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PICCADILLY RADIO: TIMMY ON THE TRANNY At Piccadilly Radio Timmy on the tranny was the biggest teenage pop show in the UK! Every night there were Fix ups, Nobby No Level, Timmy 2, and an assortment of crazy characters - ZAP ON ZAPHEADS! AWARD WINNING SHOW! Smash Hits, & Sony awards followed for DJ of the year and best music shows. THE MAD CHARACTERS! Nobby No level, whose catchphrase was "What I don't know - I don't know!" was played by Chris Evans. Nobby went out in the radio car, interviewing grids and road bollards. He also did pop concert reviews and famously burst in on Tina Turner at the Manchester Apollo when she had very few clothes on and did an interview with her! 
Andy Bird was the voice of Radio Diggle our homemade pirate radio station; while Sally and Anna played the station cleaners and Karen Walsh was Aunty Boney kneecaps whose advice included such gems as "the best thing to do with spots is to stand in front of the mirror for 15 hours a day and fiddle with them"
TEENAGE JIGGLERS! Timmy on the tranny was a training ground for talented teenagers. Among the core helpers are those who have gone on to star throughout the world of showbiz. BBC newsreader - Geraldine Peers answered the phones as Germy Gerry and won herself an adoring army of teenage fans! Disney President - Andy Bird, TV Director - Karen Walsh, TV producer - Cari Rosen, actress Sally Mais, production manager on Babe the movie - Anna Laurie, Radio Producer - Chris Whatmough (Pumps) and media madman - Chris Evans. Among the jinglers was a hairy bloke who went on to be the drummer with D Ream! There were the Atherton Armpits, the Kearsley Klan, the Leigh Loonies, and Grody Jody and the Happy Hedgehog! POPSTARS LOVED TIMMY ON THE TRANNY! Beginning with Adam Ant whose Goody Two Shoes Timmy played every half an hour on his first show, pop stars queued up to be on Timmy on the Tranny!
 Timmy on the Tranny came to an end at it's peak when Timmy moved to London and into the wacky TV world of the Wide Awake Club and Wacaday. 
Joanne Chambers of Middleton Road, Bury won an enormous pile of 867 singles. Piled on top of each other they stretched 1 metre 60 cms in fact!
Rachel the Blurt got in trouble for listening every night and not doing her school work. Eventually her mum confiscated every tranny in the house but forgot that Rachel had a earpiece and could listen under the blankets... Here's a picture of her room in 1985:  I'm living on the air at Piccadilly! Did you listen to Timmy on the tranny? or take part in the show? send us a Timm-eeeemail I remember Timmy on the tranny! "Me and my friends made a jingle for the name and claim comp to the music of Wham Rap. It was played all the time. It went something like:
"I remember, me and a friend came in to do a guest DJ hour when Nana Mouskouri was number one with Only Love, when the big film was Back To The Future and our music selections included Mai Tai (body and soul), The Impossible Dreamers (this house built on sand) and Billy Ocean (when the going gets tough). And Huey Lewis And The News.
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 Click here to find out more about Timmy's daredevil radio stunts at Piccadilly Click here for more about Timmy on Radio Contact Timmy via: Your evening show spanned most of the time I was at secondary school (The Hollies in Didsbury). Chris Evans (as Nobby No-level) came round to my friend's house to do a "broadcast from your bedroom"....... I won a copy of "Burn Me Up" by Luxury on "Phone-a-45"...... your unbelievably massive crush (or so you made out) on Katrina who sang backing vocals on "Thinking of You" by The Colourfield - a fact I reminded her of when, years later, I was standing next to her at the bar in The Horse and Jockey in Chorlton and recognised her! It was brilliant - and guess what? I'm getting a USB turntable for Christmas, and "Burn me up" will be the first thing that gets played on it! Cheers for being truly innovative for all those years. Carole Whitleyx "What about another pair of jinglers? - Grody Jody (Jo Hodson) and the Happy Hedgehog (myself, Sarah Walmsley) who guested on the show for about a year at the height of his popularity and until Timmy moved to London. I distinctly remember saving his bacon one rather drunken night when Timmy's guests were Frankie Goes To Hollywood!" "Hi Timmy,
Colin Owen (now aged 40) Manchester "I was 12 years old and selected as one of the reviewers for "Hit and Miss" segment. Timmy referred to us as "the ugliest looking panel" he had ever seen. We responded by berating his Green Jeans. Despite the bruising of my pre-teen ego, I hastled Chris Whatmough until he brought me on as a joke telling Frenchman named "Pierre Parfait." Obviously, this turned stale after a few weeks and I brought in a partner, Louise Scott (whom I had a crush on) and we became "Pierre Parfait and Cherie Chantal." After Louise left for bigger and better things (O Levels), I replaced her with two school chums and formed a jingle-singing group named:'The Tree Fellers". I really only remember one song vividly: To the tune of "A Taste of Honey"
"I bought a brand new Radio,
and tuned into the Timmy Mallett Show..
.....a waste of money! I wasted some money of mine!"
I too was one of many who had a crush on "Germy Gerry" but what could a "painfully ugly" 12 year old do except adore from afar... Jonathan Jay Markanday - USA Did you listen to Timmy on the tranny? or take part in the show? send us a Timm-eeeemail I remember TOTT! RECOGNISE THIS???!
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