Say goodbye to the working week and get ready for the weekend.
With a selection of Funky Tunes that bring a smile to your ears and a beat for your feet.
Community news and events too.
Friday, 11 November 2011
NovembrFunk (Let us not forget)
The album of the month is Stax of Funk Vol 2
The Charity is Fomo, there is a feature on South Ribble Transition Towns
and an interview with the officers of Penwortham Town Council, explaining
what a town council does.
Enjoy
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
OctobaFunk
Saturday, 8 October 2011
The "New" Show and format.
The new schedule starts on Friday 14th October at 6pm.
Expect the excellent mix of old, new and international funk mixed with local news and events from South Ribble Bourough Council and Penwortham Town Council.
Funky Fridays also has a Shetland connection and will be also linking to a few tunes from the Isles. We want to create a local show with folk who are either in Preston and South Ribble from Shetland or from Preston and South Ribble living in Shetland.
The next Funky Friday show is on Friday 14th October comming.
The show album will be The Son of Stax and will include many tracks from the album.
The Charity of the month is Chorley and South Ribble Crossroads. This charity provides care for carers, without charge or obligation.
An excerpt of the email sent to my by Marilyn, part of the Support Group
We aim to give a high quality, individual, caring and dignified service to carers and disabled people in their own homes as outlined in our NatWest bid. All our support workers attend an induction programme and care training programme including dementia/specialist training where needed.
As mentioned, C&SRC have a bid for the NatWest Community Force Award.
Further information, and the option to support them can be found here.
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/1818
If you are a carer and would like to know more directly…
Chorley & South Ribble Crossroads Care
12-14 Railway House
Railway Road
Chorley
PR6 0HW
01257 230698
www.crossroads.org/chorleyandsouthribble
care@chorleysrxrdscare
Two other events I will be mentioning is the Victorian Evening
You are invited to a
Victorian Evening
At St. Mary’s Church Hall, Cop Lane
Friday November 11th 2011 at 7.30pm.
Marie Constance-Brown will bring her large collection of Victorian everyday objects and show us how they were used. Handling is permitted!
Tickets £3.50 on the door Tea, coffee, biscuits provided
This event organised by The Friends of Hurst Grange Park and all proceeds go to the Coach House Restoration Fund
and
We have a few words from the Officers at Penwortham Town Council as well.
Please tune in and help out
http://www.yourprescap.org.uk/dj/funky-fridays-2/
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Funky Fridays September Show
October will see the NEW series of Funky Fridays.
16th of September at 18:00 on www,preston.fm or if you are local 103.2 FM
you will here trax from the following artists
Nina Simone
Rose Royce
The Tramps
Fantique
Swami
The Bucovina Nights
Tom Browne
and a few more.
Another rant by myself about the idiot vandals, South Ribble Whats On, news from Penwortham
Town Council and a wee dedication to the recent anniversary of the 9/11 incident.
Please
Enjoy
(link to show will come Saturday)
Sunday, 11 September 2011
September
Funky Fridays advanced posting.
On the 16th of September at 18.00 on www.preston.fm 103.2 FM you will hear
Nena Simone, Rose Royce, The Tramps, Frantique, Swami, Bucovina Club and Tom Browne
On this Friday, 103.2 fm, or www.preston.fm
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Thursday, 21 July 2011
a different day
Still a funky theme, my guests have been asked to bring a funky tune that wiggles their bum.
8pm to 9pm Tuesday 2nd August
www.preston.fm
Saturday, 2 July 2011
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
June, Tribute show Gil Scott-Heron
Friday, 27 May 2011
May Funky Friday
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Re-Launching FunkyFridays
If you have any suggestions you can leave a comment or contact the Radio Station.
More to follow as we go along.
Cheers
Keith
Saturday, 30 April 2011
April Show, part 2
Oh, Dell is getting an attitude.
April Show, part 1
These two shows introduce Dell, our assistant who has had a shot at presenting the two shows for reasons I will divulge after 5th May.
Friday, 4 March 2011
March Show
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Febs Funk
Here is the link to our last show. At the time of recording Lizzie was at an interview, godd for her, as she got the job :-]
In this show you will hear a tracks from Oneness of JuJu, Grace Jones, Groove Armarda, Gil Scott Heron, Johnson Products, Jessie Gould, Panjabi MC and a feature on Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
I went with an international theme this show, If you listen to Panjabi MC, you may hear a bit of Knightrider....
There is the usual links to some local events and a small piece on Penwortham Town Council.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Friday, 7 January 2011
The New Year Show
We started this show with Machine Gun, a bit of Queen then some whats on,
Don't forget the Census.
Penwortham Town Council meet the first Tuesday of every month, at Penwortham Community Centre, Kingsfold Drive. Go have your say, mind, it could be me there after May.
Lizzie interviewed Anthea about her 3 funky tunes and what she does when she is not on the radio for Chat City.
We listed Preston 11s as it is 2011.
No Shetland stuff as we got the timings wrong.
I will start a Shetland show with the help of the Folks of Shetland via www.shetlandlive.com
Keep an eye out for that.
Well here it is, and ending with a Hip Shaking Mama
Funky Fridays 07th Jan Show...