MisterB (UK)
Best ever!
What a fantastic show this is. Mick is so passionate, it drips through everything he says and his choice of tunes.

Bazzzaboy (UK)
Soul Discovered
This has to be the classiest Soul Music show on the radio. Soul Discovery with Mick O’Donnell’s love of the music, be it deep soul, slow R and B or Gospel – is evident by his sheer enthusiasm and obvious joy of the tracks he plays. Current classy Soul played alongside gems from the past, the show is always introducing the listener to music that they might never otherwise hear. Each show is a real joy. 10 out of 10

Peter Churchill  (Sweden)
My name is Peter Churchill, I’ve been Collecting and listening to soul for 40 years, I’ve listened to your Soul Discovery show’s for many years and it just gets better, you just Keep finding tracks that blow me away for ex Karan Clarke, He loves me, Willie Hutch, I can sho can give love, Sandra Richardson, Madeleine Bell etc, I’m hard to please but you just about knock it on the Head for me. I was a regular tourer in the 80s seeing and enjoying all the top artist , Jean Carn, Maze, Patti, Shirley Brown, Bobby Womack, Barry W, Incognito, PAZ the amazing jazz Q, LSG, Gladys, Luther V and many more amazing gigs with a lot of goosebumps and fantastic memories, them times are difficult too experience again but that doesn’t mean theres not a lot off quality top soul artist out there today, its just a big act to follow. 

Thanks for keeping soul Alive and Keep spreading the word

Peter Dawson (UK)
Impressive website like the format with podcast and playlist included, had been having problems with podomatic.com being unable to play your podcasts for quite some time, could listen to shows posted on mixcloud though.
Thanks for keeping the flag flying playing “Real” Soul music, my preference is Southern & Deep plus most of what you play!
Without Soul Discovery show on Solar there isn’t much else on internet radio that I find worth listening to these days, too many stations playing old music and/or “commercial poppy soul ” – that comment probably opens up a box of worms! Too much
UK productions and too many non black Artists for me!

Perry Rand (U.S.A.)
Hi Mick firstly thank you for a wonderful show.

Harry van Vliet (Amsterdam)
Hey Mick ! Listening to your show for a long time already…not every week though 🙂 . Last sundays show ( March 4th.2018)was excellent !! Really like that Sentiments track ..wow ! 

Patrick Biggerstaff – Izipho Soul Records (UK)
Soul Discovery has been a huge influence on shaping my musical tastes and his contacts across the pond are second to none.

Andy Geraghty (UK)
Ah man, where’d you go to Mick? I was asking about you at last week’s Blackpool do (for nothing else if not just to say thank you(and whist all Solar had only good things to say about you, I still left without knowing where you’d disappeared to. I rarely got chance to listen to Sunday’s show live but don’t think I’ve ever missed listening again on the weekly podcast. I’m a youngish 46 years old and as happy in the modern room as I am in the northern so your show is (was?) music to my ears. off now to listen to the new Kamasi Washington album (another intro from you).  

Stephen Polain (UK)
Hi Soul Discovery 
Help !!!!! what has happened to Mick’s show on Solar I am seriously missing my weekly fix.

Antonis Lioumis (Greece)
I am writing from Athens, Greece, where soul music is almost a non-existing genre. Following you from Solar era, you cannot understand how much happy you made me with your come back. Needless to say you’re my #1 DJ.No-one can make this blend and create the mood as you do.
Thank you so much!!!!

Sean Truman (UK)
Hi Mick just wanna say we are still playing your Mixcloud podcasts from 2008 and just like to say you were so ahead of your time playing your selections we play your music all day long and they still sound fresh , not sure what your doing now on the radio but you need to come back , quality music with a capital Q Fantastic.

Mark Swanson (U.S.A.)
Welcome back Mick, I missed your show and musical taste. I share the passion you have for quality soul music and am glad your back. I really enjoy your show and how you give quality soul music and soul artists the exposure they do not get elsewhere.

Ray Brown (UK)
I kept looking for you Mick after you left solar radio and at last I have found you sunshine in the gloom of the virus.
As wonderful as ever
I still listen to all your fantastic shows Mick. I don’t listen live, but I am there in spirit with you. Everything resonates perfectly and I thank you, as always, for that.

Paul Mullen (UK)
I’ve caught a few of Soul Discovery podcast shows in the last few months and I’ve been excited to finally hear someone playing great new material (what would have been described as ‘indie soul’ back in the day) as well as vintage soul so I’m really pleased to see that you’ve got this website up & running.
It looks really promising and it’s definitely what’s needed for us lovers of real soul music – a chance to hear new material through your show and read the background to it on the site.

I’m excited to see the names of the contributors listed – great to read, amongst others, Rod Dearlove’s missive up there today (Voices the mag is still sorely missed by me and I guess many others).
Anyway, I hope that this is the start of something vital for soul music and those of us who obsess about it!

Michael Edwards (UK)
Soul Discovery show was like eating cooked food….not a scrap left on the plate! And I went back for seconds and thirds!! Lily Fields, Rusty Jackson, Ty Causey… Nuff said…My belly is full.

Ian & Julie Price (UK)
Came to you by chance one Sunday night and you blew me away with your choice of tracks.
Web site is great and such an interesting read, nice to finally catch up with you and your choices of which are very much exactly where I’m at.

Lee Beresford (UK)
Keep the good work up really enjoy your Soul Discovery show it’s what soul is all about.
Absolute heaven, pure bliss.

Michael Darlo (UK)
I just want to say what an inspiration you are. I’ve been listening to your show from when you first broadcasted and have discovered a load of new artist but I Like to thank you for introducing me to Pharoah Sanders etc…

David Washington (U.S.A.)
Hey Mick, I heard ready for your love on your Soul Discovery show and I want to thank you for playing it. I am looking forward to working with you and I hope to meet you sometime in the near future.

I love your show and will continue listening to it as it is the very best show on the air.

Don Brown (U.S.A.)
I want to personally thank Mick O’Donnell for the opportunity of allowing me to contribute articles to Soul Discovery. In my opinion this is an excellent vehicle for all of us who are “die-hard” lovers of “real” music.  In particular the musical foundation of R&B and Soul.

It is also a way for us to not only make others aware of the efforts of Mick via Soul Discovery, but to educate the young and the old about the true history of a universal art form. Some of the truths and facts are not pretty however, what brings out the ‘beauty’ are the memories (good or bad), the emotions the music recalls, and the fact that this music still lives on.