Sunny Govan
I had a six o'clock appointment tonight with John MacDonald at He's making a programme about the history of radio in Glasgow and wanted to record my memories of Radio Clyde and East End Radio. But he told me that he didn't need me to talk about ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland because that would be covered by my colleague Tony Currie. I might have known!
Sunny Govan Radio is housed in a series of one storey buildings just a five minute walk away from the . At the moment they're having to endure some noisy demolition work on the adjacent site...all part of the continued redevelopment of Govan.
John told me the noise caused them particular problems because they don't have sound-proof studios. But it just goes to show you don't really need state of the art equipment to get a radio station on the air. The main asset is the goodwill of the local community and Sunny Govan Radio seems to have plenty of that.
As for the interview, well, I shared one memory being a Radio Clyde listener as a teenager in the 1970's. The station held a festive open day in a car park next to their old studios as Anderston Cross. It was a bitterly cold day in December, but there must have been thousands of people in that car park, all desperate to get a look at the disc jockeys.
I also rememebered that when Tiger Tim Stevens took the stage, the crowd went wild...and then Tim turned his back on the audience and scratched his bum.
You really have to know your listeners well to get away with that, especially in Glasgow.
