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On the record by Carys G. Dayne

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Carys G. Dayne is a TV Presenter, voice-over artist and writer with 10 years' broadcast experience in TV and radio. Her career began with a BAFTA Award for her work in children's television at ITV in Leeds. She worked as an Edit Assistant on shows like Emmerdale and a documentary celebrating Sooty's 50th birthday. It was at ITV where her she got her first presenting experience. Carys’ radio shows – on some of the country’s biggest media networks - have won national awards. She’s interviewed many ‘vintage’ celebrities including Billy Ocean, Toyah, Spandau Ballet and Spice Girl Mel C along with several TV and West End stars. Her voice-over clients include Aviva, World Duty Free for all UK airports, the Extreme Sports TV network and New York’s Hit Music station Z100. Carys will now be back in front of the camera presenting for Vintage TV.

If you were to ask me what’s the one thing I couldn’t live without, I would have to say music. In a second, a song can change your mood or carry you away to a different place. Music makes you think and feel - in an instant it can bring back memories as if they happened only yesterday.

I love lots of different genres of music from The Beach Boys and Bee Gees to The Doors and Guns ‘n’ Roses.

My first taste of music – apparently - was bouncing on my Dad’s knee to The Boomtown Rats whereas Mum introduced me to Dr Hook and Abba. The day music became a huge part of my life, was the day I saw Wham perform ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go’ on Top of the Pops. From that moment I was hooked, perhaps because of the indecently tight shorts that George Michael was sporting.

Wham were a massive part of my childhood. I would count the days to their next album release or calendar and every year without fail I would send George a card on his birthday and Valentine’s Day.

Weekends consisted of my best friend, Beth, and I scouring newsagents to spend our pocket money on every magazine that had Wham as the centre spread. Slowly, but surely, they became my bedroom wallpaper

My first live concert: part of 74,000 at Wembley to see Wham the Final and I maintain I was the youngest one there.

If you were a child influenced by music and you idolized an artist, I’m sure you will recall similar experiences.

Vintage TV reminds us why we were so passionate about that artist, why we memorized every lyric and guitar solo and why these musicians became our heroes. Who would have thought that songs from the 50s and early 60s would ever have a music video? Let alone a creative, stylish and often funny one at that. Take two songs from 1964 which were hits in the pre-music video age. For Roy Orbison’s ‘Pretty Woman’, the video is predominately a Julia Roberts montage; it couldn’t be anything else. In Herman’s Hermits’ ‘I’m Into Something Good’, we see footage of some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Richard Branson.

Vintage TV offers you a great mix of live music, behind the scenes footage and interviews - programmes like ‘My Vintage’, where we get a peak at the favorite vintage videos of Elaine Paige, Bruce Welch, Roachford and Pat Sharp amongst many others. Then there’s ‘Vintage Triplets’: three songs back-to-back from one band or artist; a couple of my favorites being Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet.

Vintage TV is a truly original concept in music television and there’s nothing else like it.I’m excited beyond belief about Vintage TV’s future and I am so proud to be a part of it.