May 26, 2006
XFM PODCAST NEWS
EXCLUSIVE PODCAST OUTTAKE: RADIOHEAD GIG
As I write, our fourth podcast should be available any minute. People seem to be digging them, although I haven’t read the comments on I-tunes, apart from the nice ones at the top. I’m so excited that we’re in the top 10! We’ve never been in any chart and being right up there next to Gervais, Moyles, The Now Show etc. is making me unaccountably delighted. I’ve no idea how many people actually download the things, I imagine it’s not very many, but still, it’s a chart and we’re in it! If you haven’t yet subscribed, then I implore you to head to I-tunes or the Xfm website and keep my pathetic dreams from crumbling into a poo pile.
I continue to struggle with the business of actually trawling through the old shows for material to go in the podcasts. It seems as if either Joe or I or both of us were bad mood every other week for about 2 years and it doesn’t make for very enjoyable listening. As I’ve said before on this blog, I feel as if we’ve only just started to get into our stride on radio so picking out moments that aren’t totally cringey from the last three years is hard. Plus there’s all the space filling items like some of the competitions and Ditties In The Dock and such that wouldn’t really work on the podcasts.
We’ve continued trying to record a few new bits which we started off doing at my house but the sound quality was quite different from the broadcast clips so Joe suggested we go into Xfm and record a few bits there. Ignoring the fact that we are supposed to be taking a break from Xfm to work on other things we went in the last week and had a good time talking shite for an hour or so. Unfortunately when I got home and started to load the stuff into my computer, it turned out that the mic I was using was inexplicably tinny and totally different sounding to Joe’s. So we’ve ended up with a load of stuff that sounds much worse than it would have done if we’d done it at home. Ho hum. We’ll sort it next time. Perhaps most people don’t mind too much.
The funny thing about recording when you’re not going out live is that my internal bullshit filter apparently fails to activate. Witness this discussion about a Radiohead gig that descends into a sub Late Review monologue from me about the ‘dichotomy at the heart of Radiohead’. Jesus. I think I was thinking about trying to be deliberately pretentious as a joke, and then just forgot the joke part. I won’t be submitting this for podcast inclusion, so consider it a shameful blog exclusive!
Now subscribe! Subscribe! If Russel Brand beats us (as good as he is) I’m going to have to kill some animals.