Mike Cullen News
Hello and welcome to the News part of the site. Myself and my partner Cordelia Harwin are broadcasting on You Love It We Play It Radio every Thursday from 6pm - 9pm There is an MP3 player on the middle right of this page where you can hear what I have been doing of late. An old 2011 demo is in there as well, for full shows please visit my Podomatic site HERE.
On my Podomatic website are shows called "Deep Cuts" which are for Pipeline Radio, let me say that its another side to my musical tastes.
Mike can be heard on 3 stations, Diversity FM 103.5, Pipeline Radio and You Love It We Play It Radio.
About Me
First let me tell you a little bit about me, my name is Mike Cullen I'm coming up to 34 in May 2012 but I don't always act my age (we'll keep that one a secret though). I have been a global broadcaster for a number of years.
My career started way back in 1994 when I was listening to a talk show on a radio station and was thinking to myself "I'd like to do that" or something similar to those thoughts anyway. I got myself down to the nearest RSL which at the time was in South Shields (South Tyneside), this particular station was called 7FM, Unfortunately I wasn't on the air but it gave me a bit of a taste of what it was like to be in the surroundings of a radio station. I remember trying a little bit of broadcasting out in one of their studios but I didn't make it good enough to make the airwaves.
I practiced and practiced and finally plucked up the courage to get myself to a few stations around the region and do radio shows as much as I could, I remember being on one in particular which was WEB FM in Newcastle having a quiz show and I was shaking like a leaf, good job Phil was at the controls for me to be able to concentrate on what I had to do. This is where it all began for me and I've never looked back since, I have been on many stations since that time including overseas in the USA and The Baltic Regions.
I was brought up in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, my school life was never nothing to boast about but I had a great time after school making many friends and being in many great bands, doing lots of gigs from 1996 - 2002, I was at college doing music and graduated with a Foundation Degree which I sometimes put to good use but I'm always busy having a blast doing radio as I have been doing it for many years and continue to enjoy myself as I do shows for people.
I am adaptable to many styles of radio shows apart from the commercial sound, not being trained in commercial radio I have no idea on how the commercial sound is established, that said I am ot a fan of commercial radio myself, I'm more interested in the presenter being him/herself which makes me an individual presenter, I would never try to be anyone I'm not.
Being from the North East I have found that its a very sought after accent in radio, however if you are to approach stations in certain areas you are not very likely to get very far, speaking from personal experience I know this to be true which is kind of disappointing but many stations in the UK have their own rules and regulations.