The awards last night took place at the Paradise Bar in Kensall Green which was a rather smaller venue compared to last year but it felt a bit more relaxed and less formal.
The majority of station members for this year had turned up as well as a few old faces such as Dan P, Mark Jackson, Sam Gregory and later on, the one and only Joe Haddow.
Despite feeling unsure about it, it turned out that we had a set menu which surprisingly I managed to go through every course on there, beginning with asparagus in melted butter as the starter, a really delicious steak with potatoes as the main course and a sticky toffee pudding as the dessert.
The music playing was pretty good as well mainly consisting of big band and latin tunes from the likes of Cab Calloway, Glen Miller, and Louis Armstrong, which I thought was a lot better than having to suffer the likes of James Blunt and Jack Johnson that got forced upon us at last years event.
The awards themselves were presented with Steven McIntosh as the main compere and various members of the station presenting an award and we even got to hear a bit of audio from those winning the prizes. The prize for best male went to Dan Roberts, with Lottie recieving best female and the best newcomer went to the ever enthusiastic Oli P. Also getting prizes from memory were Smith and Bracey for Best Feature which was "Arctic Munchies" which I ended up playing on their show yesterday when they freeze food and blindfold people who have to try it and guess what they are eating.
The highlight of the "serious" awards was the one for Outstanding Contribution which went to none other than Edward "Tudor" Burke and was very much deserved. It got a bit crazy when he went up to collect the award as he was trying to persuade a very shy and retiring Alex Hill to come up as he had helped him with the video podcasts.
However the reason Alex didn't want to come up was probably revealed as we went on to the "silly awards" where Alex won the prize of "Most Expensive Mistake".
Basically this was towards the end of Freshers Week when Alex accidentally left one of the University's video cameras in Kebab Land in Harrow and ended up having to pay £1,500 for a replacement or otherwise he would fail his degree.
I also managed to win a prize for "Best Quote" which came from my rather messy show on our 24 hour broadcast which apparently was me shouting "That's Enough!" when people were messing about with silly string. Other novelty categories included
"Best On Air Blunder" which went to the Bamboozle boys for the controversial show which also took place in the 24 hour broadcast where there was about 15 people in the studio, and they felt the need to say rather derogatory comments about the SU. We didn't get to hear the audio of that incident but I've uploaded it here just to give a bit of illustration and hopefully some amusement.
Other highlights included Stoobie getting booed by Chris Chilvers when going up to present the award for Best Podcast, Dave Sharp coming on stage to several people shouting "Fix Up Dave Sharp!" and cries of "Who Are They?!" when the boys from "You Heard It Here First" won an award despite not being present to pick it up.
At the end of the awards the comittee for next year was revealed and it's an interesting line up. Once again there will be two heads of programming with Lottie Pettinger looking after daytime shows and Alice Robertson taking care of specialist shows.
The head of music went to Sophie Clipsham and the very talented Dan Roberts will be looking after station branding.
The role for head of news and web have been merged into one role again which will be taken care of by Amy Fitzgibbon and looking after events will be Danny Kelleher who many people thought should have got best haircut which ended up being won by Oli P.
As well as my award I also got a really nice birthday card signed by all the people who turned up to the awards and got given it by Phil Landers who said some very kind words to me about my contribution to the station throughout the year.
I was also sung "Happy Birthday" twice throughout the night first of all at the beginning of the awards when both myself and Adam from Shuffle were told to come up as he shares the same birthday with me. The second time was when after I had recieved my prize for Best Quote by which time I reckon everyone was blind drunk.
The after party got going around this time with sets from Tudor, Steven spinning some top uptempo R&B tunes and the highlight of the night being Goodlass and Marshall making their final appearance on the DJ decks with rather chaotic results. Basically they were mucking about with the pitch control and the turntables and yelling out things on the microphone giving namechecks to Sam Gregory, Joey, Mark Jackson and Jim Chapman from the bar who had also turned up. Even Dave Sharp was showing his moves which was good to see.
By the end of the night everyone was trying to sort out a taxi to get back home and I ended up getting inside one with Denis, Eric and a very drunk Stewart Paske. He was in an absolutley dreadful state and Eric was rather irritated that his housemates didn't let him go back with them but we got him back safely and I'm hoping he'll be alright later today when he helps produce the outside brodacast from the bar where Dan and the Preloaded team will be presenting.
It's also Goodlass and Marshall's final show and following on from them with my show is going to be quite a task but it will be good fun overall.
I'm definitely looking forward to the end of what has been a very succesfull week and I'm certain it will get pretty emotional too.
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