourite: they say I'm gay.

Brilliant!

I did expect better, but there you go. I notice that most of the people in this tizzy are moderators, the ones I have most of an issue with.

If you're a regular user of boards who thinks I criticised you, then think again. I think boards is a brilliant website, which I hugely enjoy reading myself. But there are always a few who'll spoil the experience, and those few are the ones I hoped to address in my last post. It seems I managed that.

Stick a fork in me: I'm done. You'll hear no more from me on this subject.

Okay, I'm off to buy some makeup.

Ray

SunJune18 Look At Me! I'm Flying!

2006-06-19T02:03:00.000+01:00

What a jetsetter I am: flew down to knock airport on Friday for one of the most fun DJ nights I've ever done. Actually, scrap that - for the most fun DJ night I've ever done - in the TF Royal Theatre Castlebar.

Went drinking with the ever-so-less-famous Nikki Hayes (who I kept calling Nikki Brennan) afterward, and pouted like this all night:

Loads of pictures are in my phone somewhere, but they won't come out when I shake it. Went home to Ballina on Saturday and flew up to Dublin from Sligo earlier:

Would you call a baby hand buggage? Cold!

Later

Ray

SunJune18 Boardom...

2006-06-19T00:26:00.000+01:00

Apologies for the lack of updatery, folks. It's just I've been waging my own private war with the cretins of boards.ie. Yes, yes: I ought to ignore the ill-thought-out ramblings of nerds holed up in their mam's darkened front rooms. I ought to be the better man, turn the other cheek, get a life. I am the one with the job, after all. But here we go.

It's not that people calling me a cnut particularly bothers me. Believe it or not, I'm quite used to that at this stage. No, it was the idiocy of the people charged with keeping things clean - the moderators - that bothered me. Yes, I'm rising to it, but it's got me up on the soap-box now, so I'll go on.

Basically, a girl listener visited boards to tell them about the show - in the name of the feature we used to have "Don't tell a friend - tell EVERYONE!". It was a kind, pleasant gesture from a well-meaning listener. Shortly after her post, a moderator - someone who works for boards to keep an eye on things and make sure no-one takes the piss - someone who MODERATES - basically wrote that loads of people hate the show and should feel free to slag it and me off. I got in touch with this "moderator", this Gavin, aka Monkeyfudge, (whom, for the purposes of this article, we shall call Gavinfudge) and politely and privately pointed out to him that his post was a bit one-sided and might just encourage people to be nasty. In simple terms, I told him he wasn't being very moderate.

Gavinfudge didn't agree. He told me he's a wannabe radio presenter with very little talent and as embittered as he is, he himself doesn't like the show, so he felt he should start a thing slagging me off. No, I'm kidding. That's not true. He replied, saying he "thought" his remarks were not one-sided, and he said he'd stop things if people were just nasty. Fair enough, so I let it go. I checked in a few days later, and things started to get stupid, as a free-for-all slagging me had kicked off.

As I explained to him, it wasn't the slagging that pissed me off. That I'm used to: it was that HE - the MODERATOR - was the one who started it. So I (again, privately) got back to him and told him he wasn't doing a very good job keeping things civilised, as the thread got more and more pathetic. He said I should go above his head and complain. I told him I wasn't going to do that but he should have been more thoughtful about his actions, told him I was done with him and boards, and asked to have my account deleted from boards. He then went and started slagging me off himself!

My account has been disabled by another "moderator", so-called "Talliesin", on the grounds that I was spamming them - that I was posting the same thing hundreds of times. I think I've posted like, 20 messages on it ever - GavinFudge has written nearly 7,000. Talliesin, over 4,000. So I wanted to voice my objection to being called a spammer, but of course, now I'm blocked, there's no right-to-reply with these keyboard nazi's so I'm here to set the record straight.

As I've already said, I do know I ought to be the bigger, better person, but from listening to the show, I'm sure you know we don't do big, and we certainly don't do better. So that's my side of the story. I must say I thought the boards.ie name came from the messageboards it's based on. As it turns out, you need to be as thick as two short planks to work for them.

Ray

WedJune14 Terry Tate...

2006-06-14T03:33:00.000+01:00

"There's only one thing better than having a linebacker in your office - and that's having two linebackers in your office."

Some very funny video over on the Ray Foley bebo page. I nicked it from Ben O'Mahony who suggested I check it out. Seeing girls get rugby-tackled is just so frickin' funny. It's wrong, yes - but funny.

You can check out more Terry Tate here...

Ray

SunJune11 More 'Hogs...

2006-06-11T02:33:00.000+01:00

Was just putting some rubbish in the wheelie bin, which we keep out the front, when I spot this roundy yoke plodding along the, ahem, "flower bed":

He didn't seem that bothered by me. Let me take a couple of snaps and as soon as my back was turned, off he plodded again.

This is getting a bit sad now, I know.

Ray

SatJune10 Hedgehogs...

2006-06-10T10:42:00.000+01:00

I'm a right Bill Oddie now. I was enjoying a barbeque in the balmy evening heat when I chucked a chicken bone into the shrubs at the side of the garden.

Ten minutes later, we hear this scratching sound of something eating the bone. I thought it'd be a dirty big rat, but no: we have our very own, KFC-lovin' hedgehog!

I left another bone on the lawn thinking he'd come out for it, but he didn't show. But it was gone this morning, the cheeky fecker.

Ray

FriJune09 Kiss Kiss...

2006-06-09T11:59:00.000+01:00

...Bang Bang!

Val Kilmer has always pissed me off. From his Top Gun days when he was supposed to piss me off to his Batman misadventure when he wasn't, to The Island of Dr Moreau, which was so bad it pissed me off to an interview I saw with him where he was such an ass it REALLY pissed me off.

But now I think he's great. He's the best thing in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which I'm sorry to say I've only managed to rent this weekend. The dialogue is great, there are loads of boobies in it, and now I'm not so pissed off with Val.

Then there's Robert Downy Jr's performance. That kindof pissed me off.

Ray

MonJune05 Bad Hair Days...

2006-06-07T02:45:00.000+01:00

My girlfriend just dug up a couple of photos from Jan 2004, taken just before a long-due haircut.

Funny shit.

By the way, I will post the results of "Ray Foley Presents... The Divorce Album" very soon...

Ray

SunJune04 "I Wish...

2006-06-05T01:18:00.000+01:00

...I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair." Weren't hippies the ones with flowers in their hair? Weren't punks bald? Or spikey? Or Mohican?

Dead roach from Lanzarote says hi:

Well, we're back on the air, and all is well once again. At least that is, until Monday when we're on 6-9pm and then doing the D'arcy show the next morning. Then back to normal on Wednesday night.

More holiday snaps! My girlfriend's arse:

Well, a very close close-up. I'd be killed if I showed the real thing without getting some sort of 10 grand deal first.

Kittens attacking my phone charger:

There were four wee kittens that kept hanging around on our balcony. Dirty bastards but funny to watch.

I've had this weird feeling all/

AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I seem to have lost the ability to type! It's taking me an hour to get this written! Jesus!

I'll start again: I've had this weird feeling all day that that I've forgotten something. I haven't actually forgotten anything, but it feels like it. I have a cold coming on, and I'm taking everything I can to fend it off, so maybe that's why. An interesting story, no? Nope.

And now the sunburn picture you've all been waiting for:

Bad face day.

More bullshit etc from 6pm.

Ray

ThuJune01 2 Minute Update...

2006-06-01T20:18:00.000+01:00

Hey lads

The clock on the shitty internet cafe computer is counting down and I have 1 min 40 secs left.

Burnt my face... pissed most nights... face peeling... look like one of the lads from Lordi...

Ethethethethethethe scorchio.

Back on air Sunday night 10pm
Monday night 6-9pm
Tuesday morning 9am-12 (yes: THAT show...)

That will be all... for now...

Ray

Salida

Thumay25 BYEEEEE!!!!!

2006-05-26T03:44:00.000+01:00

Off on holidays next week, and there's a good chance of Floody.

And for all you webbies, we've a very spcial treat on the iTunes thingy: a daily while-we're-on-holidays PodBlast! Get onto iTunes and subscribe now, and you'll get a brand new mini-show to your computer each day next week presented by me & JP!

We talk about gays, games, posh kids, 2FM and much, much less...

Have a great week we'll chat to you Sunday night the 4th of June!

Ray

ThuMay25 JP's Mom...

2006-05-25T17:36:00.000+01:00

I've had a few emails today asking for JP's mom to be put on the internet. I have pointed out she's on numerous websites I won't link you to across the internet, but then I realised the requests were for the song.

Enjoy!

Ray

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2006-05-25T04:53:00.000+01:00

Having a hard time studying? Let The Blast help...

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WedMay24 Big Bro...

2006-05-25T04:07:00.000+01:00

First off: hello and fair play to my broadband provider, Irish Broadband. I had enough shite experiences with them early on in my service to want to kill one or all of the people who work there, but I've had pretty much perfect service for months now, and not a dickie bird about the tons of stuff I've been downloading (yes, mostly porn).

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Well, I've somehow managed to avoid it up to his point, but after tonight's show I managed to fully immerse myself in the Big Brother experience. I wasn't really into last year's, but I can already feel the draw of the telly for BB7.

I know, I know: it's stupid, moronic, voyeuristic, sad. I do know when I'm watching it that I really ought to be doing more high-brow stuff like drinking red wine and reading books.

But it's just sooooo good!

Ok, so I taped Tuesday and Wednesday night's shows and watched them back to back just now. This 37-year-old (gay of course - it's Big Brother, after all) nutcase Shahbaz pissed off everyone in the gaff by well, being totally mental.

I have to say I really did feel for him though as the rest of the COMPLETE IDIOTS in the house treated him like turd. At one point they locked him out of the house with no clothes. These are grown men and women, and the guy clearly had a mental issue.

I'd also like to say well done to whatever producer thought it would be a good idea (AGH!) to put a lad with tourettes (RRRR!) into Big Brother.

It's totally wrong, but totally right for TV. He's actually a really nice fella, and at the moment he's my favourite to (WANK!) win the thing - but does anyone else get the impression that he's either

a) faking it

or at the very least

b) milking it for all it's worth.

It's very good. There was a very funny bit where this dizzy bint, Nikki, crying because he'd "had such a hard life" and "all she wanted to do was take care of him - not in that way though".

And isn't the this chick scary as all hell?

And finally: who decided to put Vernon Kay in the house?

He looks more like him on the telly than in that pic to be fair.

And finally finally: yes, JP. Imogen's a fox.

If you'd like to email me me click here...

Talk more from 10pm...

Ray

TuesMay23 Soz...

2006-05-24T02:16:00.000+01:00

Apologies for the updating drought. Offline for the past 24 hours, but I'm here now.

This gym shit is a pain in the balls. I'm going as much as I can but I need to write off 2 hours of my day to do it. Anyway, it's all go go go.

Going on holidays next week. JP's taking the week off too, but not coming with us. I think the best thing for JP and I right now is to spend some time apart.

Wow - now that was a good update. And to think: 2-and-a-half-thousand people look at this page every week.

Back on air at 10pm.

Ray

SatMay20 Forking Hell...

2006-05-21T00:44:00.000+01:00

Just back from a cracking weekend in Edinburgh for the Emap radio awards. Well done to sister station people FM104, who won everything. Seriously, everything.

Coming back through the airport, there's a big plastic bin where you dump your terrorism tools, and as you can see, several gobshites packed forks.

What kind of a fucking eejit brings a fork on a flight?

Better yet, what kind of a fucking eejit would try to use one to nick a plane?

Back on air Sunday night. 10pm.

That will be all... for now.

Ray

WedMay17 Anyone For Tennis?

2006-05-18T01:01:00.000+01:00

Q: What do you call three dumbfucks in a studio?

A: The Blast

Up there on the left is Al, as in Funky-Phone-Boy Al who'll be in this week's PodBlast, also you can expect a new song from Ray Foley and The Ray Foley Singers on Thursday night's show, and there was something else about Thursday I needed to remember... anyway listen to the show from 10pm.

Hi Maz.

Mary's our pal who reads here every day. She's gay.

(And now she's not reading this line because she's sending a snotty text message).

And I'm spent.

That will be all... for now.

Ray

TuesMay16 My Mi Wadi...

2006-05-17T03:41:00.000+01:00

Have you heard that radio ad with the kid who doesn't know his Dad? The kids are in the playground and one snot-nosed brat's bitching because his "da" brought him to a match in teh rain? The one wit' oll the posh Syth-soider kids in it?

These ads piss me off. There are how many children in this country that don't speak like D4 twats, but these annoying few shits always make it onto the telly and radio.

And why? Because their tight-arse mammy or daddy is the advertising exec saving a few quid by having their kid do it. No, not all advertising execs are D4 twats, but the tightarse ones are.

Remember the little runt on the MiWadi ad? "It's nosh yoor moi wodgi, it's moi wodgi".

Fuck. Off.

I prefer Robinson's.

Yes, I'm a little cranky tonight.

That will be all... for now.

Ray

SunMay14 Livin' For The Weekend...

2006-05-15T02:36:00.000+01:00

Had an amazing weekend. On Friday night, me mate Tracy was having her going away drinks as she moves from working in Bray to the big smoke, so I went along for bit of violence.

I think he may fancy me. He's got loads of photos of me anyway.

Nearly had a row with the eyebrow dude:

Nearly.

Got a taxi home and the driver was a lovely fella, who's a photographer! Very good he is too. His website's here.

Then surfed around to my bebo page, where there's a brilliant Bree Van de Kamp writing some very Bree stuff. If you're a 'Housewives fan, you'll love it too. Check it out here.

Saturday night was my girlfriend's mam's birthday party!

Somone ate all the chocolate cake!

And my girlfriend got quite snotty, since she was really looking forward to it:

That actually is Kate's snot. The camera's THAT good. And I'm dead now.

I'm off to play some Burnout: Revenge and he new Tomb Raider on the Xbox 360. My Xbox It has it's own website, you know. Click here to see what it's been up to.

Back on air from 10!

That will be all...

...for now.

Ray

ThuMay12 Summer's Here!

2006-05-12T01:39:00.000+01:00

What, you expected me to be doing updates when the sun's shining? Eh, no thanks.

I've actually been quite busy on a little solo project I've been working on as a painter. No, not like, as a painter painter like Da Vinci, but painting the skirting boards in our hall.

And look!

Get onto iTunes, for another weekend of waffle!

Have a good one.

Ray

TuesMay09 600 Quids...

2006-05-09T03:40:00.000+01:00

Anyone else sick to the back teeth of Vodafone's web-shite?

Well I am.

What's the point in advertising your free web text service all over the place if your flippin' website doesn't work? And why did I want to send JP a text at half two in the morning?

Sony have announced official plans for the PS3 release! I've taken to doing some boards.ie surfing after the shwow at night, where a bunch of nerds were watching an online videocast of the live Sony E3 launch in LA that Microsoft wouldn't bring us to. Anyway, I joined the geek crowd and started watching. We saw vids for some cracking games, including Heavenly Sword, which has left a mess in my pants it looks so good.

The Sony boss fella showed us the official new PS3 controller. Which is just the same as the other ones. But it's wireless and moves stuff on the screen when you just moved the controller around. Mad.

And then they got to the juicy stuff:

There will be two versions of the PS3: one with a 20GB hard drive and another with 60GB. The console is on sale the 17th of November IN YOUR LOCAL SHOP IN IRELAND! and will cost either €499 (20GB) or €599 (60GB model).

There you go. I stayed up and got that for you. Because I love you. You won't get Ian Dempsey doing that for you. Yes, because he's up for work in the morning.

Ray

MonMay08 Blast Breaks Bebo...

2006-05-08T18:16:00.000+01:00

Well, it's official: I'm too popular.

Apparently my bebo page is fucked, due to the thousands of friends and hundreds of thousands of comments I've got on it over the past month or two.

So now you'll see the significantly-less-good other DJ's on Bebo growing friends, page views and comment numbers, while my page dies a death, a victim of it's own ginormous success.

Well, I've won. Let's leave Bebo crying in the corner like a pussy. We beat that bitch.

It was time to go back to porn anyway.

Ray

SatMay06 Episode 4...

2006-05-06T16:52:00.000+01:00

Get onto iTunes, and get episode 4!

Number 6 at the moment!

See number ten there? That's Keith and Joe on Spin's Breakfast Xpress. We were talking about them in our PodBlast this week. So click on their Chris Martin 'cast to see what we were on about.

Talk Sunday night from 10...

That will be all... for now.

Ray

ThuMay04 Cork to Roscommon...

2006-05-04T05:34:00.000+01:00

I've also been dicking around with putting audio on the site. Here's that marvellous Cork to Roscommon (or Ros-commin') tune.

This audio and video lark is all in trial mode with us at the moment, and we need to keep stuff for the PodBlast, so I think I might only put bits from the show online for a day or two after we do it - also because there's not much room to put loads of files up, we have to keep audio to a minimum.

So, er, "enjoy" this while you can.

Ray

WedMay03 Yee-Haw...

2006-05-04T00:48:00.000+01:00

It's one of those very VERY few situations that I can't go into here, but I'm very fucked off right now. I've typed and re-typed this sentence several times since I've given too much away about what the situation is in every other edit of it, so I won't go any further. But I am VERY fucked off.

Luckily, JP's here to lighten the mood:

George (JARGE!) Murphy's people sent everyone daft cowboy hats along with the copy of his latest single.

No, of course we won't be playing it! You're gonna have to do a damn sight better than plastic cowboy hats lads!

Back on the radio from 10pm!

That will be all...

...for now. hi laura

Ray

WedMay03 Yee-Haw Video...

2006-05-04T00:40:00.000+01:00

If the video does not display properly
click here to upgrade to Flash 8
Apprently I can put video here.

So here goes nothin'...

TuesMay02 Mags...

2006-05-02T17:40:00.000+01:00

In a well-known newsagent's this afternoon, and spotted a magazine cover that just pissed me off:

Don't ask me why it pissed me off to the extent that it did. I think it's the fact that she's such a tit (Lohan) and screen legend (Streep) is making a bigger tit of herself by posing so ridiculously luvvy-like with her.

The mood was instantly lightened however, as I picked up my monthly subscription:

Ha ha! How funny is that? See the bottom, where it reads

"14 DANCES INCLUDING: FUNKY COUNTRY - WOMAN TROUBLE - DO DAT DANCE - SWEET ADDICTION". I think Craig there on the cover has a sweet addiction to jewellery. But I wonder if he has any woman trouble?

How big a spa am I taking photos of magazine covers in Easons on a Tuesday afternoon?

And finally... they had a lovely melon on display last week at the Chili Peppers listening party:

That will be all... for now.

On air at 10pm!

Ray

MonMay01 Dancin' Daisy...

2006-05-01T17:06:00.000+01:00

One for the lads, this.

http://www.surrealcode.com/daisydukedances4you/

Copy and paste the above into your address bar.

Back on the radio from 9pm!

Ray

WedApr26 Woke Up This Mo'nin'...

2006-04-27T01:41:00.000+01:00

In the past two days, I've watched fifteen episodes of the Sopranos. Need to get a life... Well, rayfoley.net is a year old, as of the 25th! What a momentous occasion! Yeah, I forgot too. You can go back via the archives and see all the shite I've managed to spew over a whole year. Wow!

We're gonna do some more videos for the bebo page next week, and we'll have a fresh PodBlast for you after tomorrow night's show.

Gotta go: Tony needs me. His uncle's a prick and his mother's a bitch. And don't even get me started on the kids.

Back tonight from 10.

Ray

SunApr24 Studio Tour...

2006-04-24T00:41:00.000+01:00

Ever wondered what the studio we broadcast from looks like? No? Well, should you someday do that wondering, you can see it over on the bebo page...

Oh, and the rayfoley.net website is a year old tomorrow. Hip, hip, hip replacement.

And did you know I was once a journalist? As part of our journalism course (the one I pissed through six years of) they gace us NUJ press passes for students. Not once did they ever work at a nightclub door. And that was the only time I ever used mine.

Back tonight from 10!

Ray

ThuApr20 Shitstorm...

2006-04-21T01:09:00.000+01:00

Got a swish new camera today. Took no cool pics with it though, so sorry about that. My old camera's a bit too big for a pocket, so I've been carrying it 'round in a little man-bag, and now I've been bullied into getting the sexy little bitch I now own.

Thank the drain-busting gods that are Dyno-Rod for saving the sewage day yesterday. If they had showed up an hour later (after it rained) our garden would've been filled with poo. But they arrived on time and had the whole thing done and dusted in 20 minutes. And yes, I was embarassed - caught with a chimney-sweeping brush down the drain...

And PodBlast episode 2 is live!!!! At least it will be later this morning. See below for how-to guide on how to get it.

Have a great weekend. Talk to you from Sunday@10 for a week of kickass shows.

Ray

WedApr19 PodBlast How-To...

2006-04-20T01:32:00.000+01:00

Okay, so you want a PodBlast but don't know how to get it?

A - Click here to download & install iTunes...

B - When it's all installed (and stay online) click on the Music Store button on the left-hand-side of the screen:

C - When that page loads, click on podcasts under "Choose Genre":

D - When that page loads, head over to the right-hand-side and look for "The PodBlast with Ray Foley" in the podcast chart:

E - Up pops the following:

so click "get episode" for the ones you haven't heard yet!

And it's all free!

Ray

TuesApr18 Aw Shit..

2006-04-19T01:09:00.000+01:00

We've got sewage problems. No, not on the show: THAT's anything but shitty. We're having problems with shite at home - some sort of blocked pipe. And I'm not forking out a few hundred euro for some cowboy to come along and flush a bit of Ajax down it. So I'm gonna get dirty tomorrow. Aw shit.

Check out the tribute to JP: http://www.jay.pee.youaremighty.com/ I don't think he's that good.

Does this guy look like me?

Don't think so...

We made it up to 3 in the podcasting charts! Not bad for a load of shite. You can download iTunes here, go to music store, podcasts, and over on the right in the chart is me. We're at 5 at the moment, which I'm happy with.

Started our new game, "Eh Yeah Okay" tonight. Caused outrage for cutting Julie off for saying "they are", which sounded like "yeah". We will give her some prizes...

Oh, and I'm a fudgepacker:

Bought it in TK Maxx today and it's lovely. Very sweet, but very nice.

Oh, and by the way:

You're a bollocks.

Back on from 10pm! Listen to my show!

Ray

MonApr17 Tra-friggin'-lee!

2006-04-18T00:14:00.000+01:00

It was all about Club Fabric in Tralee tonight for another one of these:

Back on the radio 10pm Tuesday night 18th.

Be afraid. Be very afraid...

Ray

SunApr16 Castle-friggin-bar!

2006-04-17T15:29:00.000+01:00

Spent Sunday evening in the company of this lot in the TF in Castlebar.

A great night had by... me.

Ray

SatApr15 Blog Wars...

2006-04-15T15:29:00.000+01:00

Wow! Number four in the Irish iTunes podcasting chart! Who knew so many people would be interested in downloading us waffling about swearing and JP's new Xbox 360 for 17 minutes!

Sweet!

I'm just in from that trip to London I've been boasting about, and it was absolutely fucking class! My blogging-arch-nemesis, Rick O'Shea was there:

He was feverishly phone-snapping everything he could possibly use on his blog, thereby forcing me to do the same. The sonofabitch also chatted to my very biggest hero who I didn't have the balls to go and talk to, Chris Moyles. Who works for one of the cooler UK stations:

I was there like, four times, just about to walk up to him, and chickened out each time. Anyway, what do you say to someone in that situation? I love your work? Take me I'm yours? I can't imagine getting anything out of it other than being able to say I met him. And maybe a photo, which I'm sure Rick will be sharing with you on his blog, pissing me off all the more... grrr.

In other news (yes, I went photo-mad: I told you, it felt like a competition) what are the headphone sockets on bank machines in England for?

The posts below are pics from the London trip which included gays, girls, and of course, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

See some Dani California, as taken by me (you should be able to see me half-way through when the screen goes black but it was too dark) on the bebo page. Click "Foley on Bebo" over to the right.

Ray

SatApr15 Before The Gig..

2006-04-15T15:21:00.000+01:00

Arrived in London (see red busses and black cab)

Posed for pics outside venue:

Snapped big lights-show yoke on wall for forthcoming album:

Went inside.

SatApr15 The Gig...

2006-04-15T15:20:00.000+01:00

SatApr15 After The Gig...

2006-04-15T15:19:00.000+01:00

Went to a place called Egg, as recommended by some lunatic outside the concert venue. Shithole.

Then we went on to someplace called Scala, which had a gay night on:

Now, I'm as gay-friendly as the next straight-guy-who's-not-gay guy but a gay night would NOT be my cup of tea at all. I was truly not happy with the idea of spending the next few hours at a gay event but it turned out to be one of THE BEST nights out (stop it) I've had in a long time.

Music making me dance like a crazy gay loon was Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, The Prodigy, Bodyrockers, Garbage, Basement Jaxx and more stuff you don't think of when you think of big gay discos.

It made spending time with all the gays bearable:

* not actually gay.

FriApr14 No PodBlast!!!

2006-04-14T13:03:00.000+01:00

We're still waiting on the PodBlast to make it to iTunes.

It's a very simple procedure, I'm told, but that doesn't mean anyone's actually DOING it. That's the problem with relying on other people to get shit done. It will all be sorted and working by next Friday, when it'll go live at around 2am every Friday - because I'll be the one putting it on.

It's out of my hands at this stage, but you can expect to hear it for download at some stage over the Easter weekend.

Hey, we're not even on yet, and we're already at number 10!

Sorry lads, but we're still just getting started.

Ray

ThuApr13 PodBlast!!!

2006-04-14T02:21:00.000+01:00

Well, it's here, and we're already number 39 in the Irish iTunes podcasting chart!

I think that amounts to like, 4 downloads.

Check it out on iTunes if you have it, or we'll have a link on todayfm.com pretty soon too.

Bear with us - we're still getting the hang of the whole podcast thing - it'll get better. We hope.

Have a good weekend. See you in Mayo or Kerry (or London!) over the Easter.

Back on air Tuesday 18th.

Ray

WedApr13 11AM Meetings...

2006-04-13T00:40:00.000+01:00

JP insists on having meetings in the station at 11am, so I have to get me arse out of bed at the ungodly hour of ten! Prick.

The website's nearly a year old now by the way, and the PodBlast! is about to be spawned...

Ok, I'm off to bed.

Bye.

Ray

TuesApr11 Mmmm... Slippers...

2006-04-12T00:41:00.000+01:00

This is what I've become:

I know it's wrong, but it's just that I feel like a different person when I'm inside these puppies: it's like the tension and stresses of everyday life just melt away...

So, what have I been up to?

Well...

The PodBlast is lauching this weekend!!! Finally, we're ready to roll out episode one of what is sure to be the internet's hottest audio download. More details on the air later tonight. To get involved, you'll need to be listening...

I'm DJ-ing in not one, but two of Ireland's finest venues over the Easter weekend!

On Sunday night 16th, I'm doing the EASTER BLAST! in The Traveller's Friend in Castlebar. Full details here if you're interested...

And the next night, Easter Monday 17th, I'll be "on the decks" at Club Fabric in lovely Tralee! More details here...

And I'm still buying a house! More details here...

My Xbox 360 games are:

Kameo
Project Gotham Racing
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Perfect Dark Zero
Call of Duty 2 (my fave so far)

I'm dying to get my hands on Burnout: Revenge. Played the demo online from Xbox Live, and it's very cool. Will someone please send me a free one? PLEASE?

I've also been playing Tomb Raider Legends on my PS2, and it's true what they're saying: Lara really is back on-form. And the owl PS2 still has it's old-skool charms.

And finally...

Let the slaggin's begin, as Bebo has now allowed the showing of home video on personal pages. The one on my page was taken the night of the pancake-off, when our oldie-but-a-goodie was Sub Sub - Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use). I thought Al was taking a photo, but no, he was recording my ridiculous dancing. Click here for more...

Join us from 10pm.

Ray

WedApr05 Xbox 360...

2006-04-06T00:31:00.000+01:00

I may have mentioned I got a FREE Xbox 360 last week. Well, I'm all hooked-up on the Xbox Live thing. It's very cool.

There's this thing on it called the Xbox live arcade, where you can download hi-definition games for a fiver AND I hear Streetfighter 2 is about to be released on it! Cool!

Anyway, as the geek factor rises, I draw your attention to my Xbox Live gamer card over to the right. You can get yours at mygamercard.net if you're already an Xbox Live user.

If you don't know what the hell I'm on about, move on with your day as though nothing ever happened.

All my love,

Ray

TuesApr04 Ramblings Of A Pop-Jock...

2006-04-04T01:34:00.000+01:00

This Bebo thing has totally distracted from the whole point of rayfoley.net – it’s almost taken over as a more interactive form of blogging. But I want to get back to my .net roots, so here I am with a proper, full-blown rant/essay/ramble/shite-on (take your pick) for your boredom. I’m enjoying a bowl of cold ricicles, and will sit down to episode 16 of season 7 of The West Wing after this. It’s election day. Download it.

Anyway, I’ve been thinking about the show lately, and it strikes me that the more I’ve been thinking about it, the worse things are getting. See, we’ve been on the air for nearly two years now, and in that time the show has mutated into the ugly nighttime beast you now know and love. Over that time there has been no real “grand scheme of things” or “point” to the Blast: it was all about taking the piss, having a laugh and playing some good tunes. Plain and simple, right? Right.

Then people start listening – yes, yes, only 25 people. But they matter. And JP starts working on the show, and now there’s a “team” of us, putting this crap on the air. And now college is over, and I start to think about maybe buying a house. And then the bank asks me what I do for a living. And then I shit myself. What do I do for a living?

How can taking the piss and playing a few tunes with your best mate be a career choice? Surely there must be some “work” to it? Surely, it should be difficult? Surely, I should be bursting my balls to make the show bigger and better, become a megastar DJ, and make millions to pay for my new mortgage? Surely!

So now I’m a grown-up (technically) and I’m thinking (after nearly two years) that I need to knuckle down, and start real work on the show. Things need to change ‘round here – it’s just not good enough. So I start stressing out. And a stressed-out gobshite does not a good DJ make. And then it all falls to shite.

Tonight, things weren’t going well for a while, until JP tried to use his beard as Velcro on the studio wall. Dumbass. But I realize that this shite was what the show used to be, and that’s what we’re gonna do again.

Tonight a new Blast rule was born, and if you ever feel the show needs a kick up the arse, feel free to email or text to remind us:

It’s a new dawn, kids. Now get back to work. And remember batin's for ratin's as you do.

Ray

MonApr03 Tracey...

2006-04-03T13:15:00.000+01:00

Cheers to Tracey for doing a bang-up job filling in over the weekend. Spent the time off eating a stupid amount of food (mmm), watching The Constant Gardener (only okay) drinking wine (very posh) swimming (only once) and listening to Tracey Lee filling-in for me (how sad).

Back tonight from 10 lads!

Ray

WedMar30 Man, I Can Be SHIT! Only Occasionally Though...

2006-03-30T01:54:00.000+01:00

Poor show tonight. Must try harder. But hey, it's still better than... no, I'm not picking any more fights.

I'm off to Sligo town this weekend to see my ma (yes, yes - get the jokes in now) graduate from the college course she's been doing the past couple of years. So that means I'm not on the radio again til Monday night - but never fear: Tracey Lee will be filling-in. I hope I spelled her name right, otherwise she'll kick my head in.

Now listen you lot: be good to her. She's a Blast virgin so be gentle. I don't know why Floody can't do it. I think he's off horse-riding or clay pigeon-shooting.

Anyway - some GOOD shows next week from Monday on.

I love you.

Ray

TuesMar28 Nikki Hayes Sucks...

2006-03-28T20:14:00.000+01:00

If you take everything I say so seriously that you send nasty messages to another DJ then: walk off your nearest pier. Go on.

Apologies to Nikki for the dumb few bastards that took my light-hearted slagging seriously and started harassing her. Sorry, Nickster: I take on a few dumb listeners a week for community service.

Of course, Nikki Hayes does not suck and she's a sweetheart. Let her know by emailing "Foley loves you Nikki" to nikki.hayes@rte.ie

Right, I'm off to pick a fight with Larry Gogan...

Ray

SunMar26 Ray Pee...

2006-03-26T22:42:00.000+01:00

James Malone has made Ray & JP's lovechild:

That's some scary shit, man.

Ray

WedMar22 What's Your Problem?

2006-03-23T02:39:00.000Z

As expected, we did get a few complaints tonight from people taking our "Batins for Ratins" campaign a little too seriously.

One person said we should be ashamed of ourselves for giving people the excuse to bully people, to which we replied that you'd need to be a complete moron to actually do what we tell you, and morons do not listen to the show.

To which we got "but most of your listeners are young people, and they don't know that it's only a joke".

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!

Who the fuck are you to say young people are dumb? You twat! You dumb twat. I have your address, and I'm gonna call round and smack you one, you patronising, condescending twat. So people that are "young" need only a DJ to say "smack someone" and they're so thick they'll do it? What planet do you live on?

That's half of what's wrong with "grown-ups" in this country. They think if you're young, you're dumb. And are you? You managed to "log on to that interweb thing" all on your own - something most over-forties are still unable to do. Rise up and take no shit, young people. Don't wait to be given the credit you deserve - take it.

And beat the shit out of anyone who doesn't listen to my show.

Ray

TuesMar21 Beating The Shit Out Of The Opposition...

2006-03-22T02:27:00.000Z

Yes, indeed kids - we're on the verge of something big now, with a new work ethic on the show kicking in from this week: I'm on a diet, I'm "working" harder, the pod-Blast launches very soon, we've got brilliant music on every night, and we've just started a huge new campaign!

Yeah, yeah - we've had campaigns before. Anyone remember "Justice for JP"? Me neither. And what about "Don't Just Tell A Friend... Tell EVERYONE!". Yawn. No, our new camapign is about to knock your socks off and seven shades of shit out of you. It's called:

Batin's For Ratin's!!!

The rhyme loses some of the effect when written. Pronounce it baytins for ratin's. As in, beatings for ratings. And here's how it'll work. You get us more listeners by physically hurting someone who doesn't listen to the show, forcing them to start tuning in. Questions anyone?

Is that not bullying? We like to avoid words like bullying or torture. Instead, you'll be showing an enterprising spirit which will stand to you in a career in media or marketing.

Can we kill someone? No. We need listeners, not dead bodies. And 2FM have that market cornered.

Are you responsible if anyone gets really hurt? As much as we'd love to cover any mishaps that may occur in the course of your work, we're afraid that no, we won't be liable. We are taking the piss, after all.

What are the rules? The rules are: THERE ARE NO RULES! Oh, the death one. Cutting off body parts is probably a no-no.

What do we do? We've already been working on some ideas:

Chinese burns
Dead arms
Dead legs
Nipple Twisters
Bitch-slaps

Look, you're a creative young person - just riff on this general theme. Avoid dirty looks or bitchy comments. There is a line, after all.

Get out there and get us a pay-rise!

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In other news, I've hooked up my Audioscrobbler to the website, so you can see what I'm listening to at home. Look over there to the right - >>>>
It's pretty cool, but also pretty scary. Everyone'll be able to see me enjoying my Spice Girls, Ace of Base, and Will Smith music collection online.

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Over on Bebo (sorry Myspace people!) I've been getting some requests for a revival of The Bitches Box of Shite.

When the show was in it's infancy and JP was known as my "bitch", we had a box of shite, which we'd delve into each night. Anyway, we're not going to revive it. The show then was, as one wanker at the time (you know who you are) put: "a jaunty mixture of schoolboy swearing, "chhhhhott choons"... exceptionally poor "rapport" with his stooge, & some truly lame audience interaction".

Ouch.

Anyway, we've moved on from that sad time in our broadcast history, but don't be disappointed: we've brought it back for an exclusive web-only once-off and re-recorded it for your PC or mp3 player. Hear the full thing on the best bits page from Wednesday on... It's the kind of stuff you'll get in the pod-Blast every Friday, so have a taste now. If it's there.

Get around the Bebo ban in your school or college! Text!

Guys you can work round that ban- the smart heads go to www.hidemyass.com its a sneaky way to hide whatever website ur at - trick the server! Jennifer

Thanks, Jennifer!

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FAT-BASTARD-WATCH! Part 2

Ray

MonMar20 Squeal Piggy, Squeal...

2006-03-21T01:18:00.000Z

I've got the conch! Yes kids I hate to admit it, but I'm going on a diet. Over the next month, I'll be undertaking an exercise of... well, exercise.

By the way, well done to those of you who know what I'm on about with the conch thing.

Yes, even us most humble of pop "deejays" have our humble literary ambitions.

Anyway, I wanna lose a stone. No big deal. In the past couple of years, I've managed to drop 2 stone from my hefty bulk, but that last one is the sticky one: it's the few beers after the show; it's the KFC on a Saturday; it's the small African nation in one sitting.

So, here I am. On this website, I'll update you with my "progress" between now and May 1st - and you can see if one fat bastard can become... less of a fat bastard.

Check out this freaky art. It's art. But freaky.

We had a bit of a falling-off of site visits last week. Don't know why, but numbers of indicidual visits fell under 2,000 a week for the first time in a while. What were you doing? Visiting D'arcy's page or something? Anyway, we're back up at just under 3k again, so welcome to the few there at the back.

And new music for the Blast this week:

THE RACONTEURS - STEADY AS SHE GOES
EMBRACE - NATURE'S LAW
OK GO - DO WHAT YOU WANT
THE BLIZZARDS -TROUBLE
CHICANE FT TOM JONES -STONED IN LOVE
MC LARS - DOWNLOAD THIS SONG
DEEP DISH - DREAM

Oh, yeah. Part 1 of Fat-Bastard-Watch: tonight, I weigh 14 stones exactly. 13 is to be my lucky number.

Ray

ThuMar16 Anorak...

2006-03-16T16:44:00.000Z

anorak

n : a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term) [syn: parka, windbreaker, windcheater]

Yes yes, the anoraks are important for keeping you snug on snowy Spring days (look out the friggin' window) but of course, the term anorak has another meaning. According to wikipedia:

In British slang, anorak has come to mean "geek" or "nerd." It stems from the use of anoraks (a type of rain jacket) by train spotters, and eventually came to be used to refer to anyone with an unfathomable interest in trivial information regarded as boring by the rest of the population—aided by the intuition that only a geek would wear something so terminally unfashionable.

The word can be qualified by the area in which the person takes an (implied) excessive interest; for example, a "radio anorak" would be someone who found the world of radio broadcasting fascinating.

Fascinting stuff, no? But wait, it gets better. Did you know, it all started with radio?

It was reportedly derived from the weatherproof upper clothing worn by enthusiasts of offshore radio who would, despite their lack of familiarity with maritime life, sometimes travel from British ports in small boats to visit the ships from which their outcast heroes broadcast during the 1967–76 period. The collective impression of their brightly coloured garments in the coastal murk of the North Sea was presumably memorable to the crews of those "pirate ships" who had restricted contact with the mainland due to the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act and the visits might have had an important morale-boosting role, although the wearers of the garments might often have regretted the discomfort of those sea-tossed journeys. In rough weather the anoraks were far more visible than their distressed wearers; hence they were identified by the style of their outer garments. The term was reportedly coined by Andy Archer, a disc jockey of the period.

I was on the Bebo page of a cool girl I used to be on pirate radio with a few years ago called Mel Byrne - she's as much of an anorak as I am. Anyway, flicking through her anorak photo gallery, I found the image of me broadcasting from a pirate station studio that I'll look back on when I'm 75, turn to my elderly wife and say "God, wasn't I a ride back then?"...

To which she'll reply "Fuck, no".

Ray

ThurMar16 Awww...

2006-03-16T01:56:00.000Z

2FM's hussy, er, I mean husky-voiced female Nikki Hayes (real name?) emailed me this pic of me & her a while ago - from the time before we hated eachother because we work in rival stations. It was taken around 2000 - I think. Correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, she thought it'd look good for me to show that I was once skinny before I was fat. Thankfully someone was there with a camera for that half-hour.

And before you ask no, we were not an item. Though it wasn't for the lack of trying.

On her part.

And the game? Oh, it's so over:

Right, instead of playing with my balls on the internet, I'm off to play Black.

Oh, and I nearly forgot. Here's that pic of Rihanna we were looking at:

'night

Ray

WedMar15 Big In The USA...

2006-03-15T02:57:00.000Z

Was just flicking through my old photos, and here's one of me in New York, in January 2004. I was going through a "big fat wanker" phase. Now I'm neither big nor fat but... well, you do the math.

I look like I'm wearing a friggin' fat suit!

Bad news on the Pod-Blast! It's been held-up for a couple of weeks due to technical issues with Apple, but we will be assaulting your mp3 players very soon. In fact, we've come up with a few more ideas which should make our podcasts something quite special indeed...

Went for a game of pool after the show with JP and Phunky Phone Boy Alan:

Just thought the pictures look cool. I've decided to bring my digital camera with me when I go out in future. What's the point in spending like, €400 on a piece of equipment I never use, when I end up using the crappy camera phone for the website? So, the cool camera will be used from now on. I'll be in a street near you, looking like a tourist.

And don't forget the BEBO! New high score on the game:

Bring it on, suckaz! Check it out: foleyblast.bebo.com

Later

Ray

TueMar14 Latest Score...

2006-03-14T20:54:00.000Z

TueMar14 One-Track Mind...

2006-03-14T14:37:00.000Z

I got a text from my brother this morning:

"Was just sittin directly opposite the girl from the Opportunities '06 posters on the bus for the last 20 mins. Its all real-couldn't stop starin' at her. Ha ha."

Lucky sod.

Click here to see her again...

Ray

TueMar14 Waste Of Your Day...

2006-03-14T03:52:00.000Z

In college? Work? School? Bored? Nothing to do but look at porn you know is wrong but can't help but keep looking? Now The Blast! gives you the answer.

Just head on over to foleyblast.bebo.com and play keepy-uppies on the flash box.

My personal best at the moment is 64...

Ray

MonMar13 Jinny Killy On Da Tilly... (Part 2)

2006-03-14T02:11:00.000Z

Well, somebody's reading here!

They've fixed the website, and the show seems... planned!

Again Aoife Ní Thuairisg is brill, and again: what colour is Gavin Lambe Murphy?

To conduct a more scientific analysis of his odd face tones, take the following picture:

And compare Gav's face:

To his whiter-than-white hands:

Odd!

And they remember their English quick enough when they want your text money! But it's all for charidee, and Jenny's chosen charidee is Debra Ireland, so dig deep.

We start podcasting next week, for the Blastards who can't do without a fresh dose over the weekend: it'll be known as The Pod-Blast! We'll record it on Thursday nights directly after the show at midnight, so if you want to get in touch and make it to the 'cast - call or text us on the usual numbers between 12 and 12.30am, Friday morning. But you won't hear it 'til you download.

Call: 1850 715 100
Text: 0854 100 102

Tell yer friends. Nah, scrap that: tell EVERYONE!

Ray

SunMar12 Jinny Killy On Da Tilly...

2006-03-13T01:16:00.000Z

Oh, sexy...

Steady on, Jen.

Jenny's taking part in TG4's "Ní Gaeilgeoir Mé", where a bunch of "celebs" learn Irish for a week, in aid of charidee. Aside from the whole thing coming across like something a pair of transition-year work-experience kids put together during morning break (even the webpage is a sham - try clicking on Jenny's name), the bits where the "celebs" have a laugh with eachother are quite entertaining.

Question: what colour is Gavin-Lambe-Murphy?

Yes Gavin, a model what?

And fair play to the real star of the show, Aoife Ní Thuairisg, who holds the whole thing together in the face of total adversity. Here, she's giving some first-year film student a bollicking:

Until the producer tells her she's on air:

I think she's great.

And well done to Jenny, who's drawing a DJ:

(Inappropriate comments about size and hair colour left out) ; )

It's on TG4 every night this week while we're on the air - but of course, you'll tape it while you listen to us. Repeats are on between 1 and 2am.

Ray

TuesMar08 Dammit!

2006-03-09T02:32:00.000Z

Don't you even think about moving, you sonovabitch!

I've been O-D-ing on Jack Bauer all week, catching up on day 5 of 24. I watched the first season, and started the second, but thought it was crap so abandoned Jack for the past couple of years, but now I'm back and firmly hooked. And now he's even on the show! What the hell do you mean, you missed last night? Dammit, you sonovabitch!

Somewhere around the web I spotted the Jack Bauer Friendster page. Also, along the lines of the overdone "Chuck Norris is so hard" gags, the Top 100 Jack Bauer Facts, including

Kim Bauer was an accident. Not even the pill can stop Jack Bauer
On a high school math test, Jack Bauer put down "Violence" as every one of the answers. He got an A+ on the test because Jack Bauer solves all his problems with Violence.
Jack Bauer got Hellen Keller to talk.
You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.
Jack Bauer's house has an alarm system -- not to warn Jack of intruders, but to warn the intruders of Jack.
Sun Tzu once wrote, "If your enemy is weaker, conquer him. If he is stronger, join him. If he is Jack Bauer, you're fucking dead."
Jack Bauer's family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child. Once.
The quickest way to a man's heart is through Jack Bauer's gun.
If it tastes like chicken, looks like chicken, and feels like chicken, but Jack Bauer says its beef. Then it's fucking beef.

Go and look at the page for yourself, you sonovabitch!

He even has a wikipedia page dedicated to him (not the actor, the character).

It's been a busy week - I'll be keeping the updates as daily as I can...

More tonight from 10!

Ray

Blast! Music - 7th March

2006-03-07T19:40:00.000Z

Arctic Monkeys – When The Sun Goes Down
Bell X1 – Flame
Beyonce/Destiny’s Child – Check On It
Black Eyed Peas – Pump It
Bow Wow ft Ciara – Like You
Eminem – Shake That
Fall Out Boy – Dance Dance
Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Gwen Stefani - Crash
Kanye West – Touch The Sky
Kelly Clarkson – Walk Away
Madonna – Sorry
Meck – Thunder In My Heart Again
Ne-Yo – So Sick
Orson – No Tomorrow
Pink – Stupid Girls
Pussycat Dolls – Beep
Rihanna – S.O.S.
Streets – When You Wasn’t Famous
Studio B – C’Mon Get It On
Sugababes – Red Dress

SunMar05 JayPee'sTee...

2006-03-06T00:52:00.000Z

Who looks like a wally?

JP looks like a wally!

Music update on the way tomorrow.

More fun 'n' stuff from 10! Tell your frickin' friends!

Ray

ThuMar02 Once You Go Black...

2006-03-03T01:25:00.000Z

I've already wasted several hours playing the spiffing new first-person-shooter from Criterion games:

And I'll be wasting many more over the weekend. It's bloody good, but the shots for the Xbox360 look absolutely perfect... makes me wish Sony would pull their collective fingers outta their collective holes and release the PS3 already!

And we're going out for some laughs at the laughter lounge on Saturday. It should be a... laugh.

Talk Sunday night from 10pm - have a good one!

Ray

WedMar01 More Crap From My Inbox...

2006-03-02T01:30:00.000Z

Remember "Dinosaurs!"?

It was like the Simpsons, only well, with Dinosaurs. They never released it on DVD. I'm still waiting...

Oh, how cynical. Not that Rowling gives a toss...

And the best use I've yet seen for a cat. Dirty self-licking lickers...

Anyway, I'm off to bed.

Last show of week tonight from 10...

Ray

WedMar01 Pancake-Off!!!

2006-03-02T01:15:00.000Z

Who makes the best pancakes, Ray or JP? Yes, it is a gay argument - made even more gay by a PANCAKE-OFF!

We make a pancake each for our impartial judge, funky-phone-boy Alan. We call him that to piss him off. Look, here he is now - with some of a pancake!

After careful (and somewhat drawn-out) deliberation, Al decides JP's pancakes are (and I quote) "too rubbery". The crown of "tosser of the year" goes to me...

Mmmm - pancakey goodness!

Look kids - here's what a loser looks like!

Yeah, we were a day late. Tomorrow night we'll do who makes the best ash.

Ray

WedMar01 I Predict...

2006-03-02T01:09:00.000Z

(Yes, it's the most over-used song-title since last weekend, but I've started, so I'll finish)

...A Riot!

You've probably already seen these pics: they've been floating around the web for the past few days - put together by someone who is clearly a hugely talented photo-shopper:

And from the talented to the, well, less-talented. We've been trying to re-create our profile pic. We took the one you're used to during the summer, when I had a tan and long hair. Now, I have spots and an extra chin.

We're working on better pictures. Actually, if you're the talented photo-shopper from above: we need a miracle-worker!

Later

Ray

WedMar01 Ash Wednesday...

2006-03-02T01:08:00.000Z

Meet JP:

JP got his ashes today:

But his priest likes to have a laugh:

And sometimes he can go too far:

Ray