Student Radio Awards
The Student radio awards are an annual event that are sponsored by the almighty radio god that is Radio 1 (along with other radio stations that are significantly less impressive). Winners of these awards include Greg James (who is now on radio 1, weekdays in the middle of the day), and other people including Mark Crossby. Obviously quite a big deal then yes?
We were nominated for three whole awards, a radio play called the Garden in the best scripted category, The Stephen and David Sunday Lunchtime Show in the Best entertainment category, and Best Branding for the station.
So on Tuesday 24th November we at Xpression boarded a train headed for London (after more than a little bit of a kerfuffle with the tickets).
You'll notice that sat opposite to current station manager Harad Smith (WOMAN IN THE BLUE!!!), is Tom Kirk (IN THE BLACK WITH ELBOWS ON THE TABLE) who was Programmes controller from last year. WOW, a celebrity spot. Anyway, after travelling to Paddington on one of those trains that takes literally forever, and stops at all those places that you didn't even know existed, we all went off to our respective friend's houses that had kindly agreed to put us up for the night.
The event was held in the Indig02, which is basically a smaller hall in the 02 arena, still pretty fancy though yes?!? Well we thought so. So after a three course meal that consisted of a main meal of "Chicken Two ways", which turned out to be chicken with stuffing, and then chicken in a pie, and a debate about which way was best for the chicken, the awards ceremony began. This was hosted by some radio 1 mega stars, Scott Mills, and to a lesser extent Greg James, and to an even lesser extent Fearne Cotton.
Sadly, neither the Garden, nor the Best branding entry came placed in the top 3 *cough*FIX*cough* (but still top 6 is still a fantastic achievement!). The Sunday Lunchtime show did somehow manage to get a silver placed award for it's entry for the Best Entertainment category, beaten by Warwick Universities "The Big Chewsie". I've honestly no idea who they are, but they did win another award as well, so they must have been good!
After the awards it was time for the "Soundclash", which involved people like Westwood, Greg James, Scott Mills, Hew Stephens, and other comercial radio people that I couldn't care less about! Despite the lack of gold trophies, we still had a great night, as one would hope is evident from some of the pictures below:
The next day, after a refreshing weatherspoons breakfast, and a rush for the train for others, we headed back to the place where we belong, humble old Exeter. A great night, and it was fantastic to see all of the old Xpression members that had left last year. And obviously next year we shall win every category! I'll leave you to enjoy the picture below; for some reason there was some play dough on the tables, goodness knows why. Anyway, here is what some of the more creative members came up with. (A possibility for a new logo perhaps?)
We were nominated for three whole awards, a radio play called the Garden in the best scripted category, The Stephen and David Sunday Lunchtime Show in the Best entertainment category, and Best Branding for the station.
So on Tuesday 24th November we at Xpression boarded a train headed for London (after more than a little bit of a kerfuffle with the tickets).
You'll notice that sat opposite to current station manager Harad Smith (WOMAN IN THE BLUE!!!), is Tom Kirk (IN THE BLACK WITH ELBOWS ON THE TABLE) who was Programmes controller from last year. WOW, a celebrity spot. Anyway, after travelling to Paddington on one of those trains that takes literally forever, and stops at all those places that you didn't even know existed, we all went off to our respective friend's houses that had kindly agreed to put us up for the night.
The event was held in the Indig02, which is basically a smaller hall in the 02 arena, still pretty fancy though yes?!? Well we thought so. So after a three course meal that consisted of a main meal of "Chicken Two ways", which turned out to be chicken with stuffing, and then chicken in a pie, and a debate about which way was best for the chicken, the awards ceremony began. This was hosted by some radio 1 mega stars, Scott Mills, and to a lesser extent Greg James, and to an even lesser extent Fearne Cotton.
Sadly, neither the Garden, nor the Best branding entry came placed in the top 3 *cough*FIX*cough* (but still top 6 is still a fantastic achievement!). The Sunday Lunchtime show did somehow manage to get a silver placed award for it's entry for the Best Entertainment category, beaten by Warwick Universities "The Big Chewsie". I've honestly no idea who they are, but they did win another award as well, so they must have been good!
After the awards it was time for the "Soundclash", which involved people like Westwood, Greg James, Scott Mills, Hew Stephens, and other comercial radio people that I couldn't care less about! Despite the lack of gold trophies, we still had a great night, as one would hope is evident from some of the pictures below:
The next day, after a refreshing weatherspoons breakfast, and a rush for the train for others, we headed back to the place where we belong, humble old Exeter. A great night, and it was fantastic to see all of the old Xpression members that had left last year. And obviously next year we shall win every category! I'll leave you to enjoy the picture below; for some reason there was some play dough on the tables, goodness knows why. Anyway, here is what some of the more creative members came up with. (A possibility for a new logo perhaps?)
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