Sony Radio Award for Schools Competition Winner

Ruari Bush, 14, from Cornwall, has won a major radio award sponsored by Sony. He performs on the Roseland College's radio station 87.7FM winning £750 of radio equipment for the school and will travel to Sony's headquarters as part of the prize.

Listen to an example here:

Ruari Bush.mp3

Evelyn Radio Performance Tips

Top radio performing tips from Evelyn Year 2 pupils showing how they have looked at how to improve upon earlier shows and look to make a professional show.

This content is available from the link below:

RadioEvelyn-2009-04-30.mp3

If your school would like to have your Radio Broadcasts Podcasted from our site, then please contact us. Email webmaster@acclaimav.co.uk. If you would like to find out how to set up your own Radio Station in your school, then we can help design, supply and install as well.

Gary Heatherington - Short Biography

When listening to Gary’s albums, you may discover you have heard his music before. Gary’s first single was "Northern Town". This was a 4 track 45rpm mini album produced for Acclaim Records by Soundhouse Studio’s, Liverpool.

Gary is the former lead singer and songwriter with Liverpool band Two Way Street, who were signed to MCA records and published by Carlin Music in the early nineties. Their first single was "Big Shot" from the album "Grow your own Planet". With "Two Way Street", Gary supported David Bowie’s "Sound and Vision Tour" and also went on to support Paul Young playing leading venues throughout the UK and Europe.

Two Way Street did several Radio One Sessions for the BBC, they also played live on GLR and GMR, as well as sessions for local radio stations in the UK.

Gary played the part of Paul Simon as a member of the excellent tribute band The Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel. Once again he toured the UK and Europe with the Abba tribute band Bjorn Again.

Through Carlin's production library, Gary’s music has been used in TV and film. When the Carlin library music CD was first sent out to the TV and film companies it was only a few weeks before his material was used. The first TV use being a documentary on Naturist’s. One section of the programme featured a naked sky diving team floating down to earth accompanied by the strains of Gary’s music.

The Carlin library music is often used on US Television Programmes such as Oprah and was on the final episode of Friends, along with being used in Canada, Asia, UK and Europe. His work is diverse, from Accepelo, Ballads, Acoustic Pop, Rock, R&B and Rap.

Gary Heatherington writes and sings songs that are easy to listen too, and his latest album "Suburban Window’s" is intended to promote material for use by other bands and singers.
Acclaim Music hope you will enjoy listening to the latest tracks.

Evelyn Primary - Liverpool 08

The next broadcast from Evelyn comes from Year 3, who have been talking about Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008.

This content is available from the link below:

RadioEvelyn-2008-04-22.mp3

If your school would like to have your Radio Broadcasts Podcasted from our site, then please contact us. Email webmaster@acclaimav.co.uk. If you would like to find out how to set up your own Radio Station in your school, then we can help design, supply and install as well.

Gary Heatherington Demos

You might have recently received a Demo CD with one of Gary Heatherington's recent tracks, we have randomly sent out 1 of 4 current tracks to many schools in the area.

If you wish to obtain the other 3 songs in circulation, please visit:

www.indiestore.com/garyh



where you can sample the songs for free and there is an option to pay to download if you wish to support him and keep copies.

We also have a Flash Widgit available where you can add the song preview onto your own sites such as Bebo, MySpace etc. and so if you want the code, click the "Get this Widgit" link on the right hand side of this blog in the 7digitalindiestore section for full details of how to obtain your own widgit!

Please note: We appreciate all the support for Gary, but would kindly request that you encourage people who wish to have their own version to download the song from the link supplied and refrain from making copies of your Demo CD we supplied for free. Thank you.

Norwood Debut Shine Waves

Norwood Primary School made their debut broadcast on their Shine Waves Radio Station the other day and it is now available for Podcast, so use the link below to listen to their show. This involved a large class of around 30 participating in the process creating a 6 minute broadcast.

ShineWaves-2008-02-22.mp3

Please feel free to leave constructive comments on here which once moderated can be displayed and used as feedback for the staff and pupils involved. As well as learning from each others broadcasts, tips and advice from everyone listening is welcome. Click the "comments" link below.

You can now subscribe to this on your iPod and all obtain all future broadcasts by selecting the iTunes logo on the left hand side. You need to have an iPod and have iTunes installed for this to work.

Evelyn Broadcasts to the World!

Our first live Podcast of a school broadcast is now online! Evelyn Primary School, who have been creating broadcasts for a while now, kickoff our online service.

This content was presented by Year 6 and is available from the link below:

RadioEvelyn-2008-02-26.mp3

If your school would like to have your Radio Broadcasts Podcasted from our site, then please contact us. Email webmaster@acclaimav.co.uk. If you would like to find out how to set up your own Radio Station in your school, then we can help design, supply and install as well.