Keith Barry is currently working the media promoting his tour Brain Hacker nationwide, but he wasn’t overly impressed when RedFM presenter Neil Prendeville cancelled his interview.
Taking to his
Facebook page, the star said that he had never met “such unprofessionalism” with the presenter, dubbing him an “amateur”, whose ego was “out of control”. Here’s the lengthy Facebook post in full:
“Had a great gig in The Olympia last night.To promote my gigs in Cork May7-11th I just drove 480km round trip to perform and chat on
Cork's 96FM and
Corks RedFM 104-106
“I got home from The Olympia at 1am and worked up new demonstrations for both stations until 4.30am. I then left me house at 6.15am to be in Cork on time. Had an absolute blast on Cork's 96FM with PJ.
“Then onto RedFm. Having been a professional entertainer for 15 years I have never met such unprofessionalism. Neil Prendeville, new to the station refused to have me on because I had just been on 96. I thought it was a wind-up at first as they had asked for no exclusivity and actually asked me 2 days prior to develop new material to perform on his fellow DJ KC which took me hours to do. These are hours I could have spent doing other things. It's interesting to me how Neil quickly forgot that I was one of his supporters during his 'unfortunate incident' and my manger sent an email of support from us to the station manager at the time. The producer this morning seemed quite dumfounded, and Neil was not even courteous enough to face me himself. The reason I write this is not to whine - it's to warn other professionals away from amateurs like Neil as the same could happen to them when such egos are out of control. I'm now off to quickly text my mates in showbiz and tell them to avoid his show as we don't have time for this nonsense. Perhaps one day Neil will return to his professionalism and return back to Earth with a hard bump. Now off to get ready for tonight's show in The Olympia - Game on”.
The radio presenter has yet to respond.