Song of the day: Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl - Dedicated to Nigel
Well on the news of my daughter being born, There is a sad note. A friend i made a few years ago has died. He wasn't realy a good friend or anything but its sad that he is no longer with us.
At Swindon Community Radio's RSL in 2005 i met Nigel Sharp, a broadcaster who was with GWR in its early days and I remember him mentioning BBC Sheffield to name some and was also religious broadcaster. I didn't know what to make of him. I suppose I was scared of messing up in front of him because he had this professionalism glow about him. I didn't know him very well but had heard stories about him, and he told me a few. I used to be the technical operater for some his shows as he found the desk a bit difficult to operate due to his medical problems. I remember sitting down with him and my radio buddy Greg, with Nigel telling us stories of his radio days.
My first on air experience with him was his first show on SCB Radio. Shirley Ludford gave me the job of tech-opping on his religious show "Saints Alive". I was warned though "Watch his voice levels, he can be quite loud" so while I set up I though I’d do a microphone check to make sure he isn't too loud and then turn him down a bit after the check. He gave me instructions on what to do (Finish news, he says "Welcome to saints alive, with me, Nigel sharp" and I start his music) what to play and his hand instructions. A young man called “Chekkers” joined him and was also one of his helps, a young input into his show and I was training him to Tech-op for Nigel. Anyway I'm there I am thinking I'm smart because i turned his levels down a notch and a half. The news finished and... The levels go off the scales!!!!!
"WELCOME TO SAINTS ALIVE WITH ME NIGEL SHARP" Music: DAA DAA DAA DAA DAA DAA DAA DAA DUM DAA DUM DEE DAA DU-DAA (I have a audio clip of it) and to make matters worse there was times I played the wrong song and made him look like a Wally... I didn't mean to!!!! Sorry! But he was such a pro he didn’t tell anybody it was wrong so they didn’t know and if I did mess up he didn’t get cross he just said “don’t worry about it.
Greg started taking over and guess what... He played a Christmas song by accident live on Nigel's show when he was tech-opping!!! The RSL was a right laugh I don’t know if we made him angry but if we did i think he forgave us and understood the that we were under a lot of pressure at the RSLNigel also had a country show which I also tech-opped.
There was one show I really bodged up!! I didn't quite like the music on any of his shows but I wasn't his target audience, but I did really want to say some stuff during the religious shows mainly because I am also strongly opinionated but i was probably out of Nigel’s league and didn't want to insult him.
It saddens me that he's gone and my thoughts and best wishes go out to his family during this sad time for them.
R.I.P Nigel Sharp
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