So! My first blog of many weird, eccentric ramblings to come. The question is what should you all expect?
Well, the new show will be called Absolution and the name says it all; madness and a regular colostomy bag of some of the world’s weirdest and freakiest characters.
Describing what will happen is tricky. Best thing is, come in and join in on the show. Its radio as it should be, not gloating from its ivory towers, with the doors literally swung open to anyone. Mark my words, everyone will end up in on the show; My Nan, Ex-SAS soldiers, dead people, my wife, porn stars, politicians, street cleaners, stupid celebs, fighter pilots, ex-drug smugglers, my daughters, gangsters and your mum. The aim is to re-define the dictionary meaning of the word rehab to “a place where people are rehabilitated from normality back to clinical insanity” – two intensive sessions a week should do it.
Over the last four years I’ve thought long and hard about what I do and actually devised a formula for, what I believe, is the perfect late-night radio show. Whoomp, here it is! Every other show I’ve done has been nothing but a warm up for the show – 10 -1pm on Friday and Saturday nights on Absolute Radio.
If you haven’t met me I’m the skinny fat bloke with a wife and 2 kids (wife Hayley, kids Sophie 8, Annabel 3 – hello Mum!); 34 years old, 6 foot 5 inches, kidney stones, in-growing toenail, one slightly sticky-outy ear, rogue hair in right ear, left-handed, weird exploding heel disease, degrees in useless stuff, beard, Mr Inappropriate Ch4 Balls of Steel, premature, sitting down belly, 9 broken arms, fingernail biter, the amazing farting eye trick, 2 jokes, run over by runaway kebab van, deportation, Fifth Gear Ch5, brown hair.
Excellent – all that and I haven’t once mentioned the fact that I’ve been fired 10 times and all those radio fines. Maybe next time?
Tim Shaw
