Archive for March 2010
A few of my friends and I got together last June to put together a radio serial that showed what life was like on the land.
Our aim was to include current issues that were affecting the land and provide ways for farmers to approach the issues confronting them through the use of this radio serial.
We recorded the pilot live at my family's cattle station in the Queensland winter sun! Our hope was that if the serial got off the ground it would feature weekly in the The Country Hour, which is broadcast across Queensland.
It all came about when one of our work mates (Ingrid Just) was granted a Churchill Schlorship which saw her travel around the world to see how radio serials are still utilised today to help send messages to listeners through entertainment.
The working title is Big Sky - have a listen...
Our Radio Pilot - Big Sky
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Our aim was to include current issues that were affecting the land and provide ways for farmers to approach the issues confronting them through the use of this radio serial.
We recorded the pilot live at my family's cattle station in the Queensland winter sun! Our hope was that if the serial got off the ground it would feature weekly in the The Country Hour, which is broadcast across Queensland.
It all came about when one of our work mates (Ingrid Just) was granted a Churchill Schlorship which saw her travel around the world to see how radio serials are still utilised today to help send messages to listeners through entertainment.
The working title is Big Sky - have a listen...
I wasn't sure where I was.
It looked like Mum's kitchen, it smelt like Mum's kitchen, but it didn't sound like Mum's kitchen.
Mumford & Sons, the very successful UK band-of-the-moment was blaring from my Mum's stereo. Having just preformed at the Aussie Laneway festival and topping the Triple J Hottest 100 their folk/rock/country genre seems to not only be a hit with the kids but with my Mum as well!
I'm not saying my Mum isn't cool, when it comes to music she's often only 6 months behind what's hot and what's not. Usually though, if the song has 'coarse' language then it's straight off the stereo...yet not for Mumford!
Mother's love for them runs so deep that she's even recorded the film clip to their current single 'The Cave' so that my brother and I can see how 'cool it is'.
Is it possible that my Mum has becoming cooler than me? Or has Mumford & Sons simply created a genre that everyone wants to jig to?
I'm going to convince myself that I'm still the cool one and I'll only truly start to worry if Mum starts jumping up and down on the couch, dancing to Jay-Z and throwing TV's through windows!
Mum Loves Mumford
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Mumford and Sons; Mothers; music;
I wasn't sure where I was.
It looked like Mum's kitchen, it smelt like Mum's kitchen, but it didn't sound like Mum's kitchen.
Mumford & Sons, the very successful UK band-of-the-moment was blaring from my Mum's stereo. Having just preformed at the Aussie Laneway festival and topping the Triple J Hottest 100 their folk/rock/country genre seems to not only be a hit with the kids but with my Mum as well!
I'm not saying my Mum isn't cool, when it comes to music she's often only 6 months behind what's hot and what's not. Usually though, if the song has 'coarse' language then it's straight off the stereo...yet not for Mumford!
Mother's love for them runs so deep that she's even recorded the film clip to their current single 'The Cave' so that my brother and I can see how 'cool it is'.
Is it possible that my Mum has becoming cooler than me? Or has Mumford & Sons simply created a genre that everyone wants to jig to?
I'm going to convince myself that I'm still the cool one and I'll only truly start to worry if Mum starts jumping up and down on the couch, dancing to Jay-Z and throwing TV's through windows!
