BIG NEWS! Alrewas Radio August Bank Hliday!

Alrewas Radio is literally spiralling out of control at a rate that we can't keep up with! So many famous people are booking us for events with so many famous DJs and presenters appearing too!

Our next scheduled broadcast is on Monday 26th and we are all very very excited! We are doing alongside a pop-up fun day type thing at the Alrewas Village Hall. He is an extract from the public announcement:

It’s a chilled out ‘pop in to the pop-up day', and will feature:

 

• Radio Alrewas broadcasting live from the Hall – there is talk of a breakfast show….! Wander along and say hi, put in a radio request and hear it played on the day.
• Two, yes TWO Flea Pit film screenings in Flea Pit. Early afternoon: School of Rock, Evening: The Boat That Rocked. No tickets needed, just turn up! Times to be announced very soon.
• Arts Café. There WILL be cake, there may be soup and sarnies – yes, BE excited!
• Alrewas Archives folk to chat to and an Archive display to peruse.
• Music A lovely bit of mellow acoustic stuff in between screenings  - more detail soon.

It is going to be a really great day and we also have some fantastic Radio to accompany it, including me, James Richardson, Jamie Ward, Ellie and Alisha, as well as some new faces inculding Zoe Peach, Chloe Gerrard, Caitlin Wright and Sam Wilkinson.

On the day you will be able to listen to us via the interwebs, by logging on to the alrewas Arts Fest website: www.alrewas-artsfest.co.uk and clicking on the link which will take you through to you default media browser, and play our beautiful voices on your computers! Please also make sure your sound is not on mute...

We can't wait!

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Alrewas Radio Update 27/07/13

Well here we are on the barge on the 4th day of this stint of Alrewas Radio, and everything is going smoothly. At least it was until about 5 minutes ago, when Jamie decided it would be a good idea to remove the power from the internet router and see what that did. Turns out it turns the internet off, freezes the computer and stops the broadcast. Oh dear.

Despite the technical trouble, we are just reflecting on how good the actual quality of the radio, and the quality of the broadcasting is this time round. With the new set up, of micing up each presenter individually, and also using a mixer box with preamps and xlr signals means that we can actually be more focused and comfortable on what we are doing and therefore there is more room for banter in this situation.

The interactions between the presenters on their shows is also a lot better. Everyone is more confident at being on air and that means that they can be relaxed and have more fluent conversations. 

Also the allocation of shows means that there is a more regular and reliable, within reason of people being ill and people having to work of course, but we have done this for 3 runs, so we are starting to establish a balance of the presenters that work really well and flow nicely. 

In retrospect, the one show that has been a bit dodgy has been the decades hour at the end of the day. It hasn't at all been the decades it was supposed to be and has turned more into an "anybody and anything" show. Maybe we should just leave this open as one of those shows, or maybe find somebody else to do it, as opposed to people who have already done a show during the day.

We would really like to know what you think and any suggestions that you have so please let us know, you can email them to alrewasradio@hotmail.co.uk, or you can write on the page or in the group on facebook: www.facebook.com/alrewasradio or you can tweet us @AlrewasRadio

Thank you very much for your continued support and loyalty to your local internet radio station.

Alrewas Radio... Yesturday: 24/7/13

This post is basically to reflect on the events of yesterday and to fill you in on all the latest behind the scenes action. I mean, for a start everything went without a technical hitch, so that was the first thing that amazed us all and really started the day in the very best possible way. Not only that, but it was lovely to be able to be on the boat. I mean what a brilliant way of getting around. It is slow and effortless, and nothing happens at any pac on the canals, it is all so relaxed.

One of the things that was really nice about actually being on the boat is the fact that we had a space we could call ours. Not someone else's cupboard or garage, but a proper Alrewas Radio HQ.

What was also nice about yesterday was the way that people instantly fell back into being on the radio and were able to pick where they left off last time and move back into DJing with ease. 

The 3rd and final thing that I would like to comment on about yesterday was the participation from you guys, the listeners. There were so many tweets and requests and things coming in that we didn't have enough time to read them and play them all, but it was just so nice as the presenters to have that level of participation from our listenership. 

There was also things which we can improve on and will improve on today. For example, little teething troubles with the new mics, and also the operators who are using them as to where they speak from, whether it be too close or too far away, and also actually remembering to turn his co-presenters microphone actually on!

Thanks for listening yesterday if you did, and if you didn't then make sure you do today, by simply clicking on this link below: 

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Bye!

Alrewas Radio Film?

With all this modernisation to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook that seems to be going on, not to even mention Instagram and Vine and all of this, I am thinking about making an Alrewas Radio Behind The Scenes type film at the Alrewas Canal And Music Festival.

This will hopefully include some of the stuff that we do, filmed from our perspective. I know that Jim and Pete Ralley are hopefully going to make a video too, but I want this one to be a bit vloggy and a bit rough around the edges, for us to be able to tell you about how we do things. 

If you think this is a good idea, then please tweet us @AlrewasRadio or comment on this post with anything you would like to see in the video, to give us some ideas of what you guys want to see as well as what we want to show you!

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