Our Local Presenters
Kev Lever aka The Duke. The Boss, Producer/Presenter
The Duke was born at a very early age in a little village West of Oldham called Ashton -under-Lyne.
He was introduced to music as a baby and soon became proficient playing on the linoleum.
At the age of 5 he began to learn to play brass instruments, a skill that would see him eventually join one of the finest Brass Bands in the world, Brighouse & Rastrick.
In his early teens the lure of sex, drugs and sausage rolls became too much and he joined rock bands playing bass guitar. Sporting a curly perm and clad in spandex and pixie boots he played in bands with names like Saratoga, Slack Alice, Neon Tetra and more recently Dirty Weekend with who he developed the idea of live band karaoke, or Rockyoke as it became known.
Interspersed with his rock god career, at the age of 18 he began DJing in local bars and pubs.
As the deejaying faded away and performing live music became more important the decks were sold on, although the record collection remained.
When the other member in the duet he played in decided to load up the family and the dog and roll the waggons down to Hayling Island, which is about as far South as you can go without getting your feet wet, it was now time to return to the glamorous world of deejaying, and so Duke Bock’s Party Train was launched on an unsuspecting world.
It soon became clear if he wanted to break into the posh Cheshire set, a company name with more gravitas would be required, and so KL Music was born.
He is now proud to be associated with a group of talented individuals as Salt Towns’ Radio hits t’interweb.
Having toured all over Europe and played in some the most prestigious venues, including the Royal Albert Hall on 4 separate occasions. Worked in radio, tv and recording studios. Met and worked with a host of celebrities. He is now content to sit behind a microphone in a radio station with a weekly venture into the wide world hosting a local quiz night, and occasionally deejaying parties.
Kevin has lived in Middlewich since 2009 after moving in with his now wife Lynda. He hosts the popular Wednesday night quiz at the Big Lock and presents the Non Stop Supersonic 70s Show, Thursdays 2pm on Salt Towns Radio
Stewart Green
A familiar face round Sandbach and beyond Stewart has been covering events in the South Cheshire area for 41 years for Hospital Radio at Leighton Hospital, Crewe and more recently for a local paper and Facebook.
During his broadcasting years he has interviewed hundreds of celebrities and local people for his programmes and has covered events like the Sandbach Transport Festival, the Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival, Sandbach Rock and Pop Festival, Market Town Festivals and has recorded concerts by Foden’s Brass Band, Lions Youth bands, Ralph McTell, The Searchers, The Dooleys, The Spinners, Lindisfarne, Fairport Convention, local bands and international artists who have played in the area as well as many Hospital Radio Carol Services.
Stewart has also worked for BBC Radio Shropshire / Midlands Radio on a programme called the “Record Collectors” where he was the interview editor and general assistant on the programme. He also worked on a couple of quizzes and a Sunday show for Radio Shropshire and has been heard on BBC Radio Stoke including the broadcast of part of an interview with John Inman at the Lyceum Theatre Crewe as a tribute to him after he had died because he had started his professional career and an actor in Rep there.
His “Sandbach Soundbites” programme started on Beartown Radio in Congleton and was made from interviews he also did for Hospital Radio and the “Stew in an Hour” started life after Covid when it was impossible to do studio based programmes at Leighton Hospital and his shows became remote programmes on the output
computer of Hospital Radio.
Today Stewart is pleased to find himself on Salt Town’s Radio with the two shows (1 hour each) on a Tuesday
Night between 7pm and 9pm.