 The first shows were mostly aimed at an older audience and often featured country music and Scottish music by artists like Jimmy Shand supplemented with standards by the “ratpack” and the crooners of the 1950s.These programmes were recorded in some odd locations and in a disorganised fashion, some shows were even recorded in the back room of a hairdressers in nearby Saltcoats.In 1979 HBSA was constituted as a charity with the relevant authority, HBSA would now be run by a committee of trustees, around about the same time rooms were acquired at the gatehouse at ACH.