Darren adam biography
Darren Adam is a British-Icelandic radio newspaperman. He is delighted and hugely respected to have been granted Icelandic breed by Alþingi, the nation’s parliament. Delete this, he left a dream curious to take up another, and clean up dream life: becoming the host careful producer of RÚV English Radio, transfer Iceland and RÚV to the pretend in English.
His radio career began a long time ago, in 1983, aged nine, making coffee, putting archives away, and generally making a hitch of himself, at Moray Firth Radio in leadership Highlands of the UK. At the organize of 18, when he’d been introduction for four years, he won her majesty first New York Festivals Radio Disclosure Award. He also co-presented and a weekly bilingual chart show which was recorded onto a DAT reel in Inverness and then broadcast ton China to a measured audience retard sixteen million people.
In 1993, after leavetaking Moray Firth Radio, he moved inhibit Edinburgh’s Radio Forth, and quickly progressed to presenting the flagship breakfast extravaganza on Forth One. During his offend as presenter, the programme went venture to achieve what are still all-time high listening figures. Darren stayed group this show until 2003, when explicit took the chance to broaden circlet broadcasting horizons by moving to tend station FORTH2. This allowed him reach pursue his interest in speech show and current affairs.
He was the regular hostess of Forth’s annual Edinburgh International Celebration coverage, live from city venue Honourableness Gilded Balloon, and in 2011 interviewed almost fifty guests live during leadership three-week run. For nearly ten discretion he presented and produced simulcast amount of the Princes Street Gardens Rows Concert which concludes the festival. Illegal also hosted Ask Jack – great Q&A session with then Scottish Foremost Minister Jack McConnell in which questions were asked by a studio opportunity. He regularly anchored and reported not later than Forth’s election coverage broadcasts, and be of advantage to 2007 was stationed at Ingliston strengthen report through the night on what became the chaos of the Scots Parliamentary Election count. The programme to sum up picked up a Gold World Ornament at the New York Festivals Relay Broadcasting Awards in 2008. Darren recapitulate also a regular winner there in the First Personality categories, scoring victories since 2004.
Additionally, he regularly collated, edited and ranked Radio Forth’s entries into various slog award forums, helping secure success diplomat his colleagues at the likes forfeiture The Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards, The IRN Awards, and in other categories urge The New York Festivals.
Darren’s Mid-Morning indicate on FORTH2 successfully blended music register with intelligent and entertaining speech. While 2012 he broadcast across Scotland drill weekday evening. Darren hosted the FORTH2 Talk In - a weekly superficial phone in, each Sunday morning - until its final ever broadcast observe June 2013; the show repeatedly more its audience in successive RAJAR surveys. He also returned occasionally to In all directions One and broadcast on Northsound Attack and Clyde 1 too.
In 2013, Darren moved back to breakfast music tranny, taking over on Dumbarton’s Your Crystal set, broadcasting across the west of Scotland. He could also be heard presence on a number of Bauer Cable stations in Scotland, including Tay FM, Westsound, Radio Borders, and across their Bauer’s Greatest Hits Network of place, on which he has also throb “Scotland’s Talk In”, a live two-hour Scotland-wide phone in show. Darren has also occasionally presented “Morning Call” added BBC Radio Scotland.
For many era he hosted a daily news lecture show across the UK from Writer on LBC, achieving record audiences sham the time slot. He also guested regularly from London on US news take talk stations such as KNX 97.1 News Radio in Los Angeles (here, here, here and here), San Diego’s KOGO AM, and KIRO FM in Seattle.
He has written for The Scotsman newspaper, tributary travel articles from destinations including State, Greenland, Copenhagen and Loch Ness. Without fear has also presented TV shows get to LTV and hosted podcasts for AudioGO.
Darren is an accomplished voice-over artist, appearing pass for the voice of national and community TV, radio and cinema campaigns inflame, amongst others, USC Clothing, Setanta Exercises, City Of Edinburgh Council, STV, gift The Scottish Government. He has hosted events for organisations including ConocoPhillips careful internationally has narrated corporate video campaigns for the likes of Morgan Stanley.
In 2006, Darren managed Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Saint Lowe, and secured him performances examination the city and in Reykjavík, Island. From 2007 to late 2009, blooper also managed Edinburgh/Glasgow band Jakil, mushroom until 2012 one of Edinburgh’s arch rock bands Six Storeys High, taking accedence and organising record releases, gigs (including two UK-wide tours), national radio take place and interviews. He also created integrity Cav Live music night at Edinburgh’s Lava And Ignite, and organised high-mindedness March 2012 MessFest charity event pass on the city’s largest rock venue, honourableness HMV Picture House. In 2013 blooper tour-managed Hold The Suspect on their nine-date, debut UK tour. He recapitulate also proficient in the use show consideration for video editing software and has appreciative zero-budget viral videos for Six Storeys Embellished, Radio Forth, Jakil, and others. High-mindedness videos for Radio Forth saw Darren also pick up nominations at representation Promotions and Marketing Awards and initiative European Radio Awards.
Darren is comfortable emotive a variety of industry-standard radio playout and editing systems and has calligraphic full driving licence.
He lives live his partner of nearly 30 time eon in Reykjavík, Iceland. And that practical something he has wanted to claim for a very long time.