About

The show
The Soul Cellar has been running since June 2004 on Solar Radio. Solar Radio is probably one of the longest running soul stations in the world, it celebrated its 20th aniversary in May 2005. Solar is available on the internet at www.solarradio.com or on Sky Digital Channel 0129 in the Uk. The show is broadcast on a Tuesday evening 6 - 8pm (GMT).

The Soul Cellar is billed as two hours of rare grooves and modern soul flavors from the 70s and 80s. There is the occasional trip into the decades on either size but for the most part the seventies and early eighties provide the main source of music. Musically it is pretty much an eclectic mix of mainly down-tempo mellow grooves. A lot of the music comes from albums tracks, those albums we all bought for one tune 20 years that have other gems hidden away on side 2.

  (At the Red Bar, Wakefield)

About me
I got interested in soul music at the beginning of 80s, living in Essex there was plenty of local gigs to further the education. Normal life, work, moving to London, mortgages, etc took me away from things for a number of years, but I eventually started buying music again in the mid 90s when I moved back to Essex.

I don’t see myself a DJ or presenter as such, like so many of the listeners to the show, I am nothing more than a ‘punter’ who is never happier than when I am listening to the music.

As a presenter on Solar I work on a volunteer basis, sponsoring my own show on the station and financing thesoulcellar.com out of my own pocket. That way I get to pick the music I want to play and share my selection of quality soul music with like minded people.

The website
The idea for the website came about after so many requests from listeners wanting playlists for the show. I thought it would nice to offer the playlist together with an MP3 of the show. I started podcasting in July 2005 and recently updated the site.

A special thanks must go out to Keir Whitaker, who’s knowledge and skills have made the site possible.