Thursdays 21:00, Saturdays 15:00 (repeat)
My radio background started in the late 1970's and early
1980's when I discovered stations like Radio Mi Amigo, Radio
Caroline and Laser. I dreamed of being a DJ and playing lots of
music.
When I was given a record player and a tape recorder it wasn't
long until I hooked the two together and started to record
“radio shows”.
My first actual radio broadcast was on a tiny pirate station
that could barely be heard outside the radius of 200 metres. The
station was called Radio Idefix in the town of Hoofddorp in the
Netherlands. The studio had 2 record players, a tape deck, a
microphone, and a small 6 channel mixer. From that first
broadcast I was hooked.
I became involved with a wide range of pirate stations in the
Netherlands, and gained a lot of on-air experience as well as
the fear of being caught and taken off air. This led me to join
a newly formed local station in the town where I lived. The
station was called VLOH and I became part of the team as a
presenter and tech-op.
When I moved to The Hague I joined Lokatel Radio as a presenter,
tech-op, and cover presenter for the breakfast show.
In 1988 I moved to the UK and after a period of not doing any
radio I joined Lions Radio at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury
St Edmunds.
I was also part of Ipswich Community Radio before moving to
internet radio in 2003.
I love doing internet radio as it gives me the freedom to do and
play what I want. It reminds me of how things were when I was
doing pirate radio.
Sample playlists
August 5
AC/DC - Let's Get It Up
Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
Judas Priest - Sinner
Sister Sin - Outrage
Buckcherry - All Night Long
Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness
Disturbed - Asylum
The Perfect Crime - Hailstones
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Fire Bug - Season For Change
Enuff Z Nuff - Lazy Dazy
The Virginmarys - Portrait of Red
Train - Save Me, San Francisco
The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Deep Purple - Highway Star
The Smashing Pumpkins - A Stitch In Time
Genesis - Abacab
The Bonesmen - Do It Again
David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging
Popa Chubby - Rock &Amp; Roll Is My Religion
Weird Owl - Skeletelepathic
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
Joe Elliot's Down & Outz - Storm
Van Halen - Jamie's Cryin'
The Mercy House - Greed
Godsmack - Whiskey Hangover
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Conscience Killer
Credo - Too Late...
Bigelf - Counting Sheep
Theatre Of Tragedy - Illusions
Blackstrap - Repulsion
Taste - Blister On The Moon
The Cars - You Might Think
Blink-182 - All the Small Things
July 29
Kiss -Love Gun
Pearl -Rock Child
Enuff Z Nuff -Lazy Dazy
The Dollyrots -My Best Friend's Hot
Slaves To Gravity -Good_Advice
Buckcherry -All Night Long
Janis Joplin -Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
Kill Miss Pretty -Judy Garland
Alice In Chains -Man In The Box
AC/DC -Let Me Put My Love Into You
Saint Jude -Soul On Fire
Feeder -Come Back Around
Emerson, Lake and Palmer -Touch and Go 2010
-tonight 2m
The Dead Weather -No Horse (Album Version)
Dire Straits -Lady Writer
Airbourne -Get Busy Living
Disturbed -Asylum
Sister Sin -Outrage
Rush -Caravan (Single Version)
Slash -By The Sword (Featuring Andrew Stockdale Or Wolfmother)
(Radio Edit)
The Parlor Mob -The Kids (Album Version)
Faith No More -Falling To Pieces
Sweet Apple -Do You Remember
Foo Fighters -This Is A Call
Cheap Trick -Dream Police
Asia -Finger On The Trigger
Steve Vai -Sex & Religion
Marillion -Asylum Satellite #1
Talon -Paradise
Def Leppard -Hallucinate
Theatre Of Tragedy -Theatre_Of_Tragedy_-_8_-_Illus
PRETTY MAIDS -Little Drops Of Heaven
The Rolling Stones -Sympathy For The Devil
FM -Still The Flight Goes On
Peter Gabriel -Solsbury Hill
July 22
Bachman Turner - Slaves to the Rhythm
Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music -Virginia Plain
Gun -Let Your Hair Down
Crappyjack -Had It Made
Storm Warning -Hard To Be A Man
Red Carpet Rats -Going To Hell
The Alan Parsons Project -Psychobabble
Aynsley Lister -What's It All About
State Of Rock -Freedom
Siouxsie And The Banshees -Happy House
Theatre Of Tragedy -Theatre_Of_Tragedy_-_8_-_Illus
Echo And The Bunnymen -Think I Need It Too (Album Version)
Peter Gabriel -Red Rain
Boston -Smokin'
ZZ Top -Jesus Just Left Chicago
Queen -Seven Seas Of Rhye
Audioslave -Gasoline
Steppenwolf -The Pusher
Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit
Crosby, Stills &Amp; Nash -Ohio
Ace Mafia -London Underground
Thin Lizzy -Out In The Fields
Widow -Wake My Mind
Pearl -Nutbush City Limits
Lita Ford -Kiss Me Deadly
The Foreigner -Urgent
Santana -She's Not There
The Donnas -Here For The Party
The Union -Step Up To The Plate
Bachman Turner - Find Some Love
Pink Floyd -Welcome To The Machine
Wilson T King -Vigilante Man
The Reasoning -14
John Lennon -Cold Turkey
Trash Monroe -IDoll
Foo Fighters -For All The Cows
Contact Mike
www.directradioproductions.com
