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Hey thanks for visiting the Super Q website. We play the best tunes from the past four decades, and current cream of the latest songs, all commercial free! We have presented shows at the weekend brought to you by people who love music, which we very hope you will enjoy. During the week it’s the tunes you love uninterrupted by boring commercials, Weather and travel reports or inane chat! Instead you get inspirational messages between the tunes.

Here at Super Q there’s also a strong focus on your well being and mental heath. On the Chris Wallace “Chat and Chill” show, Saturday and Sunday nights, we’ll be chatting to various individuals about Positivity, mental health and Well being. Nothing on Super Q is AI! All voices you hear are real humans.
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JOHN FREEMAN

Hi there! I got into music in the late 1970s when the single charts and great distinctive radio were where it was at.

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RITCHIE WILD

I became a lover of radio at a young age and bought my own transistor set from Woolworths, a Vesta V70 which cost £2.99, at the age of eight.
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TONY JOHNSON

Liverpool Radio City legend Tony Johnson will be joining us for the occasional show.

CHRIS WALLACE

Hey there. I love listening to music, always have my headphones on when I go out anywhere, and my current favourites are…
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JOHN FREEMAN

Hi there! I got into music in the late 1970s when the single charts and great distinctive radio were where it was at.

So we’re talking for starters Radio Luxembourg where you could hear top jocks nightly, the likes of Tony Prince, Bob Stewart, and Barry Alldis.

Around the same time I started to take a keen interest in UK commercial local radio, attracted by their unique individual styles and I liked that often they would play new songs that wouldn’t get a look -in on BBC Radio 1 as they perhaps weren’t seen as trendy enough. The Manhattan Transfer, Climax Blues Band, The Dooleys were just 3 groups that fitted into that category. I was based in North West England and Piccadilly Radio was in a league of its own – at the time I was still yet to discover that its boss – Phillip Birch – had run the very popular ’60s pirate offshore station Radio London. But it was all to neatly make sense as Piccadilly had a great upbeat vibe – some of the best 261 jocks were Phil Wood, Roger Day, Pete Reeves, Pete Baker, Susie Mathis, John Evington, Gary Davies, Timmy Mallett, Tim Grundy – the list is endless.

In the ’80s I developed an interest in American music and associated radio styles – I credit the fantastic Dublin based super-pirates Radio Nova and Q102 with introducing me to the strengths of clutter-free music radio.

Apart from great music and radio my other passion is going to gigs – I’ve recently taken a trip to Amsterdam to see Kacey Musgraves and am eagerly counting the days down to seeing Cyndi Lauper and Stevie Nicks at London’s Royal Albert Hall and Hyde Park respectively this summer. Best ever gig? Too hard to choose but I’ll settle for a 3 way tie between Fleetwood Mac, Belinda Carlisle and Neil Diamond!

RITCHIE WILD

I became a lover of radio at a young age and bought my own transistor set from Woolworths, a Vesta V70 which cost £2.99, at the age of eight. However, as Radio 1 on 247 was almost unlistenable and with the radio being incorrectly tuned at the factory, stopping at 198 on the Medium Wave band, meaning it couldn’t receive the new Radio City on 194, it wasn’t until my cousin introduced me to Radio Luxembourg that I got into pop music. That was in the summer of 1977.

From 1978 I really got into music, and Luxy was the station that shaped my taste. Later that year Radio 1 changed frequency and I could listen to it all day. In 1979, I picked up a HMV VHF radio at a summer fête and made the switch to Piccadilly and City, enjoying far better sound quality. 

I was mostly into British pop music (with some American stuff introduced to me by Paul Gambaccini and Casey Kasem (on AFN) until I discovered Radio Nova in 1982. It didn’t take them long to make me a keen follower of the American charts and, when it switched to a European playlist, Sunshine 101 took over until the end of 1988.

As the US charts were shifting focus then to RnB, I got into MTV Europe, MCM, Radio 538 and NJoy via satellite, and got into European pop. 

So, the music I like is widely varied, but my show “The Vinyl Resting Place” concentrates on the music I grew up with and loved as I became a young man, playing British and American chart hits of the 70’s and 80’s, all of which come from my own record collection.

If that sounds like your bag, I hope you can join me for the snap, crackle and pop! 

CHRIS WALLACE

Hey there. I love listening to music, always have my headphones on when I go out anywhere, and my current favourites are….well just look at the Super Q hot 25! Now I’m looking forward to playing all those cool tunes and more on the radio and I hope you can join me for my weekend shows and my late-night chat and chill shows, where we play the most chill tunes and chat to interesting people from all walks of life with a focus on mental health.