EXCITED ! Not the word F M Flipping Marvellous

FANTASTIC NEWS!!
I would like to tell you all that The Flash have been successful in our application to offer an FM Community Radio broadcast licence for the Waterlooville area. You can see here the first part of an e-mail from Ofcom informing me of the good news. I would like to thank our dedicated and talented team for all their hard work, Ash Elford and Tony Smith of Angel Radio for their support, Alan Beech for his assistance, Park Community School, Waterlooville Library, all the community groups and local businesses who supported our application, and not forgetting our fantastic listeners who support us so much and make all the hard work worthwhile. 
There is lots of work to be done, funding to be raised and equipment to be purchased before we can launch our service, but we will keep you posted on our progress.

Flying Machines Mark and Paul Entertaining us on Drive Dtime

Flying Machines Mark and Paul gave us some acoustic renditions of their new album TALES OF A QUIET GUEST. Their album launch is at the Edge of the Wedge, Albert Road Portsmouth FRIDAY 11TH MAY 2018  

Gary and Michelle Pressman in on DRIVE TIME

CHRIS ROGERS AND GUESTS!
Chris Rogers chatting to Gary Pressman and Michelle Pressman about music and their new book 'Soul Safari'.

Such interesting stories of Gary's Life. You can get a copy of his Book at Amazon, just do a search for Soul Safari  CLICK THE LINK BELOW

Soul Safari by Gary Pressman

John Price Interviews King Rollo

John Price live in the studio with Local Artist and Multi talented person in general Rollo Rawlings

Mark in the studio Promoting his New Album

BABY COME BACK TO BED is the New Album from Mark Handley and the bone Idols, there are once again some top tunes on the Album, where do Mark and the team come up with such great original music.

JORDAN TAKES TO THE AIRWAVES!

Jordan Grattan today completed his period of work experience with The Flash through Havant & Southdowns College. During his short time with us he has planned and produced his first radio show. It runs for 35 minutes and will be aired tomorrow (Friday) evening at 6.00pm, and with another chance to hear it on Sunday at 12.00noon. 
Myself and Peter Crew were really impressed with his work, and he is very keen to present more shows for us in the future and may even help by compiling and presenting live traffic bulletins every now and again during our 'Drive Time' shows.

Steve Vinyl with Colin Thomas and Rob Moore FROM HARBOUR RECORDS

THE STEVE VINYL SHOW Thursday evenings
from 9-11pm on THE FLASH RADIO STATION, on dab to Portsmouth and surrounding areas and to THE WORLD and beyond on www.theflashonair.co.uk. where real music live's, playing 2 hours of CLASSIC PUNK & NEW WAVE MUSIC, Featuring an interview with the Harbour Records Emsworth team, consisting of Colin Thomas and Rob Moore, talking about past, present, and future local organised music events. Plus Colin Thomas TOP 5 PUNK PICKS.  Photograph by MichelePaulPhotography.

New Presenter Alert Jordan Grattan

A FLASH WELCOME FOR JORDAN!
Today we welcomed Jordan Grattan to our Havant studio. Jordan is with us this week on work experience from Havant & Southdowns College. Following my introduction to our work environment and health & Safety matters, Peter Crew ran through the different forms of radio and some tips on programme planning. Jordan will be planning and producing a 30 minute programme while he is with us so watch this space!.

Gary O'Connor and Friends in the studio ON DRIVE TIME

Gary O’Conner and friends in the studio. Top chat and tunes

This coming Friday 13th on Drivetime my special guests are Gary O'Connor and members of his band Kevin and Tony. Playing live, talking about their musical influences as well as The Hayling Island Folk and Acoustic Festival and many other things.
Plus promoting the New Album.

Local Band the Stay Awakes in the Studio with Steve Vinyl

Featuring a live interview with local band THE STAYAWAKES, talking about there music, inspiration,future plans, and playing live in the studio, songs from there upcoming album CATS & DOGS LIVING TOGETHER. Please share it on your time line with your friends, and spread the word. 😎 . Photographs by MichelePaulPhotography.

Mike Lock from Havant & East Hants Mind

Mike Lock in our studio today to record a promotion for the mental health charity.

Crash Dive Sect ! No thats not what happened, its the Bands Fantastic Name

Steve Vinyl, Martin Kirby (station manager) and THE FLASH radio team would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to the band CRASH DIVE SECT for coming into the studio on Thursday evening to join STEVE VINYL'S PUNK AND NEW WAVE SHOW, for an informative chat about their music, inspirations, and future plans. If you missed Thursday evenings show, its repeated again TONIGHT from 10pm. Photographs by michelepaulphotography.

Steve in the studio with Marty Mayhem

A live interview with MARTY MAYHEM lead singer, rhythm & lead guitarist, and principle songwriter in THE SMOKIN PROPHETS talking about their new album and playing a live unplugged session on his acoustic guitar. 

Robert Coaché From the High Wire Act LIVE ON DRIVE TIME

Robert from the High wire act in the studio with Chris Rogers, telling us all about the band, music in general and the Tonic charity

Dielle and Chris in the studio on Drive time

Dielle Hannah and Chris Wood in the studio, wow . A pleasure to catch up with them again 
 Telling us all about their up and coming gig at the station Theatre Hayling Island in April

😀

Katy and Beverley in the Hot seat Recording an Advert

Katy and Beverley recording an Advert for Community first, helping those that want to get back to work by Volunteering locally, a great way to help yourself and others

TESTING TESTING THIS IS THUNDERBIRD 5 FROM DOWN COUNTRY CALLING

Yes he is back FFR (FACE FOR RADIO). Today Kev Fiford gave us a Taste of things to come from the English Riviera, all the way from Torbay we had the sound of Rock.

Kev is calling it Thunderbird 5 lol.
We welcome him back, but by the sounds of today's broadcast it was like he had never been away

Here's to many more hours of great music and a regular slot will be announced in the not too distant future.

Here's the Studio
Here's the Location
and
He's the one with less hair

Big Better Stronger

A SIGNAL BOOST FOR THE LEIGH PARK AND HAVANT AREA!

As you may know our DAB signal is broadcast via the Portsmouth DAB multiplex, which carries a wide range of digital stations. This multiplex is run by Angel Radio and more information can be found by visiting www.solentwireless.com. This multiplex gives us DAB coverage across the Portsmouth, Hayling Island, Gosport, Waterlooville, and Havant areas. However as with all radio signals, we have found that the signal can be a little patchy in some areas, notably in the Leigh Park area. Our engineers Alan and Ash have been busy setting up a relay transmitter to boost our signal in this area, and we hope to be able to announce the introduction of this early in February.

We took ours off to ! HATS OFF TO LED ZEPPELIN

Kevin Oliver Jones from the Band HATS OFF TO LED ZEPPELIN ,popped into the studio to have an interview with Chris Rogers.

The Official UK No.1 tribute to the gods of Rock and Roll for three years running at the National Tribute Awards and in 2017 voted BEST tribute band in the UK, Hats Off to Led Zeppelin are proud to be the only tribute act in the UK officially endorsed by Marshall amplifiers and they are managed by none other than Warren Grant … for the uninitiated, his father Peter was Led Zeppelin’s manager! “Hats Off to Led Zeppelin are the closest you are going to get” Warren said after first seeing the band!

www.hatsofftoledzeppelin.co.uk

New Year New Music REGGAE TIME

THE FLASH GOES REGGAE!

As you know The Flash is spreading it's wings to include more specialist 'Real Music' programmes during evenings and at weekends. The Flash Welcomes Stuart Mightyz Inglis of 'Emiliyah & The MightyZ All Stars' fame, and we can confirm that he is working on a pilot Reggae and Ska show for The Flash. Watch this space for more information!

Exciting times and another string to the BOW of the flash Armour.