The Cambridge Music Podcast

Cambridge Music Podcast, A Retrospective.

2006-04-20T04:22:00.000-07:00

It has been a couple of months since our last podcast, and what with submissions drying up, and both Matt and I facing dissertation deadlines, finals and then the rest of our lives (hopefully spent outside of Cambridge), it seems that the podcast is now on an indefinate hiatus.

Who knows, we might record a couple of new shows in the next month or two, but it doesnt seem very likely. At some point I'll put together a proper archive of the podcast, so that people can still listen to them, and still hear the best of what I still believe is a brilliant and creative music community, and when I do I will let you know.

Sadly our dreams for the podcast never really worked out the way we'd hoped. We got a lot of listeners, a lot of media attention, and we had a lot of fun, but our wider hopes of fleshing out the still-divided music scene in Cambridge were never fulfilled. Luckily there are still people with the time and energy to help try and make this happen - including a number of other Cambrige podcasts and websites like cambridgebands.com, a task for which I applaud them, and wish them the best of luck.

Anyway, thanks everyone for listening - here I present to you the archive of our 17 ace little shows, for your listening pleasure.

Mike Rundle

CMP - 17. 10.02.06

2006-02-11T11:16:00.000-08:00

Cambridge Music Podcast
Show 17
February 10th 2006
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1. Shekere - Djole

2. Warmed Up Cold - Altrhincham 1
http://www.warmedupcold.org.uk/

3. Julia Harris - Hard To Breath
http://juliaharris.net/

4. Blue Movie - Shorthand
http://www.myspace.com/bluemoviemusic

5. HuXuN - Nothing Shallow
http://www.myspace.com/michaelpollock

6. Blue Movie - Open/Push Box

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Thanks for listening!

Email mcr34 at cam.ac.uk or mjr74 at cam dot ac dot uk with songs ideas and thoughts.

New Episode - Show 16 - 28.01.06

2006-01-27T09:16:00.000-08:00

Listen!

Cambridge Music Podcast
Show 16
January 28th 2006
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1. Three - Flange
http://modulo13.ath.cx/mrhappy/?band=3

2. Coloquial Music/Sky Quintet - Head Dance
http://modulo13.ath.cx/mrhappy/?band=3

3. Firecracker - Hey Amy

4. The Heroes of the Revolution - Abyss Painted On
www.theheroesoftherevolution.com

5. Blame Amy - Perfect Fit (Piggyback Records)
http://www.podsafeaudio.com/jamroom/bands/780/

6. Three - Breakable

7. The Heroes of the Revolution - Been in the Storm

2006-01-22T10:42:00.000-08:00

Hey Everybody,

Long time, no news. Well, get ready for some more podcasts coming up in the next 8 weeks of Cambridge University Term Hell Yeah. We've got some ace music lined up, and always need more, so send in your stuff and we'll play it.

Cool.

Oh, check out The Heroes of the Revolution if you've got a second...

Cheers!

Mike

CMP 15 - 15th November 2005

2005-11-15T12:39:00.000-08:00

Cambridge Music Podcast 15 - 15th November 2005

Matt Richardson mjr74 at cam.ac.uk
Michael Rundle mcr34at cam.ac.uk

1. Midnight Crazies - Consientious Executive
http://www.myspace.com/midnightcrazies

2. Emunah - Lemaan Achai
http://www.emunahmusic.com/
Friday 18th November, Cambridge Union Society
9pm Till Late

3. The Broken Family Band - Songs Against Robots
http://www.thebrokenfamilyband.com

4. Opaque - Violence
http://www.bandopaque.com/index.html

5 Sound Corruption - Whisper
http://www.soundcorruption.co.uk/music.html

6. Sound Corruption - Far Side of You - RENmix

7. Alan Fletcher - Perfectly Comfortable
(bloke from neighbours)
www.alanfletcher.net

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Send Us Music!
CAMBRIDGE MUSIC PODCAST ROCKS HELL YEAH

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also cambridgeriffs.com...

Just to let you know...

2005-11-07T04:09:00.000-08:00

... that there will be a new podcast sometime this week. Unfortunately for us and for him, Matt is ill. Hopefully he will get well again soon (go team!) and we can put out a show when that happens. Thanks to all the new subscribers who have found us via iTunes, we will fill your ears with more ace tunes soon enough!

Cambridge Music Podcast 14 - 28th October 2005

2005-10-28T10:09:00.000-07:00

Shownotes for Cambridge Music Podcast *14
Friday 28th October
Hooray!

1. Matt Carpanini - Keel Over
http://www.mattcarpanini.co.uk/
Playing in Cambridge on Sunday 30th October,
Trinity Hall, 8pm

2. The Liars - Dragon's Eye
Playing at the Cambridge Uni Union Society, Friday 28th October

3. Ben Irvine - Sleep By Me

4. The Bomb Factory - Stevie Smith: Teenage Terrorist
http://basic1.easily.co.uk/01401A/01E050/index.html
Playing APU Kudos bar, Cambridge Tuesday 1st November

5. Neuron Nest - Smile and Everything
http://www.myspace.com/nnest

6. Ben Medlock - Day And Age
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/bwm23/
ben@bmedlock.freeserve.co.uk

7. Benjamin Southworth / The Benjamin Theory
There are houses in the subway
www.inthecompanyofus.com

8. Benjamin Southworth - The Lighthousekeeper's Daughter

Cambridge Podcast Episode 13 - 10th October

2005-10-10T11:52:00.000-07:00

Matt Richardson and Mike Rundle present episode 13 of the podcast, in which somebody is really really rubbish.

Shownotes to come...

Email Mike - mcr34 at cam dot ac dot uk
Email Matt - mjr74 at cam dot ac dot uk

Send Us Music!

Cambridge Podcast Episode 12 - 30th September

2005-09-30T11:10:00.000-07:00

We Promised a new show before the end of the week and by hell! We Delivered! Matt Richardson and Mike Rundle present episode 12 of the podcast, in which we all learn a little something about “boranges” and “bouvanouvens”, and we play some ace music too.

Shownotes

1. Tern – Standard
2. Phonophobic – Silhouette
3. Midnight Crazies – Crack Up
4. Sunday Driver – Valentine
5. The Burn – Under Your Spell
6. Ladytron – Hey Playgirl

Email Mike – mcr34 at cam dot ac dot uk Email Matt – mjr74 at cam dot ac dot uk Send Us Music!

2005-09-29T07:41:00.000-07:00

In what must be a record time response to the below comment, expect a new show this week and from then on 8 weeks of pure, molten, (regular) cambridge podcasting. Having been away from town, in Spain, Scotland and Mars, podcasting has obviously taken a back seat.

However, my return to town, my new room and new imac - plus the fact that Cambridge will have about 1500 eager new Fresh podcast audience members flocking into their college rooms next week, it now makes sense to carry out the long awaited relaunch.

Anyways, in the next few days look to the skies - and expect news on new and different podcasts coming out of Cambridge too.

Thanks for the comments though, hope the new shows don't disappoint.

Mike

Cambridge Podcast 11- July 26

2005-07-26T05:56:00.000-07:00

Hell-low - podcast 11! Blue Review, Pilots of Japan, Komosa, The Real Metis and Jos Betts! Just over a half hour of power...

Enjoy!

Download Here!

1. Blue Review - Central Park

2. Pilots of Japan - Breezewood
http://www.gumshun.com/poj/contact.htm

3. Komosa - Realisation
komosa@komosalab.co.uk

4. The Real Metis - Let your hair down
info@thereametis.com

5. Jos Betts - 1879

6. Pilots of Japan - Bulldog

My Odeo Channel (odeo/072929d70f9cb7fc)

new weblog

2005-07-20T09:14:00.000-07:00

just to shamelessly plug my new blog, at the heroes of the revolution.com....
cheers! new podcast before the weekend. thanks to all your continuing support.

BBC Links and a few other things.

2005-07-11T15:59:00.000-07:00

Hello to everyone visiting us from BBC News - welcome to the Cambridge Music Podcast! You are all very welcome, and I hope you enjoy our music.

A few things - there will be periodic shows throughout the summer as and when i have enough music to play. Unfortunately i am not in cambridge at the moment, instead living outside london trying to earn a bit of student loan pay-back money. Also Matt Richardson - cohost, dj and all round good guy - is digging wells in Thailand, and so is unlikely to be around for a few weeks.

Of course, there is still a ton of great music to play - and we shall do so in the coming weeks. Also expect me to sort out just whats going on with the shownotes and other things i havent cleaned up as of yet.

Finally, for all the BBC visitors - if you subscribe to the podcast you can get all this great cambridge music for free - automatically! So why not do it? Hmm? Hell Yeah! Lets all join in.

This is the RSS Link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheCambridgeMusicPodcast

Hey Everybody, its Podcast Number 10....

2005-06-13T16:31:00.000-07:00

Hello Hello Hello,

A brand new podcast for the summer season , (43 mins, 29mb) featuring tons of music from Freelove and the Good Plant X2, Shwa (non-cambridge band of the week), the Shivers, Lounge, Solarstate, Pat Gleeson and Tom Edwards, as well as Zoot Woman (shsh)..

Hope you enjoy our new co presenter - Matt!!!! Hooray. Well as long as you don't think he's better than me. I am still the podcast king of town.

Shownotes to come in a little bit. When i've been to bed and back.

2005-05-18T14:55:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, thanks for listening! It seems we are getting more people than ever before tuning into cambridge music, and thats awesome.

Obviously things are busy round here (exams, other stuff) but we will be getting our tenth show out before the end of the week.. maybe with a new co-presenter? I cant make no-damn-announcements. But they might begin with a J.

Podcast Live 2 was a great success by the way! Thanks for everyone that came down and enjoyed themselves, i had a great time and im glad you all did too. Awesome tunes, great buddies, and i got wasted. Woohoo!

Until Show 10...

Love you.

2005-04-29T01:40:00.000-07:00

a couple o f people have pointed out the poor sound quality of some tracks on this weeks show - i agree and ill do something about it later today probably - ill release it as show 9 (b) in a few hours...

Here we go... PODCAST 9

2005-04-28T11:50:00.000-07:00

Download the New Cambridge Music Podcast (show 9) Here!

Shownotes:
1. Right Turn Clyde - TCB
From the Cambridgebands.Com cd! Check out the website for a chance to buy (and see live, learn about and generally appreciate) the best of the best of the best of cambridge music...

2. Alex Harris - Six Weeks
Playing at the new Cambridge Podcast Live Event "(Katie Taylor) teaches the Indie Kids to Dance", Monday 9th May 8.30pm Trinity College Cambridge - for all out of uni-student-people email me to get on the super-exclusive super-secret guestlist...

3. Solar State - Colorcode Disaster
Sorry for the name mix up whilst recording...

4. Logan - Truckerbird
Also on the cambridgebands.com cd...

5. Nueronnest - Folk Tale
Thanks for the Email!

For more info on the bands and tracks played, or to submit music, email me (mike) at
themichaelrundle at gmail dot com
Cheers!

The Relaunch..

2005-04-23T10:37:00.000-07:00

Basically: Podcast Relaunch coming soon!

Featuring tons of new music, reports of crazy fun mad live shenanigans in the center of Cambridge, interviews, live sessions and all manner of great stuff. Look out for it in the next day or so.

Awesome. Returns.

Look to the skies.

2005-03-21T03:02:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone, just a few things to tell you. Firstly, my term at uni has now ended and as i mentioned during the last show (show 8) this means that the rate of new shows and new updates will be a bit slower than usual. Part of this is due to the fact that i wont be able to make it down to any gigs for at least 3 weeks, and part of it is due to the amount of work i have to do...

However, it is important for me to tell you all two things:

1) the podcast is not going anywhere
2) there will be new shows, possibly 3 but most likely 2, coming on line in the next few weeks
3) i still love you.

i do want to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported the podcast this far. we have had over 5000 unique visitors and 200 regular subsribers, and we will look forward to building on this in a few weeks time, with the re-launch of the podcast and new podcast live events, as well as a load of exciting live sessions and other bits and bobs.

oh and look out for a brand new site re-design coming soon... :)

mike x

Episode 8 - 10.03.05

2005-03-10T13:50:00.000-08:00

(37 mins) Brand New Show featuring Badwell Ash (hooray), the Raiders of Rock and Roll, Mette Sutton, David Grange, Queen Adrenaline and two tracks from the Vapour Trail set i forgot to play in full the other day...

cambridge server / everyone else / shownotes

As metioned in the show, thanks to everyone that came down to "teaching the indie kids to dance - podcast live" - it was a great day. and thanks to the bands and to katie taylor for organising it and sorting it all out. awesome.

Some stupid stuff...

2005-03-02T10:45:00.000-08:00

Ok two things:

1) emunah are called emunah not eumanah. i am stupid.

2) i just listened back to the show and realised i didnt play the other vapour trail track i had lined up. to make up for it i will be playing two more on the show next time. sorry guys, my bad.

oh and shownotes are up now :)

Episode 7 - 28.02.05

2005-02-28T11:05:00.000-08:00

(42mins) A Brand New Cambridge Music Podcast, featuring tracks from SCA Battle of the Bands winners Emunah, Colonel Bastard and The Riptons, plus four tracks from a live session with Jos Betts (nicanor nicanor) and 3 (sorry, two, bugger) tracks from a session with the Vapour Trail AND news about the podcast live event next monday...

cambridge uni server / everyone else / shownotes .

Hello, and Hello, and Hello

2005-02-27T15:54:00.000-08:00

hi everyone. sorry for a lack of updates this week - i've been ill, things have been crazy - and you all had a lot of music to catch up on! luckily, though, i have a new show almost ready to go out to you all, with live sets from Jos Betts (nicanor nicanor) and the vapour trail, and tracks from a few old favourites as well as the SCA Battle of the Bands Champions Emunah and a couple of others. Should be awesome, and up tomorow sometime. Cheers.

Oh, and something to announce! The PODCAST LIVE MUSIC EVENT will be taking place next monday at Trinity College, at 8.30 pm! I expect to see you all there - we will be placing tents, cushions, candles, tables, coffee, beer, fun and most importantly 5 PODCAST FEATURED BANDS into the WPR ROOM of college. Featureing BADWELL ASH, DAVES COUSINS BAND, THE VAPOUR TRAIL, JOS BETTS and others to be confirmed, it promises to be an incredible night. So get down to "Teaching the Indie Kids to Dance" and show your support for the Cambridge Independent Podcast!

Episode 6 - 19.02.05

2005-02-19T10:58:00.000-08:00

(28mins) As promised, a new show tonight featuring 5 incredible tracks from The Modal Monks, The Furious Sleep, Second Hand Baby, Bouvier and Nicanor Nicanor. By the way, note that the band featured live in last weeks podcast "Players4Minstrels" are actually called Playing4Minstrels. Sorry guys. A speical edition live directors cut of the 3 sessions done so far will go up soon. For now, well, take care and see you at the battle of the bands in an hour....

cambridge uni server / everyone else / shownotes

Notes From the Beach

2005-02-19T04:23:00.000-08:00

To keep you updated: a 5 or 6 track regular show should be up sometime today, featuring loads of cool stuff i havent had time to play so far. Tomorow we are recording a set with the Vapour Trail, and hopefully recording the Trinity Hall Open Mic (monday, 8pm) to play on a new show for tuesday. Come down and say hello! Also - sca battle of the bands tonight (see indiesoc website) - and thanks to everyone at kings and newnham that didnt boo me offstage :) - to those that tried. hah. better luck next time.

Episode 5 - 14.02.05

2005-02-14T15:18:00.000-08:00

New podcast time! A mammoth Valentines Day edition of the show today, at a full 48 minutes of great music. Stuff from The Mono Effect, IsDoes, Jatiko and two tracks from Nicanor Nicanor, plus two live tracks each from Players4Minstrels and Phil and Kev. Apologies to those who didnt make it onto this nine-track behemoth, I'll play everything I promised to on the next show.

cambridge university servers / everyone else / shownotes

A Few Things

2005-02-13T11:18:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone. There will be a new show coming out either tonight or tomorrow. I have so much stuff to play but I don't want to overload people with music. I already get the feeling that some of you have a back-log of shows still to listen to. On another note, tune into CUR1350 at 12 tonight to hear yours truly guest on one of that stations shows, spin some tunes - and show them why we rock. Look out kids, the revolution is coming.

York Podcast 1

2005-02-11T11:22:00.000-08:00

Good news! The first ever podcast from York is out now! Go Here To Download!

Episode 4 - 10.02.05

2005-02-10T13:50:00.000-08:00

New podcast time! Featuring great stuff from Anodyne, Alex Harris, The Captains of Industry, Neonlove, Tern and two new tracks from The Cathode Ray Experiment. Expect a new show on Sunday with new tracks from the Furious Sleep, plus two exciting live sets from Players4Minstrels and the excitingly named Phil and Kev (who are actually really good.)

cambridge university servers / everyone else / shownotes

Usa Today

2005-02-09T02:45:00.000-08:00

Check out this! . plus - its 2000 hits time everybody. roughly 650 downloads... how popular does that make us compared to other ways of hearing music in cambridge? who knows. but we arent doing badly, i know that much... cool. new show later tonight.

Download Show 3

2005-02-06T13:58:00.000-08:00

Here it is! The all-new harmonica-intro third cambridge podcast. (33mins/15mb) With music from MoeFoe, Alex Harris, Logan, Alex Chin, Chet and the Penguins and I cant believe its the Rasmus Holmen Experience...and a conspicuous harmonica solo. Expect "part two" of this show on Tuesday. Email mcr34@cam.ac.uk for imput, submissions and comments. Right, I'm off to watch the Patriots kick Phili (superbowl time).

cam.ac.uk addresses (ie uni people) download the show here!
everyone else download the show here!
Shownotes.

2005-02-05T11:30:00.000-08:00

due to an unprecedented number of submissions expect a 5 or 6 track show sometime tomorow, along with an updated website. show 4 should still come early next week, but id like to split these shows up so there isnt an overload of music all at once.

secondly, i want your ideas on how to make this better. send me or comment below on things you would like to see happen with your podcast.

2005-02-02T13:05:00.000-08:00

new website design everybody. took so much more effort than it looks.. and the song 'take' by badwell ash, featured in the first podcast, was played in full to 50,000 people on adam curry's daily source code today. thats amazing. plus as well as yorkpodcast we now have liverpoolpodcast! rock on.

Download Show 2

2005-02-01T03:50:00.000-08:00

"Awesome Rides Again"
Here it is! The second ever cambridge podcast. (43mins) With music from LiveWire, Tern, 1MileHigh and Neon Love, with a very special live session from Dave's Cousin's Band and an appearance by a mr adam curry...Email mcr34@cam.ac.uk for imput, submissions, comments, help or just to say "awesome".

cam.ac.uk addresses (ie uni people) download the show here!
everyone else download the show here!
Shownotes.

Amazing News!

2005-01-31T11:51:00.000-08:00

Just to let you know - yesterday i sent an email to Adam Curry, who co-invented the concept of podcasting, letting him know about the cambridge podcast and what we are trying to do. Adam's show "the daily source code" is the most popular podcast in the world - it goes out thousands of people. And he not only mentioned our show but gave all the links and agreed to play some of your music on the Daily Source Code! How awesome! AWESOME!!!

Notes, Stats and Rumbling

2005-01-29T08:33:00.000-08:00

Hi Everybody,
Thanks to all our new visitors (and the tcsu email) we have reached over 740 hits and an estimated 250 listens. Thats awesome, but it could be better, so i need you all to email your respective college email lists and get the word out. Also, York University is following the trend and is setting up its own podcast - at yorkpodcast.blogspot.com - and there are rumblings in Durham and Liverpool.. so we have to get more music sent in than them! So send me your stuff.
And visit ukpodcast.blogspot.com for updates.
Finally stay tuned to hear an "awesome" live set from Dave's Cousins Band, recorded earlier today. New Podcast on Tuedsday Everybody.

Download Show One!

2005-01-27T17:07:00.000-08:00

Chapter 1: "A New Hope"

Ok. This is quite important. There are two ways to download here.

If you are on a Cambridge University Computer (in your room with a cam.ac.uk address)
Use This Address (Right Click-Save As)

If you are on a non-university computer (ie not inside Cambridge University)
Use This Address. (Right Click-Save As)

Here is the link for the shownotes.

just to keep you updated on some silly numbers. We have now had over 500 hits, at least 290 unique visitors - at a low estimate about 210 listeners. we have had people visiting from the uk, united states, brazil, germany, denmark, austria and japan.. and portugal!

As some of you may know, there were some problems earlier today with downloads, but thats all sorted - if you follow the above directions.

Check out 'A Man Who Thinks In Song for Our New Advert - and other nonesense about who i am and why i did this. And pretty pictures, too.

From Rundle Studios...

2005-01-27T08:56:00.000-08:00

2005-01-26T07:06:00.000-08:00

hi to everyone who is visiting here for the first time! just to keep you updated, ive got the first show pretty much sorted, including a rousing theme tune, and ill hope to put that out by tomorow. i think it will be a great show - and hopefully you will agree. keep sending me music - i will put out a second show as soon as possible.

to those that have downloaded ipodder, the XML button to the right is the feed you want to use to get automatic downloads working.

fianlly, i might post later to respond to some questions/queries about this podcast and just what it is im trying to do.. there is a good discussion of indie music in cam going on at www.cambridgebands.com - so point your clicker to the forum there if you feel the need.

updates soon

2005-01-25T01:07:00.000-08:00

thanks so far to Dave's Cousin's Band, metal marcel, the heroes of the revolution, the vapour trail Jeremey Warmsley and IsDoes!

How are we different to CUR1350?

2005-01-24T14:50:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the submissions already coming in everyone! The first show is taking shape nicely.

A question has come up from somebody that i think is worth addressing. The question is...

"Why is this show different to or an improvement on CUR1350?"

Firstly, the benefits of podcasting as compared to CUR1350 are principally to do with distribution and how people will listen to the show. With CUR you either have to be physically at a radio or computer to hear it. With a podcast you can take the show with you wherever you like, listen as many times as you like and pause, rewind, skip - all things you cant do so easily with regular radio.

Even more than this, this idea improves on CUR1350 because we are not dominated by a schedule. We can play 3 songs or 20 - it doesnt matter because we dont have to fill up or cut down to a certain amount of airtime. Plus we can play literally anything - especially music that people wouldnt want to send to CUR because they feel it isnt "polished" enough. We can also do special shows whenever we feel - say for a live session - and not have to wait till next weeks show to play it. Finally we can archive the shows and allow people to download them whenever they want - weeks after the show is originally broadcast.

Thats just some of the benefits of podcasting - benefits that you dont need an ipod to take advantage of. If you do have an ipod or iriver or whatever, of course, you can also wander around town listening to the show whenever you like. And thats just marvellous. And something CUR1350 doesnt have.

Of course, CUR does a great service and has a massive amount of listeners - and we arent trying to take them away. Traditional radio still has a lot of life in it - but podcasting can do things radio simply cant do. So there is room for both of us - and a different role for each medium to play.

This is just the cooler one of the two :)

A Few Things

2005-01-24T09:17:00.000-08:00

Welcome To Everyone who has noticed this idea and is interested. I am hoping to get the first broadcast up here by the end of the week, and a more permanent site, RSS feed and everything else by the end of the weekend. This is a temporary home for what i think could be a brilliant way to help music in Cambridge. I hope you enjoy the results.

Below is a manifesto about what we are trying to do with this, in case you haven't seen the full text.

And if your interested in finding out what podcasting is - and maybe starting your own, check www.ipodder.org. Its ace.

Cheers, Mike

The Cambridge Podcast - An Open Letter

2005-01-24T09:16:00.000-08:00

'An open letter on Independant Music in Cambridge'

Dear Cambridge musicians, independant-music lovers and talented people,

I - like you - know that there is a massive amount of musical talent in this little city of ours. There is also a massive amount of people that want to hear each others music. But the mechanism isnt in place to make the most of it. Open Mics happen all the time, CUR1350 plays local music and bands are formed in every college by everyone with a guitar and a mate who plays drums. Just recently we've seen indie soc putting in time and money to help out charity and independant music through the indie soc cd. And this is brilliant. But whilst these things mean that some of the music talent in this city is being heard, it still seems that the vast majority is not. And even when the music is heard I think it could be heard a great deal louder. And thats a crying shame - but there is something we can do. I think there is a solution.

I, like so many on this list, am part of a band in Cambridge. I write my own stuff, I record it and I would desperately love people to hear it - and we all love music and think it would be amazing to hear what people are doing. As members of this list you already know that there are a lot of people in Cambridge doing a lot of work for independant music. But i think there is room for more - as of yet there is no central, easy, free way to hear independant music made in the city.

So shall we make one?

The solution is a 'podcast'. An mp3 broadcast, that would be released onto the internet every week and would contain the best of home-grown independant music in Cambridge. Podcasting is the new way to broadcast music, without relying on old-style radio waves and commercial stations. The shows are recorded onto hard-drive and uploaded straight to the net, free for anyone to download. There is no need to pay adverstisers, hire equipment or fit a show into an hour and hope people are by a radio to hear it.

Podcasting is revolutionising radio, and will revolutionise independant music in Cambridge. Shows would be free and could last as long as the content allowed - there is no need for advertising, no need to cut links down to "sound bites". We could give real information - interviews and live sets couild be recorded and played in full. And if you were bored by what you heard, you could just skip it - because its not live radio. Using a program like "IPodder" (http://ipodder.sourceforge.net) the show would automatically arrive on your computer every time it was released. Then you could walk around town listening to it on your white bud-earphones and your non-branded mp3 player. And then you would look awesome.

Podcasting is a brilliant way to get peoples music heard, get bands noticed and amp our sadly-under nourished gig scene. All we need is the support of musicians and listeners. Send us music you have made and want us to play. We will play it. Make a commitment to at least try and listen to the show. This is an open call to musicians of any kind (jazz, indie, rock, punk, comedy, acoustic, country, metal, country-metal, whatever) to send material for inclusion into Cambridge's first ever mp3 broadcast made up purely of cambridge talent. I know the talent is out there - and so is the hunger to hear new bands - so lets do it. Lets make something happen, send your stuff, listen and tell me what you think. It's as simple as that - and together we can make the music scene in this city really something to be proud of.

Cambridge isnt just full of talent. We are carrying it around in massive buckets. Talent is spilling over the metaphorical edge, but no one is using the metaphorical mop to soak it up before it runs off into the drain. So instead of letting me rant on with kitchen-utensil metaphors, send me your music. Let's get this going. Let's change independant music in Cambridge forever.

I await your collective approval,

cheers,

mike rundle, trinity college, mcr34@cam.ac.uk"