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Since I joined Radio
Seagull back in 2006, time has flown by and from 1 programme a week to 3
(558, Smooth Jazz & Soft Rock), if it wasn’t for the day job that got in
the way, I would be doing even more programmes. That’s the joy of
Seagull, the freedom to choose the music for your own programmes.
My interest in radio
started with the pirates of the 70’s, Caroline, RNI, Radio Atlantis and
early ILR stations like Capital, LBC. At the tender age of 14 I did the
‘Young DJ Spot’ on Capital Radio, a place I spent many a weekend hanging
around to meet my hero of the day Kenny Everett.
So off to Hospital
Radio’s Medway and Maidstone for the ground work training and knob
twiddling. At BBC Radio Medway, I was the stand in presenter for Kent
Rocks and a regular contributor with the weekly Gig Guide this was
followed by a period of doing Voice Over’s for Commercials as
Independent Radio began to expand in the UK.
When Medway FM began
RSL’s I presented the Breakfast Show and participated in all their other
RSL’s and including when they won the application to have the licence to
broadcast to the Medway Towns. (now KMFM)
In October 2003 I
joined Radio Caroline and carved out a spot as the Sunday Morning
breakfast presenter from their then Maidstone based studios and from the
Ross Revenge during Caroline RSL’s till October 2005, this was in
addition to doing programmes from 2005 to the current day for internet
and RSL stations like ERBS Radio, TNI Radio, Radio Samantha, Red Sands
Radio & Summit Radio.
Today I’m glad to be
providing programmes for Radio Seagull and contributing to the nearly
forgotten thought that you can still broadcast from a ship and for a
short time each year to broadcast from the sea, it’s like going back in
time to an era of unprecedented development in the history of Radio in
the UK and the Netherlands.
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