Nice, via good chum Darryl @darryl1974 here's the launch day of XFM from 1997. I remember listening to this in the nme.com offices on the day!
@pauly in case you missed last week soundcloud.com/user-77846898/xfm-launch-1-september-1997-12noon-part-11 (first 45 mins) soundcloud.com/user-77846898/xfm-launch-1-september-1997-1245pm-130pm2 (second 45 mins)
Recorded by Darryl on a cassette I think and just recently encoded. Just in time for xfm to be finally killed off. The real xfm didn't last that long before being taken over by Capital, but it's finally being relaunched as radio x with all sorts of dad rock banter nonsense, including Johnny Vaughnn and Chris Moyles. Good grief.
Hoping this has got Ricky Gervais on it, I remember him being on Claire Sturgis' show and I'm sure that was the first day.
💬 Listened to all 90 minutes now, no Ricky
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