richard@richardblade.com
In NY for the Sirius Christmas party.  Definitely
not Southern California!!!!!!
With the reunited Go-Gos while they played a
private set!
With Curt Smith of Tears For Fears ('The
Hurting' - one of the best albums ever!!) - at
the Sirius studios in Los Angeles, July 2007.
The Sirius satellite control room, looking like
something out of a 007 film.  "Do you expect
me to talk, Goldfinger?"  "No, Mr. Bond, I expect
you to die!"
Freddie Snakeskin, me and Swedish Eagle
Freddie and producer Christopher the Minister prepping Dark Wave
Christopher, me, Steve Blatter (VP of Sirius) and Freddie


richardblade.com
Sirius XM
Everybody's talking about it - satellite radio!  (It took me about a year to learn to spell it -
how many 'ls' and 'ts'?)  Sirius XM covers America and Canada with more than 65
commercial free music channels, plus they have sports (NBA, NFL, Hockey, Soccer,
NASCAR, etc..), and Howard Stern!!! And once you go satellite you never go back to
FM - from no commercials on Sirius XM to 18+ minutes on regular radio - yikes (and
they call sitting through all those commercials 'free radio"?  You've got to be kidding!!!!)

I host a daily show on First Wave, Sirius channel 22, XM channel 44.  It's an 80s
station (how did you guess?) that features all your favorite music including D Mode, The
Smiths, The Cure, Peter Murphy, New Order, Moz, INXS, TFF, Pet Shop Boys,
Siouxsie, The Clash and so many others.  It is, of course, commercial free.

You can catch me Mon - Fri from 3pm - 9pm East Coast Time, and afternoon drive for
the West Coast 12 noon - 6pm Pacific, and Saturdays & Sundays from 10am until 4pm est,
7am - 1pm Pacific.  I also host a show on The Spectrum Sirius 18 XM Ch. 45on the
weekends playing adult rock and hosting a very cool countdown show call "The Baker's
Dozen" (I guess I'm a DJ AND a baker!)  It helps keep me up to date with current music.

Also on First Wave is another former KROQ jock, Swedish Eagle!  So it's a cool
reunion - especially for Southern California listeners.

There's also a great show on Sunday nights starting at 10pm (eastern) called Dark Wave,
that goes a lot deeper into the music of some of the most influential bands of the era.  It's
on Dark Wave that you will hear cuts like "Fly On The Windscreen", "10:15 Saturday
Night", "Bela Lugosi's Dead", "Transmission", "Headmaster Ritual" and so many others.

You can make requests on a national toll-free line 1 877-33-SIRIUS and then work
through the prompts to First Wave and leave a song request, or go on-line to
www.sirius.com and link over to the First Wave page and e-mail from there.

If you've never heard Sirius XM, you can go to the websites www.sirius.com or
www.xmradio.com and listen free for three days.  There are some amazing channels.  
Other favorites of mine include BBC Radio One, Area, and BPM - all uptempo Euro
dance.  It's also cool to kickback with Chill.  I had dinner at the Foundation Room at
Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and that's what they were playing in all the private rooms!
Plus Sirius in just about every rental car in America!

I also do a daily feature that runs twice a day on First Wave called "Richard Blade's
First Wave Rewind" which spotlights groups and events from the 80s.

Here are some photos of my experiences so far at Sirius over the past five years.