James Barr (presenter)

James Barr
Born 30 August 1988
Croydon London England, UK
Style Young, Hit Music Presenter, Dance and Club Music
Country UK

James Barr (born 30 August), is an English TV, radio presenter, DJ and voiceover. He is best known for the Capital FM Evening Show, which he presented across the UK on Capital.

Barr joined Capital FM from Galaxy in 2010, where he took over their Evening Show. He has also been the voice of Capital’s live events, broadcasting live from backstage at the Jingle Bell Ball at the O2 arena and the Summertime Ball at Wembley stadium, as well as hosting the visual red-carpet coverage for the station’s website.

He's also interviewed several celebrities for the show including Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Cheryl Cole and One Direction.

Justin Bieber interview

Barr's interview with Justin Bieber gained him worldwide press after he inadvertently trended worldwide on Twitter by asking, "Who Is Jerry?" The Huffington Post, Perez Hilton, The Sun', MTV and other media outlets posted the interview on their websites after James confronted Bieber about his fans affectionate name for his genitalia.[1][2]

Career

At the age of 15, Barr launched a community station in Eastbourne. He then went on to present drive time at his local station Sovereign Radio at 17 and then Bright 106.5. Whilst working as a producer at Northants 96 he started presenting on Fun Radio (now Fun Kids) and covering shifts at Northants 96 and Chiltern FM. He left Northants to join Red Dragon FM as the evening show presenter, before moving to Galaxy North East drive time and then to the Yorkshire based Galaxy network to host evenings.

On 3 January 2011 Galaxy became Capital and James moved to the weekend overnight slot as well as covering for Dave Kelly and Luke Smith. On 1 May 2011, Barr took over the 11:00 pm to 3:00 am slot Sunday to Thursday. He was also given the 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm slot on Saturday nights. He then became the regular cover host for the weekday evening slot. In December 2011, Barr took over the 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm slot on Fridays. Capital introduced a new schedule on 1 April 2012 which saw him move to the 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm Monday to Saturday. From October 2012 he could be heard on Capital Monday-Thursday 19:00 to 22:00.

James also DJs at clubs across the UK and in August 2010 he opened for David Guetta in Edinburgh. As of 2013 he joined the presentation team on chart show TV where he is an interview and regularly chats to the worlds biggest stars in music.

In August 2013, James tweeted that he had presented his last ever show on Capital FM.[3]

He is currently a presenter on Chart Show TV where as well as interviewing some of the channel's big music stars, he is the co-writer and host of new show #TOTES2013. Since 2014 he is a stand in presenter on heat radio, key 103 & metro radio. In October 2014 he began presenting Friday floorfillers on bauer radio.

References

  1. ↑ Marcus, Stephanie (25 April 2012). "Justin Bieber Calls Fans 'Funny & Inappropriate' For Naming His Penis". Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  2. ↑ Hilton, Perez. PerezHilton.com http://perezhilton.com/2012-04-26-justin-biebers-fans-name-his-peen. Retrieved 15 October 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Martin, Roy. "James Barr tweets he's leaving Capital FM". Radio Today. Retrieved 15 October 2013.

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