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Andy Lothian - The New Jersey Connection Growing up as the archetypal Essex soul boy, Andy began his lifelong passion for collecting soul and jazz-funk records from regular visits to The Golden Disc in Southend-on-sea and Record Man, Rayleigh. The love of discovering music and the heavy influence of DJ's such as Chris Hill at The Goldmine and Bob Jones at The Countryman sparked an interest in deejaying, something he he has been doing now for almost 40 years. He started his career as Andy John in 1982, playing soul and funk in the bars and clubs of South East Essex. His first regular spot was at The Manhattan, Southend (now Saks) before successful long term residencies at The New Yorker and Fat Sams, Basildon and The Windmill, South Hanningfield. Andy worked alongside Ian Reading for two years at the Zero 6 in Southend, which regularly saw more than 1,000 through the doors on a Saturday night. In 1986, he played the after-fight party for Boxer Tim Witherspoon after his world championship bout with Frank Bruno at Wembley Stadium. 'We didn't often carry cameras back then so people don't believe me when I tell them that I had Sugar Ray Leonard, Don King, Kid Creole and Muhamaad Ali dancing to Lou Rawls and Maze records one night, but it's true!'. Andy took a hiatus from deejaying in the 90's due to family and business commitments but the start of a new century and a move to the New York metro area rekindled his love of searching out and sharing soulful music. He has since appeared at the Togetherness Weekender, the Essex Soul Weekender, SoulTrip USA, Suncébeat After Party, Soul Fiesta and Soul4Real and various other venues. He has also appeared on radio in New York City, including Love Zone on WHCR with Maurice "The Voice" Watts, Dance4Life House Show with Kev Dot Kruz, Filet of Soul on WBGO with Walter Wade and The Face Radio, Brooklyn with Kurtis Powers. Andy also runs and operates It's Soul Time Records with releases from The Persuaders, Tony Drake, Kenny Hamber, The R&R Soul Orchestra, BAGS, Serieux feat. G.C. Cameron, Ernest Ernie and The Sincerities, Kindred The Family Soul. The New Jersey Connection is on Starpoint Radio every Saturday at 5pm-7pm in the UK, 12 Noon-2pm USA Eastern and features the hottest new soulful and deep house releases along with a sprinkling of disco, dancefloor classics, modern soul and the best in contemporary grown-up R&B. Andy Tee - Shades of Morning Soul Been around a few years lol, yes I'm old but I'm everyones mum's favourite dj, bringing you the best of new & classic music week day morning's. With the new UK chart focus on new entries & climbers on a Monday morning & a Funky Friday golden hour playing the music from a dance floor you where on growing up.

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Bob Jeffries has been playing music to appreciative audiences for over 40 years. His taste ranges from soul, soulful house & jazz to disco and everything in between. Bob continues to play all over the UK and has featured at Suncebeat (Croatia), Ibiza Soul week and Vocal Booth (Alicante). Bob played at all the Southport Weekenders alongside the Luxury Soul Weekenders and the Blackpool International Soul Weekend. Suite Soul was established in 2005 by Bob and Lorna Jeffrey and is going from strength to strength. Musically the night encompasses new soul, 70's soul, soulful house, the soulful side of disco and dance floor jazz. Over the years some of the best dj's in the UK and US have played at the bi monthly events. Bob and Lorna also organise the Suite Soul Stand Up to Cancer Summer all dayer @ The Park Hotel Kilmarnock where in the last 4 years the Suite Soul Family has raised nearly £40,000. Next charity event on sat 10th July 2021.

With over 30 year' experience Brian grew up listening to all types of music, but it was Soul that really captured his spirit from a very early age. If you don't know him yet you already have something in common and that is his love of all things Soulful. Brian began his Djing journey playing at house parties before graduating to various bars and clubs across London and the South East including a 2-year residency at Bar So in Bournemouth in the early 2000's. Brian has been a regular playing at various events across including Ibiza, Greece and Salou in Spain and has been a radio jock for over 15 years. As well as holding his regular Essence Of Soul nights, Brian's passion for Neo Soul, RnB, Soulful house, funk and all things Soulful can be heard in his weekly show on Friday nights on Starpoint. Brian is delighted to be part of the Starpoint team.

Chris "The Shirt" Elliott - The Reggae Vybe Show Chris "The Shirt" Elliott was brought up in SE London on a diet of Reggae,Soul and Jim Reeves (blame his Jamaican dad for that one). He started playing on internet radio a few years back on the original Sunrisefm and since then his stations have included the now defunct Vinyl Morpher Radio, Platinum Grooves Radio of which he was part owner, and of late CruiseFM. He has been known to hit the floors on various dance floors at Soul Nights and of course the infamous Caister Soul Weekenders but as his got older its more of a crawl rather than a spring. Shirtys dress sense (loud shirts) and choice of football teams (Millwall) have had people questioning his sanity, but his choonz are good so we let him in lol. Look out for "Shirtys" Reggae Vybe Show which will consist of anything from Lovers Rock,Dancehall,Ska or even Roots Reggae here on Starpoint Radio and hope you enjoy them. CJ Carlos - The CJCARLOS Show

Elle P - The Starpoint Vinyl Centric Show Elle was never really interested in the kudos of being a DJ and she doesn't take herself too seriously - she just loves music and vinyl….and she's genuinely interested in other people who have the same passion for music as her, whatever genre and what makes them tick, which is why she thinks, ended up persueing and loving the interviewing element within her radio shows ………. She says "looking back, I've always had a love for music. I used to drive my mum nuts in my early teens blasting out old Motown, Soul, Funk…….. She could never understand it - she hardly ever played music and not at my type of volume!" From there she moved on to loving hip-hop at some stage in the mid to late 80's and totally loved the scene. The cutting and scratching fascinated her- and still does. But going to a rave somewhere in London early in 1990 was the catalyst. Finding herself in some disused building with dance music playing at a very loud volume with loads of other sweaty people - She LOVED IT!!!! Infact couldn't get enough of it! She loved it so much, she managed to get a guy she knew to teach her how to mix. As it turned out- she was quite good at it. She has various collections of house, funk, disco, soul, hip-hop, old rave, DnB and now jazz too and plenty of other random stuff. All on vinyl. She loves to go digging for tunes - and sometimes, in some very dusty places. When she plays out, she loves to do sets that are really eclectic, that take you on a musical journey. She loves playing on vinyl. But admits that the new technology with virtual vinyl obviously has its plus points, especially if you are going on a plane to do the gigs! "I have moved over to the dark side and brought a controller recently - its actually been great" - She never thought she'd say that…. She trained to be a sound engineer and worked as one for years all over the country with various professional bands. She has DJ'd at numerous venues around Bournemouth & Southampton, loads of different festivals and she did a few Notting Hill Carnivals back in the day. She is employed to teach media and audio production at an FE college in the South of England and freelances with www.bass2face.net. Elle has been involved with- and produced a number of different radio shows both on line and FM over the past 10 years and interviewed a plethora of household musical names- and now she comes to Starpoint- for an exclusive Starpoint edition of her new weekly show Vinyl Centric. Gary Hawk - The Soul Collection My interest in jazz funk and soul music stems back to the very late seventies and early eighties venturing to clubs, the likes of Flicks in Dartford and Stage 3 on the isle of Sheppey Flicks by the early 80s was one of the most popular clubs in the country, I remember the queues to get in were always a mile long Only recently over the last couple of years i decided to take my interest further after listening to various soul internet radio stations, in April 2014 i had the opportunity of becoming an internet radio presenter myself, on Soul legends Radio where i started a weekly show on a Wednesday evening the Wednesday Soul Collections, then towards the end of the year changing it to the Monday Soul Collections on a Monday evening and still going up to date The year 2015 has seen me progress into playing out at live venues which I hope to expand on in the future It's a pleasure to be part of the Starpoint Radio Team and my intention is to share my passion in the music I play, with you the listeners.

Laura Jackson - Don't stop the Music Imran Mirza - The Blue & Green Sessions

Mark's real interest in music began in 1975 (aged 14) when one night it was announced that no music would be played in his youth club's music room, due to the regular guys being on holiday. An avid table tennis player for his county at the time, ‘ping pong' was all he ever thought about, until that fateful night… Young Mark offered his help by going home to retrieve a few personal tunes & upon return proceeded to ‘find' himself. A little older & wiser, local nightclub Sweeneys took him on board as a warm up & as he saw, was a master stroke, technically under age (over 18's night) he maintained the position for 4 years gaining valuable experience & when the regular DJ left because of work commitments, he was asked to carry the night forward. While @ Sweeneys he decided with the help of his mentor (Steve Scott aka Quasimodo) to become a mobile DJ. The year now was 1979 & soon radio came his way via local community station Radio Basildon on which he helped produce a few shows. Stints on hospital radio soon followed along with a guest spot on the now defunct Essex Radio & a show on pirate radio. Mark has played 'em all.. clubs, pubs, bars, weekenders, radio & he's done more private functions than he cares to remember. But he's loved every minute of it "it's the greatest feeling in the world to see people on a dance floor making shapes to something your playing." 40 years behind the decks & still spinning the good grooves, including his popular A To Zee of Soul radio show & podcast, now at its new home here at Starpoint Radio.

Mark Collison - The Sunday Soul Affiar The MK Show was born initially out of Kunle Olafare's idea to honour the anniversary of DJ Swing (Brian Daly) who passed away 22 March 2006, by holding a 24 hour radio show on the anniversary of his death to raise funds for the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust. The show has evolved with Risky Riscardo and Trevor "Soulflavas" Martin joining Kunle and Mark Collison, on rotation, every Saturday morning between 09:00 - 11:00. Kunle was the promoter at Bournemouth's popular "Confessions" club nights, mixing upfront RnB with a smattering of real soul. Mark made his name in the alternative (Soul/Funk) room in the 90's at the ‘Lollipop' club nights, where trendy London welcomed the concept of a two room club mixing House and Soul in separate rooms. At the time you would find him spinning at the Iceni, Jazz Juice and the Time Bar, educating the crowd with his love of real soul and jazz. Risky Riscardo is a professional clubber with a smile on his face - he knows his music! Trevor Martin has hosted TGR's Thursday night 'Soulflavas', spreading his knowledge to the more discerning listeners in SE London/NW Kent and those on line. He has also played at the "Back To Back Hat Sessions" at Islington's "Soul On Your Side" together with co-presenter Mark Collison. The show is ever evolving with regular guest spots, as well as the guys digging into real soul, jazz, funk, disco, and hip hop. Join the MK crew between 9am -11am every Saturday! Mark Tritone - Thank God its Friday/Marks Morning Menu

During his career, Mick Fuller's adaptability and good musical taste have been the secret of his success, taking in many different styles of soul music in all of it's various forms, from rare groove and disco through to US Garage & Soulful House. Over the years he has played at all of Brighton's cooler clubs including The Inn Place, Brighton Belle, Papillon, Escape Club, The Zap, Honey Club and Ocean Rooms as well as holding long-term residencies at the now legendary Kings 2 and Helsinki Bar. As a guest DJ, he's been welcomed everywhere from international house nights like Soul Heaven & Defected In The House to old school hip-hop jams and original soul sessions. Over the years Mick has been lucky enough to spin alongside some of the best DJ's in the world including Norman Cook, Cleveland Anderson, Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, Joey Negro, Marshall Jefferson, Norman Jay MBE, MJ Cole, Andy Caldwell, DJ Spen, Bobby and Steve, CJ Mackintosh and Seamus Haji. Mick also runs SoulShyne, which started life as an occasional soulful get-together but rapidly developed into an exclusive club and party promotional collective. Venues from Mick's hometown of Brighton to those in the UK and further afield are all feeling the SoulShyne mix of Old School Soul, Funk Anthems, Disco Classics & Funky Soulful House.

Nigel Fox started back in 1984 as a mobile DJ with his Nightlife Roadshow covering Surrey , Sussex, and London playing at a number of large venues for private clients and corporate functions. He was resident Dj at Alexander's Hampton Court, The Spring Ewell, Vermont Exchange Cobham. Worked on pirate radio back in the 80's and has also worked on community stations as a presenter and a programme controller. More recently as a presenter on A1 Radio for 3 years presenting a number of shows including the very popular Soultrain Show. Nigel has a real love for Soul music with the legends like Earth Wind & Fire, Lou Rawls to name but Two . Nigel has a big following of artists who also feature on his shows, Jody Watley, Kenya, Jazzy D, Shalia Prospere, Georgie Bromfield, Lee John, Ty Causey, and legendary mixer producer Alex Di Cio . Nigel is pleased to be presenting Late Night Soul on a Monday Night 9.00-11.00pm on Starpoint where he will be spinning the best classics soul beats along with some more up to date soul from the likes of Tony Momrelle, Kenny Stevens, Mario Biondi and loads more inbetween.

Mike Prior - The Soul Cellar Mike's soul roots go back to the days of Stax, Atlantic and Motown, his favourite song from that era - Otis Redding's Dock of the Bay and his favourite artist "was probably Aretha Frankin". Starting in 1972, he spent years DJ'ing and playing soul in clubs before hosting a Saturday night Dance and Soul Show during the 80s on one of the early ILR (Independent Local Radio) commercial stations - Radio Tees (now 96.6 TFM part of Bauer Radio's Planet Radio Network) where one of his personal highlights was interviewing soul legend Bobby Womack. He's also spent time interviewing other soul legends including Kool & the Gang, Larry Blackmon of Cameo, George Howard, Paul Hardcastle, David Grant & Jaki Graham and southern soul singer Shirley Brown. Having only returned to broadcasting in the last few years, Mike hosts soul music shows regularly mixing the old with the new, classics with contemporary on Starpoint Radio. Paul Goldsmith - Select Soul SELECT SOUL - Bringing you the best in new & contemporary black music - upfront soul, gospel, vocal smooth jazz, RnB and a sprinkle of soulful house with the emphasis on new and independent.

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• Classics & Future Classics

Paul Mac - Soul Central Soul Central hosted by Manchester based DJ Paul Mac - An eclectic mix of Nu/Neo Soul, Modern Soul, Classic R&B and all things funky and soulful... Paul Simpson - Classics & Future Classics

Paul began buying records as a young teenager in the mid to late 70s,starting off with Soul, Funk and Disco, partly due to his Dad's influence and taste, as he loved Earth Wind & Fire / War / Isley Bros etc,and also through listening to radio dj's like Robbie Vincent and Greg Edwards, as well as the numerous black music pirate radio stations of the day, and club djs such as Froggy, Chris Hill and Bob Jones. Pauls' tastes grew to include Jazz, Latin and Fusion, and with a passion for new cutting edge music developing, early Hip Hop and Electro, what is now known as Boogie.. Then in 1985 HOUSE! Paul started dj'ing out in the early 80s, mainly at friends parties, progressing to warm ups at local Soul nights, before getting residencies at bars in London and Birmingham, also appearing all over the UK and beyond at nights such as Soul City / Soulfulbeats / Deep Into Soul Studio Party - London,Vybe 2016 - Leyland, Hoochie Coochie / Seasons Of Soul - Newcastle, Hustle - Liverpool, Good Vibrations - Bristol, Souldiggin' / Underdog - Aberdeen , Suite Soul - Kilmarnock, Elements of Soul - Glasgow, Development - Manchester, OnHubertStreet - Warrington, Soulmates - Barcelona, PhutureSole - New Jersey Paul was also co-organiser and one of the resident djs at The Sands, the ‘pop-up' gig across the road @Southport Weekender, which they did for 9 years until it moved to the new site in Minehead, where Paul played for the last 5 of the main Southport Weekender events. Paul has also enjoyed many years doing internet radiobefore settling at STARPOINT where he can play all the music he loves, from 70s to new and contemporary Soul and Jazz, Disco, Funk and the many shades of House music, always with a heart of SOUL…

Ray, simply loves Boogie and US Garage. This is reflected in his show which he calls, 'Underground Repairs', which as the name suggests encapsulates the purism ,ingenuity and rawness in dance music. His inspiration stems from the likes of Phil Allen, Dezzi D and Steve Devonne on the Boogie Tip. He basically sees US Garage as the natural progression of disco and the early 80s sound. He keenly acknowledges the inspiration of the New York sound from the 90s and although the second hour of his shows is predominantly upfront , tribute is still paid to the tunes that spanned that era. So expect lots of diversity in the mix where Ray is accompanied with Mo Silvase, his long time House Buddy.

Shorty has been a Club and Radio DJ working on Pirate Stations throughout the 80's and more recently been working on Internet and Local Community Radio stations around his home town of Watford. He has extensive knowledge and experience playing Classic Soul, Jazz Funk and Rare Grooves and presents his ‘Soul Renaissance' shows here on Starpoint Radio every Tuesday and Wednesday night from 7pm Shorty loves Soul, Jazz Funk and Disco from the 70's through to the late 90's and his show's encompasses this genre as well as his memories from these decades. In addition, he has also been an Event Host for over thirty years when he started his career at Watford FC where he worked as their On Pitch Match Day Presenter for 20 years. He also worked for a host of high profile organisations at various venues including on pitch duties at Wembley Stadium for the Football Association Inc FA Cup Finals and England Internationals. During his years as an a Event Host he has worked with the likes of Alexander O'Neal, Odyssey, Ant and Dec, Graham Taylor, Vinny Jones, Tim Lovejoy, John Barnes, Sharon and Ozzie Osbourne, Martin Kemp, Fleur East, Pat Jennings and so many more - see the photos via the Facebook link below. You can listen to all his Starpoint Radio shows via www.mixcloud.com/richardshort and contact him via www.facebook.com/richardshortdj at anytime with your requests.

Roger Moore started Djaying as a hobby back in the mid 80's, mainly at house parties, while playing Semi-Pro Football at Wycombe Wanderers. He then got involved in Djaying & putting on Soul events in his home town of High Wycombe, mainly being one of the resident Dj's for Magnolia Soul. He then joined TwilightSoul Radio playing a mixture of Soul, Jazz- Funk, RnB, Nu Soul, Disco & Funk on a Thursday night. He has Djayed at the Soul Network Event, Soul In The Algarve and other music events based in the U.K and abroad. Roger loves his RnB, Funk & Soulful House, and is inspired by Artists & Groups such as Slave, Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes, The O'Jays, Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass, Phyllis Hyman & Chaka Khan just to name a few. Roger Joined Starpoint Radio nearly 2 years ago and hosts DJ Delight on a Thursday night & Saturday afternoon playing a wide range of Soulful grooves from Old School to Nu Cool releases.

Steve , born & raised in Aberdeen, Scotland, started djing at the tender age of around 16, but only started getting into soul music from around the mid 70's but I'm sure it was hearing the early Motown & Stax & Philly songs on radio that really got him hooked. Travelling to the legendary all-dayers at The Highland Room at Blackpool Mecca & Manchester Ritz was, despite the incredibly long journey back in the mid 70's, just increased the thirst to hear more soul music, despite the geographical disadvantage of the North East Of Scotland. Locally there was an abundance of great soul gigs which Steve got involved in, along with one fellow dj being the hugely well know & respected dj Billy Davidson, who of course went on to become one of the main stay dj's at the legendary Southport Weekenders alongside many other venues Billy was invited to play at. Djing for Steve led to a path in radio, firstly hospital broadcasting then when Aberdeen was awarded it's own radio licence to broadcast in mid 1981, and knowing some of the presenters there, he started hassling them to get in front of the management. A desire to play soul music on radio & much patience led to the first show On Northsound Radio in April 1982 where, through some station idents that were recorded for him, he quickly became known as The Soul Master, which still sticks to this day. Through full time overseas work commitments, Steve eventually had to leave Northsound in 2012, coinciding with his 30th anniversary with the station, a record which to this day is hard to beat. It was also at the legendary Southport Weekenders in the very early 90's that Steve first came across Starpoint Radio who did the weekender radio & started doing shows for them at the bi-annual event. Since then, and juggling with continued overseas travel, Steve & Starpoint Radio have been connected one way or another for quite some time. His thirst for new music continues in 2020 along with playing music from the last 6 decades but for the time being, Steve presents the UK Soul Chart Breakers Show every Saturday Night between 7 & 8 pm, playing all the pre-release & new release music he can find from the world of independent soul, soulful jazz & gospel artists from around the globe.

Steve Collins - Steve Collins in the Afternoon Steve's passion for Soul Music started at a very young age. Whilst still at school, Steve was frequently visiting venues like the Hammersmith Odeon, to see such artists as Frankie Beverley & Maze, Alexander O'Neil and Pieces of a Dream...His Radio career began during the late 1980's. Presenting his Soulful sounds on the popular London Pirate Radio Stations, Joy Radio and Radio Chicago. Steve has very recently returned to his home town of London, after spending ten years living and working in Spain. Never far away from his love of Soul music and Radio, he was a regular on the Costa Blanca's Mercury FM & Big FM. You can catch now catch Steve here on Starpoint Radio, every Saturday afternoon between 1-3pm .

Steve King - Soulful Sounds with Steve King Steve King started in radio with his Nyte Flyte show for IBC Manchester (The Illegal Broadcasting Company). The show ran from 1987 till 1990, and concentrated on Steve's first and last love in music, soul. In 1991 Steve started a new show for IBC called, We're Only Here For The Beer, which he co-presented with Quantice (Liam Fitton). Two guys, who's passion for great music was matched with banter that had the audience eating out of their hands. The show fast gained itself a cult following in and around the Manchester area, for its wacky style of presenting, along with playing classic cuts from electro, hip hop, soul and funk. This brought Steve to the attention of Duncan Smith, who at the time had his own show with Steve Quirk (The Dream Team) along with being the program controller at Sunset Radio. In 1993, Duncan offered Steve a Sunday morning slot at Sunset. The shows focus was on the best of days producers / songwriter in black music. Today Steve has a show on Internet Stations based in Manchester, England and Saltlake City, USA. Soulful Sounds combines the great sounds from the 80s & 90s including Steve's very own slowjam mixes and interviews.

Growing up in Stonebridge London, Wayne was a regular face on the South East club scene partying at most of the top venues in the 70's 80's. Cultivating his love of soul, jazz, reggae, and dance music at clubs like Crackers, The 100 Club, Cheekee Petes, Flicks, and The Goldmine, Wayne decided he wanted to get more involved in sharing the music he loved. In the mid 80's he launched pirate radio station JIVEFM which had an audience reach from Oxford to Harlow and Bedford to Harrow. After a 30 year break, Wayne relaunched the JIVE Organisation in 2019 organising great parties, managing musical talent, and providing marketing consulting to the industry. We're pleased to welcome him to Starpoint Radio to continue his journey sharing the music he loves with the Starpoint listeners.