The Great Grooverider - Nicked in Dubai

I have to admit to a wry grin, when reading the London Paper on the way home from Metro yesterday, and spotting a NIB (news in brief) on Grooverider allegedly being nicked in Dubai for possession of cannabis and hardcore porn. Nutter. Maybe now Radio 1 will have to end his near decade on the radio.
No disrespect as I have a huge amount of respect for Grooverider and Fabio and what they have done for jungle, drum & bass and taking it to a wider audience, but they have to be two of the most dry radio broadcasters ever. I don't know anyone that listens to their show now, when a in the late 1990s it was a must-listen. I don't believe they have their finger on the pulse of grassroots d&b.

Having said that I don't know anyone that listens to any of the specialist shows on Radio 1 or 1Xtra - Gilles Peterson's show excluded - coz it's well documented (and blogged on here) that 1Xtra has lost the plot (check out www.myspace.com/1xtrahaslostheplot). Kiss with Logan Sama, Sinden et al, is the place to go for cutting edge underground music, or of course Rinse, who's latest podcast has Warp's electronica-jazz-hip hop dude, Flying Lotus doing a set with Kode9. BIG. I'm gonna be downloading that in about 30 seconds time!