Official Press Release:
DList Radio CENSORED?
After four years of broadcasting the wildly popular
nightlife talk radio show DList Radio, East Village Radio has canceled the
show after a scandalous incident on their November 8 show.
The show, a very popular podcast on iTunes hosted by Daniel Nardicio, has been called
“Party Monster meets The View” and the “Gay Howard Stern Show” by the media. Despite all
of this attention, EVR station manager Jorge DoCouto deemed it necessary to
bring Nardicio in to the station and berate him for producing a show the
station considered "inappropriate", "offensive" and
"no good".
“He was seriously going off the handle about how there was
no line I wouldn’t cross, no offensive thing I wouldn’t say, which is
absolutely untrue. It’s a gay shock jock type show, that’s the format - don’t
they listen to radio?”
During the as-yet un-aired November 8 show, which features
interviews with comedians Booth and Pat, the band The Tigerlillies, Dick
Chibbles the Porn Clown and an interview with Dr Pouset, a French Anthropologist
who studied the similarities between Bonobo Apes and Homos, hosts Daniel
Nardicio and Matt Phillp discussed how enamored Nardicio was with the station’s
sound technician “Joe” and afterwards the show was mysteriously unavailable
online.
“I called the station the next morning to find out where our
show was because it is always on iTunes immediately after we record it live on
Saturday nights,” says Nardicio.
“I was told the show had been lost.”
Nardicio and Phillp apologized to “Joe” for the offending
remarks and even offered to take the “offensive” bit out of the show if only
the station would broadcast the November 8 show, but East Village Radio refused.
Nardicio and Phillp then asked several times for East Village Radio to return
the recording of the November 8 show and they not only refused, they reacted by
canceling the show.
DList Radio was featured in the
Village Voice’s
Best of New
York for 2008 and has recently broadcast interviews with celebrities like
Rue
McClanahan,
Perez Hilton,
Michael Musto,
Elijah Wood,
Lady Gaga,
Alison Moyet,
Bruce La Bruce and
Fred Schneider - many of whom
EVR were proud enough to advertise on
eastvillageradio.com's homepage.
“Based on the station’s support of our celebrity interviews,
our top iTunes rating, the fact that we’re syndicated on other web radio sites
like QNationFM.com in Cleveland and feedback from fans, we're not convinced
we're 'inappropriate', 'offensive' or 'no good',” says co-host Matt
Phillp.
“What confuses me is EVR’s official party line is that
they’re 'community based' and 'East Village' yet when I was dressed down I was
told our show was too much for the 'new' East Village, which caters to women
who moved here to be Carrie Bradshaw rather than do something interesting," says
Nardicio. "EVR is doing exactly what the entire East Village
businesses are doing, they’re trying to make it more like the Meat Packing
District, and our show is directly counter to that movement."
The show, which will be going on the road this fall with
their road version called The Fairy Home Companion will be making an announcement
after Thanksgiving about their exciting new NYC home for the show, which will
be reinvented as a multi-media, live audience event.
“
Regardless, we're still doing the show live at Sugarland in
Williamsburg this Friday with Robynne Kaamil, Bianca del Rio and DJ Aaron
Elvis,” Says Nardicio
.
Legal
proceedings to retrieve the confiscated show are also underway and to help help
us finance this free speech lawsuit you can purchase a
“I Fucked EVR’s Joe” at
www.theDshop.com starting this Friday and all our shows are now available at
www.dlistradio.com.
Well, all
except the Nov 8 show.
So far.
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