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Dave Fanning (born 30 December 1955) is an Irish rock journalist, DJ, film critic and broadcaster. Fanning currently hosts ''The 11th Hour'' on RTÉ Two and two radio shows: ''Drivetime with Dave'' on RTÉ Radio 1 and ''The Dave Fanning Show'' on RTÉ 2fm. He also fills in for other presenters on RTÉ Radio, including acting as a surrogate for Ryan Tubridy in June 2009. Likewise, John Creedon has worked as a surrogate for Fanning. Due to his much celebrated friendship with U2, Fanning has for three decades been granted the first airing of any of the band's new singles before anyone else in the world, with band members often calling Fanning to tell him what they are doing. He has presented more than twenty different series for RTÉ Television, including ''2TV'', ''The Movie Show'' and documentaries on Cambodia and Ethiopia. He also hosted RTÉ's live television coverage of Live 8 in Hyde Park, London (July 2005) and Live Earth in Wembley Stadium, London (July 2007). He claims to have conducted around 200 interviews with global rock stars.〔 Fanning is the receiver of several awards and nominations, the first of which was a Jacob's Award in 1980. He won numerous IRMA awards and has won Best DJ at the Meteor Music Awards a total of three times, and been nominated at least twice more in 2008 and 2009, this after being granted the Industry Award in 2004. ''Hot Press'' regards Fanning as "one of the most familiar faces and voices in Irish broadcasting". Rob Sharp of UK newspaper ''The Independent'' has referred to him as a "legendary Irish DJ".〔 BP Fallon commented in 2008: "Without Dave Fanning on the radio, music in Ireland would have had a poorer face. Dave changed things, opened up ears". The ''Sunday Tribune''s Eithne Tynan has defined his style as a "thousand words a minute, start a whole new sentence before you've finished the previous one". Fanning is parodied by Oliver Callan. ==Early and private life== Born in Dublin, Fanning was educated at Blackrock College, graduating from University College, Dublin (U.C.D.), with a degree in English and Philosophy and a Higher Diploma in Education. That same year Dave took over as editor of Ireland's only rock magazine (''Scene'') and began working as a DJ on the fledgling pirate radio station, Radio Dublin in 1977. Dave then moved to Big D when it was formed by Radio Dublin deejays in 1978. On both pirates, he presented rock shows. He continued with that format when he made the move to legal radio in 1979. Fanning has always supported young, new Irish talent; he played their demo tapes and gave them radio sessions. His very first session in RTÉ Radio 2 (RTÉ 2fm) was with a young four-piece Dublin band called U2 and his friendship with, and support for, the band, led to Fanning's listeners deciding on the A-side and B-sides of the band's first single release. (This was in the pre-CD days, when singles were only released on vinyl). The band came into Fanning's show for five nights in one week and the listeners picked "Out of Control" as the first single, with "Stories for Boys" and "Boy/Girl" on the B-side. Fanning's friendship with the band has continued. At a surprise birthday party, held at Dublin's Mother Redcaps in 1989 all four members of U2 paid tribute to Fanning; the band's manager Paul McGuinness presented him with a special present referring to Fanning as "the world's best DJ". Besides being guaranteed the world exclusive on all U2 releases, the band recorded a specially-filmed musical tribute to Fanning when he was presented, in 2004 (by Larry Mullen) with the Irish Music Industry's top award – The Meteor Industry Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.meteor.ie/about/music_awards/mima_winners/ )〕 Ursula was a researcher for Gay Byrne on ''The Late Late Show''. Musically he is a fan of Bob Dylan, whom he describes as his God, although he dislikes his live performances.〔 He met Gerry Ryan around 1978 while both were working in Dublin pirate radio station "Big D", sharing the common bond of both having attended college, though at separate colleges.〔 Fanning claims they met at work daily between 1980 and 1999.〔 Their friendship led them to socialise and holiday together, while the Fannings even moved in with the Ryans for a time in September 1995 when the Fanning house was under construction.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dave Fanning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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