Martin’s Story

Martin

Born into a music loving family in the  60’s, my Dad allowed us to wear out the ‘hifi’ that he bought from Dixons and I owe my love of music to him. Revolver Records in Bristol was my second home and I would spend every last penny in that shop.

All I ever wanted to do was host the Radio1 Breakfast Show instead of Noel Edmonds. 

I did stints as a DJ at Birmingham Uni and later on Hospital Radio in my 30’s whilst holding down a ‘real job’.

Music and Radio were my quiet obsession as I followed the likes of Bob Stewart, Tony Prince and David ‘kid’ Jensen on Luxembourg, then Michael Aspel and Roger Scott on Capital Radio, through to Chris Evans on Radio London and onto Virgin Breakfast the first time.

Other heroes include Richard Allinson a technical genius, Kenny Everett the prophet of Zoo radio, David Hamilton of the perfect radio voice, Tommy Vance, Annie Nightingale and of course Johnny Walker and Steve Wright.

The Middle Aged Spread Radio Hour came about because I never forgot what Roger Scott said about why he wanted to be a radio DJ (quite a few of his shows are on mix-cloud btw thanks to his son archiving them).

Roger said that he would buy records on Saturday mornings and rush home to his flat in Notting Hill to play them. He would always put his speakers in the windows and point them out to the street below with volume on max. He thought ‘you have got to hear these records’.

Spreading the music is something we all love to do. So that’s what this is all about. And I hope you will help us pay it all forward like the radio DJ’s and audiences of every era.