Alan Bangs
Alan John Bangs | |
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Born | London, England | 10 June 1951
Occupation(s) | Music journalist, disc jockey and radio/television presenter |
Years active | 1975–present |
Alan John Bangs (born 10 June 1951
Life and career
Bangs earned a diploma in Communication Studies from the
His career began at
Since 1977 he reached greater notoriety as a presenter of the television programme
In 1984 and 1985, on Mondays he presented the programme Musik Convoy on WDR regional television. He was also active on WDR radio, first on
From the end of 1985, he provided WDR's contribution to the joint ARD night programme
In April 1995, WDR 1 was reformed to become the "youth wave"
Among other things, this was followed by engagements with the broadcasters
From 4 April 2010 Alan Bangs presented the programme Nightflight on
Presentation style
To counter the conventional
"I want to listen to people who are interested in certain things and who go through the trouble to find recordings that I might not hear otherwise. Who are playing pieces because they think other people just have to learn about them." [Ich möchte Leute hören, die sich für bestimmte Sachen interessieren, die sich die Mühe machen, Sachen zu finden, die ich vielleicht sonst nicht hören würde. Die Stücke spielen, weil sie meinen, dass andere Menschen sie einfach hören müssen.]
In Alan Bangs Connection, he put up relationships of various kinds between the songs he played (e.g. only cover versions, only unplugged, certain years of publication, certain names or terms in the title, produced only by a specific person etc.). He once played only cover versions of Fever for an entire hour. He was often compared to John Peel for his carefreeness, courage, and open-mindedness. His BFBS broadcast has long been adjacent to John Peel's Music on BFBS. In presentation style, however, Bangs differed substantially from Peel, who made no lengthy comments about the music he played and did not make connections between several pieces or concepts for entire broadcasts.
Trivia
Alan Bang's personal record collection includes over 10000 records. In the mid-1980s, around 3000 records were stolen from his home during a break-in. During a broadcast at BFBS Radio 1 in Cologne, Bangs had previously mentioned that he would go on vacation.
Radio broadcasts
- "BFBS Germany(1975–1989)
- "LP Wochenschau", WDR 2 (1979–1981)
- "Lupenrock", WDR 2 (1982)
- "The Alan Bangs Connection", WDR 2 (1985), WDR 1(1990–1995)
- "ARD Nachtrock", WDR (1986–1990)
- "1Live(1995)
- "Rolling Stone Radio Show", RBB (1996–1998)
- "Nachtsession", BR 2 (2000–2012)
- "DRadio Wissen(2010–2013)
Television broadcasts
- "Rockpalast", WDR
- "Rockpalast Nacht", ARD
- "Full House", NDR
- "Ohne Filter", SWR
- "Jazz Zeit", SWR
- "360 Grad", VH-1 Germany
- "VH-1 1:1", VH-1 Germany
Publications
- Bangs, Alan John (1985). Nightflights - Das Tagebuch eines Dee Jay [Nightflights - The diary of a DJ] (in German). Translated by de Hollanda, Pociao; de Hollanda, Roberto (1 ed.). Düsseldorf, Germany / Vienna, Austria: ISBN 3-430-11145-5. (207+1 pages)
See also
References
- ^ "Alan Bangs Wiki – friendsofalan". www.friendsofalan.de. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- DRadio Wissen. 2012-06-10. Archived from the originalon 2013-02-11. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
- ^ "Personalien: Alan Bangs". Der Spiegel (in German) (40): 284. 1995-02-21.
- ^ "nightflights.de". www.nightflights.de. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "Nightflight mit Alan Bangs" (in German). Retrieved 2010-04-11.
- ^ "Der Pop hat kein Alter". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German): 31. 2013-06-20.
- ^ Mantel, Uwe (2013-06-20). "Wirbel um "Nightflight"-Aus bei DRadio Wissen". DWDL.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
- ^ "Playlist and comments on last Nightflight-broadcasting at 15 December 2013" (PDF). nightflights.de. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
Further reading
- "Interview mit Alan Bangs "Die Leute sind nicht so doof"". Kölnische Rundschau (in German). 2010-09-09. Archived from the original on 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- Sigg, Ulli (December 1987). "Vinyl und Radiowellen – Lebensdrogen eines DeeJays" (PDF). Kölner Illustrierte (in German): 32–33. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-02-25. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- "Alan Bangs". Der Spiegel (in German) (40). 1995-10-02. Archived from the original on 2019-02-25. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- Schwabe, Oliver [in German] (2017). "I've Lost My Mind In Essen – 40 Jahre Rocknacht" (documentary film) (in German). WDR. [1]
- Wiener, Sarah [in German]; di Lorenzo, Giovanni, eds. (2010-08-06). "Gast: Alan Bangs" (television interview). 3 nach 9 (in German). Radio Bremen TV. [2]
- Bangs, Alan John (June 2012). "Nightflight" (video) (in German).
- Bei der Kellen, Ralf (2015-06-07), Der letzte Held im Radio: Moderatorenlegende Alan Bangs gegen den Rest der Welt, Matinee (in German), SWR2, retrieved 2019-02-24 Wayback Machine
- Bangs, Alan John; Meyden, Nandine; 3nach9 (talk show) (in German). Radio Bremen TV. Archived from the original on 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2019-04-03. – YouTube
- Bangs, Alan John (2012-06-01). "Nightflight" (video) (in German). Retrieved 2019-04-03.