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Gary Hopkins


My name is Gary and I present  Blast From the 90s,I’ve been presenting on radio since 2011 doing live ​shows for a station in Bristol and Weston-super-Mare, but then I decided as well as these to launch ​my own radio shows for other stations as well.

My first show in 2017 was Blast from the past, which was about old ​UK/US chart rundowns, which I may come back to ​eventually if time allows. In 2019, I launched Blast ​from the 80s, and then during lockdown in 2020 I ​started Blast from the 90s. although the blast from the past show stopped, the other 2 have carried on as weekly shows.

The aim of the shows is to bring back some great tunes from these decades that maybe you’ve not heard in a long while, but I also get to play your first song bought in the decade as suggested by you the listener which are great and sometimes so random, and I get to test your knowledge of the first lines of songs from either decade.

I’ve also been fortunate to chat to some musicians who have released songs in ​these decades as well, and play some exciting new tracks from them too when available, as well as this, we find out a bit more about them from when those big tunes were released and more about them away from music too.

Anyway get involved where you can and I hope you enjoy listening to the shows, as much as I do putting them together.

Saturday & Sunday at 8am