P to the Cee

After a break of a week, we’re back on Saturday with live music on The Midsweep. Rase are coming in to have a chat and play some of their songs in acoustic form for us.

This is ahead of perhaps our most daring show next week, featuring The Amateurs and The Benwahs both performing live in the studio.

Things are developing on the show at an alarming pace, and we’ll also be recording each show independently and putting it up on Midsweep.com and SoundCloud, so you won’t miss a thing.

Since the age of 8, I’ve always had an interest in radio. My friend Dave and I used to spend hours over the Summer and Easter holidays recording our “show”. We’d play music, do interviews and even made up an actual football league using a combination of Actua Soccer on the PC and a Fußball table.

When I started podcasting, that interest was rekindled. For the 4 years I did bitjobs for the masses! I taught myself audio and video production, how to structure a show and interviewed a variety of musicians both over the phone and in person.

At the beginning of the year I was itching to further those skills and get in to radio proper. I’d heard of Rhubarb Radio from the Birmingham based twitter users I follow and after a little look on the site, expressed my interest for one of their training courses.

Fast forward a few months and I’ve been offered the Saturday morning slot – 10am – 12pm and will be taking the Midsweep show over to Rhubarb in the next couple of weeks.

This is a very exciting time for me and I plan on letting you guys in on how it all goes here and on twitter. If you’re interested in getting involved in the show in whatever aspect, get in touch. I’m looking to bring together a team of people to help source local music, organised interviews and get some marketing out there.