Get Ready to ROCK! Radio celebrates a year of broadcasting this October.

Programme director David Randall commented, "We established the radio channel as a complement to the well established and popular website getreadytorock.com but the station is now taking on a life of its own.  Listeners like the mix of continuous music sequences, specialist shows and the chance to hear the less familiar both new and old. I am very proud to say that this station devotes only five and a half hours per week to what might be termed "classic rock hits" - long may it continue!"

This October the station will unveil a new theme tune. David Randall heard the track 'Free Rock Radio' on a promo CD several years ago and it instantly struck a chord.

"The lyrics perfectly sum up the feeling of nostalgia for a time when pirate radio was pioneering new music, a sense of loss and change not always for the better both in our lives generally and in our radio listening specifically."

"We have used an edited version of the song as our theme over the past year but having approached the songwriter Veg and his band Collaborator they have reworked the lyrics to suit our station.  The result is fantastic and I think the end result perfectly sums up what Get Ready to ROCK! Radio is all about."

You can hear the song at the start and close of daily broadcasting and throughout October in our playlists.

More information

Press release

The Songwriters, Sunday 18:00

A chance to hear again our career interviews with significant singer-songwriters as part of our series.

4 October Eleanor McEvoy

11 October Paul Carrack

18 October  Maggie Reilly

25 October John Wetton
 

Pete Feenstra interviews, Sunday 21:00

A replay for Pete Feenstra's interviews originally broadcast as part of the 'Assume The Position' show.

11 October Joe Satriani

18 October Steve Hackett

25 October Ian Gillan