Andy Kershaw RIP

[Wacky Racer]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9qprx2ljlo

Very sorry to hear this, I knew he only had days left.

He was a good mate in Saddleworth before he went to Leeds university around 1978 , after which he became famous as a radio and TV personality.

His book "No off switch" is a great read.

[Tannedbaldhead]

I remember listening to his program while working as an icecream for pocket money as a student.
Lots of Reggae, African, Country and South American music I would never have heard anywhere else.

[boyse7en]

Tannedbaldhead said:

I remember listening to his program while working as an icecream for pocket money as a student.

You are Mr Whippy, AICMFP

[Wacky Racer]

Tannedbaldhead said:

I remember listening to his program while working as an icecream for pocket money as a student.
Lots of Reggae, African, Country and South American music I would never have heard anywhere else.

His breath of music knowledge was incredible.

He used to be Billy Bragg's roadie in the early days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kershaw

[Murph7355]

boyse7en said:

Tannedbaldhead said:

I remember listening to his program while working as an icecream for pocket money as a student.

You are Mr Whippy, AICMFP

It does explain why he has a bald head though.

[Tannedbaldhead]

boyse7en said:

Tannedbaldhead said:

I remember listening to his program while working as an icecream for pocket money as a student.

You are Mr Whippy, AICMFP

Started off on what we called "hard vans", Bedford CFs and MK II Transits selling scooped ice cream then worked my way up into whippy vans, a Bedford CF with a Carpigiani direct drive softee machine the a massive (big as a bus) Mercedes 608 with a generator in the back running a triple head Taylor machine.
And keeping it relevant to the subject Andy Kershaw playing on the radio.

[gazza285]

I once drank most of his rider at a gig he was putting on, which was a bit daft as I was driving the van with the PA system in it. More bizarrely, I was pulled on the way home, but the coppers were looking for a van that had been out ram raiding, they told me that they knew I'd been drinking, so take it steady. Thirty odd years ago, doubt that would happen now.