What sort of music can you expect to hear on TMCR ?
Well - it depends when you are listening...
From early morning we'll have our breakfast show, light and bright to help you start the day with a blend of new music, golden oldies and perhaps some requests from our listeners.
As we go through the daytime we will be playing music of the 50s to the 90s with some newer, and some older, tracks for good measure.
Teatime will contain a more lively selection, with a few more newer hits than during daytime.
In the evening we will have specialist shows so one night you might hear Country music, another could have focus on the 80s, Classical, Soul, or many other styles.
From 10pm until midnight we go over to a couple of hours of instrumentals, and that covers a wide range too.
Through the early hours you will hear anything and everything we have, so one minute it could be the current chart number one, followed by a song from the war years!
Check the programme schedule pages (available when we're on air) and we'll usually describe the music style for a specific show.
If you don't like what you hear then tell us - we want feedback from listeners as that is what helps us to shape the station to be what we are asked to provide.
Overall we want to please as many people as we can as often as we can, if you don't like a song that's being played then you might like the one that follows. We're trying to ensure that, apart from specialist shows, we don't dwell on one style of music.
Our library contains chart hits from the early 1950s right up to date, we've added in lots of other songs too so we can provide a wide variety. Let us know what you like and what time of day you would be listening and we'll do what we can to make sure we play something suitable. We don't have every song ever made but give us a try to see if we have one that you've not heard for ages - call us when we ask for requests and catch us out, if you can!
We intend to keep adding to the selection in our library. 14,000 tracks may sound a lot, but if we were to play them all, one after another, without any breaks for news, adverts or chat, we would have gone through them all in about 40 days. Of course, some current and popular songs would get played again before we reached the end of the pile and we would have the specialist shows too. If you look back over the British top 40 charts since the began in late 1952, there have been over 20,000 songs that have hit the charts, some more than once.
Our Instrumental show from 10pm to midnight will cover our chairman's favourite karaoke tracks, 'cos none of them have words so we don't have to hear him sing! We will go back to the days of Big Band music, there will be The Shadows, Ventures, Booker T & the MGs, how about James Last, Bert Kaemfert or Jean Michel Jarre. Then add in a bit of Hawaiian guitar, or Pan pipes. Sax solos, Piano or even Violin versions of well known tracks. Just for good measure we'll add in some TV and film theme tunes or the B sides of 70s and 80s singles, which were often the instrumental version of the hit song on the A side. A real mixture of mood music with the added bonus of Pat Ashton presenting the show.
We are interested in hearing from people who have a love of a style of music, maybe classical, country or soul? Maybe you would like to choose the music for an entire show, every week, and if you're going that far you may as well come in and press the buttons to play that music for our listeners! Yes, you could present your kind of music on TMCR, we're here for the community and if you live in our area then that's YOU. Age is not a problem, so if you've been drawing pension for 20 years you're just as welcome to have your say as the youngsters of today who want to hear the chart hits. We give training and explain whats what, it quite easy really.
In the longer term we aim to have a listeners panel, people from our area who look at the requests we get and let us know if we are covering the varying styles of music properly. Passing on comments from other listeners as to new styles to try, letting us know if people are turned off by what we play.
But, the music isn't everything. In fact we'll suggest that it's less important than what our presenters have to say as they'll be bringing news of happenings in our area. Community Radio is about the local area, local people, local events. We aim to get the message over to our listeners.