Ed is one of that lucky generation whose formative years were spent acquiring a musical education that elevated him above singular devotion to TOTP, preferring instead to tune into the crackling and remote frequencies of Radio Luxembourg and Radio Caroline and, as his teenage years started to bite, the Friday Rock Show with Tommy Vance, the one and only time he admits to listening to “275 and 285…and stereo VHF”.
Ed’s greatest musical loves include Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Focus, King Crimson, Gabriel-era Genesis and The Enid – a list that grows longer by the day.
Rockers never grow old, they just have to accept that the mullet is now even more unfashionable than it was when Ed sported his and, mullet-less, he now works as a busy author and ghostwriter as well as making occasional contributions to BBC Radio Norfolk in his home city of Norwich.
The opportunity to continue to share some of his favourite music with an audience Ed describes as “a lot of like minded friends” has, as he admits, “…always filled me with delight. I know how much The Flash is loved and respected and am very pleased to be amongst the other great broadcasters who contribute so much to The Flash and ‘real music’ in general”.