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Yes, we have another LIVE band interview. This time via Skype,                                                                       The Vinyls This was set up for broadcast on Thursday ( November 22nd) But the stream did not like us on that day and decided to throw are strop......so a reschedule was in order The band Discovered by Stephanie Wright of,New Music Connection, after her live interview on the same week.  The Vinyl are a 4 piece band from Brighton / London,  England have got a great, English sound Their Facebook The Show As advertised the first time, this will be broadcast through Music World Radio, then, Channeled though New Usb radio, DJ Hankypark Radio, Dm radio and Gr Broadcasting. This an Independent Show with the first 30 minutes of the show, with various artists all Independen...

This was a company, which is the side name for a disney distribute film company I was watching a channel i am subscibed to, The Multimedia Chronicles, the other night and Sean, he that run the channel bought this company name up. Aparantly, Mill Creek, which is a dvd distribution company who are well know for releasing low budget Public domain films, main Speghetti Westerns have now touched on films by Buena Vista, which are copy righted films Usually, Mill Creak release really cheap DVDs and as you are going to expect with cheap sets, the quality is not top notch. New releases The new string of releases is from Buena Vista and includes a mixture of b moveies and some other movies that had theatrical releases, but not as well known and released them. This because Buena Vista are no longer bothered with the films Mill Creek have released 4 movies on 2 DVD sets and 2 films on blueray.  I did wonder,why they only released two films on the Blue Ray, when the discs have more spa...

I have seen many of these on Youtube a its the right place to see actors, not acting.  Last night i saw the one with Tom Cruise. One thing i learned from watching this, is that his name is not fake, its his own.  He has got four birth names, but Tom Cruise is his first and second name. I always thought Cruise was odd and always thought he changed it for acting, like any actors and musicians do, but on this occasion their real. I have not seen all of Toms films, although i have seen Top Gun. Jerry Maguire, and all the Mission Impossible films.  I always wondered how in the hell Tom Cruise got into film because he started in his early 20s He bought a lot out here, i did not know what to expect. I was very impressed by what he was saying and had no idea he was that involved in making films. I knew he makes money every time he released a picture and knew he has got total control over the MI films, but i wanted to find out more. This was filmed round about the same time. ...

First submission through a Twitter message i released earlier today Great guitarist and recordings from Nick Edward Harris based in London. I like Acoustic stuff, but it has to be different or just sound nice, this does We have got songs, Flood and Trap door from his new album  Folie A Deux released on December 15th We will be playing Nicks music from Monday 18th November Facebook

Why the chart exists For you the musician and its fun to broadcast. I have been wanting to broadcast a chart show for years, but i can't broadcast it all the time. It reminds me of Top of the Pops where you get different presenter on occasion, this is the same here. Why nominate and why get people to vote It is a big promotion and shows members of the public are voting and perhaps buying your songs as well.  Reason a profile is connected to the chart list under ' Visit' and the station gets a lot of traffic. Created well over 2 years ago and one of the most popular shows on Music World Radio. When people want to contribute and help in part see you succeed and yes there are good people out there, other than the jealous buggers out there, they want to help and this is one of those ways. Number one Like all charts, there is a number one placing.  Like any other chart this is the highest place in the chart and means the public really like what you are doing.  T...

Ever since i started doing live radio broadcast you highlight a band. Something stands out or you get a good submission in or you come across a good live set This can be any style and sound, but the sound at is chosen, is because we like or or we know both i and the audience will like Main feature Its a good idea to have an album release or lengthy ep.  We also ask for any live song as its good idea to mix up the audio so that people get an idea what you sound like in the studio and on stage.  This can be upto 4 songs, every half hour or so, depends how long the song are. We leave it open to so that people can request songs they like of the artist Independent Show On Thursday nights we have colaborated with New Usb, who promote the Independent scene. We choose an act or two for the show. When more than one act is chosen for a main feature we play the songs back to back. This show is broadcast as normal to the station i am actually with, Music World Radio, the Ray...

Over the last week i have been changing things around due to website problems. I finally got a domain to work for the website, the trouble is i can't edit the website for some reason.  For the moment, everything goes on Facebook and these blogs Facebook Group This is the Facebook version of the website for the moment. My page is fine, but i wanted to a group to put music review and many other documents i have been transfering music reviews from my website, which i can still access, to my Facebook group. There link this blog to the documents section so as not to over crowd the group Group Facebook page I have mentioned this before, but this is where all the radio content, as in show posters, news on the wall, promotions, and links with posters on the Radio Variety Show album to mixcloud shows. This is used for my own recording links as well.  Although i am keeping a few things for the group above Facebook Page Website As i said above, i finally got a domain a...

Album Review Greta's Bakery Edge of Everything Jazz/ Pop Itian/ American The style of the 80s Swing out Sister crossed with Sade pop, brought to the modern audience with a slice of Latino.' That sums up this album. I thought i would never hear this sound again after Swing Out SIster began the trend back in the 80s.  After a spate of Pop acts recently from Synth to bubblgum pop, the threesome, Italian beauty with a voice to match, Greta Panettieri, Andrea Sammartino and on the keys and Mike LaValle on the bass and guitar really bring the sprit of Jazz Pop into the modern times. Starting with, Give up the Ghost, is the most commercia of the albums song, which is very reminscent of Swing out Sister and the opening of the album, just cries out Sade. Aurora, which is actually sung in Greta's native language, which is Italian.   There are covers on this album ,which are produced to a degree, you wouldn't recognise them, which is a challange in itself. From...

Album Review Clockwise Faders on Stun Canada Opens with Opposite Attack, like a blur/ Oasis 90s feel with the vocals and nice guitar solo. A lot of English sounds to the song, simple and nice harmony throughout. This sets the tone with punk, rock styles with the pop overlay.  The band travelling to Liverpool has definitely had an impact on Claudes songwriting, who is also the lead vocalist.  You hear a lot of influences from Aztec Camera and nice touch with the stranglers style keyboard sounds on Boom Town This is their Third album from the band, flows very well from one pop song to the next.  For a modern album.  it's like a capsule back in time. The guitar riffs, with the basslines and the drum loops really makes you feel like you are listening to an Aztec Camera style pop music for the 00s Facebook Group

Album review Rattlin Bone Swamp Blues U.K This is a music project from three people:  Wily Bo Walker, Karena K and Lil Neill Want to sum up this album up in one line? Like Tom Waits with a Blues Orchestra...... General review The scene is set...Rain pouring down outside and your sat lounging in a smokey bar while the band is playing.  This will remind you of Tom Waits, especially with the husky voice and the style of music. The Life and Death of is an old style Blues for the next generation.  Harking back to the 40s-50s, in a solo performing way not big band and nice steady basslines.  The male singer, Wily, does sound like a drunken Tom Waits, husky voice, like he's being held up by a piano in a bar. With Karena on the backing vocals and Lil on the Trombone The album introduces the husky voice with Shoot me Down and the backing singer (Only studio one), Karena K. Great arrangement, from trombones to triangles.  In places, sounds li...

The Cherry Bluestorms Transit of Venus America Rock Pop Not many albums come your way that honestly grab your attention very quickly.  Transfit of Venus, has a great title,  which, for a change is not taken from an album track title.   This is one of the best albums in this style i have heard in some time. Bringing an energy and warmth and atmosphere, which honestly you don't get much from a lot of modern music. The one part of the album i think stands out is the harmony sang on several songs.  This works very well between Deborah and Glen as they sing in two different tones.  This also works as it is not over used and only on particular songs. Daisy Chain is one and Fear of Gravity where the  harmony is only on the chorus.  There are slow ballads and more faster passed songs, like, The Mirror Cracked. Songs intros are a running theme thoughout the album. The song, Here, has Glen going through a guitar effects peddle of the first mi...

For a very long time, a well as other ideas, i have been wanting to do just an Independent show. I get submissions all the time and i always leave the gate open for listeners request, which could mean anything. I don't mind doing that, but i know from feedback from Thursday show, people like the Independent stuff more than say Depeche Mode or the Pet Shop Boys. Because i do two shows a week, one can be left open and the other can be Independent only Whats Independent This is small record labels seperate from independent corporations and musicians going it alone. Many are going it alone though donation sights which is beginning to become a trend and very successful from what i have seen. Many musicians to not like the strangehold of a big record label, but then again record labels are there for a reason as some musicians just do not know how to promote themselves The Show Other than changing my show name and adding film and other content along the way, my shows have staye...

I love music, Rock, pop, soul, drum & bass, god know how many other style and sounds.   One of the best albums i have heard in the past year has been Rattlin Bone, great swamp Blues. Another artists is Vinnie Zummo from American, and probably one of the very people that got me to like Country, as in the old fashioned country. These sound make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. I like music from the 30s right through to now, some awsome music around and i am hearing new stuff every time. Over the past 10 years, music and musicians has seen a vast change in the industry, not all through lack of sales either, which i think the press would make you believe Its not the making money that ruins music or various formats,  its what ruins, creativity, imagination just plan great sounds buy producing utter crap music. Sometimes, i wonder, is it because i am 20 years older then when i listened to the top 40 back in the early 90s. I then go to youtube, listen to music ...

Searching At the very start of radio broadcasting i wanted to put the shows somewhere after i had broadcast, uncut. This is not edited, just as the show as was broadcast, unless the net goes down, which we cut out, aside from that, as is It took us some time to find somewhere that had no limit( When free) and had a play capability through an app. Why not downloadable Also, i never have my podcasts for download due to my mixture of Independent and big names on my playlists and listeners like requesting and so fourth.   when i have a guest there can be a special downloadable version made available, but that takes time( Don't get paid for this) Where we have been and still are With these facts in mind, we found Podomatic first, which takes 5 two hour shows for free as long as the shows are uploaded from the original recorded file.(We have recorded interviews still on this) Then we discovered the mighty Soundcloud. This is great place, but you have to replace the show week by ...

First radio show plug on a blog( Facebook giving me problems) Below are the artists featured tonight as well as sounds from the strange and wonderful, yes its that diverse As always at the top of the show, after the jingle, the Open Show album Promotion artist is played. At the moment, its, Against. All Will. 3rd song from the album, Rhyme or Reason will be played tonight On the Radio Variety Show tonight, broadcast every week and for the past 4 years on Listen here Altetnatives - Autoplayer Topchoons   myspace Tonight show we feature the new album, Above the Blue, Rock pop band from V.A, America. Facebook We will be playing at 9pm the new Rock Mix of Please Go Away by Maini Sorri Facebook Regular, loyal listeners and producer Chris Saffle Will be playing some songs of is tonight which are electro, pop, whatever you like based Facebook We will be playing two songs from Helen tonight The musician from, ...

Just realised i had not done an introduction At the moment i am using this more as i have no website with a domain address. For some reason that has got lost in the mists of the net. This blog is a great way to type about films music and also music reviews, and things that i want to talk about in those areas.   It has been pretty popular so far and i have linked people to this and linked the blog to Facebook Many people do this, so i thought why not??? I am going to put up more music submissions up, which go on my Facebook anyway. As i said above, i will be using this for music review, which have images, and links to various artists sites My website will be back up this week at some point, but here i can read the numbers, which is pretty cool You can leave comments below and there will be blogs on are regular basis. My Facebook   E-mail   Fb group   Radio station

Utilise the blog, why not We found the 8th series of House last night on a third party channel since the boxset is too much at the moment Hugh Laurie plays Greggory House. I like the fact charactors have more than one name, give them depth.  Yes, suprise, suprise, Hugh is not American, he even fooled the producers, which includes film maker Bryan Singer ( First X Men) Anyone who has read his  information on the net. knows that he is an English actor. One of his first screen apearances was with actor and on screen partner( acting capacity) Stephen Fry, yes that Stephen Fry, who worked on and was in, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, which was comedy and series sketchies. The next time they were onscreen together was, Jeeves and Worcester, which is a period drama comedy. Fry, played a genuis bulter and Laurie, played a rich twit, getting into trouble.  Fantastic series. I did not see anything of the pair on TV for ages, then my wife introduced me to House, i thought, not anoth...

If anyone does not know. Dave, the digital channel, financed the tenth 6 episode series of Red Dwarf. Red Dwarf is a comedy series created by Doug Naylor and Rob Grant, back in the late 80s. Its a mixture of  comedy and Scifi, which upto that point was frowned upon at the time Seriously, you can not get a better cast Chris Barrie plays Arnold Rimmer, one of the best impressionists, England has produced. Chris before this was involved in Spiting image. Craig Charles, who i had no idea who he was. found out he was a poet and stand up comedian and plays, Lister, the last human being Alive. One of my favourite and a wicked creation, Cat, played by writer, actor ( In many films as well) Danny don Jules, was formed after millions of year(Right at the beginning in the plot) from Listers pet cat. Last but no means least Robert Llewellyn, writer and actor ,playing Kryton.....yes the guy wears a suit, all the time, in the series Now for some unknown reason, when series 8 ended, the ...

Ali Ingle new ep, The Man and the Monster This is a nice ep, but not what i was expecting. Very well recorded songs and ep with a homemade design sleeve.  Great songs, very professional quality and writing. You have a fantastic song, with Ali's main instrument, the Ukulele, Tornado, then the rest of the ep, you do not hear it, unless its wat in the background, which i found a little disappointing.  Maybe that was the idea, to make every song different, which is great for a musician to be diverse and guests vocals.  But what would have been really great is to have more Ukulele up front.  Before i heard the ep, i saw the live version of rubcage, which is what i was expecting in a recorded form, but in stead you have one song and the rest in fuller band recordings, which is fine.  I gather Ali's main instrument is the Ukuele and really it would been a good idea to have more of the instrument more up front so people actually realise thats what he plays There...

Welcome to the  Lee Negin Experience Ladies and Gentles we welcome you to View the Outer Rim for you to experience. Hear, colours and sounds put together by Lee.  This entire experience pulls you in to hear ambient works, with many varieties of sounds. This is a brand new work, like being transfixed to something floating in space and time Pioneer of electro music, Lee knows how to pull you in.  Always recording with many natural sounds mixed with synthetic and real instruments, with all this together is no easy task. From, The Floating World, to, The Ebb and Flow, it is journey like no other. This is not the first ambient release Lee has composed, but this is one his finest To buy   Site   Facebook

Ever since i began broadcasting radio it has always been in the back of my mind to find more room for guests and bands who want to perform.  This when 3 or more people attend, which is not easy in a small room With the invention of wifi in many places and when Dog Food performed in my parients living room in September, it got me thinking about space again. I went to see the people up at the local youth center last month, which is called, The Hub.  I had no idea what to expect as i had not been up there since the hold center got demolished. The old building had a recording studio before the new building got built. The Hub is one option. The other option is going down to a pub, buying a pint and using their Wifi and recording a band that performs down there, either that or i have arranged band ttp perform As people may or may not know, there is no money running  my radio shows as they are non profit, Music World Radio... However, that  is part of the promotion i...

First time I have ever mentioned this and now I write blogs, why not Right, getting down to business, Why? When this country was going through ww2 you had no choice but to fight.  Many went abroad and many stayed at home and many were in concentration camps(Clive Dunn for one who passed away this week) Yes it was a world war, because many parts of the world were at war.  Ww1 and Ww2 were the two larger battles this planet has every seen this side of 1900 in the modern world.  If we had lost, the world would not be the same. Thank god for many real heros on land, air, foot, sea, we were saved from, let's face it a real threat of the Germans and their allies.  Yes, don't forget Germans had friends in the war, they certainly could not have done it alone. Many lives were lost, in fact many thousands upon thousands were lost and some we do not even know about, which is very sad. I am not going to make this a huge blog as there are many documentaries and colour foo...

DJ Readman review of...... Jet Noir - Emotion Chess Trance 2012 All original material by Jet Noir This is an album thats really a crossover release.  This time is slightly different with more commercial trance sounds, which has been more well received.  Deep Dark Place, is perfect example, reminds me of the C J Bolland classic, ' It ain't Gonna Be, with a nice rolling beat and drops. When i first heard the album, i thought oh my, an album of singles and very enjoyable.  Inhale ,Exale, goes to the dark side and really is club thrasher and builds up. Just Press play, keeps with the more atmosphere style and another build up song. One thing this album has got, is well written trance tunes and great drops on every single track. Emotional Chess, title of the album and what the album is ment to do, throw your emotions scattered into the darkness and to search for them with a torch light The prrvious release was more a mixture of dubstep and darker trance...

Since it looked like i am having website problems this week i am going to blog music reviews. There are a few i can rescue from my website as its the domain that expired.  I did go for a free domain, but that is taking a long time which is too longer as they said 12 hours....that was Thursday. Reviews of Jet Noir - Emotion Chess and a few other reviews i have and have not done......yet

The idea The idea of doing more radio shows is not possible unless i am paid and i have been wanting to do more on NEW USB because they are doing a lot of Independent musicians, in a slightly different way. No way am i going to leave Music World Radio as i have there over 4 years...so a solution has been found The Plan Though the wonders of technology, the broadcast stream i use on Music World Radio is being piped through the GRBTV arm of NEW USB for the first time. This is not two seperate streams, due to the bandwidth, this is them listening to the stream and channeling that through their channel. The reason this has not been done before is that NEW USB only broadcast Independent and unsigned acts, where as i play both classics and independent. But the fact that i have many Independent acts i have been submitted and been playing, so have NEW USB, that one two hour playlist is not that difficult It has been decided to do a one off, to see how things go ...

Ooooooooooooh no, their taking over the woooooooooooorld Not really, but it sometimes feels like it ;) Google Recently, Google have decided to branch out and really has given us more choice. The first created a search engine that everyone says and uses, then they branched out into hardware, which was in partnership with Samsung. This is where they introduced the operating system Android, which like Windows is open source. Now, they have released, netbooks, with Samsung.  I saw a review on one by American, Chris Parilo, yesterday and i must say, its good to see a laptop design, for once, without Windows or iOs running it. This one has, Android on it. I got sucked in I have been amused myself how many smartphones i have had in under a year.  Smartphones are larger than non internet phones. I think thats the reason why many might have trouble. The reason why they are big, is one, they have a larger screen and two. you can access the net. The one thing i discovered thi...

As a radio presenter, i receive music to play. Always nice to get music. I don't play everything and depends whos paying attention and main thing what i can listen to. I like the fact people see posts and email music, which they have seen on a group thread or on my page. My shows have a variety of music, depends on my mood, whos around and listeners pop up and i remember what they like. Playing new music on a live show you get an instant reaction from listeners. This is reason i do live radio, so i see all the interactions Digital This is a lot easier for artists to float their music around and for radioplay and during broadcasts i can receive music...The wonders of technology                                                                ( The latest album on mp3) Sending songs is easy and for radio mp3 are what i pl...