The Popular Music Show a.k.a. PMS - welcome to our online home
The Popular Music Show team 2023 - left to right: Karen Timms, Roger Hill, George Maund.
We will next be on Melodic Distraction radio this Sunday 24th September at 6pm.
Scroll down for recent programme uploads.
Scroll down for recent programme uploads.
“The Popular Music Show” ceased broadcasting on the BBC on May 19th. This brought to an end 46 years of alternative music on Radio Merseyside. It is of course all to do with the changes to Local Radio which will affect pretty much everybody on the station by the summer.
That final show on the BBC is available for re-listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0flm5gc and the last stretch of four episodes will live online at this link for a matter of weeks. Stream away.
The final programmes were a series of “specials”, to manage a decent retrospect for listeners, including programmes dedicated to World Music, Local Music, Music Sessions, Interviews with musical eminences from our time on-air, and climaxing in a whole evening of on-air celebration including another of our “Live Relays” (formerly from Berlin and Estonia, but this from a little nearer to home).
It's worth remembering that we will end as the longest-running alternative music show on UK radio, and that we have always been a pioneering and adventurous programme.
In November 1992 we broadcast the first on-air live mixing on the BBC
We broadcast a remix of one of our programmes (remixed in Berlin) while the programme was still broadcasting
We were the Regional Rock Show back when regional was first a “thing”
We recently broadcast a live relay from Estonia with Tallinn band Shelton San, only the second time in history that an Estonian band has had a session with the BBC (the first being 40 years ago, a John Peel Session)
And we have kept faith with the local creative underground where the real genius of the city and region is to be found.
PMS will continue to exist with our regular shows on local digital station Melodic Distraction.
Keep up to date with us via our mailing list.
- The PMS Team
That final show on the BBC is available for re-listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0flm5gc and the last stretch of four episodes will live online at this link for a matter of weeks. Stream away.
The final programmes were a series of “specials”, to manage a decent retrospect for listeners, including programmes dedicated to World Music, Local Music, Music Sessions, Interviews with musical eminences from our time on-air, and climaxing in a whole evening of on-air celebration including another of our “Live Relays” (formerly from Berlin and Estonia, but this from a little nearer to home).
It's worth remembering that we will end as the longest-running alternative music show on UK radio, and that we have always been a pioneering and adventurous programme.
In November 1992 we broadcast the first on-air live mixing on the BBC
We broadcast a remix of one of our programmes (remixed in Berlin) while the programme was still broadcasting
We were the Regional Rock Show back when regional was first a “thing”
We recently broadcast a live relay from Estonia with Tallinn band Shelton San, only the second time in history that an Estonian band has had a session with the BBC (the first being 40 years ago, a John Peel Session)
And we have kept faith with the local creative underground where the real genius of the city and region is to be found.
PMS will continue to exist with our regular shows on local digital station Melodic Distraction.
Keep up to date with us via our mailing list.
- The PMS Team
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PMS Radio link list: ~
• NEXT LIVE broadcast is 6pm (UK time) on Sunday 24 September. • LISTEN BACK to our final PMS on BBC Sounds. • STAY POISED TO HEAR our next upcoming episode. • GET IN TOUCH with us by email. • CHECK our PMS Ongoing online mix series. • SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter [below / right] & keep up-to-date with new and challenging music. • FOLLOW our Facebook page, the PMS Instagram and Twitter. • UPLOAD a recording - submit audio to us via BBC Upload. • SCROLL downwards for programme links and more. + be sure to check Sessions, Playlists and everything else up top in our horizontal menu. Welcome to the longest-running specialist music programme on UK radio... |
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Roger Hill's 40th Anniversary Special
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PMS is the longest-running specialist music programme of its kind on UK radio, starting in 1977 with Roger Hill at the helm since '82.