Real city radio is about attitude and deeds – we don’t follow the pack, we set our own path; our line-up of presenters is perhaps the most diverse among underground radio stations mirroring mk's communities; and, we are uncompromising in the speech and music we broadcast. In fact, we are the only underground music and speech radio station in milton keynes blending ‘old skool to new cool’ soulful music , we dont play the brainwashing music of the mainstream, we keep away from the negative lyrics, the very music that teaches our kids that its all about the sex, money and the bling We can change our community, we can help our young people, help eachother and make our community a safer nicer place to live, so join our revolution of change @ real city radio. If you like what realcity stands for, or you just love our kind of radio, then welcome home to realcity, whoever you are, wherever you are This is indeed is your radio station.

What was the early studios like ?

Grotty yeah really shabby to be honest, erm erm the one at wharf road i think gordons mum owned that it was really cool it was like a real studio, i remember setting fire to it a couple of times, accidently of course. yeah i remember there was one in charlton, camden and commercial road, the one in camden i remember evryone knowing where we was and we were suppose to be pirate im not kidding everyone knew it was ridiculous lol. also there was manasus it was funny a tower block in east london, i remember doing a show at the house phone would ring and ask for someone like ed and you would have to go and find him amongst the bodys from the night before party funny days, and the toilet every time you used it you would get soaked so you would have a special tactic on how to dodge the water good ol days.

What makes a good dj ?

Originallity, you know the people have got to like the music for a start but you can make people like the music, like i said when i played house at kiss fm when it was pirate nobody was playing it it was a minority proggramme now look at it the last twenty five years it was one of those things you just came up with it, i mean before that i used to play boogie salsa samba jazz funk stuff like that, then house music came it was like disco revisited in my view so that was it no outfits no styleof dancing no going around in gangs you’d have to be into it the music “thats disco”

How Did You Come About Joining Kiss FM ?

Yeah i knew gordon mac for years we used to work on a radio station called jfm in the 80’s, he used to come to my flat and make pancakes “the business” toss those pancakes, anyway we’d hang out and id dj at his clubs and stuff, he said to me “come on get off that rubbish station and come join us” so i did and thats how i did it. Earlydoors he did say he was starting a pirate radio station and i just laughed “whatever” and yeah he obviously did and so i joined and thats it.

Lets talk about your input into real city academy, how far have you got with setting such an academy up ?

its a steady process, its all about getting it right first time round rather than going back over things fifty times, we have a great team of people behind this project some very important people in the music industry working closley with us every day, slowly we are acheiving what we set out to do, its a hard slog at times but its worth every second we spend on this project. Our aim is to have a music academy set up by the end of 2018, with some full and p/t courses in music technology, sound engineering and music business. its exciting times to be working alongside such a fine bunch of dedicated people who’s goals are to connect with young people and inspire them with there knowledge and experiance in life and the music business. what our aims are is to create a good future for young people, to help create jobs, jobs that they want to do. theres a thousand parts in this industry for our young people to excell, we ultimatley want our kids to have there own industry. people from all over the world will come to milton keynes for there know how.

This is the sixth year of realcityradio, hows that project going ? Are you going to keep it a strictly house music station ?

Its been great, Ricardo doing a fantastic job as ever . and DAB is where we are going, and house music is where we are at.. from unlicenced to licenced kiss i played house music from 1985, because at that time everyone else’s music was down to mid tempo, i suppose from constantly banging the house music drum ! the vibe was right and positive, the lyrics said love, party happy sexy dance friday, saturday “compare that with the mainstream broadcasters”. The music that we play at real city radio is good for your soul plus we play lots of vinyl which is good for your body vibe too. at real city we want you to be involved its free ! its for you ! So look out for us in the near future, The voice of Milton Keynes is about to land.

miguel

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