Alrewas Canal And Music Festival

So here we are at the end of an absolutely brilliant 5 days of radio, music, beer and community spirit. With regards to the post I wrote last weekend about The Alrewas show, I just wanted to expand on a few points.

There is one thing that always gets me about this village that I live in. There is a great amount of different groups and organisations in the village that do lots of good things for the village. Now it is all very well and good having this, but what makes thing extra special is when they all get together in 1 big event like the Alrewas Show or the Arts Festival or the Canal and Music Festival, each part encorperating a different part of our village heritage: the canals, the arts and the creativity and the agricultural side of the village community, that pays tribute to the fact that the village was once upon a time just a group of farm buildings.

There are plenty of other things that inspire me about this type of event. Just general people trying to make a difference to the world in which they live in, starting with the local community. Not only are there lots of hassles involved with organising these type of events, but they are also very time consuming and require a lot of dedication and commitment from lots of people involved, to the point where people are sleeping in marquees to make sure nobody pinches the beer in the middle of the night!

These type of events inevitably come with their own problems to sort out and with organising so many people together, if one person doesn't pull their weight then the whole thing could have a negative effect on the whole chain of things.

Having organised the radio for this event and others similar, there is so much of it that can prove to be so tricky and time-consuming that to be organising the whole event is a mammoth task in itself!

However, it is the end result that is really something inspiring. If you achieve something as succesful and as memorable as you achieve with these events, not only making people aware of the great things that go on in the village, but also raising so much money for the local community, organisations and groups is an absolutely brilliant thing to have and something that is really good for us to be able to say that we have been part of.

And it is for those reasons that I am proud to say that I am from Alrewas. Community participation and generosity of time, to make things happen for the good of the entire community, that I will miss when I go off to university in September and leave the village.

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Alrewas Radio Update 10/7/13

Seeing as we lie only 14 days from the launch of Alrewas Radio's summer 2013, I thought I better bring you right up to date with what is going on.

As of the 24th of July you will be able to listen live to the wonderful Alrewas Radio between the hours of 10am-5pm at tinyurl.com/alrewasradio to a great variety of music and chat with local presenters and artists alongside the Alrewas Canal and Music Festival 2013. This is something we have been planning for a while and something that all the guys at Alrewas Radio are really looking forward to it.

The schedule is as follows: 
Broadcasting from the Wednesday 24th July - Sunday 28th July:

James Richardson starts the morning 10-11 with his brunch show, a great way to start off the day on the Alrewas Radio Barge, with lots of special guests popping in for a hongover recovery bacon sarnie and a shower.

Tom and Jamie then take over from 11-1pm with returning features such as Barge of No Barge, as well as some interviews with local artists and organisers of the Alrewas Barge Fest, and hopefully talking to a spokesperson from the Neighbourhood Plan going on in the village at the minute.

Then it is over to Rob to take you through lunch, with some light and relaxing tunes while you enjoy your Hog Roast or your chips or a great british pup lunch, maybe some award winning sausages and pork pie from Peter Coates Butchers.

Dan and James Ruttley, the terrible 2, will be progressing on into the afternoon, 2-3pm. They are new presenters to Alrewas Radio and great things to expect from them.

Tom Leedham, and old favourite, 3-4pm, returning with the Tom Leedham Show, aptly names because his name is Tom Leedham and he is doing a show.

Rounded off untill 5pm with Tom and James, with the decades show, a feature that was part of Alrewas Radio Summer 2012 as part of the 4th Alrewas Arts Festival. Taking a slightly different stance this time, looking for some really good tunes and hopefully some special guests too!

So that is how the Alrewas Radio Canal and Music Festival Station is shaping up, and it is certainly something that we are all really looking forward to and we hope you are too!

After that, as the summer gets properly underway, we are looking to do a week of Radio, to introduce lots of new presenters and also to establish some new tech that we are hoping to invest in, and train everybody on how to use that. It should be a great opportunity for new people from in and around the village to get involved and we hope to encourage a lot of talent there is in the village to participate in something in the community.

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Moggy Update 7/7/13

After spending an absolutely scorching afternoon in England (we only get 2 a year so I have to let everyone know) in a Park with LOADS AND LOADS of cars, I thought I would take this moment of inspiration to fill you in on the progress (or not-so-progress) on Lucy.

I always like talking about things I am going to do. It means I can sound like a very busy person, when, in reality, I do bugger all. Until now. Tomorrow is D-Day. That's right, the weather forecast says 27 degrees, working party has been gathered and the order has been placed at the chippy and the tab opened at the pub.

We Are Ready.

About 8.30 tomorrow morning I will be starting to strip Lucy ( naughty :0 ) of her varnish, and make her look really stunning with a new coat of the finest UV Waterproof Protection Oil, and some standard issue brown wood filler, to get this baby looking hot. 

As I sit here listening the Gentlemen by PSY, I can't help but feel inspired. If you are unsure as to what I mean (which you should be, I will put it that way) just watch the video on YouTube, along with the other 50 bilion people, and imagine Lucy in that film... And also not Korean...

So I will by seeing my fellow Morris Minor Enthusiasts bright and early in the morning, where we will finally get this bloomin' job done. 

I can't wait to make some progress to be honest with you, and hope this will be a catalyst to loads more good work to come.

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