Category: Audio
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A Tale of Three Concerts
In the last seven days I seem to have seen a lot of music, although I did pay the price just a little. Last Sunday I went to The Junction in Cambridge to watch Bellowhead. Just to be clear, I don’t live in Cambridge, so it was a bit of a trip to see them.…
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When TV (or Radio) Uses Your Workplace
This Wednesday, ITV2 launches that rarest of things, a new sitcom. Actually, that’s a bit unfair, as ITV has been commissioning a reasonable amount of programming for ITV2. It’s just that most of it really doesn’t interest me. But this week there’s something that I am looking forward to – FM. Indeed, if you head…
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Radio 4’s Science Fiction Season
Radio 4 has a new Science Fiction season, and the TV trailer is wonderfully creepy: (Actually, I think it’s already been edited a little since this version was launched. Or maybe they have a pre-watershed version.)
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I Still Hate The Brits
Have I mentioned before that I hate the Brits? Well – yes I have. Having studiously avoided them for several years now (despite working for a music radio station), I decided to watch this year simply because the Pet Shop Boys are getting the award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. But this is dire. I…
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Juvenile Behaviour on the Radio
If you’ve never taken part in a phone-in on the radio, you might be surprised how easy it is to get through if you’ve got something interesting to say. Listen to “Tony” speaking to Five Live’s Victoria Derbyshire on Monday: And on Sunday night, “Pavinder” called Eddie Nestor on BBC London: If you happened to…
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Ben Goldacre and LBC
This is interesting to watch, and perhaps shows how if you’re not careful, things will run away from you. Ben Goldacre, the writer of The Guardian’s Bad Science column and author of the very excellent Bad Science book, wrote about a programme broadcast by LBC presented by Jenni Barnett. I’ll say up front that I…
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Radio On The TV
The new issue of Private Eye’s Ad Nauseum column highlights the recent BBC 6 Music TV ad which you may have seen, featuring Vampire Weekend on the soundtrack. (Also available here) It points out, as the person who uploaded the above version of the ad, that ad agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R were probably, um,…
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Chris Martin
(Needs to be seen large) Lots of live streaming (now over obviously) of Chris Martin from Coldplay at work. Strictly speaking, I shouldn’t have been taking photos, but I was standing behind non-performing band members, and couldn’t really resist. Most of the other photos have him gurning or are otherwise unlikely to be cleared by…
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RAJAR and All Things Digital
Everything happens at once. Yesterday, saw the publication of Q4 2008’s RAJAR results, and the eagerly awaited Digital Britain report. They’re not really related, but I should probably say something about both. From close to home, my employer, Absolute Radio, published its first results, and they clearly don’t make for comfortable reading. The numbers show…
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Copyright Extension
A great film explaining why extending sound copyright is not in performers’ interests but just record companies’. And, of course, our worst interests. More at soundcopyright.eu.
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Visual Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is running a week long trial of a beta visualisation version of the radio player for a couple of programmes this week. I only caught a few minutes of Moyles this morning, but it seemed to work very well, and was a very interesting experiment in what can and can’t be done.…
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Celebrities Inappropriate Advertising
Last Friday was the last in Clive James’ current run of A Point of View (Harold Evans takes over this Friday). You have about 24 hours to download the podcast, otherwise you’ll just have to read his words. James got on to the habit of Hollywood actors promoting products that once they’d never have been…
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Crash
It’s always wise to pull over before you use the phone – especially when you call a radio station. Unhappily for her, Fiona didn’t half an hour ago when calling the Geoff Hometime Show…