Terry's Last Bus is like a joy ride in a thunderstorm on a go-cart with no brakes - anything could happen. MONDAY: Boy George might phone and demand that I play his new song (it happened). TUESDAY: Four lads might do a moony out of the back of a bus with a live on-the-spot commentary from local cabbie (it happened). WEDNESDAY: I may get a call from a woman laying in the dark with a three foot long parrot asleep next to her on the bed (it happened). And THURSDAY: 'Daily Star' pin-up Jordan might phone and give me a piece of her mind - if she had one (it happened). So hold tight! (I hope that brought back some memories!)
The text about to come I found off a site which tells you quite a lot about the
"Last Bus To Whitehawk" which I found very interesting! If you want to go to the actual site please
click on:
Whitehawk down That will also be in the links page too! (The text has been very slightly altered for this site)
"Whitehawk down"
Brighton has many famous features - there's Julie Burchill, Zoe Ball, Chris Eubank and. of course. The Pavilion and the pier. But few outside this town, otherwise known as London-on-sea, will ever have heard of the Whitehawk housing estate.
While trendy Londoners parade around in T-shirts with "Soho" or "Hoxton" printed in the front, witty Brighton residents sport the south coast's tongue-in-cheek equivalent, and walk around with "Whitehawk" on their chest. It's like sticking up for Tower Hamlets or Moss Side.
Now, at last, Brighton's landmark housing estate has achieved the recognition it deserves after Southern FM's Last Bus to Whitehawk radio show won the prestigious Sony gold entertainment award, the UK radio's industry's equivalent of an Oscar.
The show's creator and presenter, Terry Garoghan, was the surprise winner of the night - he took the gong after beating such broadcasting luminaries as Jonathan Ross, Chris Moyles and
flavour of the year Ricky Gervais to the gold award. Last year he won silver in the same category.
And Garoghan appeared equally bemused when he took to the stage to accept his gong. "I present the equivalent of a pub quiz on Tuesday nights. Thank you," he said.
But his modesty belies his talent. This is the man who, as a member of the Brighton Bottle Orchestra, made it into the Guinness Book of Records by blowing 444 Gordon's Gin miniatures while wearing a tutu.
He has written Brighton the Musical, containing such classics as "I believe in Dockerills" (the best hardware shop in town); "Go to Browns" (posh cafe where people who think they are cool hang out); and "Let's do Southwick" (which is like saying "Let's go mad in Shadwell").
But Garoghan made his name as one of the city's talented big mouths, with five years of comparing at the infamous Crocodile Comedy Club at the equally infamous, and no longer there, Concorde Club.
His talent for spouting off having been spotted, in 1997 he started a weekly show on South Coast Radio, the sister station to Southern FM, called Terry Garoghan's Sunday Service, and in 1998 Last Bus to Whitehawk went on air.
Now Garoghan has beaten BBC Radio 1's Moyles, BBC Radio 2's Jonathan Ross, Xfm's Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and its breakfast presenter Christian O'Connell to the gold award.
The judges called Garoghan's show - which celebrates the eponymous late night, after-pub run once suspended because of vandalism - "funny, innovative and in tune with its audience. The broadcaster has the ability to be controversial and outrageous without being gratuitously offensive".
Text copied off Terry Garoghan’s old site NOT by me and is still in this article THIS PERSON WROTE!
But the man himself describes it as "like a night out at your local pub quiz. The conversation goes here, there and everywhere, and invariably gets a bit near the knuckle. We're all good mates just having a laugh over a pint.
"Everything is very live and totally unscripted. It can do anything and go any where at any moment. That's what makes it so much fun to do, and hopefully, to listen to. The callers are the real stars, without them there would be no chat, no fun and no Sony awards.
"The real last bus to Whitehawk has the reputation locally of being a rough ride, fully of lippy birds and nutty geezers - just like the show in fact."
