What’s your day job?
I listen to records for the radio shows I do. I present a show on Radio 1 on Tuesday (soon to be Wednesday) nights. It focuses on new music of all genres, mostly guitar orientated. On Thursday nights I present the Raido 1 in Wales show with Bethan Elfyn, which we’ve been doing for seven years. That show focuses on new music of all genres, with a strong empahsis on Welsh music. I also present three shows a week on BBC Radio Cymru, the Welsh language station in Wales, and a music TV show called Bandit for S4C. I write a bit too. And look at myspace….
When and where was your BC compère debut?
I DJ’ed at the festival for the first time last year, also my first year of going to it. I was very pleased to be there, I’d heard so much about it over the years. I had a great time too, such a nice atmosphere…
What stage are you on?
The Village Green stage. Just seen the full line-up, and it looks ace….
What are you personally looking forward to on your stage?
A Hawk and a Hacksaw. I love their records, but yet to see them live. Tunng are always good of course, I’ve seen them three times this year already – in Texas, Barcelona and Cardiff! I look forward to the Phantom Beats set, and I’ve heard good things about Bellowhead…
Any embarassing or difficult compère moments to share?
Nothing particularly stands out, and that’s a good thing!
Tell us one of your best compère moments!
At the Reading Festival last year, Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age instructed me what to say when introducing them onstage. I was given a piece of paper with the words ‘From the Bottom of Hell to the Top of Heaven’, and nothing else. Luckily the words came out in the right order..
If all else fails…
Go and visit the food stalls at the Big Chill. Honestly – they blew my mind last year.
My personal Big Chill highlight so far has been…
Fat Freddy’s Drop last year. So good.
Top festival tip?
Take suncream. Go and see bands and Dj’s you haven’t heard of. Never heckle the compére.
Lastly, I’m not posh, I’m…
Welsh.
Huw’s profile
When Profits Drop at Ford Motor Co., So Do Executives’ Rewards.(Originated from Detroit Free Press)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News April 10, 1996 | Brennan, Mike Apr. 10–Despite a healthy profit of $4.1 billion last year, Ford’s board of directors cut Ford Chairman Alex Trotman’s bonus in half and froze his salary in 1995. here ford stock price today
Trotman wasn’t the only top Ford executive to take a financial hit because of lower corporate earnings, according to the automaker’s 1995 proxy statement to shareholders, released Tuesday.
Executive Vice President W. Wayne Booker, Ford Automotive President Edward Hagenlocker, Vice Chairman Louis Ross and Ford Financial Services Group President Kenneth Whipple also received little or no raises and smaller bonuses.
“We pay for performance,” said Ford spokesman Chris Vinyard. “And 1994 was a record year for Ford. While 1995 was the fourth-best year ever, compensation is tied to performance both long-term and annually.” In 1995, Ford earned $4.1 billion, down 23 percent from the record $5.3 billion in 1994.
Trotman also was awarded 350,000 stock options worth about $1.1 million as of Tuesday’s closing stock price.
Stock options are a form of executive compensation tied to stock prices. Executives can buy stock at prices typically below prevailing market values and pocket the difference.
In the United States, Ford’s automotive operations earned $1.8 billion, declining $1.2 billion compared with 1994. A solid first half of 1995 was followed by a disappointing second half, due in large part to the cost of retooling more factories than usual to build redesigned models such as the Ford Taurus midsize sedan and the F150 pickup.
The board also weighed product quality and customer satisfaction in deciding how much to pay its top executives, Vinyard said, but neither counted as much as the lower financial results.
Even so, Trotman earned $5,431,354 last year, about $2.5 million less than in 1994. Much of the change came from a cut in his bonus from $6 million in 1994 to $3 million. here ford stock price today
Ford’s chairman actually pocketed about $3.1 million last year, and had the remaining $2.3 million deferred to future years. How much he earns in deferred income is tied to the long-term performance of Ford and the future of Ford’s stock price.
It’s another incentive for Trotman to pull the right strings so that Ford stock price and profit levels increase.
It’s also the same carrot Ford’s board gave to the other top executives and to the board itself. Each director has agreed to maintain ownership in stock equal to five times the sum of the outside director’s annual board and committee fees, roughly $60,000 a year.
Ford last year adopted guidelines for people at the vice-presidential level and above that establish target ranges from one times salary to five times for Trotman.
Trotman has extended the one-time earnings target to 30 other key executives below the vice-presidential level, tying the bulk of Ford’s senior executives compensation to company performance.
The board also decided that as of last January, $10,000 of each director’s annual fee will be paid in stock, not cash.
Both Chrysler Corp. and General Motors Corp. have made similar moves to either fully or partially compensate board members with stock instead of cash.
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—– C, GM, F, Brennan, Mike
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