THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO TEXTED/EMAILED THEIR CHOICE

WE HAD ABOUT 3,000 TEXTS ALONE!!!!!

BELOW ARE THE WINNERS AND THE NOMINATIONS

WELL DONE TO ALL NOMINEES...YOU WILL RECEIVE A SOLID GOLDEN ROOSTER BOG BRUSH* AND A BIG HUG.

*Terms & Conditions apply...*coughs* but hug is still available and that is priceless...*cue cheesy grin*

DRUM ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE ROOSTER END OF YEAR LEGEND AWARDS

BEST LOCAL MUSIC ACT

FRED (Winner)

MICK FLANNERY

ANNETTE BUCKLEY

RULERS OF THE PLANET

SULTANS OF PING

THE FRANK AND WALTERS

BEST LOCAL BREAKTHROUGH ACT

THE ANYBODIES

SNOWMAN F.C.

CIRCUS CAT

BRIAN DEADY

FIVE WILL DIE (Winner)

LOCAL SPORTING HERO OR HEROES

LIAM KEARNEY (Cork City F.C.)

SARSFIELD STAR – PAT RYAN (won first championship in 51 yrs)

OLYMPIC WALKER ROBERT HEFFERNAN

GLANMIRE BASKETBALL CAPTAIN – MARIE BREEN (Winner)

THE CORK LADIES CAMOGIE TEAM

THE CORK LADIES FOOTBALL TEAM

BIGGEST TOOL ON THE BOX

GERRY RYAN

RYAN TUBRIDY

MARTIN KING

SEOIGE SISTERS

LORRAINE KEANE

BRENDAN O CONNOR (Winner)

AMANDA BRUNKER

BRIAN ORMOND

BEST CELEBRITY HAIRSTYLE

SIMON COWELL

MARY HARNEY

AMY WINEHOUSE (Winner)

SINEAD O CONNOR

LIAM KEARNEY

BEST INTERNATIONAL BEARD

ROY KEANE (Winner)

ROBBIE WILLIAMS

THE TYRONE TEAM

BRIDIE-MARY

DAVE MAC

CELEBRITY MOST RESEMBLING A CORPSE/ZOMBIE

POSH SPICE

KEITH RICHARDS

AMY WINEHOUSE (Winner)

RYAN TUBRIDY

ANGELINA JOLIE

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

THANKS FOR LISTENING!!!

SEE YOU ALL SOON... MYSELF AND THE TALL GUY ARE GOING INTO HIBERNATION FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS

MEANWHILE HERE'S MY RANDOM PIC OF THE YEAR:

IT WAS TAKEN OUTSIDE BROWN THOMAS ON WINTHROP ST....IT'S JUST A COUPLE OF COCKHEADS AND A DANCER....NICE!!!!



AND PLEASE CHECK OUT MY DOCUMENTARY ON CORK GUITAR LEGEND RORY GALLAGHER...ITS PART OF THE HEROES SERIES WE ARE DOING OVER CHRISTMAS...IT'S ON SUNDAY 28th DECEMBER...THANKS

check out this tree -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7785957.stm

SOME PICS FROM THE JINGLE BELL BALL!!!

WHAT A NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HUGE HUGS & KISSES (NO TONGUES ;-) TO EVERYONE WHO CAME ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND TO EVERYONE LISTENING AT HOME...WE RAISED OVER €10,000 FOR BREAST CANCER RESEARCH...A TESTAMENT TO HOW BRILLIANT YE ALL ARE...WELL DONE YOU ARE CLASS!!!!!

Here's an email we got from JOE DUFFY (not the radio dude but Breast Cancer charity man!!!) Although the other Joe is always pestering for signed pics, merchandise etc...

I thibnk this is tesatment to the hard work put in by everyone including the ROOSTER listeners:

"I hope your have recovered from the big night in the Pavillion on Saturday. I have to say the whole experience far exceeded what I expected. Your organisation of the gig was top class and all of the crew from RedFM were so helpful and are really lovely people. The Blizzards and Fred were brilliant live and I am sure your listeners, who did not get tickets for the gig, will have enjoyed the live broadcast.

To be honest I was blown away with the generosity of the Cork people as they arrived at the door of the Pavillion . I know it was a free gig and that RedFM had asked people to make a donation at the door but the level of generous donations really surprised me. I know lots of people can have personal reasons for wanting to support breast cancer research but it was very encouraging to see the level of support we received on the night. The total realised from the gig was a staggering €10,000 and this money will greatly assist Prof. Michael Kerin and his team at the National Breast Cancer Research Institute to carry on their great work. If anyone would like to get further information on the work of the NBCRI they can visit our web site www.breastcancerresearch.ie .

An example of the generous support was the following envelopes which were handed in

• €850 from John Coakley, family & friends & Keary's Toyota Cork
• €400 from Kelly Bros & fellow work mates
• €200 from The Jordan Family,Kathryn Collins, Peggy, Aisling and Barry Murray -All chipped in.

This gig was a total success thanks to a huge effort from yourself and the wonderful RedFM team. The Blizzards and Fred were fantastic and the management and staff of the Pavillion could not have been more helpful, all helping to making it a really memorable night.

On behalf of the National Breast Cancer Research Institute I wish yourself, the crew at RedFM and all your listeners a very peaceful Christmas and happy New Year.

With kind regards

Joe Duffy

NBCRI

These guys are in with us tomorrow ....PLUS we reveal our second mystery band WHOOOOOOO *cue mysterious music*.....TOMORROW IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO WIN TICKETS FOR THE JINGLE BELL BALL SO MAKE SURE YOU'RE LISTENING!!!!

Far too long now we have been subjected to adverts about moisturisers, reducing wrinkles, reducing beer guts, (hey it's just a fuel tank for a love maghine) and picking up a six-pack you CAN'T drink. So, to combat this a campaign has been started Down Under to harden up the world of the Man. So here goes with the first video to tuen the Whoa! Man into just MAN!! (sorry). Whatever you do DON'T MESS WITH CHOPPER!!!

"HARDEN THE F*CK UP"

Bear Grylls (yeah i know strange name i think he got off lightly his brothers name is Barand) ...sorry. Anywho he has been airlifted to hosptial after breaking his collar bone skateboarding or something down a very steep mountain in Nepal or wherever you find tall bits of land. The thing is he has divided opinion among survival fans. Personally, i'm a big fan of Ray Mears, he has a beer gut any Irishman would be proud of yet he only eats berries and woodland nuts, methinks he tucks into the odd lost cow every now and again. Bear has been criticised for staying in hotels and for faking his show. I think anyone willing to sleep in a camel or drain the juice from an elephant dung just for TV deserves a pint. Below is a few examples...make up your own mind. And if ye like what ye see check him out on the Discovery Channel:

CAUTION. NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED...OR THE FULL STOMACHED!

What a weekend!!!

Met Santy on Friday, Diana Vickers with her annoying puppet hand (her Mr. Garrison impression soon got the better of her) and her Dolores (Cranberries) O' Riordan random screaming got finally quenched and then the usually brash and shouty Jeremy Clarkson lost his voice on Top Gear last night. An amazing weekend by all accounts although it was all torn to pieces like a present in a shredder when i read the news that B*witched (please tell me what the * means!!) are set to reform and grace our charts again with their ear poison.

*oh and i've worked out what this means...it's an asterix to refer to a footnote.

footnote: * = god awful shite.


In other news i had a brilliant day on Friday DJing down at the annual Children's Party down in Fota House. It's amazing for the kids and i was as excited myself when i met the big man in red and white. Here are some pics:


Trees in the entrance...it was like a winter wonderland


Clowning around...big up to Wally & Bally


...I know it looks like a board meeting at FAS, but this is the party!!!


Michael Flatley gave a loan of his Roller...nice! Minnie looks very impressed although i have to say Pluto is looking rather camp...too long in the company of Mickey methinks!!


Claire, Debbie and myself meet the man himself.


Santy tells me off about being on the bad boys list...yes i'm not letting go of that selection box

Well done to Joe Swash on winning I'm a Celeb...


...I wonder if he'll continue to snog Pensioners when he gets out?

Mums are Mums and this is most definitely the case when it comes to Irish Mammy's..."Will ye ever put a scarf on"..."Now don't be in too late i'll be waiting up"....you know the craic...It's cos they love us and in their eyes we are still the little fella with the short pants or the girl with the curls!! Or in my case both...(i'm the youngest of four lads!) Irish Mammies are very similar to Jewish Mammies and this is brilliant...This morning we played out some clips from a Stand-Up comic in the States who plays her Mother's answerphone messages on stage and because they proved so popular she has even released them on CD!!!!!! BRILLIANT!!!

"Oi vey, you need to click on dis link awlready"

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/may/amy/

Nothing is always what it seems, and this is never truer that in advertising. We are bombarded with images of scantily cald women and men selling everything from jewelry to kitchen products (although it's gotta be said the two men/women in the Bounty ads should defo keep their clothes on *retches a little*) People are sitting in boardrooms now devising ways to sell things and competition is fierce...so this is why they devised 'Subliminal Advertising' I'm a massive fan of conspiracy theories cos if they're bullshit at least they're entertaining! Check out the pics and clip below for some fantastic examples of adverts that aren't quite what they seem...*cue X-Files music*

Study the picture carefully. It was used in an advertising campaign for a beer manufacturer. Notice any hidden sexual references!




And here's one that's about as subliminal as Katie Price...

Probably closer to the truth than anything...

MUSIC TO YOUR EARS...OR MAYBE NOT!!



And the movie sequel all men have been waiting for...

50 CENT BRAND NEW SHOW: THE POWER AND THE MONEY...

First we had Donald Trump and his roadkill attached to his head, then we had Alan Sugar looking like an angry Furby, then we had Bill Cullen and his penny apples...NOW it's time for Mr Curtis Jackson a.k.a. 50 Cent and his pimp daddy ways..."Get the f*ck out a here"...Drop it Fiddy!

IT'S BBBBBBLLLLLLOOOOODDDDDYYYYY FFFFREEEEZZZZIIINNNNNNGGG!!!!!


ABOVE is a perfect recreation of my face as i exited my cosy and warm bed this morning.

BELOW is a picture of my new Barometer, her name is "Busty Puppies", i was sick and tired of my previous one giving wonky readings - and now i can be guaranteed daily accurate readings, which is fantastic, that is, if she agrees to let me mount her.

Could this Puff be the next James Bond...



Japanese Zoo training drill. I wonder if they have the same kind of preparation out in Fota?..."So lads if the Rhino attacks you're going to need to know what to do with his horn"



And finally EXCLUSIVE to Lennyslogbook....He warned us all along and finally did it!:

Check out this guy's impression of movie voice legend the late Don LaFontaine...it's superb:

THE TOP TEN LONGEST MOVIE TITLES IN THE WORLD

1. Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D (1991)

2. The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure (1916)

3. Homework, or How Pornography Saved the Split Family from Boredom and Improved their Financial Situation (1990)

4. The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady from Outer Space (1965)

5. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

6. Revelations of a Sex Maniac to the Head of the Criminal Investigation Division (1972)

7. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1967)

8. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

9. Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)

10. Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die (2004)

And don't worry i haven't forgotten - Don't Be a Menace to Society while Drinking Your Juice in The Hood (1996) Thanks to Dennis the Trucker for that one!

And if you are of an agricultural leaning or you just happen to have a TRACTOR FETISH then you need to get a fix of the big wheeled beasts by checking out:

http://www.youtractor.com/

SOME FUNNY BITS...(especially if you are four years old and you were on Kids in the Car this morning...the very capable Cork radio legend and Transmission presenter/Programme Director for RedFM, Colm O Sullivan has been covering for KC while he recovers from Nile river blindness managed to make a child cry with his Donald Duck impression!!!) THESE WILL CHEER YOU UP:

TODDLER GETS THE CROWD WARMED UP!!!


"YOU COULD CALL IT THE ART OF FIGHTING, WITHOUT FIGHTING...HHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYYYYY
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"


AND INTRODUCING...THE JINGLE CATS

FIRST JINGLE-BELL BALL BAND REVEALED!!!!



Niall Breslin or "Bres" as he is known now that we are bessie mates and his fantastic band The Blizzards are confirmed as the first of two headline acts to play at the inaugral Jingle-Bell Ball being held at The Pavillion on December 13th. Bres popped in to The Rooster today to play the Feely Guessy Band lead-singer game with Eimear. The object of the game was for Eimear (wearing blindfold) to guess who the lead singer of our band was through only touch alone. At about 6'5" tall and just a few inches short of being a giant she had plenty to grab on to...(oh er missus). Tickets are free but we are asking all winners to make a generous donation on the night to the Breast Cancer Research Charity in Cork to guarantee entry. In the coming weeks we will be releasing more tickets so make sure you are listening across the day!!!

Another major act to be added to the bill very soon!

I really should get a little portable box for these things...




In other news:
"Hi, my name is Pat also affectionately known as 'The Plank'. It's time to get wood and welcome to the Late Late Show...The Satanic Sluts"



"Sure you would see more in a Marks and Spencer's lingerie ad". If you are unfamiliar with the work of Satanic Sluts. One of the dancers is a certain Georgina Bailie, who gained notoriety after being the Grand-daughter of Andrew Sachs a.k.a. Manuel from Fawlty Towers and the lady who Johnathan Ross blurted out that had "f*cked" Russell Brand. That wasn't the only controversy of the night...Pat, who probably maintains that stiff hair in the height of passion during sessions with his wife while watching re-runs of Kenny Live (apologies to all for conjuring up an image of Kenny Live....uugghhhhh Jesus) managed to lose it when a contestant over the phone said she wasn't "particularly interested" in winning tickets to The Toy Show...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YE BIG MICKEY!!!

Mickey Mouse first appeared on cinema screens in Steamboat Willie, released in 1928, and to celebrate his 80th Birthday this week I have found this EXCLUSIVE and RARELY SEEN video about the FAMOUS DISNEY VAULT. It's the place where all the Disney movies we never saw have been kept a hidden secret...Until now that is...

tv funhouse - journey to the disney vault.

We also had Boxing hero Kenny Egan on the show today alongside TV LEGENDS ZIG & ZAG!!!!!!
Here's a little reminder of what made those Zagamuffin alien tricksters so famous (cue dream FX music):

P.S. - Jaysus Ray D'Arcy has hair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





This man is down the COMEDY CLUB this Saturday. His name is Omid Djalili and he is one of the Kings of Comedy in the UK. Here's a clip from his own Sketch Show:

You've heard of Speed Dating...what about Speed relationships!!!

Ever had one of those dreams where you wake up in a cold sweat? Or in the case of our guest this morning...did you wake up clung to your sheets? He had a dream (not a Martin Luther King one) but a dream about a girl, and he fell in love with that girl straight away. Now, normal folk would probably wake up, smile, maybe have a fidget..(with the alarm clock snooze button...Jesus you people..minds in the gutter) and then carry on with life as usual. Not if your name is Adam Pacitti...No he has undertaken a crusade to find the girl of his dreams (literally) and focused every waking and maybe sleeping moment to find her.

This is his story:



http://www.thegirlofmydreams.co.uk/story.html

He's even taken to the streets of London with 12,000 FLYERS to find her!!

This is what Adam says his dream girl looks like...looks like a photofit drawn by a four year old...kind of a cross between Ugly Betty and Mr Incredible but he is determined.


Well Adam it looks like the search is over!!!! Wahey!!!!

Thanks to Ruari Twomey who sent this pic into the Rooster...



Also don't miss these lads. They're called PRENUP and they are playing Cypress Ave on Saturday. If you're a fan of the Hothouse Flowers/The Pogues you need to be there:

"ARIGHT DER LA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


"Calm down calm down i was only away for one day!!!"

Spent the weekend in the Pool but am now convinced that every weekend i go away the head takes a further two days to reconfigure back to normality and getting up at the devil's hourv in the morning!! As you can imagine i've had to crowbar myself out of the scratcher since i got back into the swing of things on Tuesday. I lived in the Pool for a few years after attending College there so it has a plaxce in my hear (and my pocket)...I think i spent the annual Gross National Product of a mini African country in my time living there...mainly playing pool in cosey corners of bars!! *ahhh the memories* Well a lot has changed and for the better. When i was there some of the places we lived actually resembled the set of a War movie after the blitz or the centre of Beirut. Thankfully, because of the Capital of Culture 2008 status, the regeneration of the City is well underway and it is fantastic. Spent Sunday checking out a new shopping mall called Liverpool 1, it's one of the biggest in Europe and is fantastic...you could find yourself conducting some serious open wallet surgery...without anaesthetic...oooohhhhhhhh.

*celebrity spot* Well i didn't see her but i was there when the text was received! We were sitting in my mate's new house in the Pool cooing over his new kids ...he's had twins...and there's us thinking he had no bullets in the barrell!! The phone goes and my mate's girlfriend got a text telling her that AMY WINEHOUSE IS SITTING OUTSIDE THE BEEHIVE BAR IN TOWN. Yes...THE BEEHIVE...i'm not shitting you!! The pub is a real old man's haunt where bicycle clips, nose hairs and a musty smell will guaranteee entry, hence Amy's arrival.



Crazy trip eh!? Not really, but i like to chill back these days with my pipe and slippers ...and it was a brilliant craic.

HIP-HOP HALLELUJAH!!!!!!


Imagine this guy conducting Mass in the local Church! "Listen up Youghal (and all surrounding parishes) this is the Real Reverend busting ye bible...WORD"

It's Father Stan Fortuna and he is the original Priest Diddy, Ecclesiastical Eminem dropping Psalms like bombs on yo ass...He looks like Des Bishop with a beard (geddit...ho hum) and sounds like he's straight out of a Martin Scorcese mobster movie (his Parish is The Bronx!). Check out his latest video - Everybody Got 2 Suffer...Recognize:



If that's not enough then check out his BEATBOXING FREESTYLE!!! Heaven's above is there anything this saviour of the streets cannot do:

http://www.francescoproductions.com/mp3s.asp

Is this the world's greatest invention...I have already filled out my Christmas wish-list:

Here's your funny bit for Monday...I seriously doubt this Politician returned on this show and he has probably also given up the pies!!!



Okay, so I sense a bit of a theme emerging here...

Paul O'Grady's face os priceless...pause at moment of impact for full effect:



This model could have earned so much kudos if she didn't storm off like a toddler!



And where would we be without some footballers falling foul...scroll to about 1:41 in to see why referees are referees:

Okay, so as the world and the media bandwagon begins to change down a gear after the conclusion of the US Election I managed to find this:

Is this the future of news reporting? During the American election CNN Reporter Jessica Yellin was in Chigago was recorded as a hologram and beamed into the studio in New York -



Even Will.I.Am is getting into it...you can see his humps ...his humps...his holographic humps:



Ummmm... reminds me of something -

When our children's, children's, children dust of the books off the past and thumb through the pages of history they will remember this day as being the day when they heard that S CLUB 7 are reforming!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, the magnificent seven who brought joy to so many with hits like Reach (for your arse) and S Club Party have decided to get back together again (well three of the least successful in the band) according to The Scum:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1893131.ece

apparently you can get three of them to do a twenty minute set for a few grand...i'd rather tear my skin off and do backstrokes in a vinegar pool.

Also in the news...In the words of that other S Club song BRING IT ALL BLACK!!!!!!!!!!

BARACK OBAMA IS THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT OF AMERICA



Never thought i would be writing that to be honest....45 years after Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream speech" it seems that the sentiments of his original hopes have been fulfilled. It's amazing to think that less than fifty years ago Blacks and minorities weren't even allowed to enter college, sit where they wanted on a bus, drink from the same water cooler, swim in the same beach or even walk down the same street. I am usually the cynical type, but this Election win sends out a message that a stand-up comedian from Texas with a cabbage for a brain brought that country to it's knees and it wants to be respected not laughed at. People who would never have voted took to the streets in huge numbers and probably feel as thought they might finally have a voice. Well this is just the start. Wow, it's almost as exciting as the Irish Presidential election...I think ours should at least involve an obstacle course and a go-kart race or even a Father Ted style lovely girls competition instead of a simple hand shake test..."Yes, I can confirm Mary MacAleese has the best handshake amongst all the candidates and is the next President of Ireland".

Ill leave you with this quote from Martin Luther King from Letter from a Birmingham Jail one of the most perceptive and brilliant things i've read :

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant 'Never'. We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied.Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. "


Super Obama!!!


Pictured with his alter ego...

And finally the truth about Obama's roots are revealed:

WHO CARES ABOUT THE OUTCOMEOF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION...IT'S THE DANCE OFF THAT MATTERS...OBAMA & McCAIN BUST SOME MOVES!!!!!

Obama/ McCain Dance Off


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