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Your Name: DEAN

Your DJ Name: MASTER DEAN

Your Station: F’N A XTREME AND F’N A RADIO

Station URL: http://www.fnaxtreme.com
www.fnaradio.com

Your Website(s) URL: http://www.fnaxtreme.com
www.fnaradio.com

Where are you from and tell us a little bit about your home town:
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA ONE OF THE BIGGEST CITIES IN NORTH AMERICA. BUT NOW LIVE IN
THE FAR NORTH, SMALL TOWN OF 1500 LOVE IT WOULD NEVER MOVE BACK TO THE BIG CITY

Tell us a little bit about yourself: RETIRED AT 44

What inspired you to become a DJ? ALWAYS WANTED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE IT AND SEEING AS WE ARE SNOWED IN 6 MONTHS OF THE YEAR…

How do you choose the songs you play on your show? Do record companies ask you to play their artists’ songs?
IF I LIKE IT I PLAY IT.

Do record companies ask you to play their artists’ songs? NO WE PLAY INDIE MUSIC

Do you recommend any new artists or bands? EVERYTHING ON OUR STATIONS

What are your personal musical influences? CLASSICAL

Are you a musician yourself? If so, what do you play and do you have your own band?
NO BUT PLAYED BACKGROUND SOUNDS IN A PSYCHEDLIC BLUES BAND

What do you love most about Metal Music? EVERYTHING

What are your future plans for your radio program? TO THE TOP

Do you have a saying you like to use? Like “stay classy San Diego” WE’LL MAKE YOUR EARS BLEED

What was the first Album you ever bought? WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE BY ALICE COOPER

What is the funniest thing that ever happened on your show? THE FIRST TIME I TRIED TO SAY ‘THE TOP THIRTY MENTAL METAL MELTDOWN’

Have you interviewed, or met any interesting or famous people? If so who? PEOPLE ARE ONLY FAMOUS BECAUSE THE MASSES ALLOW THEM TO BE…EVERYTHING IS ABOUT MARKETING

If you could hang out with a Rock star for a day, who would it be?
TO BE HONEST THERE REALLY ISN’T ANYONE I WANT TO MEET…I DON’T LIKE MEETING FAKE PRETENCIOUS PEOPLE.

Tell us something unique about yourself or your Show? I.E. Contests, you DJ naked, give away prizes, etc….
I PLAY INDIE BANDS MOSTLY METAL FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD..WE STARTED IN FEB. AND SO FAR HAVE BANDS AND LISTENERS FROM OVER 45 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

I’m assuming it’s not for the money so I have to ask: why do you do what you do?
I USE TO MANAGE BANDS AND HAD A RECORD LABEL…I THEN GOT OUT OF IT UNTILL MY WIFE TALKED ME INTO STARTING MY SHOW…THEN WE STARTED A COUPLE OF STATIONS AND WHO KNOWS I MIGHT START THE LABEL ONCE AGAIN….WE SHALL SEE

Your Name: Rich Embury

Your DJ Name: same

Your Station: Pure Rock Radio

Station URL: http://purerockradio.net

Your Website(s) URL: http://twitter.com/purerocklive, http://myspace.com/purerockradio, http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=2386918423 , http://facebook.com/richembury/

Where are you from and tell us a little bit about your home town: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Saskatoon is a small city of about 250,000 people, and the largest in our Province. the city is nicknamed “Paris of the Prairies” because of it’s skyline (and Castle-like hotel on the downtown riverbank), cafe’s, artist community, festivals and beauty. The city is split down the middle by a river, with several bridges, very close together. The city is over 100 years old, is home to a very large university (UofS), crime is low, we are one of the sunniest places in Canada, our temperatures range from 30c in the summer to -40c in the winter. With the wind chill, it can get to about -60c in the dead of winter. Technology is a big industry here, but agriculture is the biggest, with Oil creeping up there, as we are right next door to the Alberta tar sands (2nd only to Saudi Arabia in oil reserves) and have a very large untapped oil resource here in Saskatchewan. While the rest of the country is suffering from a recession and layoffs and forclosures, we are actually growing rapidly and prospering, with jobs all over the place. In fact they are bringing immigrants and recruiting all over the world to fill a shortage of workers in the trades and skilled labour. Saskatchewan is the birthplace of Universal healthcare, and we enjoy free healthcare, no matter rich or poor, no hospital bills here. the entire country adopted the universal healthcare module, which was brought in by actor Kiefer Sutherland’s grandgfather Tommy Douglas a few decades ago. Over-all it’s a great place to live.

Tell us a little bit about yourself: I’m 38, a single father, with full custody of 2 kids (8 & 10). I am disabled from arthritis in both ankles and require a cane to walk, sometimes two. I have been forced off of work for 9 years, and started Pure Rock Radio (originally Radio306.com) to keep my mind busy and for something to do, since I was stuck to the house most often.

What inspired you to become a DJ? when I was a kid, I used to make pretend radio shows with a tape recorder, and became very good at stopping and starting the tape recorder to the point it sounded like a pro mix, even though I only had a cheap radio shack tape recorder..no mixer. About 15 years ago, I was co-chair for a local organization called SOMA (Saskatchewan Original Music Assoc.). At the time, bars and clubs would only book cover bands, so we started an organization funded and run by the musicians themselves to promote local, independent, original music to the area. Our gatherings got so large and we drew a regular large audience to all our events, that bars started to take notice and then started booking original only bands to their venues. from then on, bars no longer forced bands to do covers only and allow original only bands to play all the time. As part of the promotion of saskatchewan original music, we put out a CD, and contacted a local FM station about doing a weekly showcase on their station. the station (CFCR 90.5fm) accepted and I took over a weekly 90 minute radio show with all local original music. At the time, I started out with about a dozen CD’s, but as more and more bands got booked regularly and recording costs went down, I eventually ended up with several hundred local CD’s. The show did so well, that i decided to spread the word and expand the show to the internet, so others outside our city area could hear the show, and we could chat with the listeners and take requests while the show was going on. this was back in about 99 or 2000. At the time, Live365.com offered FREE internet stations and bandwidth and I broadcasted live every week during the show, and the rest of the week, we spun random music of all styles from local bands. I started a website and eventually the internet station was doing better than the FM show, and I was getting submissions from bands all over the Canadian prairies. I expanded the show to include all Canadian prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba) on the show, shortly after SOMA folded from lack of membership (even though we accomplished what we set out to do). I renamed the show to Radio306.com after I secured the domain name, because the station was located in Saskatchewan and was originally all local and Saskatchewan’s telephone area code is 306, it made sense to name it with a local aspect. The station and weekly FM show together did so well that the provinces Premiere (which is Canada’s equivelent to an American State Senator) called to be on the show and do a special broadcast because of our local promotion. In 2001, the FM show and Internet station was nominated for “Media Outlet of the Year” at the Prairie Music Awards in Winnipeg, manitoba for our dedication to promoting music from the region. we were up against multi-million dollar companies and were the only radio related nominee from our province. The award show is now called the Western Canadian Music Awards and is one of the largest music awards shows and conferences in the country. A few years later in 2004, since we were no loonger getting many local submissions and the majority of our submissions and web visits were coming from all over the world and mostly hard rock and metal, we changed the name to Pure Rock Radio, secured purerockradio.net (.com was taken, but never led to a website until last year) and sent out a major press release. Upon the launch of the new name and website, our listenership quadrupled immediately, we got more interest from labels, distros and important music related people, were listed on iTunes, Windows Media Player and shot to the #1 search result in Google for Pure Rock Radio. we’ve been improving and expanding ever since, to the point that now we can be heard in addition to a computer, on gaming devices, mobile/cellphones, TiVo and much more.

How do you choose the songs you play on your show? Do record companies ask you to play their artists’ songs? Record companies, artists, managers, and fans ask us to check out music all the time. We get sent Cd’s from independent and major labels, ditribution companies, and the bands and managers themselves. I peronally listen to everything that is submitted and accept music based on a few things that are sort of welded into my core from years in the business, being a musician myself, being a promoter, and being involved in the music industry all around. First of all the music must be in the heavier formats and have a heavy or hard edge to it. Anything from melodic rock/hair metal to punk and hardcore, or the heaviest of metal. I pride myself and the station on having a wide mix, but still with a heavy edge, and to play what regular FM and satellite refuses to play. Then, I look for production quality, songwriting skills and musicianship. There is nothing worse than hearing great music, then when the singer starts it all gets ruined because someone thinks they can sing and should have been kicked out a long time ago. After-all, we have all seen American Idol. DJ’s and programmers will know in the first 30-45 seconds of a song if it is good enough to air. we listen to the intro, how the singer sounds and skip to the chorus, and usually only listen to 30-45 seconds of any song before we move on to the next one or turf it to the rejected pile. The sheer amount of submissions makes it impossible to listen to every song, all the way through. Essentially, it all comes down to my own personal taste. The station is funded, founded and run by me, myself and I, and I have a vision of what I want Pure Rock Radio to be and the submitted music must fit into that model. So far it has worked marvelously, and it seems tons of others enjoy the same variety and the recipe I concocted over the years that makes up the station. As i mentioned though, every single submission gets to my ears first, before it hits the station’s playlist. No one else makes that decision, as it is a one man operation. Of course we do carryu syndicated shows and the hosts of those shows make their own decisions on what they play on their shows, as long as they fit our hard rock/metal or heavier edged format.

Do you recommend any new artists or bands? There are so many bands and songs that come accross my desk, but a few that are standing out for me these days are: Scars On Broadway, Operator, F5, Bobaflex, Grand Magus, Lions, and some independent bands like Scarlet Sins (an all female hard rock band from Canada), & Robot Lords Of Tokyo. But there are TONS of others I cannot think of right now and there are new bands and music hitting my ears every day that is unbelievable.

What are your personal musical influences? I was raised on 70’s arena rock, but goit very heavy into the Hair Metal scene and the hard rock and metal scene of the early 80’s to early 90’s, and even some of the grunge bands like Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Mother Love Bone and so on, but I still hold a place in my heart for those bands like Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Ratt, LA Guns, Hanoi Rocks, Queensryche, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Dio, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, and so on.

Are you a musician yourself? If so, what do you play and do you have your own band? Before getting into radio I was in and out of bands as a singer, with my most success as the singer of a local Hard Rock/metal band from the late 90’s called Calm (http://reverbnation.com/calm). We put out one CD called “Fueled” in 1998 that was kinda grungy, hard rock, with some metal. The band disbanded shortly before we were due to record our 2nd CD, which would have went in an entirely different way, with more melodic singing and less anger, more radio friendly hard rock, with some metal thrown in here and there still, but overall, for me, the songs had more singing range and showcxased my voice a lot better than the CD from ‘98. Unfortunately, our guitarist became a born-again christian and didn’t want to tour anymore, nor play metal or heavier music, and after a year and a half of searching and auditioning, we never were able to find a decent enough guitarist to fill our old guitarists shoes or do what we wanted to do, or go in the direction we wanted, so we shut down the band in 2001 or 2002.

What do you love most about Metal Music? For me its the way it gets your blood pumping and makes you want to wave your fist in the air. It’s the range in talent and overall styles. I have always been focused on the vocalists and the words, but there is nothing more moving than a good guitar solo.

What are your future plans for your radio program? As it stands right now, we are just trying to get the name of the station and location out to as many people as possible. I am expanding the station into every facet of technology I can, and staying as current as possible. We jumped onto Twitter as it was just starting, and now we have over 3000 followers and growing all the time, as wireless and internet technology progresses and wi-fi and hotspots increase around the globe, it becomes easier and easier to listen to Internet radio. The fact that you can now, tune us in on your iPhones, Blackberry’s and cellphones, and cruise around in your car listening to uncensored hard rock and metal radio is astounding. I’m just tryimg to keep up with the technology and make sure Pure Rock radio is there at the forefront like we always have been since the early days of internet radio, when we were one of the first station’s of it’s kind.

Do you have a saying you like to use? Like “stay classy San Diego” Nothing for me, no slogan, except the station slogan “Feed Your Addiction!”

What was the first Album you ever bought? Motley Crue – Shout At The Devil, and KISS – Creatures Of The Night, I can’t remember which was the first one, but it was one of those for sure, the first one I bought, but my friend turned me on to hard rock and KISS especially at a yoiung age, when he played me his “Destroyer” and “lovegun” records at the age of 10 or 11.

What is the funniest thing that ever happened on your show? Can’t think of anything.

Have you interviewed, or met any interesting or famous people? If so who? Lots of cool people along the way, through interviews, email correspondence or many other ways. Meeting and chatting with people who I grew up idolizing is amazing and i get daily requests fro interviews and have access to interview almost anyone I want in the industry, thanks to Pure Rock Radio. People like Snake Sabo from Skid Row, Victor langen from Kick Axe, Darryl Dwarf from Killer Dwarfs, and so many I can’t think of them all, but as I mentioned, it only takes a phone call or email to the manager of almost anyone in the industry to secure an interview for Pure Rock Radio, but I have been letting the hosts do their own these days and have stepped back from the mic to focus on programming the station, which takes up most of my free time as it is.

If you could hang out with a Rock star for a day, who would it be? Probably someone like Tommy Lee would be a blast to hang with, or Sebastian Bach, or a multitude of cool dudes, who look like they enjoy life, music and all they do.

I’m assuming it’s not for the money so I have to ask: why do you do what you do? No, i definitely do not make any money, in fact it costs me several hundrd dollars a month to keep it running, but I am off work, have no social life anymore, as a single father of 2, I don’t smoke, rarely drink, I don’t gamble (rarely even buy a lottery ticket), and don’t have any bad habbits or addictions, so I take all the money that others spend on cigarettes and beer, or gambling at the slot machines and I put it into my one and only hobby…Pure Rock Radio. I love music and the perks that come with running and owning a radio station are great for a lover of music. All the free music you can handle, you can meet your idols, and you get a certain amount of respect and adoration from fellow music fans for giving them an outlet like this station, where they otherwise would not have it. The comments on the website and the emails I get are the icing on the cake, to know that what I am doing is bringing so much joy and excitement to someone else’s life, is reward enough…but all the free tunes are definitely numero uno. I can’t remember the last time I bought a CD, so my CD purchasing addiction is gone, and i funnel, what i would have spent into the station, and it stands as a promotional tool for many great bands, and of course, a great place for fans of heavy music to get their daily fix and FEED YOUR ADDICTION!

Your Name: Victoria, Vic, Vikki – I’m not picky

Your DJ Name: I don’t really have a DJ name but in terms of Nicknames a lot of people call me Midge, I like it and respond to it – quite often its the easiest way to get my attention.

Your Station: Ragnarok Radio

Station URL: http://www.ragnarokradio.co.uk

Your Website(s) URL: http://www.ragnarokradio.co.uk in addition I also run http://www.thetyphon.com which is a more ‘business’ orientated site.

Where are you from and tell us a little bit about your home town: Well I’m from the UK but I’ve lived in various places around it so where I’m from and my hometown are two slightly different things. Where I live at the moment is a former mining and ship building town in the North East of England, its suffered a lot over the years but people are generally hard working and usually (!) optimistic about their future. Unfortunately the metal scene is poor but we do get quite a few good gigs in the region.

Tell us a little bit about yourself: I’ve been into metal since I was about 11 or 12 and I’m now in my early 20’s so still going strong. I graduated from University in 2007 – also the year I went to my first festival. I studied Interactive Media Design and while I was there I started Ragnarok in late 2006. When I’m not busy with work and Ragnarok I do pottery, photography, knitting, play retro games – I have quite a large collection and I also love food, particularly cheese even though it raises your cholesterol!

What inspired you to become a DJ? It’s hard to say for me its less about wanting to be a DJ and more that I wanted to start a podcast. I’d listened to a variety of podcasts through 2005 when they first started getting popular and was a bit frustrated with the lack of metal shows from the UK.

How do you choose the songs you play on your show? Do record companies ask you to play their artists’ songs? It tends to be a combination, sometimes artists approach us to be on the show, we also request artists we’ve heard either at gigs or through magazines, some bands we know in person and just ask. Very rarely do we get asked by record companies to play artists songs but it does happen occasionally.

Do you recommend any new artists or bands? On the show we always try to encourage people to discover new bands all the time, we like to think we offer a mix of established and up and coming artists of varying genres.

What are your personal musical influences? Well I listen to all genres of metal everything from black metal through to power metal and classic metal. I also like classic rock, classical music and american instrumental jazz.

Are you a musician yourself? If so, what do you play and do you have your own band? I’m not a musician but I know a lot of people who are. I tend to occasionally tinker with learning an instrument I can play a small amount of acoustic guitar, do vocals and I’ve played drums on occasion. But I’m not really a very musical person.

What do you love most about Metal Music? I like how diverse it is, its always changing and its quite difficult to get bored with it! Also the folks in bands can usually play their own instruments, theyre talented intelligent people and the music reflects that since metal often confronts a lot of controversial issues. I also quite enjoy the fantasy element as well, it can be auditory escapism as well as internal reflection.

What are your future plans for your radio program?
Well the only thing we plan is world domination! HA HA HA! But seriously, we only really want to be more popular than we are and also get our show earning some money so we can pay hosting fees.

Do you have a saying you like to use? Like “stay classy San Diego” Stay fucking metal.

What was the first Album you ever bought?
First album I ever bought was Marilyn Manson’s mechanical animals – hey, everyone has to start somewhere!

What is the funniest thing that ever happened on your show? I’m not sure Alestorm being interviewed whilst drunk, Tony Kakko when asked if he was popular with the ladies his response was that hes married, sitting in burger king considering using ketchup to correct questions for Marco and having to borrow a pen from the Nightwish fanclub, Turisas’ tour manager getting changed on the bus while interviewing Warlord – he got completely naked!

Have you interviewed, or met any interesting or famous people? If so who? Too many to mention! I’ve met alot of interesting metal people and famous metal folks, I usually always get nervous but I tend to keep a professional air and focus on the interview until afterwards. The only time I almost totally freaked out was when I met Marco – Im a massive Tarot fan and hes much more handsome in real life than in photos ; ) I totally missed all the jokes he made since I was concentrating on stopping my hand holding the mic from shaking around!

If you could hang out with a Rock star for a day, who would it be? We’ll I’d say Marco! I’d love to do a photoshoot with him. Other than him maybe Johan Hegg from Amon Amarth, we could go shopping for cheese – he used to work in a cheese counter.

Tell us something unique about yourself or your Show? I.E. Contests, you DJ naked, give away prizes, etc….
Well I tend to think that we’re unique because we’re a UK based show and there aren’t that many of them out there on the internet. We do occationally give away prizes and stuff but not very often we tend to find we have quite a passive audience. We also try and interview both international and up and coming UK acts and its interesting to listen to the range of responses we get of people at various stages in their metal career.

I’m assuming it’s not for the money so I have to ask: why do you do what you do? I enjoy it there are alot of perks involved with doing the show that are non monetary. But our mission is to promote metal from the UK and to help show folks how diverse metal can be, hopefully we’ll continue to do that. We like to feel in some way we are doing something positive for British Heavy Metal since the scene is getting too bogged down with bad bands.

Your Name: Graham (AKA Gramie to my friends)

Your DJ Name: Gramie Dee. My name during my days with Blood Money, everyone out there rembered it so I kept it on, but more about that later.

Your Station: Not a station but a radio show that airs from several stations in syndication.


Station URL: All the stations can be found on the “stations” page over at the Autopsy Report website. (see below)

Your Website(s) URL: www.autopsyreport.co.uk
www.myspace.com/autopsyreport
http://www.mevio.com/channels/?cId=668059
http://autopsyreport.podomatic.com/

Plus a few podcast portals that have picked up on the show but I have no idea what all the URLs are. If you Google “autopsy report radio” it should bring up a few links.



Where are you from and tell us a little bit about your home town: Manchester in the United Kingdom. A huge metropolis with a small town feel. You know, the type of town you want to leave before you go nuts. Famous for its contributions to Brit pop and home of the infamous Hacienda club during the 80s, the metal scene struggles to be heard. But heard it is, if you know where to look.

Tell us a little bit about yourself: Besides being a musician for more than 30 years, I am also a qualified graphic designer and web designer with letters after my name. I have worked in the design industry on and off for many years along side my musical career which has also been on and off. But we try. Also I am engaged to a wonderful gal who is Canadian and eventually I’ll move to Canada and tie the knot.

What inspired you to become a DJ? I was chatting in msn one night to a friend in Hawaii who at that time owned a web radio station. I had already sent him a bunch of CDs by my various bands but he asked if I’d be interested in doing a radio show on his station so I said, why not? And it’s grown since then. A bit like a monster in a lab when the infra red light hits it and it starts bubbling absorbing the scientists.

How do you choose the songs you play on your show? Do record companies ask you to play their artists’ songs?
I receive lots of submissions from both unsigned bands and record labels such as Metal Blade, Napalm, Nuclear Blast etc. I usually listen to ALL songs submitted for airplay and choose tracks that both appeal musically and fit within a reasonable time length. Meaning I’ll choose the shortest songs with the catchiest riffs if I can, just so they don’t take up too much time in the one hour show. I tend to avoid over long intros wherever possible, and 6 minute songs are in danger of being faded out.

Do you recommend any new artists or bands?
The Autopsy Report isn’t meant to be a judge but more of a showcase for unsigned or upcoming bands. All bands are treated with equal respect and are played alongside their more famous brothers and all the bands are stars on the Autopsy Report. Hence any band I play is a recommendation because that’s why the Autopsy Report exists. And that’s regardless of my own personal views. If there’s any music that I don’t like, I’ll still play it because I still appreciate what’s gone in to it, all the hard work and the belief that the bands have in themselves. But I won’t say I hate it on the show. Though I do say when I really love something. I hope my drift is being caught here lol.

What are your personal musical influences?
Well I am influenced by many different genres and styles of music be it classical, folk, even opera. But it always comes down to metal and rock as my biggest influence, mostly bands such as Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Budgie, Rush, Opeth, Slayer, Venom, but I could go on and on here.

Are you a musician yourself? If so, what do you play and do you have your own band?
I have played guitar for more than 30 years (yes I’m old) and currently play guitar (and sing?) with my band Morgueazm. We are not a gigging band, mainly due to the fact that the rest of the guys live 300 miles away. But we do release CD’s, with two available at present and a third planned once we get around to it. Morgueazm can be found at www.morgueazm.co.uk and www.myspace.com/morgueazmic

During the 80s I started out in a band called Wolfbane but we only released a few demo tapes and had to change the name when Blaze Bayley’s Wolfsbane hit the scene. We became Blood Money and were signed to infamous MWoBHM label; Ebony Records. We released two LPs which still keep popping up on the web and I get lots of fan mail from metalheads over the world that still hold a candle for Blood Money. Very nice indeed and brings a tear to my eye. It’s also my duty to tell you, all my bands are members of Heavycore. A rather grand network of bands around the world which is well worth joining if you want some good support. www.heavycore.net

What do you love most about Metal Music?
Where do I start? Should I say the aggression? The power? The volume? Or the feeling of freedom and “sticking it to the man”. Not to mention the countless sub genres that can fit any mood precisely, whether you are feeling morose, happy or downright homicidal. Also, it is the music that features my favourite instrument, the guitar. Many virtuosos have emerged from metal but the beauty is, even if you can’t play like Steve Vai, you can still rock out and split a few ear drums. That of course depends on your sub genre of choice.

What are your future plans for your radio program?
To continue doing it for as long as I breath. I have no wish to make money from it (as long as it doesn’t start costing me money). I just want to continue helping bands get a bit of themselves heard and if just one band gains one more fan just because I played them on the show, then I have succeeded in my continuing quest… grasshopper.

Do you have a saying you like to use? Like “stay classy San Diego”
Well I do tend to say the same thing at the end of each show. It wasn’t meant to be a catchphrase or anything like that but it seems to have stuck. I say “A great big horns up and I love you all.”

What was the first Album you ever bought?
First rock/metal album ever was Black Sabbath (the first self titled one). It was Tony Iommi who taught me to play guitar, though he doesn’t know it. I just spent hours on end playing his riffs.

What is the funniest thing that ever happened on your show?
Not much that’s funny can happen when you’re sat alone recording a radio show but on rare occasions I do invite guests on to the show. It was fairly recently that I invited a couple of metal friends in to choose the playlist. They brought much beer and I opened the whiskey, then a one hour show became two hours, full of drunken ramblings and dodgy sound levels. But I still used it. This was raw, real metal attitude all wrapped up in a 120MB mp3. How could I not be happy?

Have you interviewed, or met any interesting or famous people? If so who?
I’ve interviewed lots of bands famous and not, mostly by email and those can be found on the Autopsy Report website. But I have also interviewed bands face to face using a Dictaphone so I can play them on the show. The most famous of those was Paul Allender from Cradle of Filth. I was invited to interview him when the band played Manchester a couple of years back and the full interview can be heard in a player on the MySpace page. Damn nice fellow is is too. I’m attending a festival in Manchester this year and Blaze Bayley is headlining so I’ll be trying to grab a word with him then. I’ll be asking why he stole my first band’s name lol.

If you could hang out with a Rock star for a day, who would it be?
Without a doubt it would have to be the mighty Alice Cooper. But like Wayne and Garth, I’m probably not worthy.

Tell us something unique about yourself or your Show? I.E. Contests, you DJ naked, give away prizes, etc….
How did you know??? Well, because I record the show at home, and because it’s my private little den… plus it gets very warm at times, so for comfort I often sit around in shorts, or yes total bollock naked. And yes I do record the show like that. Good job it ain’t a webcam show. I’d sure lose custom.

I have run the occasional competition and they have been very well received but I am limited by availability of prizes. Remember earlier I said I didn’t want the show to cost me money? Bands do contribute sometimes and I’ve given out CD packs and tee shirts and will again in future if anyone else donates prizes.

I’m assuming it’s not for the money so I have to ask: why do you do what you do?
I think I’ve already answered this one in the other questions but to re-cap. To help as many bands as possible in their fight to be heard. To pay back a little to the greatest scene in existence for all those wonderful years it’s given me from touring, recording and partying. And because I just love doing it.