The Arts Cafe 25th November 2020
In this show, Arts Café presenter Jo Wright talks to Becky Bettesworth. Working and living in her beloved Torquay, Becky produces gorgeous sun-drenched posters which seem to have been created in a bygone era. Becky is what can only be described as a breath of fresh air and her fantastically sunny disposition really is reflected […]
MoBoZonE insights
Show 16 This week’s journey into the MoBoZonE starts and ends with the amazing Nina Simone a personal favourite of mine. The amazing Johnny Pate and Adam Wade lead us in to some classic Blaxploitation and next Beres Hammond takes a swerve into the Philly sound in place of his more familiar reggae sides. Air […]
Matt Boormans Blog w/c 2nd November
England’s Dreaming – Tuesday 3rd Another 2 hours of power driven 3 minute blasts of energy from the diverse punk and new wave acts during 1976-1981. This week we have the first airing in ‘England’s Dreaming’ of Gang of Four, Anti Pasti, Rachel Sweet and Subway Sect.I will be cramming in familiar explosive anthems of Dead […]
STUDIO 70’s is launched with DJ Russ Pearce
The 1970s were an extraordinary and formative decade in UK music. Political change, civil unrest and social change were rife. Musically, the decade inherited influences from Rock ‘n’ Roll, pop, folk music and crooners. Mainly well-established singers and groups. The late 1960s saw a shift towards a wider spread of often more defined types of […]
Catching up with Guy Kerr – the 1970’s show
Hidden Gems – 1970s #1 – Broadcast 13 October 2020 Guy’s Mum and Dad all dolled up circa 1972, the year of Superfly I’ve been waiting a while for this one! On tonight’s show we have three hours of awesomeness from the greatest musical decade of them all, the 1970s. The quality and quantity of […]
Matt Boormans blog w/c 19/10
England’s Dreaming – Tuesday 20th On Tuesday, I will be intertwining street punk, new wave, ska, hardcore punk, post punk with Her Majesty, the Poet Punk Laureate. It’s about 3 minutes. It’s about getting in, doing your thing and getting out again. These two hours will highlight how many were experts at this between 1976-1981.I will […]
The Rap Show – 90’s week.
This week I am going to take a trip round the 90’s rap scene, hopefully playing some of your favourites from that era, plus a couple of less well know tracks. The acts that laid the foundations in the 80’s for rap music in the 80’s and managed to survive musically (and in some cases […]
MoBoZonE blog #3 This week’s MoBoZonE kicks off with Calagad 13 an outfit from Granada in Spain with a mashup of Beyoncé’s Crazy. All Funk Alliance a US duo beckon us on to new frontiers of funky breaks and a fine instrumental from Acid Jazz Alliance. (AJA) feature members of JTQ and a provide a superb […]
Catching up with Guy Kerr
This blog refers to Hidden Gems #3, broadcast on 6th October 2020. Catch up on MixCloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/LymeBayRadio/playlists/hidden-gems-with-guy-kerr/ This episode of Hidden Gems focused on the 1980s, a decade of extreme contrasts within music. On the one hand, computers, synths and sequencers made it easier than ever to create poppy, dancefloor-ready tracks in the studio without […]
Matt Boorman Blog #2 w/c 12/10
This week my challenge (along with refusing to turn the heating on until at least Halloween) is to be as diverse and random as possible across the shows. I will let you decide by Saturday. England’s Dreaming – Tuesday 13th On Tuesday, I will be rubbing shoulders with more 3 minute heroes as I flit […]