DJ Readman History of Record Shop Series and More

After around ten years, due to being unable to come back the same night, I went back to Oxford for a night out.  Chris Oakes, who has been organising gigs in and around the Oxfordshire area for about 2 years, took his Strummer Room Project to Oxford, and held his first band night at the Jericho Tavern. I had never been there before, very nice venue. Its looks like a polish restraunt from the outside looking in. I like the way the place is laid out. The band area is upstairs so we got a beer and went through the maze of staircases Silverspark Matt and Carley have been performing Acoustic sessions around the counties through the Winter months. This was there last one I believe before the full band starts up again. Carley, has a great range, can hold note like no one else and has real vocal power. Matt on guitar and Matt Hewitson on the  Cajon and guitar. First time in two year I have seen these guys do an Acoustic set. The last time, is when they were a duo....

First time in a long time, i will be going to Oxford to go to a gig.  Trains, from many destinations, stop too early, but Oxford has got a late train, so, more gigs in Oxford, i am thinking Friday 16th January, i am going to the Jericho Tavern, for the first Strummer Room Project Night of 2015. Its a few weeks short of a year since i went to the first of 2014, at Castle House I will be filming the bands on the night Opening the night.  Silverspark Matt and Carley, who formed a band in 2014, after being a duo, have been performing Acoustic sessions, thoughout the U.K Website The Shapes One of their current single, which  i produced for the band Nice pop, folk music from the 6 members of the band.  Anthony Kellys, brings bit of a ,Van Morrison , feel to the night. The will be performing their new ep, Its Bigger Than Everybody Reverbnation Torn by Colours This band, who replaced headliner, Fracture, i have ne...

Introduction As it says on the title, this is my official blog for the promo production, video editing i do Footage below is a mixture of paid work and band footage, which is off my own back when i go to gigs. I thought i would go into more detail here as i have no space on my radio website. I love film, i have been filming bands either at gigs or guests, when they perform live on my radio shows for about two years.  I record with a campact Canon, which has the best audio you can get. This even beats some camcorders i have used, which is shocking. This is probably the favourite, in terms of a band sets at a gig. The band were pretty shocked at the quality. I was suprised the camera held up, due the number of people on stage and Iain Brownlie projective vocal power.                                                 The other video i began to do in May 2014,...

After, The Shapes promo, i got talking to a band on Facebook. I mentioned i just completed a promo and they were interested. I did a rough cut, which took roughly about, 10 hours, spread over a few days. I used public domain footage for the video. It was Colour and Black and White. The video was based on reading the lyrics and the song paced. The band loved the first rought cut, aside from changing something into black and white  This is the end results. Again, took roughly 10 hours           The band is. Last of the Dogs and the song is, Bone ( In the playslist I like producing video, and this is paid work. My starting point is £50 for a video no longer than 6 minutes. More than, that, is more. It don;t mind doing deals for more than one video and the fee can be in money or equipment Enjoy Paul Readman Video editor

They appeared once again, this time, i went to Milton Keynes to broadcast at Twists HQ The broadcast, although we tested the audio, was still distored on broadcast, which frankly, we couldn't get around. Got the sort that out, although we tried. Twists has converted his garage for the sets and to practice for gigs. 2tone, lives down the road and bought his 1210s along   Dj Twist is the modern dnb guy. Ram, the works. He still plays thought and is going another set soon. He played two 40 minute sets on the show. He used CJDs for his sets 2tone, played oldskool, jungle, breakbeat and Goodlooking tunes. He always uses Technics 2010s, the choice of any DJ, who loves vinyl. I was filming with my iphone 4s on this occasion, as my canon is not working. The phone held up thought, which was suprising. The sound was fine, so using that for Youtube and podcast Although the last show in 2013, was not without distortion,which was solved, upto a point, the playback of the broadca...