Hello everyone
THERE IS GOOD NEWS – XPRESS RADIO IS NOW LIVE ONLINE! So if you wanna have a listen, click on the listen live button to your left (not the weird blank disc thing).
And now for a VERY long post….
Xpress Radio is finally live, after a battle against technology that some have described as ‘Matrix-esque’ and ‘if Star Wars was in the present day and in a radio station’. Thanks for everyone that stuck with us through that, and had a listen to the shows broadcast from my bedroom! To make up for that we have a load of incredible things coming your way:
Firstly,┬áS┼Án Festival:
S┼Án (pronounced ‘soon’ and Welsh for ‘sound’) Festival was a 4 day festival that took place last week, across a load of venues, with over a hundred bands roaming through the streets and on the stages. If you’ve kept an eye on the Xpress page, you’ll have probably listened to veteran specialist music presenter Jo Southerd doing her ‘Sound of Swn’ build-up shows – if you havent they are under our ‘podcast’ section at the top – so go check them out! Xpress Radio had a venue in town – the great ‘Promised Land’ Pub and got a load of bands to come up and do live sessions and interviews, such as Clock Opera, Al Lewis, Fossil Collective and many more.
Fossil Collective playing in the Promised Land
The sessions and interviews will be playing out in the coming week, and we’ll post here and on the facebook times and shows which they are on. The sessions will be on the playlist as well, so chances are if you are listening to Xpress you’ll catch one! There are more photos on our facebook, and all of the sessions and interviews were filmed by our good friend CUTV, which can be viewed here http://www.cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk/cutv/
Secondly, a new schedule:
We have over 55 brand new shows to watch out for, as well as a load of veteran shows that many of you will recognize from last year. We’re broacasting from 9am/10am every day, and finishing at Midnight, although you can listen to music and prerecords into the night as well! The schedule will be up very soon, so you can work out when to tune in!
Halloween:
Halloween is only 3 days away! With this in mind, the Radio Drama team have been tirelessly working away on some AMAZING radio dramas that will be coming your way from tomorrow. First, we have Tom Durbin’s mysterious drama, known simply as ‘Ouroboros’, playing out at 5.45pm Monday, Tusday and Wednesday next week:
‘The Truth Will Be Unearthed….’
The second one will be following Ouroboros on Halloween night, directed by radio play veteran Sara Caputo, it is a adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, guaranteed to spook! It airs from 6.00pm, so make sure you are listening:
The Masque of the Red Death…
Right I’ll stop rambling now. After these we have some other VERY exciting things coming up, but I’ll hold onto those surprises for a bit….
Ed