I just can't live without my radio...

[jahshabby]

So, I was listening to the radio this weekend and it was all pleasant enough, but nothing moves me these days like listening to John Peel or Mike Allen when I was a kid. I tried to think about radio DJs who were massively influential over the years, but my limited knowledge stalled at Wolfman Jack.

Any offers for most influential radio DJ?

[Shere Khan]

Well a programme I really miss is 'Mixing It', which used to be on Radio 3. It was hosted by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall in the 90s.They played all kinds of stuff, a lot of it of a, vaguely, experimental type. I know this was revamped on Resonance but I generally only use the wireless for listening. It was unstuffy; that's what I liked about it. I also liked Brian Morton presenting 'Impressions', the jazz show also on Radio 3. It had a fairly serious bent to it. I'm sure there are similar programmes about on internet radio but, as I say, I just flick the radio on. A friend gave me a box of tapes of 'Mr Finewine', though. He's great. If I were listening online I'd definitely tune in to him and his 'scratchy' 45s. It must be John Peel, though. Who else was like him.

[Shere Khan]

While we're at it I miss Radio 3. It's still good but I can't be doing with all these guests, and quizzes etc. I think this should probably be a 'disgusted of East Anglia' letter to 'Radio Times', rather than a VG+ post, though.

[SirSlim]

So, I was listening to the radio this weekend and it was all pleasant enough, but nothing moves me these days like listening to John Peel or Mike Allen when I was a kid. I tried to think about radio DJs who were massively influential over the years, but my limited knowledge stalled at Wolfman Jack.

Any offers for most influential radio DJ?

http://www.verygoodplus.co.uk/showth...radio-stations

A similar but not quite the same past thread.



By influential - do you mean on the listener or to other radio DJs?

[jahshabby]

http://www.verygoodplus.co.uk/showth...radio-stations

A similar but not quite the same past thread.



By influential - do you mean on the listener or to other radio DJs?

Interesting distinction. I had thought only in terms of the effect on the listener, but the other line would be just as interesting I guess.

[Rich Hero]

I miss Humph.

[peretti]

I miss Humph.

Me too but I discovered a downloadable motherlode of ISIHACs which i still dip into.

[Mondays Child]

Robbie Vincent and Miss P were two that I would listen to alongside Peel, Vincent for his Soul/Jazz/Disco/Boogie coverage and Miss P for the more in depth Reggae.
I think they were both Capitol radio in the 'old days'. That pretty much used to cover all musical bases for me.

Don't get much time to check the radio these days but used to like Radio 3 and a bit of 4 thrown in as well.

[Mondays Child]

Edit- it was 'Ranking' Miss P, my bad.

And both were at Radio one as well, although Robbie Vincent I remember was at Capitol for a while.

[treeboy]

Mid 70s, Alan Freeman on a Saturday afternoon was progtastic. I'd actually love to hear one of those shows again, even at the time they were a bit pompous.
Joey Jay used to do a brill Reggae show on London, Sunday afternoons I recall, lots of Channel One, Freedom Sounds etc.
There was a Hawkwind fanatic on Caroline for a while named Ed Foster, one day when I should have been in school, I heard the whole of Space Ritual on the radio!
Peely was the one for me though.
Anyone else heard Chris Evans playing Sugarman this week? The story gets stranger.

[Sonovox]

Well a programme I really miss is 'Mixing It', which used to be on Radio 3. It was hosted by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall in the 90s.They played all kinds of stuff, a lot of it of a, vaguely, experimental type.

Oh yeah, that was a great program, I used to make a point of tuning in. I vividly remember hearing Morton Subotnick 'Silver Apples Of The Moon' and reacting with a very excited WTF??!?. They were up for about anything, it was the audio equivalent of The Wire magazine.

[pitch]

Oh yeah, that was a great program, I used to make a point of tuning in. I vividly remember hearing Morton Subotnick 'Silver Apples Of The Moon' and reacting with a very excited WTF??!?. They were up for about anything, it was the audio equivalent of The Wire magazine.

I do enjoy listening when my friend Nick Luscombe does Late Junction on Radio 3 for similar reasons - very eclectic playlists.

Here's a few recent playlists..... can't find the one with the shouty sweary punk track on though.... which was nice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040098n
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040098l
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040098j

[SirSlim]

Miss P for the more in depth Reggae.

Used to listen to Miss P when she was on the pirate DBC (when I could get a signal that is).

http://www.thepiratearchive.net/dbc/

[Shere Khan]

They were up for about anything, it was the audio equivalent of The Wire magazine.

That's right. Also they could be quite disparaging about what the other liked "You really thought that had merit? I thought it was hopeless". "Well, I can't agree Mark" and suchlike.

[Plainstone]

Mixing It was cool. Used to have some cassette recordings knocking about, including the show with Negativland's "Jolly Green Giant".

When I was a young'un, as well as Peel and Kid Jensen, who was the first I heard play The Ruts, it was the Radio Scotland rock show on a Wednesday night (overlapping with Aberdeen's remorseless march to Euro glory at one stage). Fire Engines, Cuban Heels etc.

Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge on Kiss FM for Jazz stuff, and latterly WFMU. My wife swears by Trouble. Lost count of the "Have you got XXX? - Where did you hear that? - Trouble's show on WFMU" conversations we've had over the past year or so.