Wreckers Radio

01/10/2025

What a month for music October is, in Launceston !

🎶✨ LIVE IN LAUNCESTON – CHRIS WHILE & JULIE MATTHEWS ✨🎶

We’re thrilled that Chris While & Julie Matthews – the internationally acclaimed duo with voices and songs that stir the soul – are coming to Launceston Folk Club in the Eagle House Hotel on Monday 20th October!

🌟 With 30 years of music-making together, countless awards, and a reputation as one of the UK’s finest singer-songwriter duos, Chris and Julie will bring an unforgettable evening of stunning harmonies, heartfelt stories, and breathtaking musicianship.

📍 Venue: Eagle House Hotel, Launceston
🕖 Doors: 7:00 PM | Showtime: 7:30 PM
🎟️ Tickets: https://beta.snappytickets.co.uk/events/chris-while-and-julie-matthews/?redirect

Whether you’re a lifelong fan or discovering them for the first time, this is an intimate gig you won’t want to miss. Perfect for lovers of folk, acoustic brilliance, and songs that stay with you long after the encore fades.

🎤 Seats are limited – book now and be part of a magical night of live music in the heart of Launceston.

✨ Grab your tickets today and let’s make it a night to remember!

Chris While (vocals, guitar, banjo, dulcimer, bodhran and percussion) & Julie Matthews (vocals, piano, guitar, mandolin and bouzouki) are stunning singers, songwriters, musicians and performers whose energy and commitment to their craft and their audience is boundless.They are two of the best and mo...

25/08/2025

A couple of interviewees inside the totally professional Wreckers Radio studio wagon - listen out on wreckers.radio for chats with Liam Jordan and King’s Heathens at Cornwall Folk Festival FAR stage !! 🤩

25/08/2025

🎶 Wreckers Radio – Final Day at Cornwall Folk Festival! 🎶

We’re here at the FAR stage for the last day, so swing by, say hello, or even put your name down for a chat on the radio! 📻✨

🌟 Special Festival Offer 🌟
Our fundraising T-shirts are now just £15 (down from £20) – today only! Grab one and wear your support proudly.

By supporting Wreckers Radio, you’re keeping independent musicians and grassroots venues west of the Exe alive and thriving. 💛

Come and be part of the music, the stories, and the community.

Listen at : https://wreckers.radio

23/08/2025

A loyal follower of Wreckers Radio found at The Swan, no less! 🤘🏻🤩🤣🙌🏻🌞

23/08/2025

We have a fashioned a totally professional 😬studio at the FAR stage 🤩 Cornwall Folk Festival which functions as a multi-purpose unit (aka Emma’s campervan 🤣)
She has just completed her first interview of the day with Richard Gibbons ! 😃
You can hear it between Annown and Liam Jordan shortly, by visiting https://wreckers.radio

If you are performing and want to step into our totally professional studio for an interview, come and find us next to the FAR stage by the entrance ! 🤗💃🏼🙌🏻

23/08/2025

And we are off......! Yay ! 🤩Roger, Judith, and Emma are at the FAR stage all weekend live broadcasting and interviewing people!! Do come along and have a chat with us and check out our merch!! 😍

Wreckers Radio broadcasting LIVE from the FAR Stage. Don’t miss out and une in on https://wreckers.radio/

22/08/2025

Look 👀 we have lovely merch for our stand at the FAR stage at Cornwall Folk Festival where we will be live broadcasting all weekend! You can also find us in the Cornwall Folk festival souvenir brochure ! (Dog not for sale 🐶 🤣)

All surplus helps us to cover licences sbd running costs to keep this community asset going! 🤗

Come and see us and have a chat or listen along via https://wreckers.radio !!

22/08/2025

Tim Edey, previous recipient of the BBC radio 2 folk awards musician of the year, is at the Betjemen centre this evening supported by Humm!

Tim is an amazing multi-instrumentalist who has played with The Chieftains, Mary Black, Dougie Maclean, Christy Moore, Sharon Shannon, Capercaillie, and many many more…!
We will be there helping out so do grad a ticket and come along! Looking forward to this one! 🤩

Multi-instrumentalist Tim Edey was the Musician of the Year at the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (he also won Best Duo with Brendan Power) and in the 2020 MG […]

30/05/2025

The Wreckers Radio broadcast server has now moved fully from the previous server to the new Wreckers one. If you listen through an app or an internet radio or tv you will need to change the address for the stream.
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If you listen via the website https://wreckers.radio/ then you don't need to do anything!

Happy listening :)

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22/05/2025

The Countrymen are on the final leg of their Spring Sail Away Tour and will be in Launceston Town Hall tomorrow night (Fri 23rd May) and in Wadebridge Town Hall on Saturday night (24th May). You can get tickets via the link in the comments below!

You can also hear them on Wreckers Radio where we have one of their tracks playing at 42 minutes past the hour, at 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, along with the dates, times, and venues of the gigs!

05/10/2024

We like to support music venues and organisations in Cornwall and the South West and would like to draw your attention to a concert at Endelienta Arts on Friday the 25th October with Reg Meuross and Suntou Susso.
We saw Reg at Cornwall Folk Festival in the summer and he was brilliant!

Featuring the sparkling playing of kora master Suntou Susso, alongside narration on the historical background to each song, Stolen From God was previewed during 2022’s Black History Month. With vocals from all three musicians, alongside incredible instrumentation, it has received a tremendous rece...