Chapter 1: Who is Dave Cooper and what is his role at Gaydio?
The Last Show with David Cooper, where we utilize nonlinear reverse inverse backward thinking protocols. It sounds like this. In our constant quest for your host, David Cooper, to search for himself, I have found, and this guy's amazing, another radio host named David Cooper. It's not me. He hosts Gaydio Breakfast on the UK's LGBTQ plus radio station. He plays house music. He's a club DJ.
He's also a drag queen. And I am excited to meet my better British version, perhaps my new best friend, Dave. Welcome to the show. I love your eye. We're getting started weird. Okay, let's start here.
It's how we say hello. How are you doing?
Chapter 2: What unique experiences does Dave Cooper bring to his radio show?
Where I'm from. And where are you from?
You wouldn't tell me at the commercial break.
No, I'm originally from a city called Bradford in West Yorkshire, which is about an hour away from where I currently am based and where Gadeo's HQ is, which is Manchester, England.
Now, when somebody on the planet says, oh, you know, David Cooper from the radio, what is the probability they mean me versus they mean you? I've never confronted this mistake. Maybe Google keeps us separate. You know, if you're in the UK, you Google David Cooper radio, they get you. You're here in North America, you get me. I was vaguely aware of you before we reached out. Really?
Are you just trying to flatter me, David? I'm hoping you'll flatter me and say I was vaguely aware of you.
Chance would be a fine thing. I'm sorry.
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Chapter 3: How did Dave Cooper transition from DJing to radio presenting?
It's less me and you and more who, actually. I mean, I don't think anybody likes to admit this, but on the very, very rare occasion that I have Googled myself, Google is probably more like, who? Who are you talking about? I think I usually get some sort of mechanic in the Midwest of America, or I think there's some classical musician or somebody.
Yeah, yeah, he was on my show last week. Get lost! The French horn player.
Well, there you go. That's all the people who are more famous than me. I assume I come in a long line of David Coopers, right?
We should form some sort of official David Cooper radio union, you and I. Yeah, I'll be the union. What's the guy who leads a union? What's their name?
A union rep. Rep.
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Chapter 4: What challenges does Dave face as a host on Gaydio Breakfast?
Student. Let's talk about you. Tell me about your show on Gaydio, not radio, because it's Gaydio. Yeah, my boss would kill you if you called it Gaydio Radio. So you wake people up with energizing dance music interviews, your general positive demeanor. Is that the show?
I mean, it's not a bad assessment of it. Yeah, we play lots of really uplifting music that's sort of championed by or aimed at or even by the LGBTQ plus community. I've got guests on there. I've got my lovely producer, Bella, who keeps me vaguely in check. And yeah, it's all just about reflecting back
The world as it is at the moment, which can be quite a challenge sometimes for LGBTQ plus people. You know, there's a lot of people who want to come for our rights and, you know, sort of dim our light and what have you. So for a lot of what I do, it's about finding the joy in the morning.
And I've just got, honestly, I know a lot of people in radio say this, but I really do have the best listeners in the world.
Chapter 5: How does Dave incorporate LGBTQ+ themes into his show?
I absolutely adore them.
I also have the best listener in the world. No, I have the best listeners. Well, you stepped on my punch. I was going to say I have the best listener in the world, singular intended, because there's only one person who listens. It's my mom. Shout out to my mom. What got you into radio? Like, how do you how do you arrive here?
How do you arrive as someone sitting in front of a microphone that says Gatio talking to me right now? I'll be honest with you.
I didn't really ever set out to be a radio presenter, much to the dismay of a lot of people who have been plugging away for years and make it their whole life. I'm a DJ by trade. So I've always been a DJ since about the age of 18, 19 in the clubs around the UK. I've traveled a fair bit as well.
Chapter 6: What rituals does Dave Cooper have before going on air?
And then I ended up getting involved with Gadeo on like a volunteer basis just because they needed somebody to produce some music shows. So as a DJ and a music producer, I knew how to do that and, you know, sort of make stuff sound cool. And they said after a little bit, oh, you should maybe like try presenting. I said, no, I'm not really interested. I'm not really too fussed about that.
I think I tried doing a demo. One of my mates, Craig Law, shout out to Craig Law, incredible DJ. He's a real radio man. And he has been involved in radio for a long time. And he said, oh, let's go to the studio. It was like 4 a.m. one night. We'd both been DJing.
My first job was in Overnight Stave. It was not pretty, but please keep going.
Chapter 7: How does Dave handle anxiety as a performer?
But we'd both been DJing in some gay club and he was like, oh, I've got to go and record my show. I've got to cover someone in the morning. I'll go and record this show, voice track it. And so he dragged me into the studio with him and I hadn't been to see them. So I was like, yeah, I'll come along. And he said, I'll coach you. And we'd had a few drinks, you know what I mean?
So he was like, I'll coach you. Now he is Welsh, Welsh. And he was like, yeah, I'll coach you and you could be a great radio presenter. A good Welsh accent. I don't know. The Welsh people might disagree with you. He tried to get me to do a couple of links and I just, I wasn't very good at it. And anyway, I tried doing a demo at one point.
Chapter 8: What are some memorable moments from Dave's career in radio?
Wasn't too bothered about it. Anyway, push comes to shove. They needed somebody to cover sort of like a house music, dance music mix show. I said, oh, we think you'll be good. I said, I'll go and then I'll give it a try. Tried it, sort of caught the bug from there and did more like sort of music specialist presenting. And then when the COVID-19 pandemic came, I couldn't go out and DJ in clubs.
I had nothing much to do, had a home studio. They needed cover, but somebody who couldn't, didn't have to go into the studios, obviously with restrictions on movement and whatnot. So I said, I'll do it. I'll try it from home. And just that was it really. And then I didn't look back. I just thought, right, I'm going to try and do as much as I can to get into it.
And here I am doing a breakfast show.
Here you are. I like the gradual sort of stepping towards it. For me, it was an accident. Like I was doing stand-up comedy. I needed to promote a show because no one bought tickets. So a friend invited me onto a radio program. But it happened a little differently for me because the second I had a mic in front of my face and the show was live, I'm like, this is what I want to do with my life.
It took me like seven years to quit my career and actually enter radio professionally. But that's, you know what? Let's talk this because I've got some weird rituals I do before I go on air, especially if I'm feeling anxious and I am a stressed performer. Okay. I'm like the Hulk who's always angry, except instead of anger, it's anxiety. Do you have any weird rituals?
I want to know what Dave Cooper.
Are you a bit of a diva then when you get into that studio? Like, the mic's not in the right position. Yes. The lighting's not right.
Yes. Yes.
Yes. Do you have any, like, before your show rituals? Right. I don't generally, and I don't know if this is much of a placebo, but obviously coffee is my entire life. So inspired. I know, I know. I'm such a basic Betty, but like, I mean, the shade of my teeth doesn't thank me.
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