Geoff Lloyd

For other people with the same name, see Geoffrey Lloyd (disambiguation).
Geoff Lloyd
Born (1973-04-20) 20 April 1973
Withington, Lancashire, England
Occupation Radio presenter
Employer Absolute Radio
Agent Noel Gay
Known for Pete And Geoff Breakfast Show
The Geoff Show
Geoff Lloyd with Annabel Port
Website Absolute Radio profile

Geoff Lloyd (born 20 April 1973) is a British radio presenter, television host and writer, best known for his talk radio and music shows. Since 2008, he has presented Geoff Lloyd with Annabel Port on Absolute Radio (originally titled Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show). He formerly presented the Pete And Geoff Breakfast Show alongside Pete Mitchell and The Geoff Show, co-hosted by Annabel Port.

Early life

Lloyd was born in Withington, England,[1] and raised in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.[2] As a teen, he worked as a paperboy, and in 1989 he began working at a local print works after school, earning £1 an hour.[3]

Career

Beginnings in radio (1991-96)

Lloyd began his radio career in 1991 as a traffic and travel reporter at Signal Cheshire in Stockport, remaining there until the end of 1994.[4]

Lloyd has called comedian Craig Cash a major influence on his career, for both his comedy and interview style as well as his support. Cash hired Lloyd to work on The Mrs Merton Show as a runner, and later introduced Lloyd to Pete Mitchell, who he would end up teaming up with on the air for a decade as the duo Pete and Geoff.[4]

Pete and Geoff (1996-2005)

Lloyd first teamed up with Pete Mitchell in 1996 at Piccadilly Radio in Manchester. Soon after, they took over the afternoon show on local radio station Key 103.[5][6] In late 1998, the duo, known as Pete and Geoff, was recruited by Virgin Radio to take over the weekday evening show.[1] They also covered for Chris Evans on the breakfast show on occasion, and rapidly built up a large audience. The pair took over the drive time breakfast show in 2002.[7] Lloyd provided a comedic, occasionally outrageous personality, with Mitchell as the straight man. They were known for their "political satire… mixed with pub humour."[8] They won a Sony Gold Radio Academy Award for an interview with Noel Gallagher in 1998,[5][9] and won a second Sony Gold for an interview with Paul McCartney in 2002.[9][10] In March 2005, Virgin Radio launched a daily half-hour podcast consisting of the best bits from the Pete and Geoff Breakfast Show. It was the station's first foray into podcasting, and the first daily show to be made available in podcast format from one of the major radio groups.[11]

In May 2005, the duo announced that they were splitting up and would be leaving the breakfast show at the end of the year.[5][10] Their final show together took place on 16 December 2005.[12] Virgin Radio programming director Paul Jackson called them "great radio talents."[5] The duo was replaced as hosts of the breakfast show by Christian O'Connell.[5] Lloyd remained at Virgin Radio, taking over the late night slot.[5][6]

Geoff Lloyd with Annabel Port and other shows (2006-present)

Lloyd's new show, The Geoff Show, debuted on 3 January 2006 and was broadcast late nights on Virgin Radio, with co-host Annabel Port and producer Nelson Kumah.[4] The first public airing of The Beatles remix album Love was on The Geoff Show in 2006.[13]

Virgin Radio was rebranded as Absolute Radio in 2008.[14] On March 20, 2008, Lloyd began presenting the Absolute Radio weekday drive time program Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show, with Port remaining as co-host.[15] The show combines music and chat, with call-ins on various topics.[2] At its core is "the digressive, quirky chat on matters of very little real importance."[16] On August 1, 2015, the show was renamed Geoff Lloyd with Annabel Port.

From 2010 to 2014, Lloyd hosted Unknown Pleasures on Absolute Radio, playing indie rock and alternative music.[17] In 2013, Lloyd began hosting Beatles Brunch with Geoff Lloyd on Sunday mornings on Absolute Radio 60s. The show is two hours of Beatles music and cover versions of their songs, along with talk exclusively about the band.[15] In 2016, Lloyd and Port created the podcast Serial: This British Life, a parody of the WBEZ podcast Serial.[18]

Lloyd has interviewed a wide variety of subjects, including Paul McCartney,[19] talk show host Conan O'Brien,[20] comedian Russell Brand[21] and then-UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, in an interview described as one of Miliband's best broadcast interview performances.[22][23]

Writing and television

Lloyd has written for Channel 4's TFI Friday, BBC One's Comic Relief, Chris Addison's Cakes and Ale show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish.[8] He was a columnist for The New Day during its two-month run in 2016, and has written for the New Statesman[24] and Huffington Post.[25]

In 2009 and 2010, Lloyd worked alongside Annabel Port on a Channel 5 fan show for the drama series FlashForward. Titled FlashForward Friday, the online show was a weekly review on the latest episode of the series following its broadcast on Channel 5.[26]

From 2011 to 2013, Lloyd and Port hosted seasons 1-3 of Thronecast, a Sky Atlantic television series reviewing the latest episodes of HBO's Game of Thrones.[27]

Lloyd has appeared several times on the Channel 4 show Richard & Judy; as a commentator on Big Brother's Little Brother with Dermot O'Leary; and as a celebrity contestant on the game shows Eggheads and Win, Lose or Draw Late.[28]

Awards

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Barrie White, "Radio's Geoff Lloyd," Mancunian Matters, March 13, 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Absolute Radio's Geoff Lloyd: I’ve been shunned by my home town," Metro, November 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ Jonathan Sale, "My First Job: Virgin Radio DJ Geoff Lloyd was a printer's devil," The Independent, November 8, 2006.
  4. 1 2 3 Sophie Morris, "My Mentor: Geoff Lloyd on Craig Cash," The Independent, January 7, 2007.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Julia Day, "Pete and Geoff split up," The Guardian, November 4, 2005.
  6. 1 2 "Pete and Geoff in big split," Manchester Evening News, November 8, 2005.
  7. ↑ "Pete and Geoff's big breakfast break!" Manchester Evening News, February 17, 2002.
  8. 1 2 "Radio: Viva Las Virgin," The Independent, November 14, 2004.
  9. 1 2 "Pete Mitchell currently presents Sunday mornings here on Radio 2," BBC Radio. Accessed July 3, 2016.
  10. 1 2 "DJ duo quit Virgin breakfast show," BBC News, May 17, 2005.
  11. ↑ Julia Day, "Virgin's Pete and Geoff make podcast debut," The Guardian, March 9, 2005.
  12. 1 2 Adam Bowie, "A Brief History of Virgin Radio," adambowie.com, March 12, 2014.
  13. ↑ Tony Sokol, "The Beatles' Love Album Streams At Midnight," denofgeek.com, June 16, 2016.
  14. ↑ Peter Robinson, "Absolute Radio: a day in the life with Peter Robinson," The Guardian, January 26, 2013.
  15. 1 2 Miranda Sawyer, "Rewind Radio: Don't Log Off; Beatles Brunch with Geoff Lloyd; Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show – review," The Guardian, May 11, 2013.
  16. ↑ Elisabeth Mahoney, "Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show," The Guardian, October 20, 2009.
  17. ↑ Sarah Champion, "Hallelujah! Rufus Wainwright's new release is an unknown pleasure," Daily Express, March 13, 2014.
  18. ↑ Jess Commons, "Podcasts That Are Like Serial," The Debrief, March 18, 2016.
  19. ↑ Adam Bychawski, "Paul McCartney: 'I want to record with Bob Dylan'," NME, November 18, 2008.
  20. ↑ Miranda Sawyer, "Oxford Biographies; Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show – radio review," The Guardian, August 9, 2014.
  21. ↑ Cavan Sieczkowski, "Russell Brand Opens Up About His Sexuality," Huffington Post, October 29, 2014.
  22. ↑ Charlotte Krol, "Ed Miliband 'proud' to be a geek," The Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2015.
  23. ↑ Adam Withnall, "Ed Miliband on Absolute Radio: The interview that will make you seriously consider the Labour leader to be the next Prime Minister," The Independent, April 2, 2015.
  24. ↑ “Battle of the Beatles: who was the fabbest of the four?” New Statesman, August 29, 2014.
  25. ↑ Geoff Lloyd, "Obsessive Personality Test Disorder," Huffington Post, November 3, 2014.
  26. ↑ "Five's FlashForward Friday: A561984 Webisode," flashforwardblog.com, February 26, 2010.
  27. ↑ "Thronecast, Series 3," Radio Times, 2013.
  28. ↑ "About Geoff Lloyd," Absolute Radio. Accessed July 3, 2016.
  29. ↑ John Plunkett, "Euro awards for Virgin and Radio 1 men," The Guardian, November 7, 2007.
  30. ↑ Plunkett, John. "LBC talkshow host Nick Ferrari wins two Arqiva Commercial Radio awards | Media". theguardian.com. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  31. ↑ "Sony Radio Academy award winners," The Guardian, May 15, 2012.
  32. ↑ Hannah Furness, "Sony Radio Academy Awards 2013: John Humphrys and Five Live Winners," The Daily Telegraph, May 13, 2013.
  33. ↑ Huw Fullerton, "Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo lead radio awards nominations," Radio Times, February 19, 2015.

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