AAAAAGH I need something to

AAAAAGH I need something to do tonight.

I have a free ticket to the Syndicate but none of my friends (afaik) can afford to go....

This leaves me a bit buggered, and with only 2 mates still in Blackpool i dunno whats going on especiaally when they aren't texting back!

Help!

Well after a fantastic zero

Well after a fantastic zero response on my digital camera woes, I've discovered the gorgeous one a cousin has.

Have a look at it here and please leave an opinion! :D

More blogs to add to

More blogs to add to the list:

Orbyn - How pretty is that!!

Dave - Oops I forgot to include one of my best mate's blogs - Ladies and Gentlemen may I present the Student Radio Award Winning Best Producer - Mr David Shipp :-)

I've also just added my wishlist to the page. For those people who might actually have reason to use it because I'm a notoriously hard person to buy for. I've just bought myself lots of stuff with Xmas money so its got a bit short.

Love … actually was amazing.

Love ... actually was amazing.

I finally went to see it, and just confirmed my belief that I will one day marry Hugh Grant.

All I want for

All I want for Xmas.......


.... is a nice, pretty, lovely, shiny blog....
Cha Cha Cha and A Teenager Blogs (award winning dontcha know) is another example.

If anyone would like to help me acheive prettiness then please let me know!

Thanks xx

Oh and for Xmas I

Oh and for Xmas I now have the money to buy myself a nice digital camera!

So recommendations for something good please would be much appreciated!

Many thanks!

The show was fantastic and

The show was fantastic and went down really well with everyone who has heard it and hopefully with Radio 1! :D

I'll blog in depth about it when I can manage to :-) but at the moment I'm listening obsessively to Radio 1. Wes was really good doing Christmas Lunch earlier. I think it was his first non chart main show (exc. early breakfast) and he was actually much cooler and wittier than I imagined him to be...Potentially Coxy's pregnancy leave replacement, or is that certain to be Scott Mills?

And then it was Moyles Christmas Show which was pretty much a bog standard fab Moyles show. I really don't relish the thought of having to wake up for 7am to listen to my fav dj from January though...


Blah blah blah i'll try and write something sensible later.

Hope you've had a Proper Chrimbo... Selecta

Radio 1 : 97

Radio 1 : 97 -99 FM: RaW : That Xmas Morning Thing : Midnight - 4 AM Tonight!!

The final playlist as decided

The final playlist as decided by RaW

Beastie Boys - Intergalatic
Billy Talent - Try honesty
Biffy Clyro - Questions and answers
Busta rhymes and Mariah Carey - Baby if you give it to me
Black Marias - Water

Coral . Dreaming of you
The Caesars - Cracking up

DK & Epsilon feat Mc Stamina . Barcelona
Death Cab for Cutie . The New Year

Dido - Here with me
DMX - X gonna give it to ya

Elliot Smith - Division Day

Fallacy & Fusion - Groundbreaker
Feeder . Just a day

Fountains of Wayne - I Want an Alien For Christmas

Gomez - Shot Shot

Kosheen - Hungry

Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
Jay-z and pharell williams . frontin
Jet . Rollover DJ

Linkin Park . In the End
Levellers . What a beautiful day

Madonna . Love Profusion
Mark B & Blade - You don't see the signs
Me first & the gimme gimmes - I believe i can fly
MOP - Cold as ice

N.E.R.D . Lapdance
No Doubt . Its my life

Oasis . She.s Electric
Ok Go - Get over it
Outkast - Hey ya
Rachel Stevens - LA Ex
Razorlight . Rip it up

Soul Coughing - Rollin
Strokes - 1251
Sugababes . Hole in the head
System of a down . Chop Suey

Vines - Get Free

Warren G - Regulate
Wu Tang Clan - Gravel Pit

RaW Top Ten countdown

Well hello to Carly and

Well hello to Carly and Mikey on the blog linky list on the left - friends of mine at Warwick. And goodbye to Chig who I think has stopped blogging? No update for ages??

So yes after the epic

So yes after the epic post yesterday I don't really have the time to write a big radio 1 thing mainly because I have work due in tomorrow.

So to tie you over, and yes you're that desparate for my babblings I'm sure, here is some of our suggested playlist (in no particular order for the radio 1 show...

My picks

I monster - Daydream in Blue
Limp Bizket - In the end
DK & Epsilon - Barcelona
Counting Crows - Colourblind
Kosheen - Hungry
Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard

Chris' picks

Billy Talent - Try honesty
Fountains of Wayne - I want an alien for Xmas
Razorlight - Rip it up
Biffy Clyro - Questions and answers
The Caesars - Cracking up
Me first & the gimme gimmes - I believe i can fly
Elliot Smith - Division Day
Soul Coughing - Rollin

Dom's picks

Darkness . Christmas Time (don.t let the bells end)
Jay-z and pharell williams - frontin
N.E.R.D - lapdance
Busta rhymes and Mariah Carey - baby if you give it to me
Warren G - Regulate
Oasis


Our general picks incorporating our big RaW tunes over the last 4 years

Wu Tang Clan - Gravel Pit
Dido - Here with me
Bloodhound Gang -Bad Touch
Outkast - Hey ya
Fallacy & Fusion - Groundbreaker
Gomez - Shot Shot
Strokes - 1251
Electric 6 - Gaybar
MOP - Cold as ice
DMX - X gonna give it to ya
Ok Go - Get over it
Hives - Main Offender
Rachel Stevens - LA Ex
Sugababes - Stronger
Supersister - Coffee....... it would be so funny :-) but r1 will so veto!
Feeder
Mark B & Blade - You don't see the signs
Dumdums - Can't get you out of my thoughts...
Gary Jules . Mad world
Yeah Yeah yeahs . Maps
50 Cent . P.I.M.P
Beyonce . crazy in love
Busted . You said no
Justin timberlake - Like I love you
Dizzy Rascal . fix up look sharp
Kylie . Slow
Libertines . Don.t look back into the sun
Muse . Time is running out
System of a down . Chop Suey
Badly Drawn Boy . Once around the block
Aqualung . Brighter than sunshine



So any others you can think of that would rock let me know! And if we've missed out any 00 -04 RaW chooooons then tell me as we can't remember everything! :-)

Wow Wow Wow. Wow is

Wow Wow Wow.

Wow is all I can say.

Throughout growing up, my family were always keen for me to get into a profession such as becoming a lawyer or some boring job like that ;) However when I got to about 15 or so I began to take a real interest in the media and thought perhaps journalism was the thing for me. So... I did a little bit of work experience at the local evening paper and well that was that.

When I was younger my grandparents had a very funny opinion of what would corrupt little ol me, and rather bizarrly music was one of those things. I only really started listening to music in about 1995 and radio probably about the same time, although it was probably only the Radio 1 top 40, and that was when I had some real excitement about who was going . Apart from recording said top 40 on xmas countdown for a couple of years, the real first memory I have of distinctly listening to the radio was with Joanne, my best mate in VIth form, during one of our random drives to MaccyDs after school. Jo always had Chris Moyles on and absolutely adored him. But I just couldn't get into him at all, there always seemed to be too many people there jabbering on, and as a casual listener I had no idea who Melinda or various other people were. However as he’s now my favourite DJ (and I’m gutted he’s going to breakfast… like I’m up then!) it shows things do change!

Getting my own car and driving about *lots* was really a major turning point for me in terms of my radio listening habits. Whereas at home I would tend to flick around the tv, particularly in the days of OnDigital when I could flick round MTV pretty easily. My favourite radio station back home was 97.4 Rock FM - the EMAP 'big city' Station for our area, covering Preston and Blackpool, but in reality having a massive range from lancaster down to about Stoke. There were some fantastic DJs on there... Glen Hunt, Rob Ellis, Mark Paxman, all who I listened to regularly. However radio was always one of those things that I imaged to be full of glitz and glamour and stars like the movies.

So when flicking through my University's SU guide before I arrived, I was delighted to find a student radio station there. This could be something fun to do, and hey I might as well give it a try. I'd always been really self conscious about my voice but what the hell... lets give it a go. So I signed up, got a show and well you know the rest of it. Now here I am,
Station Manager of the Best Student Radio Station in the country, and hell it feels good to say that. I'm a very modest person but I do feel proud of the work that I and others have done at RaW. When I joined, the exec then won Best Station too. They were a wicked bunch of people and without some of them, most particularly Pat & Lev, and all the guys who are fantastic who left even before I came, but were so enthusiastic and supportive, I would never be in the place I am today.

So yeah, what is this place I am in today? Well I sit here typing as someone who knows exactly, well no that's a lie, not *exactly* what I want to do, but at least I know *exactly* industry I want to do it in. Take a wild guess ;)

I can't think of anything worse than getting a graduate or a 'sensible' job just because it pays well and is secure etc. For me, and perhaps I'm being too idealistic about this, but I can't think of anything worse than being stuck in a job that I'm not passionate about. I want to work in radio so so much and to wake up every morning to go to a job that I love would be completely fulfilling. This weekend I did some work for the BBC helping out at their new internal Music & Radio event. Although I was doing it for free, it was a great experience as I got to meet some fantastic people from BBC Live Events and various other depts including 1xtra, Radio 2 & Radio 3, and go to some very cool sessions, meeting the likes of Pete Tong & Simon Mayo. And it was weird, I had to wake up at 6.45 ... NOT a nice experience for me, and walk through Clapham to the tube station, but I, and this sounds so ridiculously cheesy, did it with a spring in my step, because I was going to do something that would be the first step on the long path that I hope is ahead of me. I walked through the pouring rain, in the dark morning, tired as hell, smiling like a cheshire cat. I'm crazy as a coconut.

And then came the even better news... much much much gratitude has to go out to Chris for recommending me for work experience at the production company he works at. From Monday I'll be doing some work experience there for 2 weeks. This does however mean I'm in London and er need somewhere to sleep! Hopefully I'll be ok at my cousins for some of the time, but hey, if you have a sofa and don't mind me crashing on it a few nights then let me know please! I'll buy you muchos alcohol promise xx

Today however was the biggie. It was our, and by our I mean myself, Russ, Carter & Dom's, first meeting at Radio 1 for our show on Xmas day... I'll go into more depth about this when I haven't just written the epic that is above, but my god, it was amazing. We did lots, we saw lots and there's lots to do, and I really can't wait. Radio 1... when it comes to real life, that is so the ultimate goalpost. I'm starting the finger crossing now....