Street Sounds Radio Presenter

As a fully-fledged member of “The Caister generation”, I was brought up on a diet of Beer, Soul, Jazz Funk & Fried chicken along with early morning Burgers at “The Orsett Cock” on journeys back from The Goldmine & Zero 6. Closer to home was the legendary Flicks where resident DJ Colin Hudd along with regular guest DJ’s Robbie Vincent & Jeff young provided a level of musical substance that set me on the path to a lifetime love affair of Funk, Soul, Jazz Funk and everything in between On those long pilgrimages to distant Cathedrals of Funk, cassettes of the Robbie Vincent show & Greg Edwards were played at high volume to set us in the mood for a serious bit of clubbing. Of course, long before Internet Radio was a thing, the early eighties saw an explosion of Pirate Stations across the London airwaves & suddenly it was possible to hear our music every day! As well as grooving to the music I was also playing to the crowds, both with my mobile disco & later across various clubs & pubs across the Southeast Later years saw me on one of the earliest Internet Stations - Soul 24-7, then a few years on commercial station Time 107.3 with a Weekend Soul & Disco show & a playlisted show on sister station Time 106.8 followed, along with freelance work on various stations in the Southeast plus a couple of community stations Academy 107.8 & BRFM 95.6. I’m now delighted to be sharing Classic & new tunes to all of the Street Sounds Radio listeners.

John Varnham