I think it's safe to say that Chris and I haven't quite hit our peak on the show. It is however, a work in progress.
This week I felt that the ideas that we brought to the show were good ones. It's important to both of us that we come up with content for our show that would bring enjoyment to our listeners and i feel we do this successfully.
Obviously, if you plan on listening to a radio show with 50 minutes of music to every hour it may not be the show for you. But we always do try our best to get a good mix of music and banter. Certainly this week during the first hour of the show we managed to get the Music to Talking ratio at 50:50, which I feel is ideal for our type of show. It was certainly an improvement from the week previous where only about 15 minutes worth of music was played during the first hour, as there are times when we find ourselves rambling on without realizing. Although I do think that the week previous was a great show, I do feel it's important to try and get an even mix of music to chatter, so that our listeners don't find listening to our show a chore. No doubt if I was sitting in a hospital bed all day I would probably welcome a bit of chatter on the radio to keep me entertained. Especially seeing as it's the only free entertainment available to the patients.
Anyway, moving onto the content of the show, as always, I brought a theme to the music for the first hour. With it being July the 4th a few days ago, I decided to bring a song from each decade from the 1950s to the 1990s that were either recorded or written by American artists (of course, before I played these songs I played the winner of last weeks poll, Mumford & Sons). The playlist, for my hour of this weeks show can be seen below.
And as part of that American theme, I tested Chris with a 20 question American Citizen test. We had the questions dispersed throughout the first hour of the show and I feel that we were reasonably successful in the timing of it all, even though we did have to cut out one of the songs from the plan. Chris managed to get a respectable 14 out of 20 which is enough to be considered an American citizen, or an American-English-Mancunian, if you will (incidentally, I also managed to get 14 out of 20 when I took the test prior to the show).
With us only planning an hour of the show each I feel it makes it far easier to come up with a full hour of good content, quite often when planning the full 2 hours there was definitely a feeling that some of the content was more filler.
After my hour, as always, Chris and I change places and from 7 till 8 the decks are controlled by Chris for what can be considered an unpredictable hour of hospital radio.
It's safe to say that Chris brings a unique style of presenting to Hospital Radio, with an hour full of crazy games and sing-a-longs, as well as coming up with new jingles while we're on air. But certainly all we're hoping for is that we make our listeners smile in hope that they are enjoying the show.
This week however also consisted of some commentary on the Spain - Germany match as it started with half an hour of the show still to go.
One thing I will say is that Radio sports commentary is harder than you'd think. Trying to describe whats happening in the game as well as trying to keep up with the pace of it is extremely difficult.
But I guess the whole point of our show is make people laugh, smile, just generally take their mind off of things and just listen to two guys attempt at doing a radio show.
Playlist:
Mumford & Sons - Sign no more
Elvis Presley - Hound Dog/All shook up
The Animals - House of the rising sun
BB King - The thrill is gone
The Ramones - Baby, I love you
Nirvana - The man who sold the world
ps. I tend not to proof read these blogs, so apologies if it was difficult to read in places
pps. There is poll on the right regarding next weeks show, which is going to be a World Music theme.
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