I’ve decided not to bother
launching BlogCast at the end of this month. It
was originally going to be a bit of a ramble with some new music, but I can’t find
a way to make that concept any different to The Sunday Alternative
which will focus on new music. There would be too much of a cross contamination
between the two things if I was doing something that confused people, and
people are easily confused. Talking to my friend Craig (Barwell, comedian and
Prefontaine member) tonight at Glee, we are going to attempt to launch a comedy
podcast. The three of us, I’d love Gary to join in, got together a little while
ago one night and just spent the whole night making each other laugh with a
series of conversations that thankfully wasn’t recorded otherwise we would have
been thrown out of Nottingham. Without bothering ourselves too much with a
script or an idea of what happens once we press record, we are just going to go
for it and to hell with the consequences. If people think its good then that’s
just a bonus. Most of my work has been for my own enjoyment and I think that is
the key to producing something popular, as your enthusiasm cannot be
fabricated. It isn’t a new idea by any means; The Collings
and Herrin Podcast is something that we are all fans of, and even
that idea went back to the days of Derek and Clive, (imagine what a great
podcaster and tweeter Peter Cook would be) so we aren’t going to break new
ground by recording ourselves talking random shit for an hour, but it will
hopefully be entertaining.
The idea of BlogCast came about from a suggestion that my dad made a
while ago. A podcast that was emailed to the listeners harks back to the days
of joining a postal mailing list and being sent gifts every now and then. In
theory it is a brilliant idea, but the take up of potential listeners meant
that not enough people would hear it. I set up a specific email address for it
and invited people to send a blank email to register but for the amount of
people that did so it would not be worth doing, not even monthly. I still think
that somewhere down the line it will be recognised as a good idea and someone
will take it and run with it, but that someone won’t be me. It was seven years
ago that I came up with the idea for a ‘television’ show on the Internet, but I
had to wait until everyone understood what it meant before I could actually go
ahead and do it. The video version of The Sunday Alternative
is pretty much the bones of an idea I had in 2007 for a series called The Pod, but 2007 wasn’t ready for such a thing. YouTube in
those days was a place to upload short clips, not proper shows, and the camera
phones of 2007 only recorded about two minutes of pixilated video. The Sunday Alternative will now run as an audio podcast and
a video series, a development I am looking forward to exploring. I already miss
the thrill of live radio but at least the name is carrying on. I’m hoping as
many people as possible listen to it as soon as it is released, so at least
everyone can share in it at the same time, which will in turn give it a live
feel even though people are only listening to a pre-recorded (on the Saturday
to keep it as fresh as possible) podcast.
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