I admit that I feel like a bit of a thief, what with stealing the following from the Amazing Radio blog! But it’s pretty cool news, and hopefully will get more people listening to DAB digital radio. All digital radios come with FM recievers (some AM too if you’re that way inclined) and there are some [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘miscellaneous’
May 20, 2010
You need this unsigned music in your life…
As all of the acts featured on this post are unsigned, their recordings vary in quality. Therefore get ye to one of their gigs before you make a decision on whether you’d buy a properly produced LP. I’ve always felt very passionately about giving acts a chance in a live environment, as it tends to [...]
March 11, 2010
Another thing about Skins.
A year or so ago I wrote a blog post questioning the content of the trail for the ‘next generation’ of Skins, aka series three. It wasn’t particularly approving, perhaps because I was a tad sensitive about a fireworks-in-a-night-club disaster and the fireworks-in-a-pub-lark of the ad (that debuted a few days later) felt a tad [...]
January 9, 2010
My amazing radio debut and other news…
Today at 1pm my first Amazing Acoustic show will be played on Amazing Radio. I’m a bit worried about hearing my voice – it’s annoying at the best of times. I’ve kept links short and arranged back to back songs to avoid upsetting Amazing Radio listeners who are used to hearing only music (presenters have [...]
December 31, 2009
Kate Hindley artwork
My friend, filmmaker Alex Buckmaster was kind enough to commission me some artwork as a birthday present. Kate Hindley is a Worcester based artist who has illustrated for Okido magazine and Girls Who Draw (a more extensive list can be found here.) I’m rather excited as apparently more stuff is coming soon! (Check out them [...]
August 18, 2009
More advice please?
Hello! I haven’t updated this for ages because most of the time I’ve been working and also because I’m avoiding blogging about insider stuff at Channel 4 because I don’t want to get into trouble! Instead of blogging work stuff here I’ve been doing some writing for 4Talent’s blog and you can read my thoughts [...]
July 19, 2009
My new obsession
I always knew that my dad had an accordion and had seen it a couple of times (always coated in a grey layer of cobwebs,) and on visiting his house this weekend I saw that it had been placed in my room….!!! A few of the keys look rather funny and wonky and definitely need [...]
July 16, 2009
Deposit Dilemma – Please Help!
I received a letter from my previous landlords/agency (they own all of the properties that they let out) and was shocked (and quite distressed.) My deposit was £400. I left my room in the condition I found it (except maybe a little cleaner!) and cannot believe what I am being charged for. We received a [...]
July 8, 2009
We are coming…
On the brilliant blog of James Moran (chief writer of Torchwood: Children of Earth‘s third episode) a post on tuesday 7th July foretold; ’I predict the internet will *explode* when you see a certain something through a security camera feed.’ I bet Moran himself was thrilled to find out that John Barrowman had agreed to [...]
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 [...]
