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Sarah Kerr

Sarah Kerr

08:00 - 12:00 Saturday and Sunday

Expect the latest music news, details of the hottest new gigs, festival updates and the best alternative music from the last five decades.

What can we expect from your show?
There will be music and there will be talking, that comes with a guarantee. There will also be opinions, fun, recommendations, reviews, memories, discoveries, contributions, and if we behave ourselves hopefully prizes too.

Are you going to educate or entertain or… what?
Entertain? Yes I hope! Educate? That’s probably a bit too much responsibility for someone like me.

What kind of music will you be playing?
Exactly the sort of music you’d expect to be associated with the NME – from its vast heritage all the way through to the best unsigned artists in this week’s issue.

What guests / ideas / surprises do you have lined up?
Certainly throughout the summer there’ll be lots of festival gossip from the NME reporting crew in fields and mud baths up and down the country. From Glasto to Oxygen, T to Bestival I’ll be making sure you get the gossip and reviews first. As for surprises, well they wouldn’t work if I revealed them to you now, would they?

If you could only play one last track what would it be?
Is it just me or is that a bit of a morbid question?! It’s also one of those ‘what’s your favourite record’ questions in disguise isn’t it? And I just can’t answer those………

Who are your radio heroes?
Mark and Lard, John Peel, Steve Lamacq, Pete Tong, Mark Goodier, Marianne Hobbs, Chris Evans.

What was the first radio show / broadcast you heard / loved?
I guess the first radio show I became hooked on was the chart show, it was an essential routine, I had to hear who made it to number one every Sunday and find out if my favourite songs had won a decent slot in the top 40. It was always seemed so exciting when it got into the top 10 bit! In terms of shows that developed my interest in getting into radio Mark and Lard were the dons for me, in the evenings, at lunchtime and yes even at breakfast! Their combination of imaginative comedy and taste in decent music was perfect listening.

Where's the best place to be listening to your show?
Somewhere you can make a lot of noise and bust a lot of shapes as I can guarantee the music will make you feel no speakers can are loud enough and your feet can’t move fast enough.

And the best thing to be doing while its on?
Getting nostalgic for the tunes that made you who you are and paying attention to the ones you won’t be able go get enough of by the end of the week.

Have you got a face for radio?
Is that another dodgy question in disguise?