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Gibbo · Joined: 31 Aug 2010 Posts: 117 Location: Wirral

Broadcast from Manchester, covers much of the north West of England.

I always wanted a fossil rock radio station like they have in the US! It's quite good, the presenters really know their music.

Steve Berry (old presenter of Top Gear) does the breakfast show.

I usually tune in just after Chester services on the way into work around 7am.

AgProv · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:28 am Post subject:

And at the weekends, of course, Steve co-hosts with that legend of Northern independent commerical radio. Mike Sweeney.

I discovered this station one Friday night where (unlike Scott Nelson) I perfectly understood Radio Two was not for me or my tastes, as it had a remit to broadcast to an older generation still. Even so, there's only so much of "Friday Night is Music Night" that a younger brain can take before it implodes. So I twirled the dial looking for an alternative, heard the welcome and familiar strains of "Tomorrow Night" by Atomic Rooster, and stayed with it.

Drawbacks:

i) 106.1 is far too close to a wavelength used by a mediocre pop/dance music station and the signal keeps wavering and crossing - have to get up and fine-tune reception far too often.

ii) Unless I've been pulling an all-nighter, it can be a bit too loud at six in the morning - you wantr something a bit more sedate then.

Advantages:-

i) The Moose

ii) Those droll station ID clips that take the p out of the whole business while telling you what you're listening to

iii) They know the Blue Oyster Cult did a lot more than just "Don't Fear The Reaper"

iv) It's rock

v) Gambaccini himself does occassional shows - usually pre-recorded docus

Incidentally, if "Friday Night is music night" is about "music for everybody", I await their Sex Pistols or Deep Purple tribute night with bated breath... as by extension "everybody" includes DP and Pistols fans
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aviddiva · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject: 106.1 Rock Radio

I loved their response online to Phil Collins hawking his mediocre covers album and dissing ye old Genesis!
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Gibbo · Joined: 31 Aug 2010 Posts: 117 Location: Wirral

aviddiva · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:56 pm Post subject: 106.1 Rock Radio

Hallelujah, Gibbo! A lot of the crappy local stations (hello Real, Aire) wouldn't know that Journey had other songs.
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aviddiva · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:34 am Post subject: 106.1 Rock Radio

I'm enjoying their best bits of the breakfast show on Sunday mornings - they had someone from Journey and Mick Jones from Foreigner on being interviewed about their joint tour.
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aviddiva · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:29 am Post subject: 106.1 Rock Radio

I enjoyed the Geddy Lee interview repeated last Sunday morning too.
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