A little update for everyone…

While the daily shows on Xpress are winding down at the moment, we still have a few awesome things going on in studio before we close up shop for the summer.

Shows are carrying on until the end of next week, follow the Xpress twitter, @xpressradio, for updates on when they are. We’ll also have podcasts set up as soon as possible so you can listen to shows from throughout the year.

Tonight, Friday 14th June, we have a 24-hour comedy creation/brainstorm/event from the Xpress Drama team, who are staying up all night to create some sketches, songs and drama’s for you. You can watch their progress at┬áhttp://justin.tv/xpressdrama┬áand we’ll have the finished versions up for you the moment they are available.

We’re also working on sessions all of tonight from live bands we’ve had in recently, as well as updating the soundcloud page to make sure we have everything up from the whole year, you can access it at┬áhttps://soundcloud.com/xpress_radio

Although we’ve been kicked out the union tonight because of the Dusk Till Dawn Ball, so have set up a temporary ‘mixing suite’ in my kitchen…

Ed

Kitchen mixing

Xpress Radio’s The Sunday Evening Cabinet Detective is up for ‘Best Comedy’ at the New York Festivals Radio Awards! The awards honours the best radio programmes from around the world, in all lengths and formats. Nominees include networks and independent producers from the world. Xpress Radio is one of two student radio stations to be featured in the awards. Cam FM (Cambridge University Radio) are also nominated for Best Documentary.

Thomas Hercouet’s expertly produced show is an hour long detective cabinet that unravels great mysteries of the universe with comedic effect, covering topics such as death, dinosaurs, noodles and Justin Bieber.

Sadly, The Detective’s last show will air this Sunday at 5pm, so make sure you are tuned in!

Don’t worry if you’ve missed any programmes this year, you can catch up on all you need to know over at www.thexpressdetective.com

Stuck inside revising next Wednesday during the Varsity matches? Have lectures to go to so will miss games? Don’t know how to get up to the minute news, scores and commentary? Well, LOOK NO FURTHER!

On Varsity, Wednesday 24th April, Xpress Radio will be covering every single event at Varsity, live from 9am until 10pm all day. We’ll be commentating and covering all the matches with our dedicated team of Roving Reporters, as well as providing live score updates, and any other news from the day. We’ll also be chatting to you guys, finding out what you think of the day, how we are doing, and most importantly who you think will win overall at Varsity 2013!

Make sure you also follow us on Twitter, @xpressradio, which we will be updating constantly with news!

We’ll be broadcasting live from the entrance of the Welsh Institute of Sport for most of the day, so if you are going down to see a sport, come and say hello.

And in the evening we’ll be covering the Men’s Rugby live from Millennium Stadium! Coverage for this starts at 6.30pm, so if you haven’t got tickets this is the place to be!

To whet your appetite, here’s a photo of the pitch being prepared!

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

The wonderful Rachel Sermanni popped into the studio today for an interview and a live session. The songs will be played out at 7pm tonight, prior to her gig in 10 feet tall later! If you like what you hear then come on down, you can also like her facebook page here:

https://www.facebook.com/RachelSermanni

The listen live link is:

http://213.105.26.124:8000/listen.m3u

Ed

This is the listen live link at the moment:

http://213.105.26.124:8000/listen.m3u (just copy and paste it into your browser)

Hey everyone,

While we work on getting everything fixed, we’re trying to bring you as many shows as possible to whet your Xpress appetites. Tonight’s menu brings you a little bit of everything….

Firstly, if you havent heard Jo Southerd and Matt Jones’ brilliant ‘Sound of Swn 2012’ yet, its a fantastic show, with episode 2 coming this thursday! This is your chance to catch-up before then, as from 7-8pm we’ll be repeating last week’s show! There are loads of details of this show in the post below, so have a read then have a listen!

Then from 8pm-10pm we have the fantastic Ed Jenkins, who brings us an awesome mix of tunes perfect for getting you ready for a night out, so if you are in the mood for some wicked drum’n’bass and dance tunes from the freshers ball night that happened recently, get listening to that!

We’ll have a load of shows coming up this week in the evenings, as well as (hopefully) another secret outside broadcast, so watch this space!