The Intrepid Birdman 2024
Thameside Radio Revisited
Hooray. The Intrepid Birdman is back. If you are looking for new stuff to listen to then go to () and catch up with what he's doing now. That's now as in 2024! Since you're here I have a few more Thameside recordings which I'm about to upload and also recordings of what the members did after they left Thameside Radio. Quite a few really. Al
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Thameside Radio 2May82 19:20 Late
Thameside Radio Revisited
The show started late - the first we hear from the Paul James show is at 7:20 which is where this recording starts.
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Thameside 25Apr82 1945 Kite, Radio Centraal and Busted
Thameside Radio Revisited
The Intrepid Birdman takes over. Dave plays a demo tape from a band called Kite. Sent in on reel to reel!
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Thameside 25May82 1900 Paul the Pope and a Thameside Radio transmitter change.
Thameside Radio Revisited
We hear from BT's "Pope Line" because the Pope is visiting the UK but he doesn't answer. Fortunately after a second go we finally hear to Pope talking to us.
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Thameside 12Apr82 Bob's quiet patches
Thameside Radio Revisited
The last of 15 hours of Thameside Radio's 1982 Easter Bank Holiday 1982 broadcast. After a mammoth broadcast The Intrepid Birdman hands over Bob Edwards.
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Thameside 12Apr82 21:15 The Intrepid Birdman flies on
Thameside Radio Revisited
Dave Birdman is in a mischevous mood - He is asking listeners for scurrilos rumours about where Bob Edwards is.
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Thameside 12Apr82 20:28 Dave's sketches, Mark, Paul and Ian
Thameside Radio Revisited
In this part of the Easter Monday extended show the Intrepid Birdman asks where Bob Edwards has gone, and with whom?
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Thameside 12Apr82 19:42 Dave is At It
Thameside Radio Revisited
Dave is in the studio in Harrow. He has an "interview with ELO" on a broken phone box (only Dave could do this... ) and then inevitably credits the next track wrongly. You may have to explain to your kids what a "phone box" is, what those beeps mean when calling from one, and what "Button A" and "Button B" are. There's a Duracell Battery advert - involving miners losing power in their lanterns in the poorest possible taste of course. There is also a quiz about finding a bit of a Thameside Radio DJ which is hidden by the Hammersmith Odeon in the grounds of St Pauls church. (Sorry, let the...
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Thameside 12Apr82 17:19 Sarah goes to the Hammersmith Palais
Thameside Radio Revisited
More from Sarah from Kew on Thameside Radio 90.2 on a sunny Easter in 1982
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Thameside 12Apr82 16:32 More from Mark, and Sarah
Thameside Radio Revisited
We hear more from Mark who tells Bob to stop whatever he is doing as it's illegal and immoral! Sarah starts by playing the top 3 from 4 artists in the Thameside Radio 90.2 charts.
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It's 8am on Easter Monday. Paul James is pretty much alone in the Thameside Radio studio. Dave Birdman is still in bed at home although Ian the Engineer is going there to pick some things up!
The show starts with The Jam and Start - which you don't hear much any more. Did you know that The Beatles sued them for because the riff and the bass line were lifted from Taxman? Of course Taxman was written by Goerge Harrison, who was himself sued for the similarities between "My Sweet Lord and "He's so Fine". That's the start of my question for RBQ! At least now we have standard rates for tracks that use samples from other artists.
Nine minutes in Paul plays the definitve Thameside Radio "Well Corporal" jingle.
There are a couple of technical problems at the start of the show - hum, hiss, setting levels and all that. Usually those issues were dealt with during the 10 minute warmup but it took a bit longer. They are all fixed in the end: so hang in there.
We are told that there will be a treasure hunt for an easter egg hidden somewhere in London. Also a picnic which we will be told more about later (it ended up at Harrow on the Hill).
Loads more from the 1982 Easter Monday show to come
Mentions for Dave in Croydon and Hilly.