'cause I heard it on the radio
A very brief commercial interlude:
A friend of mine has been producing pastiche mid-90s FM radio shows, on the grounds that we all want something deeply familiar, nostalgic and safe right now. He's been calling it "comfort radio".
And to me - for whom this is the perfect nostalgia window - comfort radio is exactly what it is. The music may well have been what local radio was playing in the mid-90s, but it registers with me as closer to late 80s in sound, and the tracks are mostly well-known, things-you-hear-on-the-radio, oh-is-that-what-that-is tracks. And John has a lovely, calm voice that makes the whole thing feel like a great big audio hug.
If this sounds like it might be up your alley, then do give it a listen:
https://www.mixcloud.com/johnkell/fm-nights-episode-1/
In fact, even if it doesn't, can you stream it anyway? Because I really want him to think it's worth his while to make more than two episodes :-)
[Originally posted at https://venta.dreamwidth.org/540728.html]
A friend of mine has been producing pastiche mid-90s FM radio shows, on the grounds that we all want something deeply familiar, nostalgic and safe right now. He's been calling it "comfort radio".
And to me - for whom this is the perfect nostalgia window - comfort radio is exactly what it is. The music may well have been what local radio was playing in the mid-90s, but it registers with me as closer to late 80s in sound, and the tracks are mostly well-known, things-you-hear-on-the-radio, oh-is-that-what-that-is tracks. And John has a lovely, calm voice that makes the whole thing feel like a great big audio hug.
If this sounds like it might be up your alley, then do give it a listen:
https://www.mixcloud.com/johnkell/fm-nights-episode-1/
In fact, even if it doesn't, can you stream it anyway? Because I really want him to think it's worth his while to make more than two episodes :-)
[Originally posted at https://venta.dreamwidth.org/540728.html]