95.8 FM Capital Radio > Reviews (31)

Want to hear interesting new music on the cutting edge? Postmodern presentation styles? Clever humour? Intelligent talk? You'd better tune elsewhere then.

Capital, whose name is surely missing an 'r', is the most stagnant, dull, uninnovative station I have ever had the misfortune of enduring.

Every morning for several hours, a bloke who really doesn't need the money sits in a studio reading from newspapers that the listeners are presumably too lazy to read themselves, being patronising and sexist to women insane enough to 'phone in, and playing what feels like the same four or five records on a loop, ad infinitum.

Capital's "music" policy is simple. Play whatever's in the top 20 or likely to be when it's released. Ignore everything else. It's no wonder the charts sound so repetitive and awful these days when radio stations like Capital don't allow any new bands or interesting music to break through.

And of course, because this station is so bland, so mindless, such aural wallpaper, it has more listeners than any other station in London. After all, think of the average man in the street. 50% of the population are more stupid than him.