Thanks for listening to NSR this term. We’re taking a break over the holiday period and will return on January 10th. Don’t worry, we’re spending the time wisely by planning new shows, segments and DJs to keep you entertained right up till the summer.
Don’t be a stranger, see you in January!
This is a short article from a Northbrook Student encouraging you to support a handful of charities through purchasing John Cage’s 4’33″ this week. The album, which includes seven remixes by the likes of Mr. Scruff and Aeroplane, is only £2.50 on iTunes (or 99p for a single) and the money raised will support highly worthwhile music & youth charities such as:
C.A.L.M (Campaign Against Living Miserably)
Nordoff-Robbins (Music Therapy)
If you, like me, feel that you don’t give enough to charity over the holiday period, this is a great way to donate a small amount to charities which are certainly relevant to your lifestyle and passion, as a music radio listener. You may also want to see it as a silent protest against the corporate machine selling manufactured pop music and giving nothing back at Christmas time. You might enjoy the pun “Cage against the Machine”, or the discussion of John Cage’s original score as a cornerstone of conceptual art. I have bought this album for all of these reasons, and encourage you to do the same, through clicking this link or visiting www.catm.co.uk
Today is the 13th December and for many, the Christmas holidays have already commenced! But with every holiday comes boredom. If you know someone suffering from boredom between the hours of 18:00-21:00 this evening, give them the gift of Northbrook Student Radio’s Christmas Uber-Show, where there will be a quiz, live music and facts and jokes in abundance.
Tune in tonight (Monday) from 18.00 and join in our massive big phat Xmas party!
Our friend The Sun has cleared the snow from our studios, so we’re back on air! Also we’re excited to have our old friend Steve T back with us this Tuesday at 8, so be sure not to miss another week of great music from the South Coast.
Hi everyone,
Sorry to say tonight’s broadcast is postponed due to snow falling around Tblock making it look all white and pretty. I think the snowfall may just be localised to the campus but I’m not sure.
See you next week!
You can now submit your music to our DJs through the brand new Dropbox at Soundcloud
Make sure you tag your tracks with the appropriate genre information and include a message if your music is meant for a particular DJ.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
“The Power Show is on Mondays from 6-7pm playing Chart, Indie and Singer-Songwriter music as well as great banter. Hosts Dan Hermitage & Adam Smith are usually joined for their fun and frolics by Kit Bradshaw from the Kit Bradshaw show and occasional guests enter the studio for interviews. The Power Show kicks off NSR’s week with a bang!”
So how many of us in our lifetime have taken a holiday down to Camber Sands? You know the place, about an hour or so up the coast where they somehow have sand in place of the pebbles we seem to have? Well now could be an excellent time for a revisit to the golden sands as the NME Weekender comes to Potins this November! Oh and if you have no idea where Camber Sands is… this is an ideal reason for you to visit it too!
Captain Croc has packed his bags and the park will be taken over by NME for the weekend of Friday 5th November for 3 days of music, madness and a lot more! Headliners to this event are Babyshambles, British Sea Power, The Whip and The Eighties Match Box B-Line Disaster. There are plenty more acts as well and many more to be announced from all over the world, hand picked by NME.
But when you’re not enjoying the music, there is also the Underground Rebel Bingo to take part in. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, all I can say is be prepared for one very unusual evening involving body parts and marker pens….
There will also be quizzes, comedy and screenings throughout the weekend – all in the park!
So if you think that by November you may have earned yourself a sneaky weekend away from your studies, then this is definitely the place for you to be.
For your chance to win tickets to the event, check out my blog!
http://timfusciardi.wordpress.com
For more details, go to www.nme.com/weekender
6pm til 7pm- The Power Out Show. A broad range of tunes from house to singer songwriter.
7pm til 8pm – Frenchie & The Princess present an eclectic and energetic bricolage of everything from pop to rock, whilst keeping you up to date with unsigned talent and news on the latest local gigs.
8pm til 9pm – Kit Bradshaw hosts chit chat, guests and some bangin’ tunes to get mad hyped on, from Folk to Metal to Psychobilly. Presented to you by up and coming producer extraordinaire.
6pm til 7pm – Rob’s Hit Hour – a full hour of the finest pop, chart and rock, old and new.
7pm til 8pm – The Rock Show. A full hour of classic rock anthems.
8pm til 9pm- Steve T brings us a hugely diverse mix of everything from world to jazz to indie to electronica, including rare and unsigned treasures.
6pm til 7pm - Stay Curious (Poundance Warm-up) presents an intense and eclectic range of electro, dubstep and dance classics to get your Wednesday off to a head start…
7pm til 8pm – Best Believe The Hype brings you the very best in underground dubstep, 2step and glitch-hop. From ethereal beats to the downright nasty, this is not to be missed…
8pm til 9pm – favorites on the Brighton breakbeat and 2step scene, Shoe Shufflers (aka Temple) are guaranteed to please with a full hour of pounding breaks and bass lines…
I meet up with the band just before their show at the Basement Venue at the Great Escape Festival in Brighton. I interview the group as lead singer Adam, who the other members of the group describe as the male version of Lady Gaga (he doesn’t argue), applies his make up.
They have had quite a long journey get to where they are now over the past three years. Their advice to those trying to start out in the industry; do not rely on promises from ‘industry types’. I get the impression from talking to the band that there have been many false dawns. Promises of record contracts from people which have never really turned into a reality, forcing the band to do a lot of the work themselves. ‘Focus on online buzz, get your music out there, do it yourself’ says lead singer Adam. Kyle, the band’s electronics guy insists you must know your target audience. All very intelligent people, they begin discussing the market, describing how saturated it is with certain genres and hypothesising over potential gaps in the market.
They also recommend you do as much extra work in the business as you can. Getting contacts is key to starting out. They describe getting to where they are, on the brink of releasing their second single and doing some large sell out shows as a very slow process; “expect a lot of waiting around” Adam says, make up nearly done. But its all worth it. They list their favourite parts of being in the band as being the positive feedback the get from their hard work and playing live. You can tell they enjoy themselves when they are out entertaining the crowds.
As I wait for their live set to start, the venue is packed. The stage is set up with a projector beaming on to the back wall and a pair of mannequin legs up side down as a microphone stand… you do expect Lady Gaga to jump out at any moment. Close, but not quite…
Their electro tech-pop sound, lead vocals with a hint of auto-tune, bright lights, over the top dancing and key lyrics beaming out of a projector, kicks the show off in a big way. Included in their set is the soon to be released, Scissor Sister-esque single White Room as well as a cover version of the Florence and the Machine hit Rabbit Heart, which is well received by the audience, who sing and dance along as Adam rushes into the masses to join in.
This show is certainly the start of something big for the band, finding a gap in the market is exactly what they have done and I’m left feeling that their performance is just crying out for a larger scale venue. So whats next for the group? The finishing the touches to their second single before release and a headline spot on the newcomers stage at the Beach Break Live student festival in Wales.
Check them out at:
http://www.myspace.com/thedirtydiscomusic
Article by Tim Fusciardi (Friday 14th May)
