Slipknot's Corey Taylor helps launch TeamRock Radio
TeamRock Radio officially launched across the UK on digital radio, at two minutes to midnight on Sunday.
The new station, that will feature all rock genres, launched with a special message of support and poetry reading by Slipknot's Corey Taylor which was recorded after a visit to TeamRock's Download Festival HQ.
Taylor recited Edgar Alan Guest's 'It Couldn't Be Done' finishing with the words 'I belong. Do you?' followed by, rather aptly, the stations first song 'Two Minutes to Midnight'.
TeamRock is the brainchild of former GMG Radio executive Billy Anderson and his former boss CEO John Myers. Ex-Rock Radio Manchester and Real XS controller Hugh Evans is running the station as well as hosting the breakfast show. Planet Rock's Nicky Horne has also joined the station to host a daily two hour show dedicated to a unsigned, underground and rising bands.
To celebrate the first day of broadcasting TeamRock Radio will make the Metal Hammer Golden Gods event available exclusively through PlayStation Home, from the Indigo2 in London.
"It would be an understatement to say a large majority of our readers are also passionate gamers. To join the two through the amazing PlayStation Home virtual environment is as natural as Lemmy in a cowboy hat," said TeamRock commercial manager Ian Williamson of the deal.
TeamRock Radio forms part of a new content, creation and distribution business for rock fans. TeamRock owns rock titles Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Prog Blues, and AOR Magazine as well as brand extensions and branded events, The Golden Gods, Prog Awards and The Classic Rock Roll of Honour.