Carnaby Street on Manx Radio is the true Sounds of the Sixties
Bemiamigo
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Interesting new Radio Soapbox http://wp.me/p33t2I-mm Says that Radio 2 Sounds Of The Sixties has become stale and needs a facelift.
Every Saturday morning at much the same time - 8.30 to 10.30 on Manx Radio Chris Williams presents Carnaby Street. A wonderful soundscape featuring new and original PAMS jingles, the big hits and original studio quality commercials from the 60s first aired on Manx Radio and Radio Caroline.
Carnaby Street is so atomospheric - it's slick, professional and authentically captures the spirit of the pirate stations.
Has anyone else discovered this gem? Apparently it's been on-air for the last 10 years!
Every Saturday morning at much the same time - 8.30 to 10.30 on Manx Radio Chris Williams presents Carnaby Street. A wonderful soundscape featuring new and original PAMS jingles, the big hits and original studio quality commercials from the 60s first aired on Manx Radio and Radio Caroline.
Carnaby Street is so atomospheric - it's slick, professional and authentically captures the spirit of the pirate stations.
Has anyone else discovered this gem? Apparently it's been on-air for the last 10 years!
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No - but I'm looking forward to exploring it.
Yes I'd probably agree with this. I think Brian was probably in his mid-30s anyway during the offshore era, which was probably seen as old then anyway. I think Walker, Blackburn or Twiggy Day would be brilliant in this slot.
Bob Harris.
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As good a presenter as I think Whisperin' Bob is, he is more associated with 70s era music. SOTS is still a good listen, but agree it could do with a little freshening up, even if Brian Matthews is at the helm
It does seem to me a strange time of day to have a specialist show on national radio.
I would have thought a live breakfast show with news and sport would be more popular and move SOS to say after Tonys show?
"After 22 years on the air, Brian Matthew's show Sounds Of The 60s achieved its best-ever audience, too - with 3.7 million people tuning in on Saturday mornings."
Tony Blackburn pulls 2.2M
They are great figures,good to see that 60s music is so popular,probably more listeners now that Gold has closed in most areas,
Do those figures include people who listen later on the I Player?
It was a long way from the centre of things and I don't think that Brian Matthew was very fond of the pirate stations anyway.
The show would be so much better with Roger Day, Johnnie Walker at the helm.
I don't think so, they are probably just quoting RAJAR figures. It's not in the last top 20 Iplayer radio programmes for March 2014 which means it's less than 119,000 and that counts people like me who often listen to some of the programme live then catch up with the rest later on the Iplayer, different way of counting as well as you don't know how many people are listening to an Iplayer stream.
Have a listen, www.manxradio.com
Definitely agree with BIB.
You would move the most popular Saturday morning show in the UK and the most popular Saturday show on Radio 2 and replace it with a news and sports show. Why not remove the lower performing Pick of the Pops and revive Sport on Two. Brian has been the voice of SOTS since 1990 and his audience is increasing.
When Bob Shennan moves on don't bother standing by your phone
Yep, a really good listen Mike.
No I would not.
To clarify,
I would prefer at that time of day to hear a breakfast show similar in style to weekdays,a live show with music,current news and sports reports.
So I very rarely listen live .
I would prefer to listen to a specalist type show later in the day or evening.
Maybe a later time slot would increase the figures even more?