Archive for November, 2009

Technology’s alivee!!!

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Well….having belatedly signed up to Facebook about a year ago, and jumping on the Twitter ladder a month ago, still having not posted anything – i finally make my long awaited debut, he says, on Clicks blog.

Good afternoon :) I’m Dom and to use a football analogy, which you find me doing a hell of a lot,  I’d like to think I’m an experienced campaigner in terms of Click..and Utrn for that matter! A bit like Julian Joachim or Barry Conlon in the lower leagues!…and getting to the nitty gritty..i’m on air on a Thursday morning 10-12, which is exactly the same ’shift’ as I had last year.

It was said people used to set their clock by the routine of philosopher Immanuel Kant, now they set them by Dom Shaw on a Thursday morning on Click :)

Anyhow…do tune in…it would be quite rude not too :) if you’re a Thursday 10-12 virgin for want of a better term, then we have a weekly sport link…this is kind of just trying to get rid of all of the sporting testosterone in one link, otherwise i would be talking about it for two hours and more…probably even during the songs to myself :) …so we got a sporting expert and click correspondant Lewis on the phone, in other words he’s a mate of mine who knows a lot about sport – and who is also pretty good at conducting phone links!!

I don’t know how long these things are meant to go on for, so Im aware I could be high class waffling to the max, but we also have a feature called meet the student…its as simple as it gets to be honest, but id like to think it was groundbreaking.

The format is as follows, we get a student on the phone, chat about basically nothing for a bit and said student then has 30 seconds to name as many of a certain thing as possible, in the past we have had chocolate bars, cereals and sports. Sounds as boring as humanly possible but remarkably works reasonably well :) …anyway to get the theory out of the way e-mail me at clickteesside.com if you want to be our student :) Russ from the first week is top of our league with 18 cereals in 30 seconds, i know exactly what your thinking – pretty impressive!!

The 10 minute retro disco is a must in any students week, even if i do say so myself.

Anyhow at 404 words, i think things need to be rounded up – i thankyou dearly for reading and i make a Click promise that I shall start blogging on a regular basis from now – maybe even to the point where you wish i never started :)

Please do remember Thursday mornings 10-12 :) ive heard some ridiculous excuses as to why people can’t listen, something to do with lectures or something like that?? Pfffff!!!

Cheers dudes :) x

Paranormal Activity

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

I am not one for horrors or whatever category you want to put ‘Paranormal Activity’ into but it’s been a long time since I attended the cinema to find such a packed screen. The screen was safely 80% full and out of that 80% most of us felt disappointed.

The story revolves around Katie and Micah living in their new house where strange goings on begin. However for Katie it wasn’t the first time she experienced this. Since the age of 8 strange goings on have followed her but this time around Micah, (the events all being new to him) decides to record the events.

By doing this he only creates more intense activity. The activity in this mocumentary mainly happens at night, for me the constant switching between night and day was frustrating to say the least. It was clearly felt by the rest of the audience, as sighs were openly audible.

The best parts of the film were definitely at night and happened in the latter half of the film making the first half somewhat drag. When the paranormal goings on actually happen they genuinely play on your childhood fears, tucking the duvet under your feet so you’re not grabbed in your sleep, which for me made my heart pound. Besides these clever physiologic tricks I found the film extremely predictable, riddled with lulls and a disappointing viewing.

In my opinion the film was hyped up too much in the advertising. At points the badly thought-out scenes actually made the entire audience laugh when it was meant to be serious. For scariness I would rate the film 4/10 and over all 1/10.

Disappointing, laughable but you might sleep with the lights on tonight.

“TEES WHAT….T E E S S I D E”

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

First bit of information I need to tell you is that unfortunately I can’t present my show this Friday as I am graduating. Don’t worry though I should be back on the airwaves next Friday.

Now unless you have been hibernating for the last two weeks you will know that ClickTeesside have just been down to the ‘Big Smoke’ for ‘The BBC Radio 1 SRA Awards’. It was one of the most exciting venues I have been too. Everyone looked truly amazing and it was a superb night. One of the highlights was Rob from the sports show starting his ‘cool’ dancing which you can see a little of here

        

It was wicked

The food was posh but not the best I have had. The wine was good and the beer was cheaper than expected. Anyway After an agonising wait the announcement came through that Click Teesside had been awarded the Silver award for best student chart show in the UK. What an honour.

I have been with Click from the beginning, starting right back when it was known to only a few as UTRN. I never did get the chance to say a speech but if I had this is sort of how it would of gone:

During my time on this great radio station I have had the pleasure of working with some great people. Dominic Dunn the station manager has been extremely supportive and is a true friend and colleague, Tom Harrison who I’m sure will be in a job of power by the age of 25, is a straight to the point guy who offers as much support as he can. Without Phil around and offering a helping hand I wouldn’t of even been able to attend some of the best nights out, Adam Irish and Tom Campell are awesome guys whom I class as great friends. Rob, Kathryn and anyone else I failed to mention are all amazing people as well. My mum always told me “if you do something you enjoy you’ll never work a day in your life” this is completely true for ClickTeesside, on and off air. The atmosphere and the people make working, presenting and helping out on the station a joy and you couldn’t wish for a better group of people.

Enough of the ‘group hug’ stuff, don’t forget to tune in on Friday the 4th of December for your chance to win some prizes and listen to some awesome music.

Much Love

MarcLC

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Click at the Radio 1 Student Radio Awards

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

More pictures to follow, but here’s the team at the O2 for the Radio 1 Student Radio Awards 2009, where we took Silver for best student radio chart show!

The team sat down ready for the awards to begin!

The team sat down ready for the awards to begin!

It’s F-f-f-f-friday!

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Another Friday, another blog from myself. Here goes!

Today’s now traditional Friday live session introduced us to the weird and wonderful sounds of Mannequin Attic, the collective name of local duo of Lisa Shepherd and Lee Close.

Fresh from victory in their heat of the Princess Alice’s Battle Of The Bands competition on Thursday night, they bravely overcame sore throats (something that’s becoming quite a regular on the show heh) to treat us to a terrific performance consisting of ‘Give Me A Call’, ‘Drug To Me’ and ‘Honey’. They certainly come across like an act that could go places, so it was a great pleasure to have them in the studio showing off some really cool, dark originals.

As ever, pictures were taken!………………..

....And as ever, Jim spoilt one! He just refuses to sit down for these things.

………..And as ever, Jim spolit one by being awkwardly tall!

Then Lisa sang (like crazy good)

Then Lisa sang like crazy good.

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And Lee paired that with some quality acoustic riffage.

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And much fun was had by all!

Don’t forget to check these out live as soon as you can. Especially if you get chance to go vote for them in the semi final of the North East Live Battle Of The Bands at The Princess Alice on Thursday from 8!

Coming up next week is our first Friday Live Session in association with The Crown, featuring Black Mountain Poets. It shall be immense and is not to be missed! :)

This week’s hour-long playlist handpicked by Jim and I shall once again be aired Saturday night at 8pm, repeating at the same time on Sunday and Thursday at the same time. Here’s this weeks list of things you’ll hear by tuning in in the normal way at either of those times:

Editors – ‘Papillon’
The Flaming Lips – ‘Race For The Prize’
The Cribs – ‘We Share The Same Skies’
Tommy Tutone – ‘Jenny/867-5309′
The Gaslight Anthem – ‘Great Expectations’
Okkervil River – ‘Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe’
In Case Of Fire – ‘The Cleansing’
Drugstore – ‘White Magic For Lovers’
The Dresden Dolls – ‘Dear Jenny’
V V Brown – ‘Crying Blood’
Frozen Toaster – ‘Wooden Machine’
The White Stripes – ‘Fell In Love With A Girl’
MuteMath – ‘Spotlight’
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – ‘The Impression That I Get’
Creedence Clearwater Revival – ‘Bad Moon Rising’
Alice In Chains – ‘Check My Brain’
Metallica – ‘Enter Sandman’

Don’t forget to tune in next Friday, same bat time, same bat channel (by that I mean 10am til noon, on this ‘ere website!)

Much Love

Alex

P.S. If you’re in Durham City Centre a week on Saturday night (shortly 8pm), come check out my band, The Murder Mile at the Castle Inn! Nowt wrong with a lil’ plug every now and again! :)