Tonight on #NoiseboxRadio let Gareth Jones kickstart your Friday night with Gaz's Weekend Warmup live from 7pm, then indulge in two hours of 1980s 12' mixes in Footlong '80s from 9. See noiseboxradio.com for all the ways you can listen and get involved!
A busy Thursday on #NoiseboxRadio starts with the last in the series of Now Parlez at 8pm, we visit the Salford Record Society at 9, and at 10pm Rhys is back with a new series of I Couldn't Speak A Word Of English! See noiseboxradio.com for all the ways you can listen.
Tonight on #NoiseboxRadio join Lee Prince and his virtual assistant ERASMUS for another hour of Megablast Mashed Up at 8pm, then from 9 Tracey Binnie is here live for another edition of Crank It To 11! See noiseboxradio.com for all the ways you can listen and get involved!
Tonight on #NoiseboxRadio join Gayle at the Rufty Club from 8pm, then at 9 Steve and Jools take you back to 1985 on the 400th edition of Off The Chart! See noiseboxradio.com for all the ways you can listen and get involved.
New at 53, 'Duel' was the biggest of five hits for Propaganda, and it still only got to no.21. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Happy Day of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification! '19' was new at no.4 for Paul Hardcastle this week in 1985 and went on to spend the next 5 weeks at no.1. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Tonight on #NoiseboxRadio , join Keir for another trip around the globe in It's a Small World at 8pm, then let Colm kickstart your week with another live edition of Colmonday at 9! See noiseboxradio.com for all the ways you can listen and get involved!
Down a place after two weeks at no.1, 'We Are The World' by USA For Africa, the US answer to Band Aid, although supposedly the 'USA' stands for 'United Support of Artists'. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Down a place from its peak of 64, 'Put My Arms Around You' was the only hit for the splendidly named Kevin Kitchen. However, he did go on to compose a slightly better known piece of music - the theme from 'Supermarket Sweep'. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
'Sorry' from 'Virgins and Philistines', the debut album by the Colour Field, the group formed by Terry Hall after the Fun Boy Three broke up in 1983. It peaked at no.12 this week in 1985. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Romantic Ga Tomaranai ('Romance Never Stops') was the biggest hit by the Japanese band C-C-B, or the CoConut Boys. It peaked at no.2 in Japan in 1985. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
The first of four hits for Lillo Thomas, 'Settle Down' peaked at 66 and was down to 73 this week. His biggest hit in the UK was 'Sexy Girl' which made no.23 in March 1987. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Peaking at no.50, 'Froggy Mix' by James Brown, nothing to do with amphibians, but a megamix of twelve James Brown tracks, put together by the celebrated club DJ Steve Howlett, aka 'Froggy' #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
'We Should Be Together' from 'Eyes of a Woman', the eighth solo album by Agnetha Fältskog and her second English language album since ABBA fizzled out in 1982. It peaked at 38 this week in 1985. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Up to no.5, a cover of 'I Feel Love' with the intro to 'Love To Love You Baby' and just the title of 'Johnny Remember Me' repeated over and over again, by Bronski Beat and Marc Almond. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Down to no.89, 'Will The Wolf Survive?', one side of the first UK hit for Los Lobos, peaking at 57. Is it a double A-side? Who knows? Might be. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Up 2 places to spend its only week at no.1, Phyllis Nelson's 'Move Closer' entered the chart at no.90 and took 12 weeks to climb to the top of the chart, during which time two other singles had entered the chart, reached no.1 and dropped down again. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
'Hold Me Tight' at no.97, the only week on the UK chart for Robert White in his own right, although he would go on to score a top 30 hit at the end of 1985, as vocalist on the single 'Mr DJ' by The Concept. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
The title track from 'Around The World In A Day', the seventh album by Prince, new at its peak of no.5 this week in 1985. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
'Hammering Heart' from the second Peel session by Del Amitri. Peel was a fan of their early work; he played their debut single in 1983 and some tracks from their first album in 1985, before they went mainstream in the '90s. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio