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OUR LEADER AND CHAIRMAN WILL BE INTERVIEWED TOMORROW NIGHT ON KCLR TO TALK ABOUT THE “K.M.C.” ON THEIR NEW MOTORING PROGRAMME “CARJAM” . BETWEEN 9 AND 10 pm MONDAY 24th
THIS PROGRAMME IS PRESENTED BY ORLA KELLY AND STEWART KELLY
Orla Kelly is a complete car enthusiast. She has worked as a design consultant in Ireland and Italy, refurbishing many historic buildings. Previously she presented Our House with Duncan Stewart, and has made numerous appearances on TV and Radio. However her real passion is cars and as well as presenting Carjam she is currently applying her design expertise to the interiors of Cars with her design company Couture My Car (yes, it’s like Pimp my ride for people with taste).
Her favourite cars are numerous, fast and not very environmental. Some classics like the Citroen DS, Mustang fastback, Jensen FF and Aston Martin Lagonda are followed up by the more contemporary Jaguar XK8, Lamborghini Reventon and Range Rover for off roading.
The age and condition of her first car, a very old Ford Fiesta, called Orlando, led her to an auto mechanics class which started her on the path to bespoke car interiors.
As a designer she found car interiors stunningly dull, boring and grey – and that isn’t just because they’re mostly designed by men. To transform the way people think about their cars she set up Couture my Car offering bespoke and personalised car interiors. There’s nothing to stop people having a car interior that’s as beautiful as their favourite shoes or as exotic as their best restaurant, it’s all about to change.
Her idea of fun is test-driving new cars and old cars – well actually any cars. When she’s not indulging that passion she likes designing car interiors and then of course there’s always the car talk – which you can hear every Monday night on Carjam on KCLR96fm and in case you were wondering, she hardly ever contradicts her co-presenter, Stewart, why would she need to, he’s always right, isn’t he?
Stewart Kelly, like Orla, is a total petrol head. From cars to boats, to planes to helicopters if it moves and looks cool he likes it especially if its rare. Starting off from more humble beginings his first car was a Truimph Spitfire convertible which he bought in the dark and the rain – two things you should never do! Eventually after many miles of great driving he swapped the Spitfire for a painting and while his art collection may not be the best in the world his cars have always been varied and unusual from an Opel Monza GSE (retuned by Irmscher) to Jensen Interceptor and Subarus.
He has a long list of future cars he wants to own and drive that includes the Audi Quattro, McLaren F1 and a Bentley Continetal T. As with Orla he believes all cars should be driven no matter what they are and their merits debated afterwards!
He has worked as a presenter and producer in television and film but his first love is radio and he has worked for many stations including Kiss 100, Galaxy and Heart in London. Hence his other passions of music and fashion from his time of also working in Milan. He is currenlty combining these two ideas of music and fashion into a cool new record label with a Parisien outlook which has it’s first album coming out in early 2011. Needless to say the music on his record label is also chosen as great to drive to when you aren’t listening to Carjam every Monday at 9 on KCLR 96 FM.
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