Radio Interview

Well, the live radio interview took place last night, (Friday), on Surf Radio International.

Delightful Dutch lady dj Annoeska had invited me onto her show for an interview. I must confess, in the build up to the actual interview, I was feeling extremely nervous. After some forty years in the entertainment business, I overcame stage fright a long time ago. But this was something else.

And five minutes before going to air, I was in a cold sweat!! Butterflies in the stomach, mouth gone dry. I'd never experienced nerves like that before. Not even when I first got up to sing "Paper Roses" with the band, some forty years ago. 

The hook up was done via a Skype conference call set up by the station manager, Peter Ford,  and our conversation would be fed directly into the audio mixer in the Surf Radio studio, over in Holland. Listening to a recording of the interview it sounded as though we were both in the same room. Technology these days is just amazing.

In the moments before the interview started, Peter did his best to assure me that everything was going to be ok. Anyway, the moment came, and suddenly we were on the air. After a few seconds I somehow managed to relax, and just threw myself into it. Annoeska is such a fun person anyway, she turned what I thought was going to quite an ordeal into a great deal of fun. We chatted over a period of 25 minutes, which included pauses to play a couple of records. And before I knew it, we'd covered from how I got into the entertainment business, some forty odd years ago, through to how I came to be presenting regular shows on both Radio NorthSea International, and Surf Radio. 

It was great fun to do, and if I'm honest, I can't understand why I got so tensed up about doing it. The whole thing was just so much fun. 

Anyway, I'd like to thank Annoeska for inviting me onto her show, Peter Ford and Webtek, the two guys behind the scenes, who's technical expertise made it all possible. And a special thank you to all the Surf Radio listeners who were listening in from all over the world.

FOOTNOTE:

I've since learned that I wasn't the only one doing something they had never done before.  It seems that this was the first time Annoeska had conducted an interview, "live", as apposed to recording it. It was also the first time she had done an interview in English.  
So - congratulations Annoeska!!


And here is the interview: