Mark Mathews doing the switch in 1990. World In Motion by New Order- goodness, it sounds like yesterday but is 33 years ago. Shocking how time evaporates in the blink of an eye. As Lennon said life is what happens when you are making plans. Still have good memories of both stations- loved the jingles and presentation.
We where driving to Llandudno one time we where on the thelwall viaduct and what’s at the left hand side but the A 380 wonderful greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I remember going in these lifts when my parents bought me here and I was a tiny kid 😂 It scared me shitless and I cried and screamed and screamed and screamed 🤣🤣🤣
i fucking .. LOVE .. this tune !!!! just saying lol .. ive seen people on line slagging this off ... but i love it ... question ! does anybody know why this has not been released ?
Radio, to me, did have an edge. I don't mind large radio groups. I've heard Heart and think Heart is brilliant. I just wish all stations had good imaging. If a station has imaging I hate, I won't listen. I won't even present on it. I've been known to do that. Rock's 'Breakthrough' sound still sounds awesome today and I am using it for my on-air sound.
I have saw Burj Khalifa from years and it still got the energy to stand I wonder how many days it took for Burj Khalifa I mean the owner will be ice making Thad
And now it is wrecked. The old sea front with the Sea Bathing Lake and other unique attractions is now yet another shitty, characterless retail park. The once glorious parks have been abandoned by Sefton Council and their upkeep left to ageing volunteers, who do their best on scraps of money they can collect, but can't compete with how things used to be. It has sadly become Skelmersdale on sea. A tragic waste. The council must hate people providing evidence like this of their wilful neglect.
I would never have sold Red Rose Radio to anybody, it would stay Lancashire focussed and Lancashire driven, all those good local people kicked out of the station by commercial pressures and money men, it was an utter crime. I would've refused to sell it. It would still be Red Rose 301 Radio till the day I die if I had my way, over my dead body would it ever change. And studios would still be self-op, no computers, no automated presentation or playlists, no pre-recorded links and no networking or programme sharing.
Problem is, someone waves a few million ££££ and that's it, all seems worth it. If a lot of people had put programming over £££ then we wouldn't be where we are now
They were the days,when rock fm were the best with,tim lancaster,carl greenwood,kenny james,rob charles,dave shearer ect,prob engineered by the late grate,john myers,r.i.p big john,u was the the best,x
I was there right at the start i used to do Blackpool Rock on a Friday night from 7 till 9pm on 2 turntables and 4 cart machines and masses of adverts. Happy days in the old church.
Great vids - thanks. Just half the energy wasted on council bashing recycled into positivity the Town would make a better image. Some of the posters have a weird agenda. Sorry - had to say
