Danny Kelly appreciation thread

[Midfield_General]

Not directly Saints-related, but hopefully it gets a pass as it's the international break. 

Couldn't see an existing thread, so (prompted by CB in the Austin thread), just to say RIP to Danny Kelly who passed away this week. 

I used to love Under The Moon when I was a student. Three hours of loosely sport-related live chaos, all tucked away late at night on terrestrial TV before we had Sky. A particular favourite was Ken Monkou getting more and more visibly pissed up as he got on it while taking calls for a phone-in. 

Founder of Football365 which to me felt like the first football website that successfully understood fan culture. Pretty much the only good thing about TalkSport. Highly knowledgable and passionate about not only football, but music too, as a former editor of the NME. 

Always came across as warm, funny and was one of those people that apparently no-one had a bad word to say about off-screen. Numerous stories being shared by people who he helped and mentored. The 365 tribute was really nice: 

https://www.football365.com/news/rip-danny-kelly

Felt like he was one of the good guys. RIP. 

Edited 14 hours ago by Midfield_General

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Absolutely the highlight of Talksport. Or anything else really. How many people could you just listen to talk about anything, knowing it's going to be not only interesting and knowledgeable, but also open and happy to get others involved.

[Lymington Saint]

He sat in for Danny Baker on 606 a number of times.  One theme was 'Oddest ways of getting to games' was priceless.  A Partick Thistle supporter rang in who ran to away games.  Asked the furthest he had run to a game replied Queen of the South (Dumfries).  70 miles.  Took him two days.

Nice tribute on ITV during the England game last night

RIP

[Kenilworthy1959]

8 minutes ago, Lymington Saint said:

He sat in for Danny Baker on 606 a number of times.  One theme was 'Oddest ways of getting to games' was priceless.  A Partick Thistle supporter rang in who ran to away games.  Asked the furthest he had run to a game replied Queen of the South (Dumfries).  70 miles.  Took him two days.

Nice tribute on ITV during the England game last night

RIP

Back when 606 was an interesting. Now its just about Premier League supporters going to ask for their manager to be sacked. That is when they actually have callers on, as much of it is the presenters gassing.

[AlexLaw76]

He was a brilliant presenter on any format.

[CB Fry]

Sorry have been at work, thanks for starting the thread.

Danny Kelly was fantastic, and absolute titan across publishing/music/sports broadcasting and an Internet entrepreneur as well.

I was a bit young for his time on the NME but he built Q magazine into a market leader and must-read music magazine.

On TV Under The Moon on C4 was absolutely nuts middle of the night nonsense (plus Lisa Rogers) but brilliant.

But more than anything i enjoyed his work with Danny Baker, a fantastic pairing of knowledge and ideas and broadcasting brilliance. Just constant source of laughter for me aged 16-20 and beyond 

I'm not a big TalkSport listener these days but if I put it on and it was Danny you knew your were safely far away from the shock jock idiots usually on the station.

 

I was a bit choked up listening to the tributes (I'm not Spurs fan but the one on the View From the Lane podcast was superb).

Just someone that was there loving the things I loved and knowing more about it all than I ever will.

RIP

[Midfield_General]

1 hour ago, CB Fry said:

Sorry have been at work, thanks for starting the thread.

Danny Kelly was fantastic, and absolute titan across publishing/music/sports broadcasting and an Internet entrepreneur as well.

I was a bit young for his time on the NME but he built Q magazine into a market leader and must-read music magazine.

On TV Under The Moon on C4 was absolutely nuts middle of the night nonsense (plus Lisa Rogers) but brilliant.

But more than anything i enjoyed his work with Danny Baker, a fantastic pairing of knowledge and ideas and broadcasting brilliance. Just constant source of laughter for me aged 16-20 and beyond 

I'm not a big TalkSport listener these days but if I put it on and it was Danny you knew your were safely far away from the shock jock idiots usually on the station.

 

I was a bit choked up listening to the tributes (I'm not Spurs fan but the one on the View From the Lane podcast was superb).

Just someone that was there loving the things I loved and knowing more about it all than I ever will.

RIP

Superbly put. 👏

[Jazzfunk]

He will be hugely missed. Under The Moon was a highlight of late night 90s telly and the interplay between Danny and Tom Binns was chaotic brilliance. Danny straddled the worlds of music and sport like very few others and just did everything with an air of journalistic integrity that always placed him above so many of the dinlos he shared airspace with at talksport, and even those who came after him at the NME. He was just the best. RIP Danny