it looks nicer than it tastes

Adam Court was born on his birthday in June 1981 in Swansea.

During this largely uneventful time, Adam gained 11 GCSE's at Gowerton Comprehensive School and an Advanced GNVQ in Media at Swansea College's Llwyn-Y-Bryn campus. These are the greatest academic achievements of his life.

In the summer of '96, at the tender age of 15, a fat, spotty, greasy and even geekier Adam joined Radio Freeway at Morriston Hospital, where he presented for some four or five years and also used his production skills to re-image he station's on-air branding.

After a Radio Freeway Roadshow, Adam was talked into helping run a disco that night  by Martin Thompson (who provided the roadshow stage & equipment).

As he didn't have the sense to quit straight after that, he ended up sticking around for some years, helping present and set up children's shows, mobile discos and outdoor roadshows; playing to family audiences up to crowds of thousands. Adam still keeps a hand in with Diamond Dust although in more of a consultant role. From this experience, he has learnt how to make balloon dogs. Badly.

After a short stint as a telesales employee, Adam found himself redundant after 1st Line Mobile (as seen on TV's 'Watchdog') went into liquidation. Forced to seek a job due to being out of a job and out on his arse, Adam gained employment as a barman at his local Harvester restaurant and stuck at it for three years (despite the repeated summertime mantra: "I'm not going to be here next Christmas", and the winter mantra: "I'm not going to be here next summer").

For once in his life, Adam found himself in the right place at the right time...strangely enough the place in question was behind the bar, and the time was during his shift, so he would have been there anyway. The managing director of his local radio station, The Wave, came to the Harvester for a bite to eat; and remembering Adam from when the MD lectured media part-time at Swansea College, they struck up a chat. The outcome of which, Adam was offered a job at The Wave as a tech-op. After two weeks of tech-op'ing the networked chart show, the MD asked Adam for a demo tape; which got good, positive feedback. Following a management shuffle; the new programme controller finally got round to listening to one of Adam's demos as well, and described him as being "disciplined, slick and technically competent". 

Adam continued to tech-op for several months, and also got to cover a few shows on The Wave, Swansea Sound & Valleys Radio, while still continuing his full-time bar-work.

In October 2002, whilst tech-op'ing, covering the occasional show, AND pulling pints, Adam was offered a two-week stint covering The Evening Show on Bridgend's local radio station, Bridge FM. Adam asked for two weeks off from the bar, but was told that due to lack of staff there was no-one to cover his shifts fortnight, so they'd have to bring in someone new. He was given the option of turning down the work at Bridge FM, or handing in his notice. He resigned the following day. In Adam's words: "It's either two weeks at my dream job that I've always wanted to to, or an indefinite amount of time in a job I don't really like - I've got to take that chance. Besides, if it goes wrong I can always go back!"...he never did return. Well, not to work - he has been back for a few pints.

The two weeks covering evenings at Bridge turned into a four-month stint; during which time he was also given his own overnight show in Swansea - Monday to Wednesday, 2-6:30AM, networked on The Wave, Swansea Sound and Valleys Radio. One of his greatest radio moments was bringing a whole factory to a near-standstill while their entire 700-strong overnight workforce stopped what they were doing to listen to the show!
This is now simply referred to infamously as "the locker thing"...maybe Adam will explain over a drink sometime - if you're buying.

But his time at The Wave wasn't to last - one day in June 2003, he was let go. After a few weeks of unemployment, he heard that Bridge FM's weekend breakfast presenter left. Adam enquired about the position and was called in for a chat, which led to him being given the show a fortnight later.

After around two months at Bridge FM, the management became aware of Adam's flair for production work, having made all his own show idents, he was asked to help re-image the station's on-air branding; refreshing many of the stations existing sweepers, stabs and idents, as well as producing promos and branding for big on-air promotions, as well as producing a whole raft of commercials for clients advertising on the station.

After a year at the helm of the most successful Weekend Breakfast shows in the station's history; Adam was made one of Bridge FM's mainline presenters in July 2004, when he took over the Evening Show. A little over a year on from that, Adam was made Head Of Production for the Tindle Radio Group; a role he performed in addition to hosting Bridge FM's Evening Show weeknights 7-10PM. Following the sale of Bridge FM, Adam declined relocation to Ipswich to Tindle's head office. He presented & produced for Afan FM & stayed on shortly after its rebrand to XS. Adam moved to presenting the Monday drivetime show on Bro Radio in Barry for several months. Currently, Adam is off-air.