Thing is, afaik, the BBC has nothing to do with booking the artists. They just broadcast the sets and hold them on the iPlayer for a month after. Kneecap (and Bob Vylan) were booked by the Glastonbury organisers.

Someone uploaded it to WeTransfer if you’ve not found it elsewhere yet.

It’s a great set. Big Bob spitting facts from top to bottom.

Why should I change my name when he’s the one who sucks?

You mean Big Bob, of course.

Depending on what you’re doing, mind, the ends can justify the means. My radio show is two hours on air each week. But to get to those two hours…

Log all the suggestions from listeners: 1 hour Download the songs: 1 hour Decide which songs to play: 2 hours Programme the running order: 1/2 hour Writing posts and general admin: 1/2 hour Editing the recorded show: 1/4 hour (if I haven’t fucked anything up) Uploading to Mixcloud (inc. tagging, etc): 1/4 hour

So that’s 5 1/2 hours without once hitting play in Mixxx.

And that doesn’t include the hour my wife puts in to making each week’s running order into a playlist on Apple and Spotify, and the artwork she makes for each episode.

I love doing my show, but yeah, a hell of a lot of work goes into those two hours.

This reminds me of a government scheme some ten years ago or so. Workfair it was called, or something.

In short, someone claiming job seekers allowance would be required to work something like 10 hours a week for a company such as Tesco, or Poundland in order to be eligible for their welfare payments. On the face of it, fair enough. The person gets some work experience and the possibility of being hired.

Except all it really did was provide free labour to companies whose profits were in the billions. And that labour was paid by the tax payer.

And no one in the government at the time either saw how bad that might look, or more likely, cared.

I still think about that.

We had Jeremy Corbyn do that over here. Absolutely romped into the Labour leadership.

Whereupon he was demonised and demolished by the press, ably assisted by the centrists in the party who think that actually giving a shit about the people is far too hardline lefty. Which then gifted us another five years of Tory cunts in power, which The Centrists decried despite the fact that THEY FUCKING PUT THEM THERE.

Cunts.

Anyway, now we have pretty much the most centre right “leftwing” government we’ve ever had. And that includes the Blair years.

All of which is to say: I hope your man wins, but he’ll almost certainly be kneecapped by the Democrats because he runs the risk of costing them money.

I think about that quite a lot when I’m watching some of my favourite channels on YouTube. Just how much they have to keep on having ideas, and how much time and effort goes in to that 15 minute video you’ve just watched.

I don’t have the energy for that.

Yeah, what @[email protected] said. I stream with Owncast, so can see how many are online. On average it’s 15. But yeah, I seem to get around 30 listens per episode on Mixcloud during the weeks after.

This week’s theme is cover versions, which everyone loves, so I’ve had an unusual number of suggestions. One guy dropped about 20 at me.

All in all it’s a nice, manageable number for me. I’m very aware that if I had 1000 people throwing suggestions at me each week I’d feel like I was drowning and would almost certainly get scared away from it. While it’s something I fit in around a full time job, that is.

Its theme based. At the end of every show I announce the theme for next week’s, then the suggestions come pouring in via Mastodon.

Tonight’s theme is covers, and I currently have 5 1/2 hours of suggestions to dig through.

Yeah, I know, but that doesn’t lend itself to comments that get upvotes, and I’m a slag for it.

OK!

Well, I’m live at https://stream.djdarren.site/ between 1900-2100 UK time every Monday, after which I upload it to Mixcloud.

It isn’t a cult, I just really like robes.

I end up dribbling because the lid gets in my way, but it’s fine because I’m helping to offset the pollution caused by a billionaire’s private jet.

Every Monday night I do a radio show. Most weeks I get about 15 people listening, and have had to work really hard to stay at a place where I’m happy that it’s as many as that.

Time is fleeting, we don’t get back what we’ve used, so it blows my mind that 15 people choose to spend two hours of their week listening to my bullshit. Sure, I’d like it to be more, but I’ll take what I can get.

Of course!

Here’s last week’s.

You have to keep applying it. It’ll happen.

I was studying for a radio production degree exactly at the point where radio station budgets were rapidly shrinking, while podcasting was growing. But obviously the degree course didn’t really have any podcasting in the syllabus because it was relatively new. Home streaming wasn’t really a thing at that point either, so we go no tuition on how to set up our own output.

Radio is massively different now than it was then. So yeah, I hear ya.

Radio production.

Got a degree, moved to London, applied for loads of jobs, and… nothing.

Trouble is, I needed to be paid, and at the entry level it’s all unpaid internships and volunteering at community stations. Unless you know someone who can get you through the door, of course.

Stuck with making a podcast in my spare time for a few years, but ultimately lost the spark.

These days I work in health and safety management and stream a radio show every Monday night that about 15 people tune into live, and 30-odd people listen to on Mixcloud. It makes me no money, but I enjoy it.

Get thee to messenger.com then. Save it as a PWA and its like having the app but you give Meta as little as possible.