Peter Van de Veire's presents today exactly 20 years on the radio: It felt like to be born

Showbiz Twenty years ago radio icon Peter Van de Veire (47) his first ever show on Studio Brussels. Today he celebrates his anniversary by a twenty-hour long programmes on his current radio station MNM. The ideal time to look back at the five most memorable moments from his long and rich career. The very first broadcast ever

“On 4 april 1999, I presented my first broadcast ever: ‘De Afrekening’ on Studio Brussels. I was really terribly nervous. Weeks in advance I had every Saturday night is a nightmare: my feet would melt away on the way to the studio, microphones disappeared when I wanted to say, or there was just no microphone ... Really terrible. But on 4 april it became clear that I during the broadcast of the chart music too little. A hole! I dashed off to producer Mark Coenen, who said: ‘Oh, no problem, we'll turn just the number 1 of last year.’ Problem solved. I also know that I have that day a competition was in which people had to guess how warm it was in my shoe. I had a thermometer included to put in my shoe to poke. So I know yet exactly which pair I was wearing. That day is really ridiculously hard to remember.”

The first time The Glass House

“The first year we with Studio Brussel, the Glass House, organized by the (in 2006, Peter crawled then together with Tomas De Soete and Christophe Lambrecht in the house, red.) , is also etched into my memory. When we came out, we noticed only that we had something dropped on it that people had brought. We had a radio in its purest form: the music had the people united. That is what the Warmest Week now still does, by the way. It also remains a little bit of the red thread with me: with music and some chatter of people together and come into contact with them. If you then still have a good purpose can be assigned, then it is quite a feast, of course.”

The first day at MNM