Failed Muso – Now with added radio show!

Further to my appearance on Radio Thetford the other week, I was subsequently invited to host my own two hour show on Monday nights. Being suitably honoured, I accepted and starting this Monday, 23rd August 2010 at 19:00 BST (UK) I will begin my series of shows! 🙂

Radio Thetford

It’s been some time since I hosted a radio show, having started off on hospital radio in Bury St. Edmunds with Radio West Suffolk. Back then, we had a captive audience and a lot of ambition. I sadly had to leave due to relocating back to my home city of Norwich, but always wanted to do something similar again. When my career in training took off, regular trips away from home meant that I couldn’t even contemplate committing to such an endeavour, but since my role has changed to a more office based, consultancy role, this is now once again possible.

Radio Thetford is a community radio station for the small Norfolk market town of Thetford. It’s a very important place, not only for Norfolk, but also for America, for it was here that Thomas Paine was born, one of America’s Founding Fathers and a man whose writings influenced the construction of that country greatly. It was also the royal seat for Boudica, Queen of the Iceni. And it was also the location for the filming of much of the classic BBC sit com Dad’s Army. I worked in the town many years ago and my family have always visited here as my maternal side lived just down the road in Attleborough and used to visit Thetford for shopping trips and to partake of it’s immense forest and associated amenities. My aunt went to school there too. So Thetford has many memories for me and it’s a pleasure to now be serving it again.

However, Radio Thetford is a web based radio station, so it reach is global. And for this reason, I’d love to invite all my readers to “tune in” to listen and partake in the event each Monday. You can interact with me via email, SMS (+447938 209412), Twitter & Facebook as well as the chat room and shoutbox available on the Radio Thetford site itself.

My self imposed criteria for the show are those that will have me playing a wide range of music, but focusing on the music you tend not to hear on mainstream radio. There’s no theme, no time in history restriction, just good, original music that warrants airplay. There’ll also be chat and interaction with listeners, so please do get involved.

So, I hope that you can join me online every Monday night and join in another level of interaction with me 🙂