Illustrator Junior Tomlin, once coined ‘The Salvadore Dali Of Rave’ made his indelible mark on UK Rave Culture in the early 90’s. Enjoy recreating these cult classics in your own styles. Junior's Colouring In Books now available on our website ✏️ www.portobelloradio.com/product/juni...

@nme.com Paul Weller, Madness, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock and loads more for London Artists for Gaza fundraiser gig www.nme.com/news/music/p...

Showcasing a top selection of #female & #nonbinary voices, young Lilybud (great #singer #songwriter) presents a monthly retrospective of fabulous tunes in her 'Lilybud Weekend' show 💃 www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

Join @merrydance.bsky.social as he explores ‘Namanlagh’ by Tom Paulin. Ciarán O’Rourke reviews the collection & reads. Peter Doolan is a fast-rising star of the #poetry world & recites his own work + Marion Gill & her #Irish trad music group in Cricklewood ☘️ www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

I'm gabbing about the Great Exhibition again, on @portobelloradio.com tonight at 7pm, part of their Great Exchanges collab with Imperial College London. Or you can listen to the podcast version here: great-exchanges-series3.castos.com/episodes/por...

Coming to the end of an epic series, Dick O'Dell (Guerilla Records, Y Records, The Slits, The Pop Group etc) embarks on a trio of shows showcasing the Best of the Best. This 1st show features the cream of 1963-1970 with nuggets of wisdom from Dick & Piers Thompson 🎧 www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

Soho Bites episode 51 landed today - @vicpratt.bsky.social from the #BFI discusses a clunky old crime drama, “King of the Underworld” (1952) starring #TodSlaughter and Aidan McManus from @portobelloradio.com talks about a real life king of the underworld, #BernieSilver 📽️

Chris' moving #tribute to his son #Finbar is now available for #ondemand listening at our #mixcloud stream. We continue to pour love over Chris, Leah, the whole of the family & all of Fin's dear friends ❤️ mixcloud.com/Portobello_R... #stoptheviolence #SULLYSHOTTIT Sun6pm PrimroseHill

Chris will be paying tribute to his son Fin this afternoon on Portobello Radio's The Friday Show from 16hr UK portobelloradio.com #livestream repeats Saturday 12hr & Sunday 10hr ❤️

Thank you @derryjournal.com for featuring our fantastic #Irish #culture show & spotlighting @merrydance.bsky.social's incredible journalism. It's a great read about a fab #radio show featuring the great #poet Seamus Heaney. Read it, then take a listen www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...

Our hearts go out to Chris and Leah. We can’t imagine what hell they are going through. Finbar was a beautiful man with a fabulous life ahead of him. Rest in eternal power brother. You will be forever missed. May this madness stop 💜

10am Sunday! https://⁦portobelloradio.com for Dick O'Dell's All Time Faves Pt 19 2014-2024#billieeilishs#labrintht#floatingpointst#mosessumneye#carolinepolacheke#tovelol#weyesbloodo#charlixcxcx & many more! Stories & chat with Rolo from Th#Woodentopsps... “But when I wake up, I see you with me”

☘️ A fantastic selection of #Irish music from our past #StPatricksDay shows inc. Niall McNamee playing live, exceptional young #trad musicians 'If I were a Blackbird’, ‘Wilde Mountain Thyme & ‘My Lagan Love’. Jim O’Hara on Saint Patrick + Live trad band. Listen OD www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

Listen to our interview with #actor Nabil Elouahabi (Trigger Point, Topboy, Eastenders, Sum Of All Fears...) Abderrahman interviews Nabil about his experiences being a British Moroccan growing up in London UK & his acting career. Listen to the show here: www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

Brilliant show, delving deeper into the slum landlord story & the diverse opinions around his trade. Entwined with great nuggets of history & culture around Notting Hill. Another top listen from Aidan McManus & this season of Flipside Radio. Listen on-demand here: www.mixcloud.com/aidan-mcmanu...

Get ready for our annual Birthday gig at the Tabernacle, London W11. This year we welcome Tom Vague signing the new books & poss DJing 🤗. Special guest 'Youth' (Martin Glover from #KillingJoke) + more TBC. 3-8pm FREE entry #Bar #Kitchen #Soundsystem

If you've never listened to our FRIDAY SHOW, then get a taste in this compilation of the best bits, feat unveiling of plaque to Daddy Vego, Portobello Film Fest, Cyril Nri, Kim Davis #BBC, Aki Nawaz #Fundamental, @rastamouse-irie.bsky.social Gate Cinema & more.. www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

If you missed this & are intrigued, then listen on demand here: www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

한국 문화를 기념하는 그렉의 김치롤 레시피를 들어보세요. 지금 재생 중입니다. portobelloradio.com #macslag #Korea #culture #funk #soul #Seoul 🇰🇷 Basically, I'm playing a bunch of #funk & #soul music from Korea #NowPlaying. It's exotic! 💃

Tune in from 9am EST Saturday & Sunday for a top lineup of UK #DJs + our monthly drop from #NYC @jezzharkin.bsky.social 🇮🇪🇺🇸 the very #topical 'Brilliant Show'. Greats #music & #talk on portobelloradio.com

We still have copies of the fab 'Getting It Straight Pt1' available for peeps who want it mailed. Tom Vague (of the Post Punk, DIY zine of the #80s) is poised to release part 2 at on January 24th 2026 at the famous Tabernacle W11 where Tom will sign copies for purchasers who buy him Guinness 🍺

#talkradio Sunday 08:00 UK Live from Portobello Road Market 10:00 Dick O'Dell presents his all time faves with Woodentops Rolo & 12:00 The London Calling Show with special guest @chrissalewicz.bsky.social #London #culture portobelloradio.com

It took a bit to get it over the line, but TONIGHT (Thursday) 19:00 UK The London Calling Show with very special guest @chrissalewicz.bsky.social with only half the stories he could have told. Hosted by @louiseraw.bsky.social & Robin Banks #punkrock #reggae #London #Jamaica portobelloradio.com 🧷🎸🎡🌴

Live DJ sets in the Bar, DBC T-shirts & Vinyl, Ray Roughler Jones books, Tom Vague signs books, Poetry from Market Mark. Hyper local produce & great music. Also streams LIVE on PortobelloRadio.com

Tom Vague (Author) will be at the Tabernacle W11, London on Saturday 29th November from 3pm to sell & sign books. Please come along, DJs, Bar, Restaurant & other local memorabilia being sold too 🎁

Look out for tks for @cjpsullivan.bsky.social's #Jamaica #Benefit gig 🇯🇲 at the old Acklam Hall (Acres) in December, meantime here's a taster.. www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

🙌 We've had an overwhelming response to the sale of Tom Vague's new book 'Getting It Straight In Notting Hill Gate Pt1'. Portobello Radio & Tom want to thank everyone for their support. If you want a copy & live miles away, then there's still stock: tinyurl.com/y485k5hk

#12inchTuesday #JungleBrothers @junglebrothers.bsky.social

There's a gathering at Kensington & Chelsea town hall (Hornton Street, W8 7NX) Tuesday 18:30 to object to the 'Flourish' proposal. The decision to build a new housing development at Kensal Gas Works (Sainsbury's Ladbroke Grove) is being made tonight.

This week: surviving domestic abuse with sanctuaryforsisterhood, knife crime with Aderrahman, Kensal Gasworks development opposition with Tom Charles & Richard Crane, remembering black veterans with Ingrid Smith + community gardens in with Lisa Wilkinson: www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

🤓 Local local historian/psychogeographer Tom Vague earlier this year published 'Getting It Straight In Notting Hill Gate Pt1'. He hasn't got it in any online stores so we stepped in. #literature #history #culture 📕 If you want a copy & live miles away, then here's your chance: tinyurl.com/y485k5hk

If you enjoy listening to #PortobelloRadio then please spend a moment reviewing us on @trustpilot.bsky.social. Tell us what you enjoy & what you don't, your opportunity to criticize or praise us. Click here to #Review 🧐 uk.trustpilot.com/review/porto...

@cjpsullivan.bsky.social & Stephen Colegrave have just written 'Punk: the Last Word' (@britishlibrary this week). Here, Chris exemplifies the primary influences of the genre by dropping some classics feat. Count Five, The Standells, Alice Cooper, Slade, Bowie, Mott www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

10am UK Sunday! ⁦@portobelloradio.com Dick O'Dell's All Time Faves Pt 14 1995/96/97. #underworld #theprodigy #eels #djshadow #thechemicalbrothers #daftpunk #olive #radiohead #bjork #davidbowie & many more! Stories & chat with Rolo from The Woodentops 🎧

Every weekend #SaturdaySessions #SundayRewind 14:00 UK with the usual fab lineup of great #DJs playing the best music from around the world via West London #indie #latin #funk #punk #salsa #electronica #conscious #hiphop #blues #soul #reggae #rnb & more #weekend #soundtrack 🔊

Lock in to Portobello Radio this weekend for a fab line up of top DJ shows & a varied selection of genres from 2pm portobelloradio.com #funk #soul #reggae #dance #rnb #global #electronica #latin #house & so much more 😍

Ur weekend starts at portobelloradio.com Friday 16:00 UK live from Portobello Road Market with a host of guests & music. DJ sets from 14:00 Saturday & Sunday with our monthly #NiceHouseOnPortobello line up from 19:00. #TalkRadio 10:00 Sunday morning with Wild Women & more 💃

Tune in all weekend for a spectacular selection of #DJs dropping an assortment of delights #funk #soul #latin #rnb & more from Michaela Power, Kabz, DJ Moralito, Liam Tuke, Miss Walcott, Sam T Richardson, DJPJ, DJ Tal & @cjpsullivan.bsky.social 😎🔊 portobelloradio.com

Thursday 19:00 UK portobelloradio.com listen to this historical event. The @westwaytrust.bsky.social has formally pledged the land at Bay 56 to remain under the leadership of the African Caribbean community for the next 76 years.

Greg Weir & Zakiya flying the flag for us, bringing the flava ... #authenticvoice of Portobello Road to @bbcsounds.bsky.social #KimDavis #SoundsOfTheCity every Tuesday 7pm in August #colab BBC x #PortobelloRadio

Portobello Radio has been asked to Co-Host BBC Radio London's Sounds Of The City with Kim Davis for August 2025, leading up to Notting Hill Carnival weekend. Tune in to BBC Radio London Tuesday night 7pm (also avail on BBCSounds) & read the press release here: mailchi.mp/ab6d09474b1c...

Join us on Portobello #talkradio Sunday 12hr UK for our interview with Kevin Rowland (Dexys Midnight Runners) #dexys #Irish #culture on portobelloradio.com 🎸☘️

Join Dick O'Dell (Music industry hero) & Rolo (Lead singer from The Woodentops) as they listen to "Favorite Shazams" arguably the 20 best tunes in the world in 1989 & 1990 #80s #90s #culture #music #history on portobelloradio.com 😎

Another crackin' line up of #DJs & #music to listen to over the weekend #funk #reggae #dance #soul #world #RnBmusic #housemusic #dub & more from 14:00 UK Saturday & Sunday portobelloradio.com 📢

Listen to the #podcast #ondemand #interview with Gary Crowley from the London Calling Show with @louiseraw.bsky.social & Robin Banks #TheClash #PaulWeller #Fanzine #70s #80s #music #history #culture 📢 www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

Greg & Isis present the show on Friday with guests Junior Tomlin (Salvador Dali Of Rave) & Rose Bud. A round up of the week's events & top music in this #podcast: www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

Another weekend of spectacular music from #PortobelloRadio portobelloradio.com Saturday & Sunday from 14:00 UK #Soul #Funk #Electronica #Reggae #Ska #RnBmusic #Dub #Housemusic #dance #nicehouseonportobello with Janice Vee, Jason Boon, Jennie BellStar, Liam Tuke, Natural High + more 💃

Wednesday 19hr Garry Crowley is the special guest on London Calling W/ @louiseraw.bsky.social & Robin Banks. Stories & great music (obvs) #BBC #CapitalRadio #DeccaRecords #BoyGeorge #TheClash #RehursalRehursal & more... portobelloradio.com 🔊

Dick O'Dell brings us another spectacular selection of fave #Shazam's from 1986 to 88. With Woodentops Rolo they review the music scene that lead to the warehouse explosion of the late #80s & the advent of Dance Music #Frankie #BalearicBeats etc. 🙌 Catch up here: www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_R...

If you missed @cjpsullivan.bsky.social's #ArtistsForGaza @unicef.org show on Saturday, then listen #ondemand here: mixcloud.com/Portobello_R... for a glimpse of what to expect #PaulSimonon #BobbyGillestpi @paulwellernews.bsky.social #JerryDammers #Suggs #KevinRowland #GilesPeterson +++ 🎸🇵🇸