Our magical #SummerofFestivals2016 (can that be a thing please?) continues with Tramlines next week in Sheffield. The festival is pretty unique in putting music on across different venues in the City, including the Cathedral, and we play you music from the festival as well as speaking to Head of Live Bookings from Tramlines, Kate. Make sure you stay tuned as we bring you coverage next weekend.
Many pop punk kids in Student Radio will remember the legacy that Good Charlotte left in the noughties and now they are back with a new album and a UK tour. Music Officer Scott Hastie chats to them about the album and their upcoming Reading & Leeds performance. #GoodCharlotte #RandL #ReadingFestival #ReadingAndLeeds
The clock is ticking to get entries in for the Student Radio Awards 2016, check out our latest podcast for hints, tips, advice and inspiration from previous winners, judges and industry professionals. Enter here: https://www.studentradio.org.uk/awards/
The Summer of 2016 has been a huge summer of festivals for the SRA with backstage attendance at the likes of T in the Park, 2000 Trees and many more! In the middle of July we go backstage at the weirdly named Truck Festival, which unfortunately is nothing to do with trucks! Boo! However what it does have is some of the biggest names in music, from Kodaline to Mystery Jets, from Moose Blood to Manic Street Preachers! Check out our preview podcast here including an interview with Festival Manager ...
Listen to Jen Thomas and Tom Glenwright preview this years T in the Park, as they get ready to represent us backstage at the festival! #TinthePark #SRA #StudentRadio #Podcast
Field Day 2016 is a yearly outdoor festival that takes place in Victoria Park in London. This year we managed to blag ourselves backstage access, so we sent Phoenix Martins and Harriet Wynter along to capture everything that went on! #FieldDay #StudentRadio
University Radio York decided to air a marathon 101 hour outside broadcast all in order to raise funds for Cancer Research. How did they get on? Find out on the latest Student Radio Podcast #URY #StudentRadio
We're reporting from London's Field Day next week - and here's what to expect from the weekend! Also, we head to URB at the University of Bath, who's playlist on Radio 1 had us swooning! (Well, probably not, but it was very romantic/lust-filled.) Enjoy! #URB #Radio #Romance #Love #Festivals #Music
We head to Spark Fm in Sunderland as they cover Magic Weekend, basically lots of Rugby, and then we recap City Radio in Glasgow as they takeover Radio 1 with the Student Radio Playlist
We head to Livewire 1350 and William Shears who talks us through the EU Referendum in true student radio style and then to Manchester and Fuse FM for a live session and chat with Ady Suleiman
Jordan Harrop from The Cat Radio at the University of Chester, presents his documentary outlining what it takes to get yourself a job in the Radio Industry with input from industry professionals #StudentRadio #TheCatRadio #RadioDocumentary
CSR, Canterbury's Community & Student Radio station, recently did an outside broadcast at local music festival City Sound Project. We catch two interviews the station did at the festival with Mystery Jets and BB Diamond. Aswell as this we recap another amazing #StudentRadioPlaylist this time with Insanity Radio
Spark in Sunderland stayed up very late the other week to bring live coverage of the local elections in their area. Incoming SRA Music Officer and former Sparkie Scott Hastie takes us through how it went down! #SparkFm #LocalElections
Jack Wood, the current SRA Music Officer takes us through some of the best music related bits from student radio including sessions from XPress Radio in Cardiff and also from One Media Radio Then we recap The Student Radio Playlist on BBC Radio 1, this week taken over by Dragon Radio in Cardiff presenting their best Welsh Rock Anthems! #BBCR1 #WelshRock #XPressRadio
Junction11 from Reading University celebrated their 18th Birthday on the 30th April, and current student and alumni alike got together to host a day of radio-y goodness. Here, Junction 11's Matthew Hall takes us through the highlights of the weekend. #Junction11 #radio #birthday #student
Our reporter Sam Spencer from Radio Sonar explains what happened at this year's NUS Conference. We then give a run down of Smoke Radio's SCHOOL DISCO(!) music choices from their BBC Radio 1 Student Radio Playlist, broadcast on the 9th of May. Excellent. #BBCR1 #NUS #Politics
Emma Bradshaw off of the SRA follows URY (University of York) and Bailrigg FM (Lancaster University) follows their Roses 2016 Roses coverage. It's a whole weekend of sport, with everything from cheerleading, to football, to rowing, to (umm) a Pokemon card battle. Yep. You read that right! Produced by Scott Hastie #Varsity #Sport #Lancaster #York
Daisy Smith from Smoke Radio showcases the best bits of the Student Radio Chart Show for 2015/16. We head to One Media Radio in Staffs, Forge Radio in Sheffield, LSR in Leeds and Livewire at East Anglia - where we hear them play 'Text the Ex'. SURELY nothing could go wrong! Finally, we hear your favourite tracks of the year in our Top Five.
Jodie Bryant presents a show all about Spark FM and the University Of Sunderland's MA students as they showcase their entries to The Charles Parker Prize. Featured here are: The Attraction of Tea Love Beyond the Womb The Easter Bell Somewhere on a Blue Horizon
It's a Varsity special! Xpression FM's Green Room, RaW 1251AM provide an alternative spin on Jamie Lawson - Wasn't Expecting That, and URN, Fly & Smoke Radio round things off with a special football podcast. #varsity #radio #football #student
Listen to the entries for Demo Factor that got AMAZING feedback: Charlotte Mason (Insanity), Chris Boyle (Spark) - who has now been asked to pilot for Capital Scotland, Sian Cooper (Livewire), Ella Atcheson (Rare FM), and overall winner Matt Curtis (Fly FM) - we hear from them AND the judges about what makes a great radio demo. #Demo #Radio #RadioJobs
Incoming Music Officer Scott Hastie talks to Xpress Radio about their 20th Birthday celebrations, which includes a miniature festival with up and coming bands set in the middle of Cardiff. Spark Sunderland display some impressive live music, and Fly FM dedicate a day to Nottingham's local music scene.
Editor Aled Haydn Jones (@ahj), producer Chris Sawyer (@ahchrissawyer), and assistant producer Roushan Alam (@roushanalam) join us to explain how you could get a show on BBC Radio 1. They answer your questions and give you some tips for the application process as the deadline (April 15th) looms.
Paula Hughes, regional news editor of Global in Wales and BBC Newsbeat reporter and presenter Steffan Powell talk about getting into radio journalism... @paulahughesnews @thisisglobal @SteffanPowell @bbcnewsbeat
David Lloyd from #OrionMedia reminds #studentradio contributors that there are plenty of ways into a #radio career. Most involve the knowledge that you're not the best presenter out there. #radiojobs For more student radio news please follow twitter.com/sra Podcast by Darius Gilani (@dgscribbles)
Podcasters Darius and Jodie asked #SRACon attendees to pronounce the longest word in #Welsh. The results were disastrous. Here are a few of our favourite attempts. #Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch #SRA For more student radio goodies follow us on twitter.com/sra Podcasters: @dgscribbles and @jodierosebryant
Roo got hold of #LBC's Ian Collins after his keynote at #SRACon to talk about what it is that makes talk radio so addictive, and why there are so few youngsters on-air. Additionally, Ian gives us all a lesson in how to deal with strange phone-ins - specifically, a conspiracy theorist from Maidstone called Barry. Follow us on Twitter for lots more: http://twitter.com/sra Podcaster: http://twitter.com/ mrroo @lbc...
#ChrisNorth of #NorthMediaTalent brought some recent graduates to #SRACon in #CardiffUniversity this year. Together, they exchanged tips about transitioning from #studentradio to professional radio. Here, Jack (an #SRASelector winner), Ross from @Radio-X, Sammy (last year's #DemoFactor champion), and Johnny from @BBCGlos discuss entering competitions, on-air nerves, beer pong and village fetes. To top it off, #ChrisNorth gives you some exclusive DO's and DONT's when you're approaching an industr...
Dan Moss from BBC Radio 1's residency programme gives his top tips on how to get into a career in specialist music. @OhDanMoss @BBCR1
#DaveCribb & #ChrisSawyer talked at #SRACon about cleverly organising an hour of broadcasting via the use of clocks (like a pie chart)! How do you build them, how do you get the best out of them, and how can speech radio utilise the approach? Follow us on Twitter for lots more: http://twitter.com/sra Podcaster: http://twitter.com/ mrroo
