Well I've managed to sort out all my bugbears by signing up for my chosen modules, reserving a place in the halls and recieving my birthday presents! Well it's only really money but I used it to buy a digital camera from Woollies at £50. The only problem is that I forgot to by an SD card! And it would have been nice to illustrate the events of tonight with a few photos.
On a more lighter note, in the last week certain members of the radio team have brought my attention to Youtube.com a site where various people have been uploading videos of all kinds. Some of the funniest include Boris Johnson playing for Liverpool, and a Myspace send up. There's also a moment from the X-Factor involving a wannabe Eminem from Yorkshire in the appropriatley titled 'The Most Deluded Prick In The World'.
But there's also a fair share of music videos and most interesting for me was the video for Incognito's 'Nights Over Egypt'. I'm sure one of the guys appearing in the video is actor Max Beesley which wouldn't be surprising considering he played percussion for the band in the mid 90s. This was after his disastrous TV review series 'Surf Potatoes' with Dani Behr from the people behind 'The Word'. Aside from that, It will certainly be difficult to get off that web site.
Although broadcasting finished on Friday, key team members of the radio staff are far from finishing business with the station. Head of Marketing Ross Goodlass has been talking to Rayhan about the possiblility of sets at Area 51 and throughout Fresher's Week in September. There's also a good chance we'll get Danny Wallace to make a personal appearance now he's a patron of Smoke Radio! As for me I've started to catalogue material recorded from last week and am currently in Studio 5 dubbing stuff as I type, musing from a discussion with the senior radio lecturer this morning on what to do my 7-10 minute feature on in the Autumn even though it's months away. Listening to all these pre-recs of the specialist output from last week, I don't think I've come across one that hasn't included 'Teardrop' by Massive Attack. A very popular track used by students for video pieces on the BTEC Media course whilst I was at Canterbury College. A stunning track though.
It's weird though that we've got another whole week of broadcasting in September before lectures even start, but I'm pleased everyone is forward thinking and this sort of commitment would be unheard of on any of the media courses I did in Canterbury. Still at the end of the day we're all helping each other!
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