Edwin Evers had one condition for returning to Radio 538. He wanted the DJ to have complete freedom in setting up his new show.
“My only condition was that I had carte blanche,” Evers, 52, told The Guardian. Afghan National Police. “I quit the morning show five years ago. All that time I had it in my mind that if I returned to radio, it would be on a Friday afternoon between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m..”
So when 538's director, Dave Menebo, called last year to ask if Evers wanted to do the film on a Friday afternoon, the decision was made quickly. “I thought: If I don’t do it now, I’ll never do it again. So this was really the right moment.”
Friday afternoons can also easily be combined with the life the DJ and musician has built since leaving the morning show. “In recent years, I've written a lot of music and played with a band, but of course I've also done things that I couldn't do years ago, like going out to dinner, going to a birthday or meeting friends. I couldn't do it all, “Because I was always worried about being already in bed by 8pm. Now I live a completely different life, and I'd like to keep my life that way. With one day of radio a week, it's easy.”
In the new Evers & Company. Evers starts the weekend with his friend Kobus Bucha and newsreader Henk Block. “Cobos was actually involved in the morning show as a producer and owner when we were still at 3FM. He left three years after we went to 538, but we always kept in touch. “A real radio guy, and a creative guest,” Evers says. “And I wanted it to be Hink.” “He's there because he can read well, has a good sense of the atmosphere, and is simply a nice person.”
Evers wants to “show something really different on a Friday afternoon. Of course some Top 40 music, but also a lot of live music and also some oldies. Although of course I wouldn't completely deviate from the 538 format.”
