The John Mack Show The JMS has rapidly become a 'must-listen' for many, with regular listeners not just from the the Wivey area, but from all over the country - and some from other parts of the world. Eclectic is always the word on the JMS – the tracks are carefully chosen from many people's suggestions and from many genres and eras. The JMS faithful now span the globe and […]
Every week a different 10Radio DJ presents a look at the Top 10s and more from this current week for each decade of the 1980s.
John classifies himself as an ‘old git’. In former lives he has been an ace toilet seat fitter, an eagle-eyed carpet inspector, a postal sorter(sacked), a hospital storesman (sacked), a hospital porter (success!); a primary headteacher (burnt out) and a writer of guidebooks (much-published) and a ghostwriter of memoirs (always open to offers!).
John regards himself as musical. He would dearly have loved to play in a rock band. This putative career failed at age 11 and Grade 2 piano. Badly taught, I’m afraid – John wanted to play pop but Miss Sharples’ only offer was an unremitting diet of Brahms, Mozart and musical theory. He does sing tenor in a church choir, though.
John relishes the freedom afforded by 10radio to play stuff that mainstream music shows generally don’t play. He loves music of many genres (which does now include classical but excludes country* and rap** ).
Intolerant view alert: *too schmaltzy, mid west and Trumpian **in John’s opinion, the work of the semi-educated who’ve been given a rhyming dictionary for Christmas.
10Radio is a community radio station serving the 10 parishes in West Somerset which incorporate Wiveliscombe, Ashbrittle, Bathealton, Brompton Ralph, Chipstable, Clatworthy, Fitzhead, Huish Champflower, Milverton, Stawley and Wellington and the surrounding area.
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