freeg131: Philip Gamble

On arriving back home from school after book return day my mum said that Tank Montana, the breakfast show host on our local radio station, had been suspended.

Was this, I wondered, because of a trail for his breakfast show (which I never listen to), which appeared to imply that Amy Winehouse was taking drugs - apparently not.

From a rather quickly read out statement I believe he has been suspended until at least the 1st of July because he recorded a conversation with his boss (I have no idea if this was played on air or not).

The most exciting thing to happen on Mercury since Tom and Kez’s breakfast show.

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James Gourley is someone from two years below me at School that I don’t think I’ve ever actually spoken to. I’ve had a few conversations with him on YouTube where I stole some clips from his videos for a couple of videos I made about Rickmansworth School.

Via Facebook I saw that he was currently ‘on air’ at the Internet radio station LivinFm. The station seems to be made from the remains of some Habbo radio station (don’t ask), and has only 3 DJs. Still I listened to the show (along with his Producer) and sent in some anonymous constructive comments.

There were a couple of awkward pauses, and quite often his voice was drowned out by the backing music but he gets bonus marks for managing to slag off both Mercury and another DJ at LivinFm in just a few seconds, as well as mentioning me as ‘random facebook guy’.

You can listen in via the LivinFm website and Gourley, sorry, DJ Gourley is on air 9-10pm on Tuesdays and 11pm Friday - 1 am Saturday.

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Fresh Watford, a community radio station which broadcasts to Watford occasionally on temporary community radio licenses is set to return to the airwaves on 7th June 2008. Last year I really enjoyed listening to its two weeks of broadcasting from Charter Place. The station controller is Matt Cadman who I’m sure used to work at Mercury 96.6 FM, Watford’s main commercial radio station, which I have long given up on.

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