If any of you enjoyed Radio 2 Sounds of the Sixties until Brian Mathews death a few years ago then you may well enjoy listening to Roger Day’s show at 08.00 on Saturdays. Lots of varied stuff gets played.
Actually some of the other stuff on Boom Radio is quite good. Certainly it is not your ‘typical oldies’ station. In fact the music played covers through from the 40’s through to today’s stuff.
Give it a try – you might enjoy it!
Roger Day Boom Radio UK – no, wait, come back!
Boom Radio is our new guilty pleasure – way better than Radio 2 (ok that bar is pretty low) with a wider variety of music.
I’ll get my coat ….
Nicky Horne from 4pm, weekdays is a good show. Avoid Les Ross, Sunday 10am. My wife used to love him and, whenever we were travelling up to Walsall to see her family, would tune into him as soon as she could.
So, she was excited to do the same when she found out he was on Boom.
Embarrassing. A legend in his own lunchtime. Totally unfunny and bitter about never having made it to national BBC radio.
As for the rest of the output, I like what I’ve heard. Even caught a very good Kid Jensen show the other week.
I used to listen to Nicky Horne on Capital in the late 70s. Sort of Peel lite IIRC.
Commercials though, right?
I don’t really like the radio, because I can’t be done with DJs, but the one show I used to listen to every week was SOTS with Brian Matthew. Tony Blackburn seems like a nice enough guy, but his SOTS is like a crap wedding disco. There would always be something you didn’t know with Matthew that was worth exploring further, although Where Do You Go To My Lovely seemed to get played far too often. Nowadays I’m always happy if I catch Popmaster somewhere, but I’d never go as far as to turn it on. I only ever listen to a radio show if it’s a documentary type show that’s been recommended. I have so much music of my own to listen to.
The only music radio I listen to is BBC Radio 3, in the car.
Very low volume, so that if the music isn’t interesting I can easily ignore it.
Hate commercials on radio and for quite a few years I’ve found that most music radio irritates me more than amuses me in any case.
“Nothing but blues and Elvis
And somebody else’s favourite song.”
Roger Day used to broadcast on Piccadilly Radio in the 1970’s.
Listening to his show one evening in 1977 he was the first person to break the news that Elvis had died.
With the unfortunate demise of UDJ’s I started to listen to Boom.
It’s OK but the bloody ads drive me mad.
Yes I agree the ads are annoying. But the music is much more varied than typical “oldies” stations as has been mentioned and it doesn’t repeat itself. When I get fed up of Radio 2 playing current Miley Cyrus duet and awful non-tunes they make nowadays where singers all sound the same, and no proper instrumentation, I often give Boom a go. I never thought I would hear David Hamilton playing Sunblind by Fleet Foxes but the world is full of surprises!