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Potted history first... I’ve been an air hostess, a waitress in Amsterdam, a grape picker and then a few other things interspersed with signing on before I joined BBC Radio Merseyside. I then went to Radio One, had our Fred, did GLR, XFM and then decided that it was time to try and get a new radio station going in Liverpool....did that....won a licence and gave birth to our Blue.
I then got a phone call asking me if I would like to do a show for Radio 2 from Glastonbury. The sun was shining...it was a great weekend...I had a wonderful time legging after the likes of Debbie Harry and Michael Stipe and getting Fran Healy to sing Driftwood for me after blagging him a guitar. After that I started doing more stuff for Radio 2 before turning up on my own show, 5 nights a week.
It was mad at first because I was travelling up and down the M6 between Liverpool and Birmingham. And then we thought what the heck.. Paul , me and the kids we decided to move. We bought the first house we saw in Moseley. The hardest thing was sorting out schools. It took forever making lists and making calls.
There were waiting lists as long as your arm. Fred would have been about 22 before he got into most of them. And then I found a BBC website that gave me the school they both go to now. Blue is 10, Fred is 19 and they have both settled in really well and made loads of friends. Blue is a dead ringer for me and is on the go all the time. She loves swimming, Scooby Doo and anything girly. Fred is never off the phone, plays his music dead loud, spends more time in the bathroom than any of us getting his hair just right, and after he’s been a professional footballer wants to be a dj.
It works out really well..I go to work when Paul, Fred and Blue go to sleep. It’s hard at the week end trying to go back to normal time and I often doze off at the cinema, wake up dribbling at the end of some blockbuster. My show comes from downtown Brum..I work with a great team and we laugh a lot.
We all get together once a week to talk about the live music and other stuff that we plan to put in the show. We have a fantastic music studio with top notch engineers and bands love to come and play here....Travis, Ash, Embrace, Susan Vega, Cornershop.......... The show is very spontaneous and I use the phones, emails and texts that I get from you to move it along and change direction. I love it....we have such a good time in the studio.....when you are in to music and talking as much as I am..it’s got to be the perfect gig.
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