Why am I awake? Oh right…
Mar 08.10
Times likes these I think to myself, Why am I up? WHY THE FRICK AM I AWAKE?! It’s now 7.45am and I haven’t been to sleep! Did a very successful BIG IN WIGAN last night, and I’ve been awake ever since.
Today I am getting a train to Sheffield to celebrate my best friends 21st birthday, I’m then going to Scunthorpe (Tinie Tempah hasn’t been there) to hang with a great mate Vickie, then off to Hull to invade the beautiful Fiona Darling’s radio show / life, all back in time for the weekend in London.
Question is, can I stay awake long enough to get my 11:25am train today?!
I’m proud of my heritage.
Mar 07.10
As some will know, but many will learn, my mother is French, and I am French. I have a perfect accent when I try and can understand the language very well (yet can’t speak it).
This is my (and rachelle and tania’s) tribute to the French.
Mark Thompson meets Malcolm Tucker
Mar 05.10
This has to be one of the funniest thing’s I’ve seen in ages…
ALSO: If you haven’t read it already, I wrote a post about #save6music – Have a look now.
Favourite Quote?
Mar 04.10
Surely everyone has a favourite quote? When I was younger it was always the simple ones, like “Greeeeeaaaaaaaaat” – Tony the Frosties Tiger, or “What’s Up Doc?” – Bugs Bunny. Now the Bugs Bunny one is still one of my favourite quotes because it’s great to imitate.
Someone else that’s great to imitate is Adrian Chiles doing his intro to the one show in his bored, dull brummy accent – “Hello and Welcome to The One Show with me Adrian Chiles and her Christine Bleakely – On the show today we have a Ke$ha talking about victorian drainage systems and Stephen Fry talking about sub-Saharan cushions.” or whatever ridiculousness you can come up with.
Now, for the last 9 years of my life (since the ripe old age of 13) I’ve had a favourite quote. My most ultimate quote ever. Something that rings true, yet to an amount of nothingness. It doesn’t mean anything really but it means a lot at the same time, but I guess with most slightly abstract/arty/comedy literature thats the norm. Anyway, this is my favourite quote of all time ever at the moment.
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana” – Groucho Marx
Now, it’s been one of my favourite quotes for years and years, but it kind of slipped to the back of my consciousness until I saw this on one of my favourite tv programmes of the naughties (if thats what were really calling them?!), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
It’s just a great great great quote used on a great great tv show. If your slightly intelligent, and/or liked The West Wing, I thoroughly recommend you buy it on DVD boxset (for only £13.99 on Amazon!)
TRACK OF THE DAY: DAT Politics – Step Back (AM/FM Mix)
Mar 04.10
Not exactly that recent, but DAT Politics are AMAZING. That’s right, thanks to my friend Hermeet who produces the Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on 6music I have been introduced to them, and have fallen in love.
Based from Lille in France, the trio got together in early 2000 when they formed ‘Skipp’, their label and graphic design project. Ever since they’ve been producing great bullshit* like this…
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Go, Listen, Download, Be merry, Live happy… If you can’t be arsed then I’l be playing some more DAT Politics on my radio show BIG IN WIGAN! Have a listen this Sunday from 8pm!
DAT Politics on iTunes
DAT Politics on Myspace
DAT Politics on Hype Machine
*bullshit = amazing music.
Working Title…
Mar 02.10
Here’s something I forgot to blog about a month ago as I was working on the new blog site, but here is a new project I’m currently working on is called ‘Working Title’. It basically is a ‘freestyle documentary*’ where you take one camera man (in this case me) and one presenter, one location of their choice and one goal / aim for the day.
The rules for Working Title are as follows:
- Nothing may be planned, apart from location and meeting place / time.
- Within 24 hours the documentary must be filmed, edited and uploaded.
- Even though we are not the BBC, we must not lie. White lies are part of the story telling process, but no outright lies.
This is the first starring Moscow’s own, Frederick Bernas.
*phrase coined by Frederick Bernas
What have nails got to do with fashion?
Mar 02.10
Well, you’d be surprised, quite a lot! Here is my video diary of the wonderful Sophy Robson’s day at London Fashion Week.
Who knew the M6 could be so scary.
Feb 28.10
Quite simply: #save6music
Feb 27.10
As many will know, I am a radio person. I present an online radio show, I’ve produced/worked at lots of different radio stations, some commercial, some community, some online and some BBC. I’ve been lucky enough to work at 6music with my friend Hermeet who produces Craig Charles’ Funk and Soul show, on said show. In fact I’m awake early because I should be going up Manchester to work on it this evening.
The reason I love radio so much is because I used to listen to GLR and XFM as a old child / early teen, and loved the music on XFM and the speech on GLR. When GLR turned into BBC London the quality went down hill (Vanessa Feltz?!) and as soon as Capital Radio Group took over XFM their good music got dumped, and ever since I’ve been stuck listening to Radio 1.
“Being stuck listening to Radio 1″ isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I started listening to Radio 1 when Sara Cox had just taken over breakfast, Jo Whiley was on the brunch show, the amazingly funny Mark and Lard were on 1-3pm live from Manchester, and then Chris Moyles took over at 3pm for the afternoon drive show. Moyles was hilarious, having free reign to throw beer cans at producers and be cheekier than he is at the moment. Jo Whiley was entertaining, she wasn’t constantly talking about having babies or married life, she was introducing us to so called amazing bands like Coldplay. Mark and Lard were comedy genius, northern monkeys through and though their regular, repetitive features and in-jokes really cheered me up whilst bunking off school.
Now a days Moyles has to be quite restrained with what he does, Fearne Cotton talks about herself for three hours *yawn*, Greg James is a mini-Scott Mills, Scott Mills is a slightly funny camp Moyles wanna be.
The one redeeming feature about Radio 1 is there evening schedule. It always has been and always will be. Zane Lowe playing the XFM/MTV style indie music that’s new and on the blogs, Hue Stephens playing the new music from BBC Introducing and Grimshaw to an extent. Evenings were better when Colin Murray was around though, but thats another story for another time! These 5 hours an evening are amazing content, but because it’s on the station that’s targeted to the mainstream young people of the UK, the specialist shows still have to be mainstream to an extent.
The solution to this time problem, trying to make the mainstream happy whilst also trying to enlighten the lives of the ‘individual’ amongst the masses was to create a new station. With the launch of DAB, and the BBC backing (what I think was) a dead horse, they needed to show their commitment. Two birds and one stone later, the birth of 1xtra, 6music and Asian Network were born. All niche stations with a target market. 1xtra, the ‘black music’ station catered too, well, you know. Same with Asian Network. Then 6music was for those people that wanted to listen to a version of XFM that had really good music, respectable presenters, and BBC production values.
Needless to say, ever since I encountered 6music I’ve loved it.
With the news that the BBC are quite possibly going to sack it off as a wasted expense, and even worse, sell it to Absolute Radio, All I can as is that you sign the petition, Join the Facebook Group, add the twibbon, use the hash tag on twitter, and Save BBC 6 Music.
Uh oh, Chatroulette’s gone mainstream.
Feb 27.10
It was fun talking to random girls and boys and the freaks wanking their little penis’ off or the weirdo girls having a dog lick her vag out (true story). It’s now gone mainstream and celebrities are invading and its being over run by kids wanting to talk to Ashton Kutcher or Katy Perry.
If you don’t know what Chat Roulette is, then watch this film by the ever so talented Casey Neistat to inform you.
If you want see what kinds of shit you could be seeing on chatroulette, without going on it (like a pussy) the go on the chatroulette tumblr for all the funniest moments caught on screengrab on chatroulette.
This is one of my favourites….
