14/09/21 The Life Of A Radio Presenter (Part 1 The Early Days)

Hi and welcome to the first part in a series of posts about my life as the presenter of radio shows and the twists and turns along the way......

I thought that this way I could provide a small insight into another aspect of my life - that of "The Merlin" - presenter on

Cauldron FM (The Sound Of Magick)

and Capstone Radio - the sound of the North Devon Coast

I began my radio "career" over 20 years ago when I was invited to be a guest on a radio station that was broadcasting under a Restricted Service Licence (meaning it was allowed to broadcast on FM for 4 weeks. It was designed to provide a community based broadcast.

The one I joined was HaltonFM and it was broadcasting to Runcorn / Widnes and part way towards Warrington.

The presenter of the show I was on was a man called Dave Pichilingi (a name that was destined to become quite well known). He went on to be a significant player within the local community - becoming a senior member of the staff at Paul McCartney's LIPA (Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts). He was also the founder of Modern Sky and Sound City and as such has been involved in a lot of the Liverpool City regeneration scheme.

So from being embarrassed by Dave on HaltonFM - the story goes that we chatted about the album I had been recording called "Somerset Story" and he played the opening track which is called "Glastonbury" (a moody, dreamy, melodic instrumental) and once the track had finished he turned to me, opened the mic and said "So tell me Dave, what sort of mind expanding substances were you taking when you wrote that track?"

Talk about flabbergasted......that is an understatement.

Anyway moving on from Halton FM I went to work alongside Dave Wycherley (the Arts Development office of Halton Borough Council) and the brief was for him(and I) to raise the profile of the Arts in Halton.

Dave had been signed to Virgin with his band "Great and Lady Soul" and between us we had a brilliant few months ........ but more of that in the next post

to be continued......

Thanks for being there and thank you for reading this post!

Please check back again tomorrow for the next update

Have a great day, be safe be careful and remember

Don’t predict the future - CREATE IT!

DAve x

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