Adam Court was born on his birthday 27 years ago 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
the 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).
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, followed by three years as a barman
at the Harvester in Gowerton, Adam managed to get a foot in the door at
his local radio station, The Wave. After two weeks of
tech-op'ing the networked chart show, the MD asked Adam for a demo tape,
which got him some cover 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. Due to lack of staff,
he wasn't allowed a fortnight off his bar job. He was given the option
of turning down the work at Bridge FM, or handing in his notice. He
resigned the following day.
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.
In June 2003 Adam was let go from The Wave, and was taken on by
Bridge FM as the new weekend breakfast presenter. After about two
months, 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
show in the station's history; Adam was made one of
Bridge FM's mainline presenters and took over the Evening Show in July
2004.
Less than 12 months later, Adam was made Head Of
Production for the Tindle Radio Group; a role he performed in addition
to hosting Bridge FM's weeknight Evening Show.
For his Xmas eve show in 2005, Adam persuaded the programme
controller to allow Hannah Lewis and Paul Saunders to co-host the show
with him. After working with Paul at The Wave and Hannah when he started
at Bridge FM, Adam had wanted the three of them to do a show for
several years. This one-off Xmas eve show together led to the trio starting the podcast 'A Bit Of Virtually Everything' (or
ABOVE for short). The podcast built up a devoted audience, and was often
featured in iTunes 'new and noteable' podcasts, featured several times
in iTunes Top 100 podcasts and also remained in their Top 100 comedy
podcasts for most of the year and a half the podcast ran for, ending
unfortunately to personal differences.
In October 2006, Tindle Radio sold Bridge FM to Town & Country
broadcasting. As a Tindle employee, he was told he would have to
relocate and be based at their Ipswich head office;
but due to personal circumstances, Adam turned down relocation. After finding
better-paid refuge in a call-centre, Adam returned to the airwaves of
South Wales in April 2007 with Hannah Lewis as part of 107.9 Afan FM's
launch lineup, presenting 'The Show'. A few months after the launch,
Adam was appointed Head Of Production for the station; and in April
2008, accepted the role of Head Of Music.
In November 2007, while working at Afan, Adam & Hannah started a
new weekly podcast - Interrobang. In a similar mould to ABOVE, the show
revolves around banter, stories and things that have happened to them
both; usually in the time between episodes.
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