Too many people don’t fully appreciate what nostalgia is. When Freedom FM launched in 1995 very few of us involved would ever have thought we would be sitting here in 2024 embarking on our fourth licensed temporary FM set of broadcasts. Back in the day some of us would have thought that we would be earning the big bucks in RTÉ by now, whilst others would never had thought they’d still be broadcasting on the same radio station they started on as teenagers. Nowadays the whole crew at the station look back to those early days (I joined in 2000) with a sense of longing, memories of long hot summers, hanging out as friends, and remembering nights out in nightclubs now long since closed.
The point being, we look back and hear songs that make us go ‘oh yes, I remember where I was when I heard that’, the sounds instantly bringing us back in time. Recently we had news of Oasis returning to the stage. For those of us there the first time around, the memories were vivid.
I view Freedom FM as a tap. Coming out of that tap is the finest, freshest, nostalgia there for you to lap up. All of us at the station relish getting back on the FM band where we can have fun on air bringing you back to the longest summers, to your first love, and to times when music was better. And it was better!!!
Join Mike O’Brien and Nicki Manley Mondays and Tuesdays from 8am for Freedom FM Breakfast.
'Read the Freedom FM flashback column each week in these newspapers'
