Name: Doug Parish
Age: 60
What You Do For A Living: Fork lift truck driver
Home Life: I live in Bampton with my wife and 5 cats and I have a grown-up daughter and two grandsons aged 4 and 1
If You Could Choice One Song To Be Played On Bay FM What Would It Be? How Long by The Eagles
What Is Your Favourite Genre’s of Music? Blues, rock to country music
What Do You Do In Your Spare Time?
Play in a rock band, present a country show on Hospital Radio Exeter, write a weekly music column for the Mid Devon Gazette and a monthly column for the country music magazine, Cross Country
What’s Your Favourite Food? Roast dinner and also curry
What’s Your Favourite Tipple? Brandy and coke
What Really Annoys You? Bad manners and arrogant people
What Is Your Best Achievement to Date?
A good few years ago I was lucky enough to get an interview with Elvis Presley’s original guitarist, Scotty Moore, and his original drummer, D J Fontana, and also his vocal harmony backing group, The Jordanaires. I was the only one granted an interview that night – in the right place at the right time!
Why Did You Want To Be Involved With Bay FM Radio?
To become part of a team that plays a role in putting something back into the local community – in my case presenting local music, which in some cases, some local radio does not seem to be doing
If You Could Spend An Evening With Anyone Famous Dead or Alive Who Would It Be, And Why?
Elvis Presley – it would have been great to talk to one of the most successful singers of all time and also the most dynamic performer of his day – just think what I could have learnt from him as a singer!
If You Won 2 Million On The Lottery, What Would You Do? ‘HINT HINT’
Give up work for a start and have my own recording studio – oh yes, and my own radio station – not bad for starters!