PAUL WRIGHT
Home of the "60's Sunday Show" on 102.3 HFM
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As mentioned on the homepage the re-launch of the "60's Sunday" kicked off at 09.00 on 24th June,2007,although now over 1 year ago a really big thank you for "Terry Hawke" helping me out on this one, he makes a good mug of tea too.The reason that Terry was on hand was at my request and I can now tell you that the reason was after suffering my heart attack I was not sure what was going to happen to me when sitting in the on air studio chair and the adrenalin rush kicks in.(well as you know I survived it,but it was certainly an unknown quantity & it took a couple of weeks to get used to using the system at HFM,as each radio station use different sorts of equipment).
If there are any music tracks that you hear on the show & would like to know more about give me a shout and I will endeavour to fill you in on the details,keep the faith, Paul.
Last August we aired an offshore radio special to mark the 40th anniversary of the "Marine offences bill".It included the jingles and records played on the offshore stations such as 'Radio Caroline', 'Radio London', 'Radio Scotland', 'Radio City', 'Radio 390' etc.We hope this showed you what the pirates did for everyone of us music lovers.!It does not seem possible it was 40 years to this day. Other features will be hi-lited over the coming weeks so check back to this page for a regular update.
You can listen to further shows on 102.3 or by logging on to www.harboroughfm.co.uk The show will play some of the stuff that is not normally aired on the radio,so should make you sit up and take notice,I would be interested to hear any feedback on that matter. All of the music played will be from my own cd library,which has a very extensive core of some of the best "60's music,it is the sort of music that will stand the test of time.! Talking of 60's music which we were as they say,if there is a particular track that you want me to dig out for you give me a weeks notice, as I have the shows produced up to one week in advance.(if there any favourite memories that would great too).
In the meantime we will try to give you one or two radio related links starting off with the radio station that really got me hooked in this business in the first place over 40 years ago,and that is Radio Caroline you can find the lady at www.radiocaroline.com
Talking of Caroline which we weren't,one of the offshore men from 40 odd years ago presents "Pirate Radio Skues" on a Sunday evening from Norfolk,from 21.00-01.00,log on at www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk or click on their listen again feature at the web sites home page.Kieth is lucky enough to broadcast this show from his own home.!!(luxury)
More locally my good friend Terry Hawke who in some ways is a modern day John Peel with the daring alternative music that he plays,(he is of that certain age now that he feels the need to do some of his shows under the influence of sherbert dabs).Either way a good listen and you can find Terry at www.harboroughfm.co.uk on Saturday evenings from 10.00-12 midnight.And a million thanks to him for building this site for me,I can edit things but he has done the lions share of the work,cheers mate.
Or go to his web page at www.terryhawke.org.uk for so much musical information.
If you can't wait until Terry comes along on a Saturday night why not try another one of my favourites ...
Links
... in the shape of Tony Gillham on Saturday morning from 09.00-12.00 midday on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
In the decade of the 1950's and surely the template of things to come for us musically,checkout this amusing website,http://oldfortyfives. com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties. htm
Over at Corby in Northamptonshire we have weekend broadcasting for now over the internet at www.corbyradio.com, this station operated by Des Barber and his team is to hear its future over the coming months, and should well get its full time licence to broadcast on fm to the surrounding countryside.
A rather useful portal for other offshore radio fans,this one is based in Germany.
If you just fancy to wind down and relax to classical sounds why not dip into Classic fm on www.classicfm.com
Dave Cash one of the original Radio London disc jockey's,great site for more radio stuff and still a pirate at heart, www.davecash.co.uk
Big L, landbased takeoff of Radio London based in the upmarket Essex seaside town of Frinton on sea. www.bigl.co.uk
If you wish to catch up on one of the original European offshore stations you can tune in to Radio Veronica,she is now on shore in the Netherlands at
If you like your breakfast show - fast & furious [ho-hum], then Jez Nickels and the Crew are for you - from 7am to 9am Sundays, here at HFM.
http://www.freewebs.com/jeznickels
For great internet based music of the offshore variety tune in on the web to www.offshoremusicradio.com who call themselves the radio ship.
Go to www.nthants.co.ukinfo/ for some interesting links to our home county.
Another radio presenter who I have worked with over the years is Darren Harte,take a visit to his site to find out about his massive collection of vinyl records,(yes folks they still exist). go to
http://www.myspace.com/darren_harte
