Rosie Beaton, perhaps the most balanced and dedicated person on triple j‘s airwaves in our lifetime has announced her retirement from Super Request, the show she has hosted for a decade.
Super Request is an odd beast, in that Rosie spends more time talking to the general public than any other presenter who isn’t in talkback radio. Listeners can phone in their song requests, which they do in droves and have done for years. And Rosie, stalwart of the j’s, has been their indulging their (and our) general stupidity for longer than many of us have been sexually active. It’s going to be very sad to see her go.
As it is almost entirely audience-driven, Super Request is perhaps the best indication of how Australian music tastes have changed since the turn of the millennium, with drunk, stoned and bogan bros and bras shifting their preferences from Powderfinger to Presets to Pendulum, Soundgarden to The Strokes to Simian Mobile Disco and Rage Against The Machine to Red Riders to Robyn. To have to deal with that kind of sonic schizophrenia is enough to drive anyone mad in a week, and Beaton has been running that shit like a boss for ages.
Beaton will be hosting her final edition of Super Request at Sydney Uni’s Manning Bar on Friday December 9. More news on that as we receive it.
We’ll miss you Rosie. The drive home will not be nearly as entertaining.
via ABC.
