Sorry to use shock tactics to get your attention! It’s not a lie – but it does require a long winded story [disguised as a review!] Last night I popped over to Digbeth’s Rainbow for a night of sober fundraising recklessness. The University of Birmingham’s Oxfam Outreach society were holding their annual Rainbox charity event [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘burnfm’
November 9, 2009
My nearly-the-end-of-the-year resolution!
Who says you can’t attempt to make ‘fresh starts’ before January? I’ve become slightly concerned about my little grey bubble that I’ve begun blowing recently! The thing about being president of a society, and a substantially sized one at that is sometimes it’s easy to take it all too seriously! I tend to think of [...]
October 9, 2009
It’s burn a while!
Hello! It has been a while hasn’t it? I’ve graduated from Channel 4, returned to University, proceeded with my court case (still waiting for a date but have received the ‘defence’) and got a radio station back up and running. This Freshers’ Week was the first time Burnfm broadcasted outside into Mermaid Square. We weren’t [...]
June 22, 2009
SR AYYYY
Burnfm best student radio station by GetFrank This is an entry for the Student Radio Awards (Best Student Radio Station.) It took me bloomin’ ages as we didn’t have many recordings…I’ve been rather pedantic and reorganised all the files on the production computer. It would be amazing to get nominated as we’ve worked ‘rather [...]
June 7, 2009
None of us are tw*ts…
Joanna Geary at the Journalism Leaders Forum from Chris Unitt on Vimeo. I had problems with websites run by big news publications after the Daily Mail wrote a factually inaccurate article about the radio station I now manage, Burnfm.com. This was duplicated by other papers’ websites before filtering to blogs. The good thing about [...]
May 23, 2009
Gearing up for Get Frank
The news in briefs (aka bulletpoints) I’ve just finished my last bit of work for uni and now just have a dissertation proposal meeting (weds) and a 9am-5pm audition on tues to go. Am about to launch a podcasting project on Burnfm. Have been offered (and taken) the position of Generation Next Future Media Production [...]
April 29, 2009
Swine Flu – How to strike the balance between fear and ignorance
The current subject of major international focus is the Swine Flu. Of course, you don’t need me to tell you that – it’s probably the most talked about thing on the internet right now, seemingly stealing the focus from the ever depressing recession. Being a student I’ve felt slightly cushioned from the talk of unemployment and [...]
March 26, 2009
Let Battle Commence…
Tonight is the night! Its the very first Burnfm.com Battle of the Bands at the University of Birmingham Guild of Students. Personally I’ve put LOADS of work into this, as have the societies who have been helping us, Vale Festival, Band Soc, Rock Soc and Metal Soc. We’ve got 360 headlining which I’m very excited [...]
March 21, 2009
Burnfm’s Battle of the Bands
botb-poster Finally! We have a Battle of the Bands poster! I don’t think I can get it to display, but the event is at the University of Birmingham Guild of Students at 7.30pm on Thursday 26th March. I’m ruddy excited…We’ve got six university acts lined up to battle for a slot at Vale Fest 2009, [...]
