AMAZON AND iTUNES: - We are very pleased to announce that the new album LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY is now available to buy on AMAZON and to download (either the whole album or individual tracks) from iTUNES

LATEST RADIO PLAYLISTINGS FOR LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY:

 7 songs from the album are already getting radio play!

Stella And Joe                       Make It Sting                      Paradise Life

Chasing Rainbows                   Lazy Blue           Primitive Strike

                                   So Hard To Stop Loving You

Stations are: Offshore Music Radio · U105 (Northern Ireland) · Heartstrings Radio (Canada) · Demo Radio (San Francisco) · 3Westtv (Calgary, Canada)· Alooga Radio (Germany) have added Lazy Blue and Chasing Rainbows · North America Broadcasting (NAB) · Easy FM (Australia) · Ellinikos FM (Greece) · Unheard  Music (NY, United States)  · BRFC Radio (UK)

LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY - RADIO PROMOTION CAMPAIGN

Offshore Music Radio, the worldwide internet radio station that loves to play the music featured by the offshore radio stations populating the coast of the UK and Europe in the 60s, 70s and 80s are promoting Steve’s latest CD Album LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY to their listeners all over the world.

One of their top presenters Rodney Collins hosts a great Radio show, he has a wonderful sense of humour, a fantastic knowledge of music and the music business and presents his radio shows with a unique warmth which brings his listeners close. He likes Steve’s music and is introducing him to a wider audience. Rodney is including a one minute commercial featuring song clips from the Album Love, Hope And Glory on his shows. The show is heard in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada and Australia 5 times a week. Also Rodney Collins has featured 2 tracks from the CD, Stella And Joe and the bonus track included on the current Limited Edition of the Album Chasing Rainbows. If you enjoyed the programmes from the pirate radio ships such as Radios Caroline, London, 270, City, Scotland, Nordsee, Veronica, Laser 558 and Atlantis etc, then you will enjoy listening to OffshoreMusicRadio.

Offshore Music Radio is an internet-based network which serves local radio stations across the globe.To see a world map of listeners go to: http://www.frappr.com/offshoremusicradio

To hear The Rodney Collins Show go to : http://www.offshoremusicradio.com

and tune in at the following times:

                       DAY:      24hr clock       12hr clock

Sundays: 1200 to 1320 - 12 noon to 1.20 pm on OMR

Mondays: 1000 to 1120 - 10.00 am to 11.20 on Isles FM

Wednesdays: 1300 to 1420 - 1.00 pm to 2.20 pm on OMR

Thursdays: 2000 to 2120 - 8.00 pm to 9.20 pm on OMR

Saturdays: 0800 to 0920 - 8.00 am to 9.20 am on OMR

 IMPORTANT - All times are UK broadcast times

RODNEY COLLINS - PROFILE
Rodney Collins has worked in the media since the mid 1960’s, including management posts at ATV, Pye Records, Billboard inc, BBC Radios 1 & 2, Radio Luxembourg and as Managing Director of several local radio stations in the British Isles. His media career began on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 and including acting as a producer for the Jimmy Young Show between 1971 and 1974.Later in the 1970s Rodney moved to Radio Luxembourg as News Editor and was responsible for helping set up their Atlantic 252 station. It was there he did the first European TV interview with the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Not wild about the European Community, there was one sticky moment when he had offered her a bottle of Perrier water to drink, only to be told she was not going to touch it as it was French! He also spent time as News Editor at Record Mirror, Associated Television, Pye Records and at the BBC as Publicity Officer at Radio One and Radio Two. In 2002 he hit the national headlines when he played a rare 12-minute long private recording by Frank Sinatra, then in his 70's, reading the "Soliloquy" from the musical "CAROUSEL". A great friend for several years was US star Gene Pitney. Rodney produced his last three CDs before Mr. Pitney died in 2006.

LOVE, HOPE AND GLORY - is the title of Steve’s new 14 track album of original songs, all written, performed and produced by Steve. The album also features the brilliant keyboard player Paul Rogers who has worked with Mick Ronson, Simon Townshend (The Who), and Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin).

FURTHER RADIO PLAYLISTINGS FOR SHE’S IN LOVE: - Heard recently from the PRS (Performing Rights Society) about many more radio playlistings of the song She’s In Love. It recently featured on TMCentury HotDisc (HU200648) along with The Beatles, Pussycat Dolls, Razorlight etc. and is predicted to be a future hit. We were aware of downloads from iTunes from all over the world, including the U.S., Japan, Canada and Australia and now we have found out that it has been played on many more UK Stations including BBC stations Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Northampton, Suffolk, Essex and of course the Janice Forsyth Show on BBC Radio Scotland. You can hear soundclips of the song on CD INFO or buy it from the CD STORE.

ITUNES: -The following albums/singles are now available to download from iTunes http://www.itunes.com/ - (you will need to go to the store and do a search for Steve Larkman).TEARJERKER ALBUM, ACOUSTIC TAKES ALBUM, CHASING RAINBOWS, SHE’S IN LOVE, and ROCKIN’ UP THE WORLD SINGLES. Altogether there are 36 tracks available to download at 79p each.

WORD GAMES ALBUM: - Persuaded by hugely respected music industry veteran Dr. Jeffrey Kruger (Founder of London’s famous Flamingo Club and Chairman of TKO Music Group) to collaborate on an album of cover songs Steve recorded and produced Word Games, a collection of 12 great songs written by proven writers and lyricists (Billy Myles, Ray Griff etc.) showing Steve’s unique talent for sensitive interpretation. Cover albums can be a difficult balance, an artist has to strike the appropriate respect for the original whilst stamping their own unique style on the final sound. Steve manages this beautifully and some of the tracks on the album have already achieved worldwide chartlistings (#5 in the UK Independent Hotdisc) and airplay.

THE CAVERN CLUB- Liverpool: - Steve was invited to appear at this the most famous club in the world. He played solo with acoustic guitar on a bill with three other acts performing a 40 minute spot of his own songs plus a version of Jealous Guy as a tribute to John Lennon on the 25th anniversary of the ex-Beatle's death.

SAVED BY RAIN: - The song was inspired by Steve's stormy ocean voyage across the Irish sea to Belfast for a live interview and performance during which his dread of being shipwrecked was calmed by the sight of heavy rain on deck.. SAVED BY RAIN was playlisted for 6 weeks on Downtown Radio, Northern Ireland's biggest independent station and was also played on 3WBC Radio in Victoria, Australia and on Yorkshire's Radio VikingFM.

ROCKIN UP THE WORLD:- attracted great interest from many stations and reached  #5 in the Irish charts.

CHASING RAINBOWS: Prominent record company Mi5 Recordings UK who have strong links to the USA and the rest of the world have included an acoustic version of Steve's song Chasing Rainbows on their current QSheet Magazine compilation album. Other featured artists include The Quireboys, The Southern Electrics, Laika Dog, Nigel Clark, The Stawls, Intervurt, The Whyers and Kontiki. John Rosborough included CHASING RAINBOWS in his recent Radio U105 'Best of 2006'. The song was also A-playlisted as a new entry on the playlist of DOWNTOWN RADIO and  reached the #2 playlist chart position. The song was played on Radio Caroline's IMAGINATION programme and on many other radio stations throughout 2006.

THIN WHITE DOVE BIG IN JAPAN!: A new world-music company based in Japan have signed-up Steve and his hit song for their website. After a few weeks of the track being online, the company, FISHTHEMUSIC contacted Angelmusicplus (Steve’s publishers) to tell them that they were going to translate the pages into Japanese.

EDDIE WEST/THIN WHITE DOVE AND HOW IT ALL STARTED: In 2003 Northern Ireland's biggest and most popular Radio station Downtown Radio selected THIN WHITE DOVE the first track on Steve Larkman's debut album TEARJERKER for their A-Playlist. Steve was interviewed live by one of their top DJ's Lisa Flavelle and the song was played every three and a half hours reaching the #2 position in the first week of March 2003. The song remained on the playlist for 6 weeks.

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