Rare FM

Last Friday saw the closure of one of the smallest galleries within the Science Museum: ‘On Air’. Sponsored by Capital FM, this featured a tiny radio studio and had a set of computers with some interactive software. Mostly, if you walked past it, you’d just see a bored-looking explainer (the museum’s term for the staff [...]

Party Season

December 14, 2005, 2:12 pm

One thing that’s great about the run up to Christmas is all the parties you get invited to. I’m determined to go all-out for it this year, and am currently going to: Work do Work lunch Friends’ parties x2 Friend’s gig Internet meet Night out with girlfriend Added to that list are the two I [...]

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Rare FM, On FM (again)

September 23, 2005, 11:16 pm

Rare FM, the student radio station for UCL I once managed and DJed on, is now back on 87.7FM in central London, from today until 2nd October. Well worth tuning into if you’re in central London, or listening to online if you’re not. Especially if you’re a UCL fresher… They will apparently be broadcasting live [...]

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Coming Soon: Podcast Con

August 23, 2005, 4:47 pm

I thought I’d just quickly give Podcast Con, a UK conference on podcasting, a quick plug, as it looks like a great event. The sign up list is a simple wiki, and it costs £30 pounds, which includes some food. Oh and it’s on Saturday 17 September in London. I’ve already signed up, in fact [...]

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After a recent lull in terms of my radio broadcasting activity, I’ve decided to launch a new weekly radio show this Thursday. Now that I’ve finished Uni, I have some time once again to put a real effort into preparing shows, and I’m looking forward to getting creative again. The show will be broadcast on [...]

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Rare FM Launches Podcast

March 26, 2005, 12:57 pm

Rare FM (the student radio station for UCL that I’ve spent the last three years working with) has just launched a podcast of its audio content. Cutting edge! P.S Well done to Ed, who did all this. I just watched.

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Robots IMAX Review

March 22, 2005, 12:07 am

Sophie Norton has written a review of the IMAX version of Robots for the Rare FM website, after we sent her along to a special press preview screening a week ago. The film section of the Rare FM website is developing nicely, under the editorship of Helen Weston, who also hosts the Film Show, Thursdays [...]

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The Chav Buzzword Backlash

February 26, 2005, 6:30 pm

The backlash against the sudden rise to popularity of the term ‘Chav’ as an insultory term seems to have well and truly started. The term itself has been around for ages – it was bandied about tons during my years at a sixth form in Essex three years ago – but seemed to be everywhere [...]

Rare FM EasyJs Night

January 26, 2005, 2:41 am

Tonight, Rare FM hosted a band night at UCL Union, with three bands playing, and Rare FM finishing the night with a DJ set. It went really well. There was a great turnout, with over 120 people attending (which was especially nice as all the money went to Rare FM). The bands were all pretty [...]

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Creative Commons: Resolutions Fulfilled

December 16, 2004, 7:08 pm

The clever people at Creative Commons have posted a great blog evalutating how many of last year’s resolutions their project, to encourage creative sharing and remixing of content, has fulfilled. It’s impressive stuff. I’ve wanted to build some Creative Commons stuff into Rare FM for a while. There’s a great opportunity there as you wouldn’t [...]

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