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well as being an actor Nathan Head has also worked on a
number of radio shows. For just under three years he was a
co-presenter on a weekly entertainment-themed show on
103.6FM Tameside Radio, as well as reading the entertainment
news following the updates from the Sky News Centre on
Sundays for the same station. Nathan Head first appeared on
Tameside Radio in 2009 to talk about an upcoming
film-screening and shortly afterwards joined The Matinée
Show as a regular contributor every Sunday until his
departure in 2011. The show played showtunes, reviewed
musicals
and discussed anything theatrical as well as interviewing
various guests and celebrities such as Sue Devaney, Jeff
Wayne, Nicki French, Sue Jenkins, Scott Bruton, Rowetta Satchell and Margarita
Pracatan. The local Council once ran a Citizen Survey which
showed that Tameside Radio was the third most listened to in
the area, with only Key 103 and BBC Radio 2 having more
listeners at the time. The survey only covered listeners in the
Tameside, Oldham & Glossop region, but the station also had
a good listenership in the Greater Manchester area spreading
as far as Stockport and East Manchester, as well as a
dedicated following of international listeners who tuned in
online. Because of his work on The Matinée Show Nathan Head
was asked to present his own segment called The Showbiz Slot
on an internet radio station which was broadcast weekly on
Online World Radio in 2010 and later re-released as a podcast via
iTunes in 2011, followed by a second series in 2012 and a
one-off special in 2015. |
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Brief history of The Matinée Show
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| Gaydio was originally set up by Ian Wallace
and Toby Whitehouse as an online radio
station in August 2006, Nathan Head was
invited to their prestigious launch night
in Manchester starring three-time Grammy
nominee Bonnie Tyler. One of the stations
new features was an entertainment broadcast
known as The Matinée Show hosted by
presenter James Dean and Manchester drag
performer
Madame Aries. |
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2007 new Fm station Tameside Radio was
launched under programme director Andy Hoyle
and based in a studio located in Cavendish
Mill, in Ashton-under-Lyne. James Dean and
Madame Aries
migrated The Matinée Show from Gaydio to
Tameside Radio, where they continued their
previous format of reviewing local shows and
playing showtunes for two hours every Sunday
afternoon. |
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original Matinée crew at Tameside Radio
consisted of presenters James Dean and drag
performer
Madame Aries, from 2008 Gracie Fields expert Sebastian 'Seb in the corner'
Lassandro gave the latest on the local amateur operatics
scene and Broadway correspondent Suko
Sullivan provided regular updates on the musical theatre circuit
happening across the pond. X-Factor singer Scott Bruton and Eurovision star Nicki
French would also occasionally join the team
for special reports and interviews. |
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| Actor Nathan Head first appeared on 103.6FM
Tameside Radio as a special guest on 2nd
August 2009 to talk about his recent horror
film success, shortly afterwards he was
asked to return as a regular contributor to
the show for two hours every Sunday
afternooon. |
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2009 / 2010 |
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| For almost two years The Matinée Show
team consisted of
actor Nathan Head, drag performer
Madame Aries, presenter James Dean and singer Scott
Bruton. 'Seb in the corner' sadly left the show in
October 2010
but Broadway correspondent Suko Sullivan
continued to provide updates from America via Skype. The
Matinée Show played showtunes, reviewed
musicals and discussed anything theatrical
as well as interviewing various guests and
celebrities such as Sue Devaney, Jeff Wayne,
Nicki French, Sue Jenkins, Rowetta Satchell and Margarita
Pracatan. Also
pictured is guest singer Heather Dinnarr who
performed at a live charity event that the
team had organised in aid of a local Hospice. |
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2010 |
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| By the end of 2010
regular listener and local singer John Mercer
had gradually become a regular contributor to
the show and quickly joined the team
alongside presenters
Madame Aries, James
Dean and Nathan Head.
Due to declining health, Madame Aries's
appearances on the show became more
infrequent, meaning that most installments
of The Matinée Show would be hosted by James
Dean, John Mercer and Nathan Head, Nathan also started to read the
entertainment news highlights in 2010, following the
updates from the Sky News Centre on Sundays. |
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2011 |
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Matinée Show team at 103.6FM Tameside Radio
in 2011 consisted of presenter James Dean,
actor Nathan Head and local singer John
Mercer. |
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Nathan Head left The Matinée Show on 17th
July 2011 and by September the station was
acquired by social landlord New Charter
Housing Trust, merging its team with the
staff at Quest Media Ltd, who also ran the
local newspaper, the Tameside Reporter.
Drivetime presenter Gareth Cottrel took over
as programme controller of the station and
The Matinée Show's format was developed into
a Thursday segment of a daily magazine show
called Tameside Tonight. On 11th December
2011 Nathan Head briefly returned to The
Matinée Show as a special guest to update
the regular listeners on a horror film he
was working on called The Zombie King. |
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New Charter Housing Trust now owning
Tameside Radio, Quest Media Ltd. ran the
station, with news and features provided
regularly by the team of journalists from
The Tameside Reporter, a local newspaper
also owned by Quest Media Ltd. James Dean
stayed on as presenter of Tameside Tonight
with
Madame Aries returning on Thursdays to
co-host The Matinée Show with him, John Mercer was
given his own breakfast show and Scott
Bruton returned to the station for his own
weekly music show. Nathan Head was reunited
with The Matinée Show briefly on 14th March
2013 when he returned as a special guest on
Tameside Tonight to talk about his latest
film projects. In 2014 James Dean was
promoted to executive station manager and
The Matinée Show was reinstated on its
original Sunday slot, hosted by John Mercer.
Madame Aries
sadly passed away on 28th February 2018 and
a special tribute show was aired in her
memory on 4th March 2018, which Nathan Head
was asked to return for. Around 2020 The
Matinée Show migrated to My Tameside
community radio in the form of a podcast
with John Mercer continuing to host the
show, and The Matinée was relaunched as a
two-hour show on Sunday 7th February 2021. |
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Actor "Nathan Head" in radio plays &
audio dramas
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The Pilgrim's Progress |
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| Episode four of the radio
drama series The Pilgrim's Progress as adapted by John Ryder and based on the 1678 story by
John Bunyan, Nathan Head voices the Iron Caged Man in this episode as
well as a few other characters throughout the series. The
Pilgrim's Progress was recorded in 2012 and later broadcast
on 1521AM Flame Radio from September 2013 for five weeks. |
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Love Kills |
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| Love Kills is an audio play by Sam
Archer and Jordan Murray about a young guy who is being questioned
for murder, Nathan Head plays the defence lawyer in this
production which was broadcast on Walsall College Radio in
2011. |
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Not Quite Snow White |
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| Nathan Head narrates the
audio pantomime Not Quite Snow White, by James Dean, which was broadcast on
103.6FM Tameside Radio over Christmas 2009. |
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The Holy War |
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drama series based on The Holy War by
John Bunyan, Nathan voices Apollyon throughout the series which
was directed by John Ryder, Nathan recorded his lines in 2014 and
the series is scheduled to be broadcast
on 1521AM Flame Radio in 2019. |
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Actor "Nathan Head" presenting, hosting and interviewing
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A Fist Full Of Love |
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| Nathan Head interviewing the musical director,
writer and
lead actress from a musical play about domestic abuse in
same-sex relationships, A Fist Full Of Love was performed in
Manchester as part of the Not Part Of fringe festival in
2011 and this interview was broadcast on 103.6FM Tameside Radio in June 2011
to pronote the perormance. |
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Beauty And The Beast |
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| Nathan Head interviewing the choreographer, musical director and
lead actress from the Mossley Amateur Operatics production of Disney's classic
Beauty And The Beast, this special was broadcast on 103.6FM Tameside Radio in April 2010. |
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| Montage of various
clips of Nathan Head co-presenting The Matinée Show
with James Dean and John Mercer on 103.6FM
throughout 2011, reviewing the TV remake of
Annie, the stage musical Wicked and the
movie Grease 2 as well as interviewing Nicki
French and annoucning Nathan's departure
from the show. |
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War Of The Worlds |
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| Nathan Head and the
rest of The Matinée team interview Jeff Wayne, the creator, composer
and conductor of The War Of
The Worlds stage musical, live on
Hallowe'en afternoon on 103.6FM Tameside Radio in 2010 to
commemorate 72 years since the Orson Welles broadcast, which
was based on the same source material. |
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Vampires Rock |
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| Nathan Head & James Dean talk to Zelda Saint-Wilde, from
Manchester burlesque troupe the
Glitter Kittens, on 103.6FM Tameside Radio about her 2009 tour
with Steve Steinman's musical Vampires
Rock starring Toyah Willcox. |
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| Presenting 2010 |
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| Montage of various
clips of Nathan Head co-presenting and doing
links on The Matinée Show on 103.6FM
throughout 2010, alongside James Dean,
Madame Aries and Seb Lassandro. Reviewing
Little Shop Of Horrors, Mama Mia, Shock
Treatment, The Nutcracker, Blood Brothers,
Death Becomes Her and The Rocky Horror Show
as well as mentioning the 2011 UK tour of
Annie starring Su Pollard and Nicki French. |
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Sweeney Todd |
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| Nathan Head
interviewing the director and lead actress from the Rochdale
Musical Theatre Company's production of the musical
Sweeney Todd. Broadcast on 103.6FM Tameside Radio in February 2011
to promote the performance at the Gracie Fields Theatre in
Rochdale. |
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Cinderella |
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| Nathan Head & James Dean join Eurovision star Nicki French
at the Bridnley Arts Theatre in Runcorn to interview
Emmerdale's Leah Bracknell & Grease Is The Word's Hayley
Clarke, talking about the 2009 Cinderella pantomime for
103.6FM Tameside Radio. |
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| Presenting 2009 |
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| Montage of various
clips of Nathan Head co-presenting and doing
links on The Matinée Show on 103.6FM
throughout 2009 with James Dean, Madame
Aries and Seb Lassandro. Discussing the
musical adaption of Nosferatu, the first
episode of Coronation Street, Doctor Who
companions through the years, the various
musicals inspired by the songs of The
Beatles, the worst songs from the Buffy The
Vampire Slayer musical and reviewing a
recent stage production of Beauty And The
Beast. |
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The Showbiz Slot |
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| Nathan Head hosted a special series of broadcasts
called The Showbiz Slot, originally
produced for Online World Radio in 2010 and then
re-launched via iTunes in 2011 and 2012 as a
PodCast, returning with a one-off special in 2015. |
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Special guest appearances of actor
"Nathan Head"
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| 11th March 2013 |
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| Nathan Head appearing on 95.8FM BBC Merseyside on 11th March
2013 to talk about
horror movies as well as his latest roles in The
Psychiatrist, Sleep, Dead Walkers and Exorcist Chronicles. |
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| Nathan Head appearing on Tameside Tonight on 103.6FM on 14th March
2013 to talk about
horror movies as well as his latest roles in The
Psychiatrist, Sleep, Dead Walkers and Exorcist Chronicles. |
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| Nathan Head's initial 103.6FM Tameside Radio appearance
on 2nd August 2009 discussing the
success of The Archangel Murders, talking about early art-house
screenings to cinema release, multiple awards and later being shown in
New York and at Cannes. |
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15th June 2010 |
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| Nathan Head and fellow actor Paul Newbery appear as special guests on 94.4FM
Salford City Radio on 15th June 2010 to discuss current media news as well as talk about the success of their
horror film and the support from the online community. |
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11th December 2011 |
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| Nathan Head returns to
103.6FM Tameside Radio on the 11th December 2011 to give an update on his
work on The Zombie King with Hollywood star Ed Furlong. |
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Miscellany
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New York Promo |
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| Promotional clip for one of Nathan
Head's horror films, The Archangel
Murders, being shown in New
York in 2009. |
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| Selection of idents Nathan
Head recorded for Sobel
Nation Radio in New Jersey. |
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Comedy Item |
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| Spoof news sketch
starring Nathan Head and James Dean, based on the 2010 Sarah
Ferguson scandal, broadcast on 103.6FM Tameside Radio
during the same time as the original news reports. |
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special dedication was broadcast on 103.6FM
on Sunday March 4th 2018 in memory of former
Canal Street Drag performer and Tameside
Radio presenter Madame Aries, aka Colin
Timmins, who was one of the founding members
of The Matinée team. |
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Tribute |
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| A special news
report from Nathan Head on actress Elisabeth Sladen's unexpected death, this
tribute was aired on 103.6FM Tameside Radio after the updates
from the Sky News Centre at 4pm on April 24th 2011. |
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| Bloopers & Outtakes |
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| Selection of funny
moments from Nathan Head's time at 103.6FM
Tameside Radio. |
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| Selection of idents Nathan
Head recorded for the DJ Eddie Kay show that were broadcast
on 88.7FM
WRSU in New Jersey. |
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| Disclaimer: Any clips on this website are used purely for promotion of
this artist and the production mentioned. Although Nathan Head
owns copyright to most publicity stills and promotional
headshots, other production images and sounds remain the
copyright of the initial company and cannot be reproduced or
used to make profit. |
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