In 2003 Northern Ireland's biggest and most popular Radio station Downtown Radio selected Thin White Dove the first track on Steve Larkman's debut album TEARJERKER for their A-Playlist. The song remained on the playlist for 6 weeks. Eddie first broadcast on Downtown Radio in 1976 when he presented weekend breakfast and new music programmes. Eddie moved to Dublin in 1980 where he worked on Radio Nova among others. He prefers late night radio as he says it suits his deep voice, and was once voted the man with the sexiest voice on radio in Ireland! Eddie is Deputy Programme Director,Downtown Radio/Cool FM. CHASING RAINBOWS was also A-playlisted as a new entry on the playlist in 2006 and reached #2 on the chart.
Lisa Flavelle is the daughter of the local jazz and blues musician / broadcasting legend that is Jackie Flavelle. Lisa started her DJ'ing career when, as a young schoolgirl, she came out tops in a UK wide competition to find the next big radio star! It wasn't long before she found herself on Cool FM, moving to Citybeat, and then on to Downtown Radio, where she has hosted the afternoon drive show for the past 8 years! She is also a music journalist for the Belfast Telegraph. Steve was interviewed live by one of their top DJ's Lisa Flavelle who also loved Thin White Dove.The song was played every three and a half hours reaching the #2 position in the first week of March 2003.
THE JANICE FORSYTH SHOW - BBC RADIO SCOTLAND
THE JUDI SPIERS SHOW - BBC RADIO DEVON
JOHN ROSBOROUGH
The longest-serving professional in Commercial Radio in Northern Ireland. Featured Chasing Rainbows, So Hard to Stop Loving You and Make It Sting - all from the LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY album on his Sunday afternoon TAKE IT EASY show.
'Happy to include ‘Chasing Rainbows’ in my 'Best of the Year 2006'. - John Rosborough, "Take It Easy" on Radio U105.
LIVE 365 INTERNET RADIO
'This (Love, Hope And Glory) is a great cd of mellow songs. I love "lazy blue" is sounds kinda special to me..hard to explain..you"d have to listen to it..to really appricate this track. The album reminds me of the singer songwriters of the 70s and 80s,if you like "Rupert Holmes", Randy Vanmarmer, Randy Eldemen.etc....you"ll love this cd.He has his own unique voice. Stand out tracks are " a thing for my head",stella and joe,saltened skyline,jack say it,sunburst, and make it sting.
The bonus track is Chasing rainbows" which was a single and is a great song'. - Mr. Alan J.Hare, from B.R.C.F.P. ,
Also, many more LIVE 365 stations have played songs from Steve's albums.
TM CENTURY HitDisc
TM Studios pioneered the HitDisc service in the late 1980's and it has been the standard for broadcasters world-wide ever since. Each week, TM Studios programmers, working directly with the record labels and utilizing MediaBase research, select the new releases most likely to be added by programmers. MediaBase monitors more than 1500 radio stations 24-hours-a-day. SHE’S IN LOVE - was featured on TMCentury HotDisc (HU200648) along with The Beatles, Pussycat Dolls and Razorlight and predicted to be a future hit.
MORE RADIO PLAYLISTINGS FOR STEVE'S MUSIC We were aware of downloads from iTunes from all over the world, including the U.S., Japan, Canada and Australia and now we have found out through the PRS that Steve's songs are being played on many more UK Stations including BBC stations Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Northampton, Suffolk and Essex.
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