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Tangerine Dream on the radio

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I was wondering if anyone has ever heard TD on the radio ?

In my 30 odd years following them ive only heard them on the radio a few times. I was a bit too young when John Peel was playing Atem and I think he may have made it his album of the year or something !

I can remember Hyperborea making Tommy Vance's Friday Night Rock Show Chart on Radio One. One week he played the title track and the following week Cinnamon Road. The next week it fell out of his top 30. Too much competion from Rush, Saxon and Def Leppard I expect !

Other than that I can remember hearing Tyger, London and Smile being played on some obscure station which had a foreign DJ trying to speek English.

Other than that ive heard nothing else at all
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Alan (fluff) Freeman payed a whole 40 odd minutes from the 75 tour. Appart from that I've hardly heard any TD. Stuart Maconie does play the odd bit on his Freak Zone on six music.
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That Freak Zone is a good show IMHO,i knew nothing about it until Andy told me about it last year...........GOOD 8)
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I heard a snippet of an interview with Edgar & u hum !(CF) in 1986.
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HYPERBOREA wrote:I was wondering if anyone has ever heard TD on the radio ?

In my 30 odd years following them ive only heard them on the radio a few times. I was a bit too young when John Peel was playing Atem and I think he may have made it his album of the year or something !

I can remember Hyperborea making Tommy Vance's Friday Night Rock Show Chart on Radio One. One week he played the title track and the following week Cinnamon Road. The next week it fell out of his top 30. Too much competion from Rush, Saxon and Def Leppard I expect !

Other than that I can remember hearing Tyger, London and Smile being played on some obscure station which had a foreign DJ trying to speek English.

Other than that ive heard nothing else at all
Stuart Maconie has recently made Phaedra his LP of the week...twice...playing over 22 minutes of it (on Radio 6). He also played 18 minutes or so from Poland. Edgar has featured on a fair number of radio shows, the most recent one was a radio 6 on EM, before that BBC radio Scotland in 1997, Mixing it Berlin special 1999?, the story of the Mellotron, some programme with Paul Morley....I have about 36 recordings.

A few months back Edgar featured on Swedish radio
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I discovered TD having heard Tommy Vance play the second part of Barbakane on the Friday Rock show.

Since then, I think I have only heard them once... this would have been in the late nineties when a single from Tyranny of Beauty or Goblins Club was out. I was gobsmacked, as it was on national Radio One... I was driving back from Devon on a Sunday afternoon. Alas, I cannot remember whose show it was, or the precise track that was played.
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fluff freeman played rah 75 a few times....bm has tapes.....once he played rah only to fade it out when the sequencers kicked in, not arf
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whilst on the subject...Richard Skinner interviewed Chris and Edgar in 1984 and played excerpts from Poland.

Wade Gordon and Lou Gentile also did a 2 hour? interview with Edgar in the States (Edgar was interviewed over the phone at 4.00am CET) This was in 2002
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On a slightly different tack, I remember a TV quiz show hosted by Paul McKenna in the late eighties (I forget what it was called)... when the audience had to vote, the cameras panned onto the audience, studio lights went doo-lally, and 'Love on a Real Train' played over the speaker.

Also, an episode of David Attenborough's 'Life on Earth' looked at single cell organisms under the microscope to the accompaniment of the first bars of 'Rubvcon Part One'.
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In the U.S., some of the material from the 90s finds it way onto New Age radio programs, which speaks volumes, IMO.
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Sfearical Sequence wrote:In the U.S., some of the material from the 90s finds it way onto New Age radio programs, which speaks volumes, IMO.
New Age has an audience? ;)
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ann nightingale played white eagle once (long ago). when i was having a beer at disneyland in florida in the budweiser pub, they played Choronzon, repeatedly on a loop!!
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coldwater wrote:ann nightingale played white eagle once (long ago). when i was having a beer at disneyland in florida in the budweiser pub, they played Choronzon, repeatedly on a loop!!
they also used TD for the opening ceremony of the LA Olympics I seem to remember.

Back to the radio bit....I'm looking into posting an audio blog of the very early radio appearances of TD (no music, just interviews and adverts). Would this be popular I wonder?
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24db wrote:
coldwater wrote:ann nightingale played white eagle once (long ago). when i was having a beer at disneyland in florida in the budweiser pub, they played Choronzon, repeatedly on a loop!!
they also used TD for the opening ceremony of the LA Olympics I seem to remember.

Back to the radio bit....I'm looking into posting an audio blog of the very early radio appearances of TD (no music, just interviews and adverts). Would this be popular I wonder?
It would certainly be popular with me,and im sure many others...... 8)

re: The Olympics....... are we talking about 1984 or the Special Olympics?
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epsilon75 wrote:
24db wrote:
coldwater wrote:ann nightingale played white eagle once (long ago). when i was having a beer at disneyland in florida in the budweiser pub, they played Choronzon, repeatedly on a loop!!
they also used TD for the opening ceremony of the LA Olympics I seem to remember.

Back to the radio bit....I'm looking into posting an audio blog of the very early radio appearances of TD (no music, just interviews and adverts). Would this be popular I wonder?
It would certainly be popular with me,and im sure many others...... 8)

re: The Olympics....... are we talking about 1984 or the Special Olympics?
the main olympics...they played several JIVE label TD tracks
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