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Keating talks about his radio show
Friday 15 January 2010
According to The Guardian, Thom Yorke will not feature too highly on Keating's play-list in his new career as a DJ for the London music station Magic 105.4.
Speaking about his only meeting with the Radiohead frontman at Dublin's Clarence Hotel, he said: "He was incredibly rude and I will never forgive him.
"I was a big Radiohead fan and I still really like the music. I went up and said hello and he just grunted and walked off. I thought, whatever, God love you."
According to the station's programme director, Pete Simmons, Keating has been hired to add a "moment of sparkle" to Magic, which has an average of 2 million listeners per week.
He added: "There aren't a huge amount of performers I would trust. Ronan's done a hell of a lot - the band thing, the solo thing, he's toured the world - and he can phone Gary Barlow as a mate."
Barlow will be among the first celebrity guests on Keating's show, as will his bandmate Keith Duffy and Girls Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh.
Plus the show will have the exclusive first play of the new Boyzone single: "Little things like that are quite special. It's a fantastic opportunity. This is a proper job - I have to be somewhere at a certain time every week. That's a bit different to me; it's nice to feel part of a family, although I did with Boyzone."
When asked if he was nervous, he said: "Not really. You have a couple of buttons in front of you. You push that button, you don't push that button, and you try to take it in your stride. It flies by."
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