About Emma
Birthday - 20th February, I’m an emotional Pisces!
Place of Birth - Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire - NOT Australia or New Zealand!
Height - 5 feet 3 and a half glorious inches!!
Schools - Winhills Junior School, Ernulf Secondary School, Longsands Secondary School, all in St Neots, and then Bedford Mander College for my A level in Communications.
Other jobs - Whilst at school I did a paper round, worked in a bakery and waited on people in a pub in St Neots. Never again!
Career history - Started on a YTS scheme in 1988 at Chiltern Radio in Bedford. Stayed 4 and a half years and trained myself in the studio. Became a presenter in 1992 after a few months doing a show at Community Radio Milton Keynes. Did various shows at Galaxy Radio in Bristol, The Chiltern Radio Network, Galaxy 101, Plymouth Sound, Metro FM, Hallam FM, Juice 107.2, Power FM and now Kerrang Radio.
Stuff outside work - More work (!), gigs, festivals, and updating websites!!
Dream holiday destination - New York, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand! It’s usually Cornwall though!
Dream date - Dave Grohl; I’m still a sucker for Brad Pitt too though!
Favourite bands - Long-View, Muse, Foo Fighters, Panic! at the Disco, Placebo, Kasabian, Lost Prophets, My Chemical Romance, and All American Rejects.
Favourite food and drink - Roast dinner and champers or spaghetti bolognese and red wine!
Highlight of my career so far - Burping with the Foo Fighters. Dave and Taylor are quite windy! Sharing a dressing room with Long-View and Delays at The Wedgewood Rooms in 2005 for my “Incoming Live” gig that I organised from scratch. I was very proud and raised £4,000 for the Tsunami Appeal. I always gets a real buzz from hosting the “RAW” nights for Kerrang!
Ambitions for the future - less hours and more dosh, and more time to spend with my two lovely little girls, Indi and DD!