Interesting read. It was Paul Gadsby - aka Paul King. I was resident there with Paul too - John Cooper - no need for a 'DJ' name, 1983-85, until Tony Zivanaris asked me to go to Leeds and take over Madison there which was struggling. That became a roaring success.
John Smart was the manager while I was in Nottingham, and Larry Lloyd (Nottingham Forest) was assistant manager for a while. I think he also had a pub across the road. I recall Larry doing an interview for Central, I had to pretend to be mixing records in the background of the shot.
The cast and crew of Auf Wiedersen Pet used to fr