The Albion Roar, Adrian Packham and Alan Wares, have been entertaining Seagulls fans as a duo since 2008. As well as their weekly show on Radio Reverb they are fans of doing the odd live Q and A session. Jamie Walker spoke with Adrian about their newest one.

For anyone who isn’t familiar, give us a quick insight into what the Albion Roar is?

The Albion Roar is a weekly Radio show and podcast on Brighton community radio station Radio Reverb.

Between us we have produced more than 500 shows featuring such guests as Peter Ward, Mark Lawrenson , Gary Stevens, Gordon Smith, Inigo Calderon, Gary Hart, Tony Bloom, Dick Knight as well of course as the Argus’s own Andy Naylor and Brian Owen.

We provide an hour long ad free platform for fans and Albion heroes past and present to tell their stories.

You’ve got an evening with Andy Rollings and Chris Cattlin coming up, how much are you looking forward to it?

Very much so. We have had both Rollo & Catt in the studio previously and they are natural born raconteurs.

They have the shared experience of the 78/79 promotion campaign and then there is Cattlin’s spell in the dugout.

The previous events that we have put on have been great and we have been looking at doing another one for a while and actually, this was due to be the first one we were meant to be doing a couple of years ago so its nice to finally be able to put it on.

What are you most excited to talk to the pair about?

Tea shops and rock shops.

They have so many stories from a time when we were not bombarded with them 24/7. We will of course be talking about their careers but also getting their opinion on today’s stars.

Cattlin signed some phenomenal players like Steve Penney, Frank Worthington and Hans Kraay. He put up Justin Fashanu for four days to see if they would get on before signing him. And then there were the ones that got away like Ian Wright.

And we will find out how Rollo got signed by Brian Clough.

Both played for the club at a time when The Seagulls were on the rise. Is it nice to reminisce with players from bygone eras?

Yes its lovely. These players plied their trade in the days when every game wasn’t on telly, when the internet wasn’t covering every inch of their lives. We only got to see them on the pitch on a Saturday so, for us its great to delve beneath the surface and get the stories of what went on behind the scenes, what the managers like, who were the problem players etc. We all love a good story.

What do you enjoy about doing these Q and A evenings?

Well, clearly we have faces for radio but it’s nice to get out of the studio. We like to think that our shows are enjoyable but you don’t get to see people’s reaction so for us it’s fun.

Plus for our guests it’s a chance to tell stories that may not have been heard and we give our fellow fans a chance to meet their heroes

What can fans who haven’t been to one before expect from this?

A really good night. They will get to hear stories of yesteryear told by two of its protagonists. They will get to hear what it was like to work with the likes of Frank Worthington and Joe Corrigan. They will hear what two stars of the late 70s think of modern football.

What do you make of the Rialto as a venue?

Rialto is a lovely space, with a great bar. We did our first show with the UK’s top sportswriters Paul Hayward and Nick Szczepanik there which sold out. We are hoping this will do the same.

So why should people come down?

If you’re a Brighton fan young or old, it will be a night of hearing from two of Albion’s greatest characters regaling you with tales of a simpler time.

If the past shows are anything to go by this should top the lot.