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LP Showcase: Give Me The Night – George Benson
Let’s see if we can select the ingredients for the perfect 1980s soul album. First, it must have some incredible musicians. For keyboards, could you get better than Herbie Hancock? Or Greg...
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Music Radio… Like It Used To Be – Colin Berry
Good news for fans of “our kind of music”! Colin Berry has told us that he will be presenting the third in his occasional series Music Radio Like It Used To Be on BBC Three Counties, this Good Friday 9...
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LP Showcase: Central Heating – Heatwave
Time for a big surprise. The surprise is not that this month’s Showcase LP – Central Heating – was made in London, back in 1978, while we were all queuing up to see Grease. Nor is the surprise that the...
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LP Showcase: Logg – Leroy Burgess
Let’s start with a quiz. What is missing from the following: Black Ivory, Phreek, Dazzle, Caprice, The Fantastic Aleems, Hi-Frequency, Convertion, Intrigue, Universal Robot Band, Aleem. The answer:...
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LP Showcase: So Delicious – Fatback Band
Without doubt you have heard of The Fatback Band. Chances are you have downloaded some of their tracks and have probably sang along to “I Found Lovin’” at every dinner & dance you’ve ever...
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LP Showcase: Winelight – Grover Washington Jr
Are you the sort of person who prefers quality or quantity? If it’s the latter, you may well sniff at the thought of purchasing an album to discover it only contains six tracks. Yes, just six. But if...
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LP Showcase launching soon on Soul A.M.
The LP is back, in a big way. For the music purists among us, it never went anywhere, it has always been our favoured format. But more and more of us are starting to feel that something is missing,...
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Campaign For Real Music will be back soon…
Apologies for our absence over the past few months. We are dealing with a nasty hack into our site and hope that we may have now cleared this and can get back up and running soon. It has been...
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Legends of British broadcasting
Radiocafé is proud to present the definitive list of some of the broadcasters, presenters and other individuals who have made a wonderful contribution to the popular music cause. Sadly, many of these...
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STREET RADIO: Back In The Days – edition 1
If you reviewed the radio listings of the Radio Times for the first week of May back in 1986, the options for those who prefer their music on the soulful or funky side would have been as follows:...
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Robbie Vincent
The world of soul and jazz- funk owes so much to Robbie Vincent, who has pioneered the good music cause for decades. And, following hundreds of emails and posts to us at Radiocafe from fans who missed...
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Dance Bands – Malcolm Laycock
UPDATE: 10 November 2009: We are sad to learn that Maclolm Laycock passed away on 8th November 2009. Malcolm was one of the finest broadcasters, and has been greatly missed from the airwaves since his...
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PIRATE RADIO: Why we do what we do, by Rosko
In a few short years, analogue radio as we know it will vanish into the ether, becoming white noise and making way for the brave new world of digital broadcasting. The pops, crackles, whistles and hiss...
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ARTIST PROFILE: Robert Farnon
It’s hard to summarise the incredible contribution that Robert Farnon has made to music. Many consider him to be the greatest composer of light orchestral music to have ever lived, and it is difficult...
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Soul Unsigned – exposure for the worthy
People often ask me where the original idea for Soul Unsigned came from. The answer is that it started with a packet of Nestle breakfast cereal… Rewind to 2003, and I’m doing the Sunday morning shop...
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