PIccadilly Radio

Dirty Harry said:
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I liked Phil Wood. He was quite amusing.

Him, Dave Ward, Pete Baker, Umberto, Susie Mathis and that red bastard Mike Sweeney were all a part of my life when I was growing up.

Oh and Steve Penk's real name is Penkethman btw.

Does anyone else remember those Doan's backache pills and the unfortunately names Ayds slimming supplements adverts that were incessantly on the station all the time?
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Remember the DJ's well GDM and the big photos around the building leading away from Piccadilly Gardens, always remember oddly, you know when you have a picture in your mind how someone would look from just listening to their voice ? Well I remember Dave Ward and Susie Mathis being just how I'd imagined, a bit weird really.

Ancoats, I remember that 'it's a goal' and 'oh noooo', it was always the same feeling of trepidation wondering whether they were going to go to Maine Road or not :-S.
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I used to spend most Saturdays from the age of 8 to 11 working/loitering in my dad's shop in Miles Platting and the radio was always on. If City were at home then quite often my uncle and occasionally my dad, if he could be persuaded, would take me to Maine Road but if we were away I would spend the whole time between 3 and 4.45 (half time was ten minutes back then) listening with a mixture of fear/dread/anticipation for both of those jingles.

I've actually got a programme somewhere from the Maine Road Derby in 1978/79 season which has pictures of all those DJ's in it - I think Piccadilly sponsored the game. Steve Penk must have been starting out at the time and it's fair to say he's filled out a little. Phil Wood looked like a wizard. Dave Ward like a sleazy womaniser and Mike Sweeney a ****.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Dirty Harry said:
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I liked Phil Wood. He was quite amusing.

Him, Dave Ward, Pete Baker, Umberto, Susie Mathis and that red bastard Mike Sweeney were all a part of my life when I was growing up.

Oh and Steve Penk's real name is Penkethman btw.

Does anyone else remember those Doan's backache pills and the unfortunately names Ayds slimming supplements adverts that were incessantly on the station all the time?
Click to expand...

Remember the DJ's well GDM and the big photos around the building leading away from Piccadilly Gardens, always remember oddly, you know when you have a picture in your mind how someone would look from just listening to their voice ? Well I remember Dave Ward and Susie Mathis being just how I'd imagined, a bit weird really.

Ancoats, I remember that 'it's a goal' and 'oh noooo', it was always the same feeling of trepidation wondering whether they were going to go to Maine Road or not :-S.
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I used to spend most Saturdays from the age of 8 to 11 working/loitering in my dad's shop in Miles Platting and the radio was always on. If City were at home then quite often my uncle and occasionally my dad, if he could be persuaded, would take me to Maine Road but if we were away I would spend the whole time between 3 and 4.45 (half time was ten minutes back then) listening with a mixture of fear/dread/anticipation for both of those jingles.

I've actually got a programme somewhere from the Maine Road Derby in 1978/79 season which has pictures of all those DJ's in it - I think Piccadilly sponsored the game. Steve Penk must have been starting out at the time and it's fair to say he's filled out a little. Phil Wood looked like a wizard. Dave Ward like a sleazy womaniser and Mike Sweeney a ****.[/quote]

Ha and always will be mate. just looked at the wikipedia link below, some familiar names there at the start, like Karl Pilkington, I just thought he was some random bloke who Gervais and Merchant knew lol.

<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Magic_1152" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Magic_1152</a>
 
Anybody else used to hang around the Piccadilly Radio tent at the Flower Show in Platt Fields, usually in the vain hope of getting a free t-shirt or sweat shirt? The most I ever got was a load of car stickers!

:(
 
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