Eighties Time Machine is a Radio Show on Exeter’s Phonic FM.
Hosted by Helen Connole and Jamie (aka GinsoakedBoy) it’s dedicated to music from the most creative and interesting pop music decade of all – The Eighties!
With a keen respect for producers such as Arthur Baker, Arif Mardin and Alan Tarney we like to go beyond the remit of national and commercial radio and explore the decade in much more detail.
In addition to classic singles when you listen to us you’ll hear 12″ Extended Remixes, B-sides, album tracks, stuff which missed the charts or was not even released in the UK. We scour the charity shops and vinyl bins for you to find your next granola download*!
(*updating your music collection the morning after!)
We lovingly curate 2/3 of the playlist and are very honoured to have a solid listener fan base, particularly on X, who provide awesome suggestions for the remaining 1/3 of the show. The stuff you listened to in your bedroom over and over, the tracks you thought were really obscure and cool and no-one else knew but you, the ones you obsessed over and wrote out the lyrics on the back of your schoolbooks – we want to hear them! As we are broadcast live we enjoy interacting with our audience in real time on the hashtag #80sTM, live on air!
All forms of entertainment should come with a strict code of rules and regulations, obviously, and our rules are that
1. It has to have been made in the 80s (recorded/remixed)
2. We only play versions we haven’t played before
If you want to know if your choice has been played already, you can check out our searchable playlist here.
Listen to us live on Phonic FM or, if you live in the Exeter area, you can go old school and tune us in on 106.8FM. For smartphone or smart speaker, you can also find us on the Radioplayer or TuneIn apps by searching or asking for Phonic FM.
Wondering what you’ve missed? We’ve thought of that too! You can follow us on Mixcloud
Really, the only way we could make it easier for you is to come round to your house with a Ghetto Blaster and a Mixtape!
