Nicky Horne
Monday - Friday: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Tune in every weeknight to hear Nicky play out the latest releases by our favourite bands, and be sure to tune in for Nicky's regular features:
For fans of the quieter side of life, Nicky brings you AMPS OFF every night - two songs of a more gentle nature to help ease you into a restful evening (CLICK HERE)
And then to help wake you up again Nicky unleashes his NWOBHM classics - two songs that helped inspire a generation of metal-heads - as voted for by you (CLICK HERE)
It was the famous Emperor Rosko of Radio One fame who first spotted the potential in a young Nicky Horne. Rosko met Nicky whilst he was hanging around Radio One to see who he could see. Two weeks later Nicky became Rosko’s personal assistant, and a roadie for the famous Rosko Roadshow. Instead of hanging around outside radio one he started to spend time inside and very quickly became the youngest presenter to broadcast on the network learning his craft from Rosko.
Nicky was a regular interviewer for the Radio 1 pop magazine show “Scene and Heard” but supplemented his wages by joining a radio station in a biscuit factory! United Biscuits Network was a closed circuit radio station that covered all of the factories in their empire, and it was from here Nicky went to Capital Radio, soon to become the first music commercial station in the UK. Nicky was given the rock show “Your Mother Wouldn’t Like It” for 13 award winning years, thus the show became part of radio folklore.
His TV work is just as diverse and just as impressive. He was for four years the face of “American Football” on Channel 4 and Sky, and has presented many sports programmes, including “ATP Tennis Worldwide” and “Indycar” on ITV. Music has also been a feature of his TV career with “Rock Steady” and “EARSAY”, which he devised and presented for Channel 4.
Nicky has also diversified into artist management and was for 18 “fascinating” months the manager of 70’s icon Mike Oldfield.
Over the years Nicky has earned a reputation as a bonafide legendary rock DJ having met just about everyone on the rock planet and being able to boast that he has spent a few hours aboard Led Zeppelin's private plane with the band. He also has the unique honour of being the only presenter to have had regular shows on every single national commercial station as well as Radio One and Two but his spiritual home is Planet Rock.