Hello one and all! It’s nearly that time of the year again where we welcome the new Freshers to Cardiff and party on down in style. We will be broadcasting every single day of Fresher’s Week, from early afternoon to late at night, bringing you all sorts of programming to get the party started and to get you guys involved in Cardiff University student life. … Continue reading Freshers’ Week 2015
Hey everyone, Jess, our Head of Music, has put together our Top Tracks of 2014 playlist ready for your Christmas and New Year parties! Give it a listen here Anyway, Merry Christmas from everyone here at Xpress Radio. Roll on 2015! Continue reading Top Tracks ’14
The motions for this year’s AGM are as follows. Greater Representation for LGBT+ Women in our Students’ Union. Proposed by Sam Cook, LGBT+ Officer. Seconded by LGBT+ Women’s Caucus Meeting. Motion will be discussed by the Senate. Becoming a Pro-Choice Union. Proposed by Rachel Melhuish. Seconded by Laura Carter. Motion failed. Palestine University Twinning Motion. Proposed by Maryam Bham. Seconded by Omar Kamal, Saleh Fahd,, … Continue reading Cardiff Student’s Union AGM 2014
Everything is kicking off here at Xpress Radio. We start broadcasting on Monday 27th of October! Don’t forget to tune and get involved with the competitions we’re running on Twitter and Facebook. The show schedule is getting updated THIS WEEKEND so make a note of your favorite shows and get listening. Lots of love, Xpress Radio Continue reading Start of Broadcast
Come along on Thursday the 23rd of October to the Xpress Radio DJ┬áworkshop! Tom will be teaching you how to use ‘Serato DJ Intro’ connected to a controller at basic level. This will include loading tracks, making transitions between songs and general mixing. It┬áwill be a very generalised session and more specifics will be taught at the DJ lessons on Saturday and Wednesday mornings, which … Continue reading DJ Workshop
We have a few workshop sessions coming up next week, we’d love to see you all there! Mon 13 October: 18:00 ÔÇô 20.00 – How to be a Presenter Location: CF10 Wed 15 October: 17:00 – 19:00 – How to be a Producer Location: CF10 Thu 16 October: 18:00 – 20:00 – News / sport workshop Location: CF10 Mon 20 October: 17:00 – 19:00 – … Continue reading Get involved 2014-15
Last night members of Xpress went over to the Brass Pig pub in Bristol to hear whether we’d been nominated for any of the Student Radio Association Awards that we’d entered back in July. Guess what?! WE HAD! Xpress’ Owen Richards has been nominated for the category ‘Best Male Presenter’ and we received a station nomination for the ‘Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast’ category … Continue reading Xpress nominated for SRA awards
If you’ve been out during Fresher’s Week you will have spotted our friend, XRex, the purple dinosaur. He’s been in and around the union and Talybont so far this week, and he’s been taking lots of selfies. If you find XRex around in the next week, you could be in with the opportunity to win lots of free stuff! All you have to do is … Continue reading Meet the X-Rex
First thing thatÔÇÖs important to know about this festival, which also makes it very appealing for amateur festival goers, is its size. With two main stages, a couple of camping fields and a variety of food vendors, it is a small and manageable small festival. However, in these few fields the organisers of this event manage to fit in an awesomely diverse offering of entertainment. … Continue reading Strawberry Fields
On the weekend of the 23-24th of August Kieran Lewis and I headed to Portsmouth for the magical Victorious Festival! From the Nevada Acoustic Stage to the Seaside Stage we not only saw loads of great performances, but we caught up with a plethora of acts throughout the weekend; including Kelvin Jones, Imperial Mammoth and Lewis Watson. Being from Portsmouth myself, I was surprised … Continue reading Victorious Festival 2014
