Geoff Wood

Ben is an accomplished broadcaster having spent some years in community radio both as  a presenter, manager and program controller. Ben started out in the music industry like many others, working on the mobile disco circuit. Ben is delighted to bring the 90s, 00s & Todays Music to Friday Nights here on Telstar.

Back in 1999 I was asked to put my money where my mouth was because I said I could DJ better than the DJ we had in the pub at the time so I went out bought some kit and started to do disco in the pub and with it being a rough pub they would tell me straight if I was good or not and 21 years later I retired from DJing so it was a good shout. I’ve done Murrayfield and Edinburgh zoo, the Abseiling in South Queensferry a team of us help raise a lot of money for charity. For some years I've been in and around Community Radio and am now delighted to have been given the opportunity to join the Radio Telstar Team. I present the afternoon show every Friday from 1pm. I hope you can join me for terrific tunes and whole lot of fun and Shenanigans

'From that first time I heard 'Pictured Life' by The Scorpions and 'Whole Lotta Rosie' from ACDC in late 1979, I've been totally engrossed in rock music. Went to my first theatre rock gig at the Apollo in November 1980 to see ACDC and regularly attended that great venue until the last rock gig , Uriah Heep, in June 1985. So I've over 40 years of going to classic rock and metal gigs, not just in the theatres/arenas/festivals but also pubs/clubs and small iconic rock venues that we all love to go to. I've been lucky enough to see Whitesnake in the Californian desert, Metallica at Metlife stadium in New Jersey at one end of the scale, but equally enjoyed going to see local or emerging bands at the now defunct 'Ochil Hills' in Tillicoultry, 'The Venues' in both Edinburgh and Glasgow, pubs and clubs all over the UK and supporting bands of all types and stature where I can.