Dear Cherry Bombs Listeners,

Unfortunately we have some very sad news to pass on to
you all. As you know, the show's home since its humble
beginnings 10 months ago, has been Liquid London, a
DAB station owned by Virgin Radio. However, we have
just received news that due to a senior level
management decision regarding the priorities and
direction of the station, Virgin have decided that
with immediate effect, Liquid London will no longer
feature any live or specialist music shows. Instead,
Liquid London will revert to being a fully automated
station.

DO NOT PANIC!

Obviously, Paul, Jim and I are absolutely devastated
by this news, but DO NOT PANIC! This is not the end of
the Cherry Bombs show. We are currently exploring a
number of avenues with regard to finding a new home
for the show and hope to be able to announce some good
news on where and when you can hear your favourite
power-pop show back on the airwaves on a different
station!

We would like to thank a number of members of the
Virgin Radio management team for helping us make this
happen.

Mailing List

Until such time as we can make an announcement
regarding our new home, we have set up a mailing list
feature on www.cherrybombs.co.uk where you are able to
register your email address and we'll keep you
informed of any developments on when we will be back
on the airwaves! If you know any regular listeners who
may not be in receipt of this message, please help us
to keep them aware of developments by urging them to
register their email address at the Cherry Bombs site.

As we have not had the opportunity to air a fairwell
show, if any bands or labels who are friends of the
show would be prepared to give some exposure to our
plight by getting listeners to sign up to the mailing
list through their websites, we would be eternally
grateful.

Thankyous!

There are however a number of people we would like to
thank who have helped make the show such a roaring
success so far.

Firstly, our gratitude goes to all those at Virgin
Radio who gave us access to some of the most amazing
broadcast and recording studios in the country. A
particularly big thankyou goes to Mark, Virgin Radio's
head engineer, for generously donating his spare time,
hard work and extensive knowledge that made it
possible for us to record so many amazing live
sessions.

Secondly, all the bands and record labels for keeping
us informed about the developments in this genre and
mostly for ensuring this genre not only exists, but is
in fact flourishing. Making high quality pop music is
a difficult, costly and thankless area of the industry
to work in but so many bands and labels are flying the
flag and making what we do worthwhile!

Lastly, but by no means leastly [sic], the listeners!
Without you guys we might as well not bother. We are
so grateful to you all for tuning in so religiously
each week, for your emails, messages and suggestions
and for supporting the bands and labels that are doing
so much good work!

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this far!
Hopefully we should have some news regarding our new
home soon, but until such time: this is Cherry Bombs
signing off.

Love Russ, Paul & Jim

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