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Alex Zane suspended from Xfm Breakfast show

Radio DJ aired self-penned song about rape on his show

Alex Zane has been suspended from presenting his breakfast show on Xfm.

Last Wednesday (August 20) the DJ played a song he wrote about rape called 'I Won't Take No For An Answer'.

The track was written in the same style as Sixties' singer Mike Sarne - who recorded similar risqué songs such as 'Dodgy Looking Bird' and 'Come Outside'.

According to CMU Daily the station released a statement saying: "On Wednesday morning, the breakfast show broadcast an item that, in the view of station management, was distasteful and likely to cause offence. As a result, the breakfast team has been suspended, pending a formal disciplinary process."

The station broadcast a full apology at 7.20am on Thursday August 21.

The statement from Xfm concluded: "We are sorry for any offence caused."

Radio personality Dave Berry will stand in for Zane until September 1.

It's not the first time the breakfast show has been in the spotlight after Alex Zane had a public feud with The Enemy and refused to play their records on his show.
 

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jeepcat 

Aug 27, 2008

anyone have the lyrics?

whatawasteoftime 

Aug 27, 2008

Anything that gets this pointless, vapid, talentless student-looking asshat off our screens and airwaves must be applauded.

lindsaylights 

Aug 28, 2008

it actually wasn't him who wrote it, it was some other guy on the show. wasn't particularly offensive but still a pretty stupid thing to do - and we're the ones being punished cos now we have to listen to dave twatface berry

jenie.h 

Aug 28, 2008

WOW! I never heard the 'song' that was played on the Breakfast Show. I know Alex and the rest of the guys on that show can be a bit risque from time-to-time, but this has totally blown me away!Did they really think they would not get into some sort of trouble considering the nature of the lyrics???It is a shame as I find Alex's show quite funny most of the time. Hopefully, XFM will allow him to come back to work and Alex himself will learn a valuable lesson about what NOT to say on LIVE RADIO!!

mercuriop 

Aug 28, 2008

xfm is crap and alex zane is a music ignorant... that's more relevant than everything else..

ed2005 

Aug 28, 2008

Haven't heard the song. However, there are some things that are, rightly, taboo for making jokes about, and this is one of them. Anyone who tries to defend this as a freedom of speech issue is missing the point (not that anyone on here has done that, thankfully, but the point remains).

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