Sidney Grove Sunday returns

After a few weeks break from groundcutting and edgebreaking netcasting (without any fish being hurt) I have been prompted to return to your Sunday morning ears by the saddest event.

On Thursday evening John Kings died - you don't know him but I do. He spent the last 30 years working to improve the lives of rural Africans, latterly through the organisation run by himself and Mary his wife in South Africa, www.tsogang.org - I was privileged to help that work for a few weeks in 2009 after leaving Culture Lab.

John was an amazing bloke and we shared a love of music some of which I would like to share with you on Sunday.

Steve Dales

New shows

Watch out for a number of new daytime shows on Culture Lab Radio from the students of the Radio Art & Broadcast Media module at our friendly neighbourhood music department, The International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University, starting in the week beginning October 17th!

New New New

New things!
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You might not notice it, but today we've introduced a whole raft of changes to the station, which will help it to run more smoothly and our DJs to do even better shows!

- New streaming server!

We've been beavering away for months building a brand new streaming server, using the LiquidSoap streaming programming language (http://savonet.sourceforge.net/) This will improve the way we handle shows from remote locations and automatic playlist generation when there's no one actually live on air.

Plus!

- New broadcast mixer!
- New studio iMac!
- New Mp3 DJ control surface!
- New shiny website (coming soon....)

Yes, we're also hoping to launch a fresher, cleaner website to go along with all these other changes, which will highlight our research role as well as providing quick access to the stream.

Update your bookmarks

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If you currently listen to the stream using software like VLC or Winamp, rather than through the website, then you may need to update your bookmarks. Visit http://culturelabradio.ncl.ac.uk/ to grab an updated m3u or xspf playlist.

Get involved
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You can post your comments, suggestions and feedback by mentioning our twitter username (@culturelabradio) or visiting our Facebook page at http://faceboook.com/culturelabradio

If you want to get involved in the station then email us at culturelabradio@ncl.ac.uk

Nobody blogs these days

Nobody blogs here anymore so as an act of protest I'm not blogging either.





Ah................well..........




In that case as long as you listen to Sidney Grove Sunday there's no need to care about anything else becasue they don't care about you Not like me anyway..look I'm blogging for you.

Doctors, disease, dysfunction and death.

Watch this space - John Spencer (DJ ProfJohn to you) is giving up the African habit in favour of these things close to his heart...

Culture Lab Radio DJ gets own blog and puts it on Culture Lab Radio blog

Hello,

http://sidneygrovesunday.blogspot.com/

You can download the latest edition if you wish.

Steve

Aaah the canny sound of the ukulele!

As part of her series of radioshows "Speakerbox" (currently on a break), Lalya Gaye dedicated a session to the cheerful bundle of joy that is the ukulele. Beautiful!
Find below the show's playlist and links to some Newcastle-based (or not) ukulele resources:

Playlist!

The Bobby McGee's - "Sussex Uni Solipsits Society"
The Bobby McGee's - "Coalmine Kampf 1984"
George Formby - "Why Don't Women Like Me"
Lila Burns - "Zombie Song, and Apology"
Abd Al Malik - "Ma Jolie"
Lykke Li - "Little Bit"
Beirut - "Postcards from Italy"
Florence + The Machine - "Postcards from Italy (Beirut Cover)"
Florence + The Machine - "Dog Days"
Beirut - "Elephant Gun"
Beirut - "Transatlantique"
Jens Lekman - "Your Arms Around Me"
The Bobby McGee's - "When Father Died, Ferrets Licked Away the Tears"
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps (not ukulele but should be!)
Ben Westbeech - "So Good Today" (same!)
Orla Garland - "Heya (Outkast cover)"
Lila Burns - "Young Hearts Young Minds"
Bella Hemming - "You're Just My Cup of Tea"
uke3453 - "I'm yours (ukulele cover)"

Links!

Where to play the ukulele in Newcastle? Ukes4Fun! Cumberland Arms, Thursdays 6pm-8pm, and Biscuit Factory, Sundays 2pm-4pm.

Where to buy a decent ukulele for a good price? Hound Dog Music in Whitley Bay! (Monkseaton metro station, yellow line)

How to learn online? Besides yootoob (yootewb?): Ukehunt and PlayUkuleleByEar! (They also have very good ebooks and DVDs) and of course Ukulele University!

And if you're ever down south, go join the The Ukulele Research and Development Society (T.U.R.D.S)!

The Sound of Things

a new weekly show on Culture Lab radio investigating the sound of materials, items, objects and stuff. each week we are treated to a sampling (both live and recorded) of wood, zipper, wind, water, tape, soil, snow, skin, sand, rubber, rice, plastic, paper, money, metal, ice, hair, gold, glass, cotton, concrete, chain, brick... trace a sonic path through the world of things with your host, Jamie Allen:

http://thesoundofthings.tumblr.com/

International Women's Day with Lizzie and John Spencer

Another culture lab radio first - father and daughter presenting together to celebrate International Women's Day.
Find the links here for the campaigns that Lizzie has presented:
www.vso.org.uk
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/manukyanfamily/
http://www.ihollaback.org/
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/
http://www.womenforwomen.org/
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
www.myspace.com/thefreemantle

Join first Oxfam group on March 22nd at the Bridge Hotel at 7.30pm
Oxfam fundraiser for International Womens Day Friday 11th March from 8pm at Cumberland Arms