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Radio To Go: A Birmingham Broadcast trail
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Midlands music stories from Robin Valk. With a side of Radio. Sunday, 26 July 2015. A Birmingham Broadcast trail. Not quite a trail of tears, but close. Before even more threats line up for the last remnants of local broadcasting - through a toxic combination of cost-cutting, indifference, incompetence and government hostility. You might like to take this walk. Aston Cross: Radio House. The trail starts with Radio House at Aston Cross. Later to become ATV. Launched in 1974, with ATV as shareholders, they...
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Radio To Go: So what does YOUR station think you should be hearing?
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Midlands music stories from Robin Valk. With a side of Radio. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. So what does YOUR station think you should be hearing? Music tastes change. So should station libraries. More friendly advice for the Beeb from the Times Flickr - Shawn Kincade. Who want to see serious BBC production at all levels back in the Midlands. But as I've said before, the Beeb is unique; it delivers brilliant programmes; we need it. Local radio and music. S Radio Today industry podcast. It's a bit like the co...
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Radio To Go: The problem with promoting: you almost certainly won't get rich. But you may have big fun.
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Midlands music stories from Robin Valk. With a side of Radio. Sunday, 2 August 2015. The problem with promoting: you almost certainly won't get rich. But you may have big fun. DieDasDer talk of many things: of promoters, cabbages and kings. Welcome to the world of promoters. Promoters - they're all bastards, right? Promoters are generally seen as a rapacious bunch, only too ready to fleece musicians within an inch of their lives; funnily enough, I don't see much of that locally. Mostly - not always -...
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Radio To Go: Pilot Project
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Midlands music stories from Robin Valk. With a side of Radio. I passionately believe in. P. Art of the British Library New Music Network,. To create a national archive of new music, curated regionally, by people from the local music industry. Because we live in a. Golden age of new music creativity. Musicians have the tools to create their own material, and to collaborate and experiment more freely than ever before. Some of the results are stunning. We owe it to ourselves to document this. For the projec...
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Radio To Go: Voice work
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Midlands music stories from Robin Valk. With a side of Radio. With 40 and more years behind microphones, I have huge experience in voicing for commercials, talking books, industrial videos and more. Here's a WRS Geneva. Spot for a Joe Bonamassa gig, recorded at Savin Productions. Here's a trailer interview for Notorious, a highly innovative Birmingham Choir. And here's a video from the Masked Art. Website, who had me add English commentary to the. Venice-based art historian Guerrino Lovato.
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Radio To Go: Pledging My Love with Boat To Row
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Midlands music stories from Robin Valk. With a side of Radio. Sunday, 19 July 2015. Pledging My Love with Boat To Row. A modest crowdfunding appeal to get their album pressed: 88% of target in 16 days. Great going. Chatting with Boat To Row. Is a pleasure. They're great company, and damn fine musicians to boot. The band has quietly built up a very loyal fan base in their six years. Now they're working that fan base. We met for coffee in Brum this week: me and three band members. The other two? I think th...
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Still Got The Fever: September 2014
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Still Got The Fever. Search Still Got The Fever. Thursday, 4 September 2014. Robert Plant : Lullaby and . The Ceaseless Roar review. Rock giant Robert Plant returns with a new album on Monday - one he has described as “a celebratory record, powerful, gritty, African, trance meets Led Zeppelin”. And he’s certainly not afraid to explore the avenues of the past without retreading old ground, mixing and matching influences, marrying East and West, and then adding new twists. Rainbow: An atmospheric song that...
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Radio To Go: You think you've got choices? The Musicbiz would rather you didn't
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Midlands music stories from Robin Valk. With a side of Radio. Sunday, 7 June 2015. You think you've got choices? The Musicbiz would rather you didn't. FIFA may be dodgy, but try looking at the hype industry. The Music business has a long and unsavoury history of dodgy deals. Back in the 30s, song pluggers would pitch songs for their publishing company bosses, first when selling sheet music in music shops, and later pitching material to record companies and band leaders. Even. Well quite a lot. Green and ...
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Radio To Go: August 2015
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Midlands music stories from Robin Valk. With a side of Radio. Sunday, 30 August 2015. Draw it, print it, put it up. See it get nicked. Lewes Herriot and the art of poster design. Depraved 19th century libertines, poster design, music promotion and Johnny Foreigner - the world of Lewes Herriot . If you have muso facebook friends and you live in Brum, youve probably seen Lewes Herriot. Lewes has been delivering catchy and stylish posters for Brum promoters This Is TMRW. For some time now. . Back in the day...
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