I recently sighed and lamented the lack of ‘inclusive’ music radio (here). That’ll be music radio I can listen to and feel a part of,
Category: Liverpool
The search for inclusive music radio
Was radio ever presented by human beings? Was it ever experimental? Did it ever take chances or dare to be different? Here`s my problem: I
Ebola comes to the UK
It’s strange, but not to be unexpected, that on social media and in real life (the two can be separate, y’know) the bets are on,
The last snigger about iPhones
Sooo. I promise I will stop my cruel and taunting behaviour toward iPhone users. Heck man, they know no better, and are not ready for
103 different Keys broadcasting in Manchester?
There’s changes afoot for radio station names in areas where Bauer Media currently operates. Here in Liverpool, what was operating on AM, a relay of
It’s time for blanket CCTV to make us safe
The entire country should be covered in CCTV cameras. Their output should be fed back to a huge central processing centre, and from here everything
Ye olde Albion England
Crosby, as an area, keeps getting more and more twee. It has an invasion of tea rooms and healthy eating places with decor and uniforms
Liverpool’s radio for the racists
LBC primarily broadcasts from and for London, despite now trying to be a whole of ‘Britain’ radio station. Most of the phone-in caller responses to
To see the sea
This is looking due West from a little North of Liverpool. Two lovely things are happening in the photo. Firstly, there are sand dunes in
Colour me pigeon
Back we go to an area of South Liverpool, well, kinda South-central Liverpool, known as the Baltic Triangle. It’s also the ‘Creative Quarter‘. Everything these
Zipping on the Wire
I’ve mentioned before how much I genuinely love Liverpool. The main bit. The central bit. The tourist bit. The pretty bit. You know, people who
And then the rains came
The rain was only this heavy for a comparatively short while, but wow, watch it bounce off the ground. See it turn into a river
The midnight cash machine fix
They start gathering from about 23:45. They mill around looking uncomfortable, frustrated, impatient. They mill around like drug addicts desperate for a fix. Ah yes,
Why Merseyside Police won’t blow up Liverpool’s Anfield Road
Generally speaking, sadly, the relationship between the police in Liverpool and the general population in Liverpool is a little strained. There are two main reasons
Liverpool gets Boris Bikes
In London, despite displaying the prominent livery of sponsors Barclays Bank, they are known as ‘Boris Bikes’. The colourful and eccentric London Mayor Boris Johnson is
Wooden wheels or what?
We were driving along very very drunk. We had been swigging from a couple of bottles of vodka since the whiskey had run out. Yes,
A bit boggy
Hang on a minute. My old tractor. It’s sinking. Into my lawn. Should I go closer? Or will I be sucked down into the ground
Liverpool’s Radio City imitating early years of Radio 1
Who remembers when BBC Radio 1 first came on the air? No? Well, for many many years the station operated from 7 in the morning
Hedge is going to get you
This is not my hedge. My hedge is hated by my really really old neighbour. She has nothing in her life beyond curtain twitching and
Somewhere across the sea
Half way through our morning constitutional stroll around the West Kirby marine lake, we came across Mabel. Mabel died in August 2011. In memory, somebody
The video store is closing down
There’s a store that sells renewable energy type malarkey in Banks Road, West Kirby on the Wirral peninsular. ‘Renewables’ and environmentalism is the perfect business to
The forgotten Radio Caroline North
We have less than 2 months until it will be Radio Caroline North‘s birthday. Sadly, I fear this occasion will pass without murmur, when really
When Radio Caroline anoraks lose the plot
Jewish religion anoraks are to blame for confusing today’s radio anoraks. Easter moves about from year to year owing to their fetish for celebrating their
BOAT! Radio Caroline North BOAT!
There’s a radio futurologist out there who hates me. Well, ‘hate’ is probably a strong word. Or maybe it isn’t. Well, whatever his emotions are,
Radio the way it should be?
So, as I mentioned, proper programming started on Thursday (3rd April) at 9am from pop-up Radio Caroline North. It started with John Dwyer, the main
Radio Caroline North Report #4
Here we go with a summary of the fourth day of me sitting as an armchair critic of Radio Caroline North. This is all that
Radio Caroline North Report #3
Another summary of my observations and public pronouncements about Radio Caroline North. These are from Wednesday, 2nd April: 09:15: Well, here we are at day 3
Radio Caroline North Report #2
So, this is from Tuesday, April Fool’s Day, and is a summary of what I witnessed and reported on day two of Radio Caroline North:
Radio Caroline North Report #1
Here’s the first of the daily reports from Liverpool about the progress of Radio Caroline North, a ‘pop-up’ 28 day radio service broadcasting from Birkenhead
Peter Moore speaking of Radio Caroline North
Radio Caroline operates via radiocaroline.co.uk and is the same organisation that has control of the radioship Ross Revenge, the last home of Radio Caroline at
Old offshore radio DJs living for ego strokes
From time to time I watch as these every increasingly old and frail gentlemen shuffle about at memorial services. Some services are held every year,
When will Radio Caroline North start proper programmes?
Radio Caroline North. We’ve all heard the non-stop muzak. We’ve all seen them on the telly pretending they are broadcasting from a ship. But when
Suzy needs help with shaving
Imagine if you had not just a headache, but an extremely painful migraine headache over which you had absolutely no control. That’s the kind of
We need CCTV absolutely everywhere
The entire country should be covered in CCTV cameras. Their output should be fed back to a huge central processing centre, and from here everything
The art projects that kill
I’m getting somewhat fed-up with ‘art projects’. Mainly because they seem to be able to take huge sums of cash for implementation, whilst more deserving
Our street lights are going out
So, I’m not against LED based lighting. Nearly every light in my home is now LED, and we even have strips of LEDs carefully stuck
Warship comes to Liverpool
You got to love Google+ and its ‘auto-awesome’ function. I didn’t ask it to, but it stitched together some badly taken snapshots of a warship
But, This IS Liverpool
So, for some strange reason, the holier than thou brigade of Liverpool (most of whom don’t actually come from or live in Liverpool) are dissing
Yes, This IS Liverpool #TIL
Well, dear Scousers, it’s finally arrived. The first episode of This Is Liverpool is now online. If you want the background to all this, then
Time for more guns on Liverpool’s streets
One of the charms of Liverpool is its gun crime. Guns are normally owned and used by the Scousers with sticky-out ears against other Scousers
This is Liverpool #TIL
There once was a sad ‘Towie‘ (The Only Way Is Essex) lookie-likeeeee ‘reality’ TV show called Desperate Scousewives. It bombed. Despite good photography of the
The cruel and vindictive Scouse way
Just what is the cruel and vindictive Scouse way? When a son and a daughter lost their widowed mother to a stroke, many very young
Radio Caroline North returns
Driving past one of the best radio stations in Liverpool and looking in through the cool inviting window that gives direct vision of the main
Keep them Birkenheaders out of Liverpool
For whatever reason it might be, there are two road tunnels under the River Mersey. They connect the centre of Liverpool with the foreign land
TV and radio in Liverpool
So, it’s 10 o’clock at night and you have arrived in Liverpool. How can you use TV and radio to get an idea or two
Radio City’s local lies
There seems to be some debate about the pros and cons of a radio station originating programming in the area it is broadcasting to. This
Smokers’ Poles
Virtually everybody in Liverpool smokes. Sometimes this smoking is restricted to just cigarettes, but smoking, especially ‘rollies’, is something that they do. This also explains
The greatee unsolved Home and Bargain mystery
As a trainee Liverpudlian, with all my ‘down south’ heritage (as they call it, being as we southerners all sound the same to them regardless
The Wheatsheaf is sinking
Sometimes we just go where the Google tells us. I don’t know if you are like this, but when we get hungry and are somewhere
Faaaa!
Well, Christmas Eve is the last day that Father Christmas is available to be visited by the boys and girls of the world. Christmas Eve
Pete Price’s gay aversion therapy
So, I was listening to Pete Price on Radio City the other night. Pete is a 67 year old gay man who hosts a Sunday
Father!
Aha. Today all the mastic and the 10 minutes of carefully putting my Father Christmas beard in place and making sure it is properly glued
Father Chris!
A pattern emerged at the beginning of the month. Very young children and babies would come to visit Father Christmas before about 3pm, and definitely in the
Father Christmas!
Disaster! My Elf has gone sick. She was spluttering a bit yesterday and seemed less than her usual, er, elf, and so today is staying
Father Christmas Do!
Spending all day in a grotto dressed as Father Christmas is having its toll. It was only a few weeks before this that I was
Father Christmas Do Not!
I’m still Father Christmas sitting in a grotto. Yes I am! Four kids came in together today. I don’t think they were brothers and sisters.
Father Christmas Do Not Touch!
A ‘grandfather’ was wheeled into my grotto. Wheelchair bound, he was accompanied by about 10 others. There were different generations all gathered together, most making
Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me!
There are only a few different types of parents or grandparents. And, it’s mainly grandparents that are the awful pushy ones. Parents maybe less so.
Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me Ho!
As a Liverpudlian Father Christmas, I’m starting to notice that every child has one of a small selection of names. Why is nearly every boy
Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me Ho Ho!
Suited and booted, bearded and wigged, I am now Father Christmas. A grotto had been found for me, and day one was to consist of
The case of the missing leg, part two
I previously included an article (here) on England’s England about how I had photographed a human leg on a sand dune adjacent to a Ministry
The case of the missing leg, part one
Not that I’m paranoid or a trouble-maker or anything, but I do like to watch the Ministry of Defence top secret area not far from
The druggie scrounger midnight cash machine parties
At just before midnight most weekday nights, the scally cash machine parties begin in Liverpool. Out come the freaks, old, young, children and babies in
Why ‘scallies’ all smell of old lady’s wee
It’s dead easy to spot the destroyers in Liverpool’s urban areas. The ‘scallies’, as they are called, all wear the same caps and same dull
Begging pays more than MPs earn
Apparently the average beggar can earn about £30 an hour. Hey, that’s the equivalent of £1,200 a week, or £5,200 a month, which is £62,400
What is the secret beneath Liverpool?
What secret lurks beneath Liverpool? What power nestles below? What has been built there that the normal people are not allowed to see? There is
The Evil Desecration of Graves in Anfield Cemetery
Anfield Cemetery has some very old graves and gravestones alongside some from the more recently departed. The older stones, as one might expect when the
Liverpool’s ‘haves’ -v- ‘have nots’
The contrast in Liverpool’s Anfield is quite alarming. In the background the roof of the home of Liverpool Football Club. A place where money flows
Anfield isn’t a fair place for the working class
Anfield is an area of North Liverpool. It is a place where there are extreme contrasts. I was reminded of this as I was forced
What is the point of a library?
Many decades ago there was a tiny library in Highgate, North London, where I lived. I don’t know how many books it had in it,
Do I miss London?
Some years ago I was thrown out of London. And banned from ever returning. † Since that time I’ve lived in Liverpool. Having lived all my
Drunk tanks and stigmatising the alcie arseholes
There are ideas to try to free up police time, energy and resources, by plonking drunks into privately run drunk tanks, for which they would
Is it refreshing when a community makes a stand?
I recently penned a brilliant piece (here) about how a caller to the Pete Price radio phone-in had been incandescent with rage because Jamie Oliver
Being a stranger in your own land
For many years I lived in North and East London. All my post teenage years, and up until about 5 years ago (when I got
Why can’t they predict the weather?
The BBC bullied me into using their weather app. But it is always wrong. Ok, they didn’t actually bully me. They made it look oh
Scousegulls
They are mistakenly called Seagulls, but they are just Gulls, and they are putting on a show of wonderment. If you want to spend an
My sofa trouble with a 27 year old girl
The other day I ended up sitting for a while with a petite 27 year old girl on her leather sofa. I was slowly feeling
Street fountain time
INSTALLING SUMMER… ███████████████████████████ 100% DONE Installation complete. Season recovered from July 2006 backup. It’s summer in Liverpool, and that means it’s water fountain time. The
Stop playing the damn oldies!
I was sitting in the Subway in Aintree retail park. Well, actually I’d popped in to use the loo, and felt I ought to buy
How Scousers treat helpful shop keepers
On a Wednesday, three pieces of Scouse scum went into this small newsagents in Priory Road, Anfield, North Liverpool. They, as is usual in that
The need for a human-being ‘delete’ button
I was going in to Liverpool Lime Street station to see somebody off on their train when I happened upon one of the many drunks/druggies
LBC-ing you
I’m pretty sure I wrote about this before when it was first announced, let me have a look. Nope, can’t find it using the wonderful
Where are all the poor people?
I’ve mentioned this before, but I am constantly told that the North West, especially Liverpool is poor. Liverpool as a city is not a poor
Too much money, too much time
They say that North Liverpool is a poor place. The locals are all work-shy and so therefore have no money to spend on anything but
The lack of local radio in Liverpool
Once upon a time, many many moons ago, Liverpool had its own radio stations. In 1967, the BBC, not wishing to provide one just for
Trained to hate Margaret Thatcher
There is a generation or two who weren’t born whilst Margaret Thatcher was in Downing Street. Or, they were in nappies at the time. This
Those that live off others
A great loud deal is made of the people who ‘leech’ on the rest of us. These are the privileged few who make money out
They don’t value life
To some of us, life is a wonderful and valuable thing. To some of us, death is not a wonderful thing. It has a value as the
Those lazy Northerners of old
(A guest article written by Peter Moore) You may know that I spent all of my working life in the Motor Industry, initially in a
Thatcher the milk snatcher
The hatred for Margaret Thatcher in Liverpool continues to this day. It’s hilarious. Talking to anybody in their 50s or above, it’s not long before
They still blame Margaret Thatcher
It’s been another week of “I blame Margaret Thatcher” up here in the actual anus of the UK, the Tory-free backward-thinking North-West. Apparently, Mrs Thatcher,
I blame Margaret Thatcher
Lefties, especially the wealthy middle class ones, are creatures of habit. One of their habits is to blame Margaret Thatcher for everything they consider that’s
The Liverpool yobs dancing on graves
A frail 87 year old grandmother and widow, suffering very bad health problems following creeping dementia, finally suffered a stroke and died. Her death triggered
My local pirate radio station hates modern music
Some while ago I penned a piece about how radio station’s should almost be for life (here). They should ‘capture’ the youth of the day
Derren Brown really is Infamous
So, I went to the Liverpool Empire last night to watch Derren Brown. Now here’s the thing; I made a silent promise to Derren not
My Barclaycard skin tag
Before the lawyers start to circle, I’m not slagging off Barclaycard, ok? So, anyway, I have recently acquired a Barclaycard “pay tag“. This is a
Jake Morrison is gay
There’s a very young local councillor representing the Labour party (there isn’t really any other party in Liverpool, it’s a one party state), who managed
Hope by radio
As a talking radio listener, I quite often listen to Pete Price on Radio City / City Talk (Sunday – Thursday 10pm – 2am). And,
The cuts won’t affect Liverpool’s skunk industry
Despite the vast majority of the occupants in the Anfield area of North Liverpool having never actually worked, quite a number can be very enterprising
James could have been ordinary and anonymous
Once upon a time there was a cute little toddler called James. Twenty years ago, 1993, yesterday he died. He was just an anonymous little
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