In the late 70s, I discovered Nicky Horn, Kenny Everette, and Fluff Freeman. Oh, and Tommy "TV on the radio" Vance. Sometime in the mid 80s I discovered Annie Nightingale, so I started listening to R1 again, even it was only for her request show. The next thing I knew, there was this young lad who had a show on Mondays, and he wasn't called Andy Kershaw! He played records with grungy guitars, had a wacky way of looking at the world, and yet he wasn't called Annie.
Eventually, he moved from one hour on Monday ("Out of Blue 6") to a two hour show on Mondays to Thursdays (known to some of us as "The Graveyard Shift"), Now has has a breakfast show, and two weeks off for a honeymoon. Tsk. Bring back Jimmy Saville, I hear someone cry.
Very few shows can match the Mark Radcliffe show often featuring sidekick Lard (aka Marc "Fancy a Brew" Riley, formerly of The Creepers). Oh yeah, let's not forget their songbook. Their guests used to include Katie Puckrik, Kim Newman, and Mark Kermode. Better not mention Shit Agent. Oops.
Scrawn used to have a TV show on C4, called The White Room.
Generate your own band names, just like Stuart "Cyber Children of the Monkey Basket" Maconie, the man who made "Cheeses Of Nazareth" famous. Also see the Grunge Band Name Generator and the anagrams page.
The Shirehorses tour is over. They came, they saw, they cantered. Then they've split up.
More recently, they've formed The Mighty Horse tribute band...featuring the Shirehorses.
And then there's The Indecipherable Boys, with songs like
Horny.
I'll get my coat.
"That was the graveyard shift, and it was fab. I know coz I was there."
Mark Radcliffe