Well, well, well.
Just when I thought I had erased all of the incriminating evidence...boom! Out pops a photo from the past to stop me in my tracks. Not just any old photo either.
Witness if you will...a caravan ourside the local shops about a five minute walk from my home in 1982. Or, as I like to put it - my first radio gig!
There with me to the left is my friend Mark Walsh. Charlie Sheehan beside him. Next is David Baker (now Chelmer Radio in the UK) and then a New Romantic looking version of me. Yes, it was the 80s. Full on!!
The station was 'Glasnevin North Community Radio', a two week project set up to cover the local community festival. That caravan was home to our little studio and it travelled around the area for the time we were on air. I remember Aidan Cooney (now Q102 Dublin) and Aidan Leonard (RTE Gold) doing their shows from there. My job? To read the community news. I took that very seriously and this is where I realised "Hey, I kind of like this speaking into a mic malarky!"
The buzz of being part of a live broadcast was incredible. The two Aidan's were the veterans, in my eyes - both had actually worked on a radio station before (!) - and I watched what they did and how they did it like a hawk.
Great fun to see this picture again. I wonder if I still have those trousers somewhere? ;)
You can take a listen here on Brian Greene's archive page. A wonderful resource.
(Thanks to the guys at pirate.ie for sourcing the pic and for all their hard work archiving radio history).
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