Whilst recording a tape for someone last night, I found to my amusement that the end of the tape contained a copy of the "interview" with Hooky and Barney by Tony The Greek on Picadilly Radio's "Last Radio Programme" at the time of Shellshock. Amongst the written questions they fielded was one from a "Mark Rutter" who asked Barney why he changed his name so often. JG ?
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Didnt Tony the Greek used to be on mediumwave talkradio?
Funny guy if its who im thinking of.
i've got a recording of Hooky standing in for Tony The Greek in 1990, just after One True Passion came out. He really struggled with it. Think he did a 2 hour show and just really didn't have much to say.
Must dig it out sometime, seem to remember him playing Iggy Pop and Stone Roses and a couple of Revenge tracks.
was tony the greek. Tony michealidis (i think thats how you spell it) who used to run a promotions company in manchester.
he used to look after a certain ratio.
And wasnt he sacked from a radio station a few years back??
he might have even been on virgin radio....?
I swear its him....
That's him all right. I was more interested in finding out if it had been our own Johnny Giles who had posted the question !
Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes Whilst recording a tape for someone last night, I found to my amusement that the end of the tape contained a copy of the "interview" with Hooky and Barney by Tony The Greek on Picadilly Radio's "Last Radio Programme" at the time of Shellshock. Amongst the written questions they fielded was one from a "Mark Rutter" who asked Barney why he changed his name so often. JG ?
Oh dear. Just had an e-mail from Al Jarvis quoting this at me. Er..guilty as charged I'm afraid.
Technical point - twas a phone-in but I didn't get on air, just spoke with TTG, while a record was playing, who read me Q out later on.
Use to listen to this show every Sunday night when I should have been doing me homework, that shows how long ago it was. Can't believe it's over 16 years & finally come back to haunt me.
Good spot Sloppy.
Originally posted by tooth ache was tony the greek. Tony michealidis (i think thats how you spell it) who used to run a promotions company in manchester.he used to look after a certain ratio.
Glad you attempted the spelling, I wasn't brave enough to do that. But as Benny says, this is defo him & yes, he was v funny. Mr Dry.
