Vince Lynch
Vince Lynch (Born 10 November) is the producer of the Matt Berry Show and Creative Director for Absolute Radio. He was previously the Creative Director at Virgin Radio (before it was rebranded as Absolute)
Biography
This is the biography featured on the Geoff section of the Absolute Radio website;
The first thing Vince ever wanted to be when he grew up was a priest. One who played guitar, drove a corvette and was also a doctor. “It was a bit of a saviour type thing, I guess. All boys that were raised catholic had Jesus complexes, though, right?”
But when musical priesthood didn’t work out for him, the young Vince would spend his time thinking up things like ideas AbOUT how McDonalds could stop [...] the environment with their Styrofoam packaging by putting melted metal in the place that was causing the contamination.
Gifted though he was, his ideas were a little too surreal for the jobs his school guidance councillor suggested, so he found his outlet through radio.
“With radio I get the privilege of working with sound, and I find it easy to turn sound into pictures. I was also a huge music/comedy/glory fan… so it was a way to work with music.”
Vince’s first week at One Golden Square was at the Isle of Wight festival. He didn’t know anyone so ended up in a pub with a guy from The Charlatans, which were his favourite band and ended up missing the bus back to the hotel and ended up walking back at 4 in the morning. “As I was walking up the hill, the guy from the Charlatans thought he could scare me by running up beside me. But there was nothing for him to hide behind and I watched him running to plan his attack in what was basically a well lit wide open field. When he finally ‘scared’ me with the big reveal, I jumped up and pretended to be terrified. He rolled about the place with glee. After I finally got back to the hotel, James put his hand over my shoulder and said ‘Vince, you’re going to fit in just fine here’.”
Five years on Vince is the Creative Director at Absolute Radio and produces Matt Berry’s podcasts, which you’ll usually find in the top 10 on the iTunes chart, and he also he runs a music publishing company with EMI music publishing.
He doesn’t have any regrets, apart from one. “I didn’t collect anything when I was younger. I wish I had though” he says, “I wish I had collected gold.”