±±¾©Èü³µpk10

Redican brings ‘a touch of glamour’ to the Roundhouse

To the Roundhouse in Camden for the Radio Advertising Awards, hosted by LBC’s Nick Ferrari (below), where 450 radio industry executives were treated to live performances from The Hoosiers and Dutch singer Caro Emerald.

RAB managing director Simon Redican opened the party with a self-deprecating speech about his attempts to bring "a touch of glamour" to the ceremony. He told guests: "The look I was going for was Daniel Craig meets Jamie Redknapp… but my team told me I actually look like Penfold meets the Fat Controller."

Luckily, Simon was among friends, including his former flatmate Nick Bailey, planning director of M2M, who moved in with "Redcar’s best DJ" when the pair - then working together at Carat - both found themselves suddenly single.

Five years and many man-about-town exploits later - best to draw a veil over the Capital Radio Christmas party in 1995 - the flatshare came to an end after Redican met his future wife at the Reading Festival. "We weren’t very successful with the ladies for a while," Redican admitted. "But we were eventually."

Could cash-strapped Chris Moyles be lured by Capital?

On the subject of flatmates, one rumour doing the rounds is that Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles, who recently ranted live on-air that BBC management showed him a "huge lack of respect" by failing to pay him for two months, is in talks with Global’s chief Ashley Tabor about a possible move to Capital.

It is a tempting offer for the underpaid Moyles, considering Capital is soon to become a national brand with scale to rival BBC Radio 1. And the poaching makes even more sense when you consider that Moyles and Tabor used to be flatmates "way back", according to a radio source. You read it here first…

Taylor plots 'mad' cycling feat - but Miron will follow by car

Elsewhere in radio, there’s no stopping Stuart Taylor, GMG Radio chief executive and cycling enthusiast, who famously completed one of the mountain stages of the Tour de France.

While his commercial director Jonathan Gillespie has been spending some quality time getting "stuck into the hospitality" at the Ryder Cup with MG OMD’s Steve Edwards, Paul Gilshan from the Times and Vizeum’s Grant Millar, Taylor has been busy plotting not one but two charity cycle rides for next year.

The first project is a "mad adventure" around an enormous lake in Sweden, to be undertaken on the longest day of the year; the second is a tour of all 13 GMG radio stations to raise money for armed forces charity Help for Heroes, for which he is planning to recruit a number of media industry volunteers.

However, anyone already mentally picturing Global Radio’s Stephen Miron in full cycling regalia will be disappointed. "Absolutely not," said Taylor, when asked if Miron was likely to take part. "He’ll be following in a large car I think."

Strict rules apply for Starcom's cross-channel swim

Bitch was saddened to hear the cross-channel swimming attempt by Jonathan Bramley, managing director of truck advertising firm In Your Space, was cancelled due to adverse weather conditions.

(Not least because he had already put on eleven pounds in anticipation of the ordeal, which he is now finding hard to shift...)

So it was a relief to learn the cross-channel mantle has been taken up by Starcom’s associate director Matt Gower (pictured below), who swam the 21 miles in 15 hours and 41 minutes, setting off at 7am from Dover and setting foot on French sand just before 11pm.

Gower had to adhere to strict rules for the cross-channel swim - no grease and no wetsuit, just shorts - and dodged jellyfish and cross-channel ferries while sustaining himself with chocolate and Jaffa Cakes mid-stroke.

To put his achievement into context, more people have climbed Everest than swum the Channel - so it would be rude not to help Gower raise money for The Fred Foundation by . £1,600 and counting…

ZenithOptimedia’s hedonists 'hook-up' in Valencia

Valencia didn’t know what hit it when 39 of ZenithOptimedia’s most hedonistic employees turned up in the Spanish city last weekend for the annual outing of The Percy Club.

Forget the Festival of Media, this group - which started the revelry with beers and Bloody Marys at 8am BEFORE boarding their flight - were in town for some serious fun, and they wasted no time after checking into Hotel Medium (naturally) before hitting the beachfront superclubs.

Bitch is not sure how James Berry, Matthew Furlong (below), Marcellus Boyce and the gang fitted in a football match and an aquarium between two monster nights out that went on until 6am and 8am respectively - although it possibly has something to do with the fact that only five of the group were over 30.

Their last port of call was a Brazilian club in the old town called Lovebox, prompting the question as to whether any romance blossomed over the weekend. "Not as much as previous years," said a discreet Zenith source.

Which translates, apparently, as "a couple of hook-ups". Last year’s trip must have been quite some party!