Backstage at this year’s V Festival, Ben Stones managed to catch up with Scottish pop-sensation Alex Gardner. You can hear the full interview on Scratch Radio during Freshers, but for now here’s a taster of what’s to come.
Scratch Radio has been out and about throughout the summer, you can hear the highlights of our antics when we’re back on air in September.
Ok, so it’s been a while since our last blog but this one is uber exciting so it’s all ok.
For those of you not up on Scratch festival news, a few weeks ago our very own Wil Vincent managed to get into Sonisphere Festival and got to chat to quite a few well known acts from the lineup. Well, in case you missed the Facebook update, this weekend Rich Skelding has made his way into Bloodstock festival and will be bringing you all the highlights when he gets back!
It’s not just rock and metal that we’re covering though, it was revealed the other week that our very own Ben Stones will be popping along to this year’s sold out V Festival in Weston Park. He’s going to attempt to chat to a few of the big names on the lineup.
You can keep up with news, interviews and pictures from all the festivals we’re covering on Facebook, Twitter and the blog. We’ll also be bringing you all the festival highlights throughout Freshers in September!
It’s not just our festival coverage that’s exciting at the moment, our studio move is now well underway. Whilst we will be off air for a short period of time, this means we can move all our equipment and (carefully) attempt to put together the new studio in time for September.
In other news, for those of you who have recently logged onto the website, you may have noticed that we’ve managed to fix both the webcam and our streaming! We locked Ben in the studio until he fixed everything and he managed to get our webcam going. You can now log onto the website and see live pictures from our studio (or Scratch Studio 1 as it’s lovingly known).
Radio geeks out there will also be pleased to hear that we have now moved over to Shoutcast streaming technologies, which means for those who haven’t been able to connect to our stream before should now be able to listen! All you have to do is log onto the website and click ‘Listen Live’, which will launch our all new listen live player.
So, if that’s not enough exciting news for you then I don’t know what is! Stay tuned to our Facebook page for updates on the new studio, new website and plans for Freshers, in the meantime look out for festival updates right here on the Scratch Blog.
You can listen again to the special show from last week online now. All you need to do is click the big orange play button on the player above and you can hear the highlights - well, the full show just without the music.
If you want to listen to us on the go or in your choice of media player you can also download the whole show, all you need to do is click the download button at the top of the player.
Please show your support for the fight against the cuts, sign the petition and join the Facebook groups.
In response to the university-wide funding cuts and the extensive £1.4million cuts to the Faculty of PME announced this week, Scratch Radio is bringing you two hours of live discussion and debate this Friday from 2pm.
Join Dan Richards and representatives of the student-body and Students’ Union to air your opinions and get an idea of the impact of the vast cuts proposed. We’re also hoping to make the show available to download as a podcast from our main website.
In the last week, it has been announced that there will be £1.4million of cuts from the Faculty of PME - which works out at £230,000 funding cuts from the UK’s leading School of Media. Leading to a 30% decrease in the number of staff and equipment within the department, and the proposed closure of a number of specialisms, Scratch is backing the fight against the cuts.
Join the fight against the cuts now! You can find more information on the two Facebook groups Protect the PME Faculty from £1.4MILLION cuts and Save Birmingham School of Media from £230,000 cuts.
On tomorrow’s show we want to hear what you think. How will the cuts impact you? And, more importantly, what can be done? Get in touch with the studio on all the usual ways - check out the main site for more information.
Make sure you’re tuned in tomorrow from 2pm and make sure you join the fight against the university-wide cuts. What do you think needs to be done?
