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<< Orchard FM, on air, 1992
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In studio 1, Orchard FM during 1992, presenting the first evening shows - below left, my favourite shows were OB’s - here with Darren Daly at the
Royal Bath and West Show live, 1992.
Interviewing Robbie & Noel, Glastonbury ‘95 >>
Surrounded by the British press - I get that moment Noel & Robbie meet at Glasto. It's seminal in recent rock history and often referenced by the likes of Q Magazine. Robbie’s ’off ’is ’ead for the entire episode and appeared with Oasis on stage. Two weeks later Rob’s booted out of Take That and Oasis go to no.1 with Roll with It.
<< The ‘10p Club’
with Tears For Fears, Paris, June 2005.
Curt, me, Alain La Harne, Brett and Shaun Smith
<< Left, with Roland after their Paris stadium performance, showing him the bootleg video I've just shot of the gig!
<< DevonAir Reunion >>
DevonAir Reunion—rgt, Steve Carpenter, John Pierce & I >>
DevonAir Reunion—rgt, Nicky Ezer, Tim Arnold & I - the ‘Street Level’ team who got my radio
career going back in 1985.>>
- Nov 2005
^ Some of the classic team - legendary commercial producer, Mike Jones, CJ- the- DJ, Gordon Somerville, and Kevin Kane.
<< Live 8 Hyde Park, July 2005
Julia and I do the big back stage thing at Live 8, yes, that controversial ‘golden circle’, where the public were kept at bay–quite bloody right too. Don’t want some ‘spod’ spilling my ‘fair trade’ pint.
 ^ Eamonn’s AfricaShamwari, S. Africa, |
 ^ Great EscapesNamibia, Nov, 2006- with Michelle Morrison, Steve Smith, Ian Birch, GMTV |
 ^ Mmm, this still feels warm...GMTVSat on the GMTV sofa shortly after joining, 2001 |
 HTV presenter cardPicture with Gill Impey for The Pleasure Guide, ‘99 |
 ^ That’s BOBBY out of Dallas!GMTV crew Simon, Jason & I have a team pic with legend Patrick Duffy at the All Star Golf, Sept, 2006. He’s got webbed feet, ya know... |
 Former view of Twin TowersCoati Mundi’s former view of the Twin Towers, Brooklyn, NYC, with Shawn Thorner, 1999 |
New York >>Taking time off HTV West to invade New York with Liverpool musicians - including Ian McNabb, April ‘99 |
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<< Reading Festival”Mad For It...” trying to make sense of Shaun Ryder, Reading Festival, 1996.
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Take ThatThe ‘other’ one in Take That…HMV, Chester, Sept, 1992 - interviewing them for my evening show, MFM. Mark and Rob seemed esp close - wearing badges with the other's name on.
^^ Radio CityBeginning of a great friendship - The Inspiral Carpets final radio session before they split...the first time around. Radio City, Sept 1994.
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<< Clint Boon’s weddingThe Inspiral Carpets assemble in Manchester for Clint Boon’s wedding to Charley - I was a guest with the Scouse mob.Left: Peter ‘New Order’ Hook is best man, Sept 2005. |
^ Fleetwood Mac, Wembley Stadium - Sept 1990 - backstage after their biggest UK show in years and my completion of a documentary on 25 yrs of the band, recorded with Mick Fleetwood, above, and John McVie in Las Vegas during that summer. Sam Fox & Prince Edward were also at this party. < Next to Mick, left, is John McVie, the legendary avuncular bass player, who gave an amazingly honest interview in Las Vegas - on meeting again at Wembley, he left me holding his teddy so he wouldn't look soo uncool.  ^ On a bed with my arm around Catherine Zeta Jones!Must’ve done something right - Catherine helped get me ‘extra’ work at Yorkshire TV on 'The Darling Buds' following this interview. Leeds, Autumn '92
^ Pete Wylie, me & McNabb (not Andy!)The Scouse ‘Elvis’ - Pete Wylie, me during the blonde period, Ian McNabb, out on the ‘lash’ in Liverpool, 1997. |
^ Jamiroquai Glasto gigBad hair, bad hat! That’s not Happy Monday Shaun Ryder on the left but my mate Woody. We’re chillin’ with Jay Kay before his first big Jamiroquai Glasto gig, backstage, June 1993. It's his big year. |
Emmerdale Extra >> Being an ‘extra’ in Emmerdale, Summer ’93 - they even gave me this girlfriend for the day! I was offered the chance to audition for the role of a poacher after this– not my ideal direction so I declined... |
<< Interviewing Nile RodgersInterviewing one of my all time musical heroes, Nile Rodgers, for a doco on his career, (during a B52’s studio session), Skyline Studios, New York, Feb 1992 (‘dig’ the shirt Dave…)
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<< The Human LeagueThe Human League get the Third Degree, City FM, promoting Octopus– they really were lovely people, and probably still are. Jan/Feb 1995<< Breakfast with KylieBit of a ‘scoop’ for DevonAir - it was at Simon Mayo’s Radio 1 Roadshow in Exmouth, I was 20, she’d just turned 21and I interviewed her in the Royal Beacon hotel at breakfast. The single she was promoting? 'I Wouldn’t Change A Thing'. Met my best mate Andy Pearman that day. Oddly, the figure in yellow is Rod McKenzie, who in 2000 became my boss at Radio 1 Newsbeat. Aug, 1989.
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^ End of Coati Mundi TourThe relief in my face is palpable - the end of tour party for Coati Mundi and no more arduous tour managing. In the pic is Shaun Smith, Ted Mason, and left, Hugh Cornwell, June, 1993 |
Steve Wright's Roadshow, Torquay >> Just a week after Kylie above, Peter Dickson (v/o man), Andy Pearman, myself and some of Wrighty's Roadshow crew, Torquay, August, 1989 |
The Go-Go’s & Belinda Carlisle Radio City. Those feisty ‘Go-Go’s’ with Belinda Carlisle back on the road, Liverpool, Jan ‘95. They looked like as if they struggled to all get along. Jane Wiedlin flirted like mad ... >>  |
<< Westcountry TVThe first bit of telly presenting I ever did - Westcountry TV –’Birthday People’ for kids. This highly controversial piece of regional ITV was the replacement for TSW’s much loved Gus Honeybun rabbit. April 1993.
<< My Radio City show ‘The Third Degree’Eddie Lundon of China Crisis closes another weekly ‘Crisis Helpline’ for local bands, while Suede pop in for a cuppa and a live chat before storming the Royal Court. Liverpool, winter, 1995 |
^ Adam AntBefore one of us was ‘sectioned’ - my childhood hero Adam Ant comes into the Third Degree. Over a lunch together he animatedly slagged off Michael Hutchence while spitting bits of carbonara over me. Nice. Liverpool, spring 1995. |
| Marathon broadcast day - Anfield >> Radio City - the epic Hillsborough Justice Concert, Anfield, May, 1997– Neal Atkinson & I commentate live for 8 hours with exclusive coverage and backstage interviews with all the bands. Rgt, chatting to Frank Skinner after 3 Lions and having been on stage in front of 35,000 singing You’ll Never Walk Alone, with the assembled stars – I do recall being very emotional and ‘very, very drunk at the time…’ |
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^^Justin Hawkins - pretending to act cool when he meets one of his heroes ! Justin from the Darkness, evidently joyous at our meeting. This was before rehab...for him or me?! Elle Style Awards, Jan 2005.
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<< HTV WestStudio B2, first day presenting with then weather girl Gill Impey on 'The Pleasure Guide' - in the background is Exec Producer, Maggie Lomas, (who gave me the gig bringing me back to Bristol), and director Kenneth J. Price. Below, shots of the Pleasure Guide set in studio B2. << One really classic moment on HTVI successfully reform A Flock of Seagulls for the first time since 1986.
They play ‘Wishing,’ and all for £75 & a canteen lunch. My mate Woody 'sessions' on drums.
Mini Orchard FM reunion ^ From left, Molly, David Rodgers, moi, dunno, Woody, Bev, Howard Bowles, Vicky Wood, Ilminster, April, '05. What a pair of crazy horses >> Donny Osmond - the first pop star's name I could say, aged 3. I was supposed to meet him in Bletchley in 1973 when mum worked for music amplification pioneer Jim Marshall. Only 32 years later are we destined to meet - here at the Cafe De Paris, London, Dec. 2005. He seemed to enjoy my 30 year old tale... << Stranglers Gallery, from left; small b&w; the crowd outside Dr Martens Covent Garden for 25th anniversary with me on the mic / team shot with me joining band at the back, '99 / JJ, Paul Roberts et moi Manchester Academy '92- so young! / Sil Willcox, me & Paul Trials Hotel Liverpool, '95 / Dave, Jet Black, Sil, me, Roundhay Park Leeds, 94 / b&w, band holding 25 yr discs / Myself & Hugh Cornwell, Liverpool recording studio session,'95/ Jet, me, Paul- Smokey Joe's, Stanley St, Liverpool, '97 / Paul & I, Belgium festival, 2000/ My 30th bthday, Liverpool / John Ellis with tongue out, '95. |
^ HTV WestStudio B2, Director Ken Price and my mentoring producer Bev Sage. April, 1999. Middle, Ken & I shake on a deal to sell studio equipment at the end of the show's run! Top, Gary Barlow, Gill and I enjoy a group hug...mmm!
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DevonAir Radio’s OB unitOstensibly, the day it all began for me in broadcasting - 8th August 1984, DevonAir’s OB unit at Sidmouth Folk Festival on the sea front. In both pics is John Sugar - we go around pubs getting groups to play live on-air. I’m 15 yrs old. 20 years later he hires me to read news on BBC digital station 6 Music. Funny ole world innit!
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The Monocled Mutineer - BBCtv |
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^ Above, the only remnant of the filming that can still be seen today in Somerton - the WWI French 'Telegraph' office sign from the Etaples village set of the series. Top, the Globe Inn in the market sq. with French cafe |
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'Inspiral' singer Tom Hingley having a pint after playing a set at St James' Wine Vaults in Bath for my Indie night, Sept 2007. v
^ Ever imagined what a bunch of listeners / viewers looks like? Here are some of Orchard FM's listeners circa 1990 at the Royal Bath & West Show.
^ Andy Pearman & I on the stage of the Radio 1 Roadshow, just before transmission, Plymouth Hoe, 1991. It was Phillip Schofield's week and Kylie performed...again! I was a DJ at Orchard but getting ideas above my ( radio ) station... ( not sure what's worse - the knees or the socks? )
^ The Wurzels & Same Shaped Heads stand / lean shoulder-shoulder despite the Blagdon rain. Our first gig as a band was nearly a 'pro' job supporting the Westcountry legends at Combe Lodge, Blagdon, '07. The last time I'd worked with them was 15 years before on an Orchard FM OB at the Bath & West show.. They're 'oak-aged' in the finest barrels, you know..
^It was a remarkably interesting evening, given that we were in a musty underground bunker from where Churchill ran the war, on the anniversary of the outbreak of WW II. Dame Vera Lynn regaled us with her wartime tales after a moving interview with Andrew Castle for GMTV. I later broke it to her on GMTV in a phone interview that her album was no.2 in the charts!
April at GMTV - World's largest rabbit, scary, its owner, me and Pete from Big Brother...B******! |
Ross Kemp,( "tv 'ardman" ) and I after a GMTV live from Ant n Dec's All Star Golf in Newport, S.Wales. We don't look too bad after staying up late sinking a few bottles of red the night before - Sept '06 v
^ "It was 40 years ago today...etc.."Now here's a picture - me and a Beatle - and with every picture comes a story. Ringo's day at GMTV was no different. It's all in the blog - Jan 14th '08.
Womad Festival '08- I'm DJ at the backstage bar and as we arrive, Chic are playing a greatest hits set with the likes of Peter Gabriel watching from the wings. Afterwards, Nile Rodgers is wandering around saying hi to people. I get this shot with him and we have a chat. The picture up the page separated by 16 years.
Current WBA World Heavyweight Boxer David Haye in the GMTV green room in the same week the world's largest rabbit was a guest and the PM launched the election campaign...not sure if there's any link
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