20/05/07
Podcast news -
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I've got a busy week ahead, after the empty, sad and lonely one that is about to pass, so thought I should put pen to paper (fingers to keyboard) and write something whilst I am able to. Am off to Newcastle for a couple of days on Monday and Tuesday then London and Somerset for the rest of the week ahead.
But anyhows, what news from my camp?
Well, as the title of this blog would suggest and as promised in my last blog entry, I have news about the podcast, and it is thus;
Ahem...
The Ray Peacock Podcast Number #1 will go online for download in mp3 format on the 4th June 2007, for an initial run of ten roughly-weekly shows. It is totally free, you can listen to it online or your iPod (it is pretty much mostly in stereo if you listen through headphones), and www.chortle.co.uk have very kindly agreed to host it. We are currently trying to work out how to put it on MySpace and iTunes also. MySpace should be easy enough (there is a MySpace page at www.myspace.com/theraypeacockpodcast which you are all more than welcome to come and be friendly at) but the iTunes thing is proving trickier as I have been put in charge of it. I'm not very good at doing technical internet things, and often struggle to get my emails properly, so having a load of sheets of paper talking about RSS feeds and all that bollocks that I in no way understand hasn't really been the idiot's guide to putting a podcast on iTunes that I had been hoping for. The instructions are as difficult to follow as the ones for my dvd recorder, which I got at Christmas and am still yet to burn a dvd on.
But never mind this technical stuff, what can you expect from the podcast itself?
I'm glad you asked, and I would like you to remember and continue to bear in mind that it is free before you start turning your nose up at it. If the first episode is anything to go by then you should evaporate any expectation of anything beyond myself and Little Raji James who used to be on Eastenders but ruined it babbling on at each other for forty minutes. Steve Morrison (my occasional writing partner) shall also be present ordinarily, but as he was seeing another writing partner behind my back at the time that we recorded it, he is only heard fleetingly on the telephone (and that may end up being edited out as he began the conversation by asking me if I was doing the podcast with "that black").
Myself and little Raji are going to record another section for it this week, but I can tell you thus far that the first episode contains discussions about crying babies, Scottish neighbours playing bagpipe cds in the morning, far too much casual racism, faux pas at Doctor Who conventions, late night MSN conversations and a water tight defence of using the word 'cunt'. I can sense your excitement and expectation...
And that's all my news. Literally. The week past has been utterly barren of anything worthy of mentioning other than the day spent recording the podcast - and indeed, the podcast was the only thing that could be attributed to artistic achievement in a week I'd originally intended to be brimming with it. Hence the lack of blogs. Wouldn't have been very interesting for me to write a blog about how my Jabba the Hutt throne model arived on Tuesday would it?
If anybody from my management is reading this then I promise I shall start doing some work from Monday onwards. I'd start on Sunday but I am planning to watch all six Star Wars films back to back once and for all, which is just as important if you think about it...
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