New Groove Formation Get Radio 1 Air play Thanks to Huw Stephens
Thursday, 5th January 2012
New Groove Formation get Radio 1 Air Play from Huw Stephens on Christmas Eve!!! What a Christmas present!!!
It was about 12pm Christmas eve and I was just sat in the back of the Slade family car on the way home to Bournemouth when a blocked number rang on my phone, I answered and it was none other than Huw Stephens from radio one explaining that he had received the Christmas Eve track, he and his team absolutely loved it and that he was going to play it on radio 1 at about 2pm!! It was one of those moments that you get and your not sure whether some one is pulling your leg or not, but as I listen to Huw a lot on the way home from practice on a Wednesday night I know his unmistakable soft Wales accent!! It was really him, I thanked him for the call gave him our twitter account.
As you may imagine I was very excited I tried to call various members of the band but for some reason my phone would not dial them, so I needed to get it on face book so people could listen. The first number to work was my older brother Luke he was wary of what I was saying, thinking it may be a joke but I assured him it wasn’t so he put it up on face book for me, then I turned my phone of and on again so I could send a text to the rest of the band!! The texts started to come back OMG and such like and then Haydn called to make sure it wasn’t a joke, I assured him it wasn’t!! Jacko was chuffed as was Nicky Piper!!
Then we were waiting for it to be played and a text came from my father in law to my sister in law saying that it was a joke and he was with a bloke from Wales in a pub in Bournemouth and he couldn’t believe I’d fallen for it!!! I did sweat for a second as the track hadn’t been mentioned but I spoke to Huw and it defiantly was him. Then 2.20 came and still no play, my brother called back in a panic, I said stay tuned. As I said it, Huw mentioned that he was going to play a wicked ska band in a few moments. Phew the dought left me and it was going to happen!!!
Huw bigged the track up and us on radio 1 we are all stoked that we actually got through to the biggest station in the land, WHAT A TOUCH!!!!!
Thank you Huw and Radio 1!
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