The Ghoul’s latest programme (which was broadcast on 76m a couple of weeks back) was repeated on the stream on Saturday night. (Thanks, Mr. stream operator!)
The Ghoul’s thoughts are very interesting (and a bit crazy; Ghoul admits that he’s ‘not quite right’), and the music he plays is excellent. He’s a bit like the Bogusman, but his ramblings contain fewer digressions and less ‘self-commenting’ (if that’s the right word), and the music he plays is perhaps a bit more mainstream (I had actually heard some of the songs before!
), so I guess he should be easier for foreigners to understand on a noisy short wave (give him a try!).The programme lasted one hour, and I enjoyed every moment of it! Just to my taste!
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I tried to hear the last part of FRSH’s 30th anniversary celebration on SW (both last weekend and this weekend). But the signals didn’t quite make it through the local QRM here (perhaps I should just give up listening from home), so I had to rely on the stream (I didn’t check 6260, though. It’s possible that that frequency would have worked).
I listened to a German presenter (Jan van Dijk, I suppose – a new voice for me!) for a good half hour or so, and then to most of Dave Scott’s two-hour programme (I think I must have heard Dave before, because his voice did sound familiar), and to half an hour or so of Peter Verbruggen’s programme at the end of the broadcast (I’ve listened to Peter many times in the past and feel I know his style of programming quite well). Entertaining shows from all three presenters! Thanks, guys!
Dave Scotts’s programme, which was the one I listed to the most attentively, was very well produced and contained the FRSH history from 2004 to 2010, audio clips (interesting material - some of the DJs were new to me) and music from the respective years. Dave has a laid-back and ‘smooth’ style of DJing and is pleasant to listen to. And I agree with Andy when he says that Dave has a superb taste in music.
FRSH is always pleasant to listen to (good music and jingles, professional-sounding and friendly DJs, lots of nostalgia, information for the radio enthusiast...), and they’re doing a lot to reach their audience (experimenting with different relay facilities, using a stream...). It’s a good station to have on SW! Keep up the great work, guys!
I wouldn’t be totally honest, though, if I didn’t say that I’m in fact not all that much into the kind of pirate radio that FRSH represent. They’re very good at what they’re doing (and ‘anorak radio’ is a genre well worth preserving!), but I’m more interesting in other things. 'Slick' DJing is OK to listen to - for a while. In the long run I probably prefer the mad ramblings of the Ghoul and similar stations over the pleasant sounds of FRSH. But that's just me!
As a radio enthusiast I find the ‘information’ on FRSH interesting (FRSH say they stand for a ‘balance between music and information’), although I sometimes find the amount of data a bit overwhelming. For example, I feel that the sections about FRSH’s history this time could have contained a bit less information (dates, times, frequencies, programme schedules...) and a few more anecdotes and reflections. But again: That's just me!
All in all: a good listening experience!
