We take an odd approach to our Podcast, which showcases some highlights from the weekly ATL broadcast.
We always record it literally moments after we finish our show on a Monday night. Our heads are always fuzzy after a long day, our game faces packed away for the evening - myself and Stu already thinking about supper and bed.
Weird then that it’s always great fun. Without the time constraints of the live show (squeezing as much music into our two hour slot is obviously the priority) and with a slightly looser approach to what we allow ourselves to chat about - the links are usualy a little nonsensical, often pretty daft and always entirely unpredictable. In last week’s podcast, for example, at around 11 minutes in you’ll hear Peter, from the production team, attempt to introduce Aaron James McClelland, explaining how he’d previously worked under the moniker Fonzerelli.
This led to Peter telling us how he’d once recognised Henry Winkler in a lift and - for some reason thought it was just a mate who’s name he’d forgotten. Peter did the whole ‘haven’t seen you in ages’ routine with - bizarrely - the Fonz playing along. Then Stu revealed how he’d once been mistaken for Van Morrison while at Glastonbury, which provoked me to tell the story about a time I accidentally became Gary Lightbody for a good ten minutes. Inevitably, all three of us completely forgot what we were doing and the act we’d attempted to introduce. ‘What were we talking about again?’ is basically the podcast catchphrase.
This week, Ophelia put paid to our podcast. With the exception of news, all Radio Ulster broadcasts were abandoned on Monday evening, due to travel concerns for our production team and engineers in our studio. Needless to say, it’d take more than ‘a bit of a breeze’ to stop me and Stu bringing you the finest in local music every week - but hey - health and safety.
With no show, there was no content to talk about. So - in a curious move - rather than record you guys a podcast, I’m taking the time I would have spent doing so to tell you that the service exists. If the lack of a radio show on Monday left a local music shaped hole in your week, you can go and download to your hearts content - listening to live music picks and brand new tracks we've deemed worth promoting from playlist to podcast. All stitched together with unmitigated, unedited nonsense from team ATL. And unlike live radio, you can fast forward through the talking…
- Rigsy
