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Brighton Festival Radio is your 24/7 guide to what’s on in this year’s Festival.
From daily in depth listings, hot tickets and competitions to reviews of the best bits and feature interviews BFR is where you will catch all the action.
We also have special guests popping in from the other Festivals taking place in Brighton during May including Brighton Fringe, The Great Escape and Artists Open Houses.
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Jo Youle - Station Manager
Jo Youle is running this year’s Brighton Festival Radio and has done everything from hang-off the Dome roof finding a good spot for the aerial to signing the likes of Phil Jupitus to do a show on the station.
Jo is a freelance radio producer, presenter, podcaster and now station manager. Having worked at BBC 6 Music for the past 4 and a half years, she also presents Saturday nights on Juice 107.2 in Brighton. Jo is very much looking forward to going live with the project on May 1st, especially the hours of bedtime stories she has recorded for Kids Bedtime Radio Hour on weekdays, 7-8pm. Don't miss it!
www.joyoule.co.uk
http://twitter.com/joyoule
http://twitter.com/brightfestradio
Meet the presenters
Phill Jupitus & Phil Wilding
Familiar to hundreds as the men who helped bring the BBC 6 Music network to life, Phill Jupitus and Phil Wilding left the nation’s airwaves after five years of waking at 5am and coughing like asthmatic tramps. Frankly, they were tired of it. Since then Phill Jupitus has regarded his guests quizzically as team captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks as well as taking the West End by storm in a fake butt as the star of Hairspray. It’s hard to turn on Radio 4 without hearing his voice too. He also has an enormously popular podcast with Phil Wilding called The Perfect Ten. Neither can understand why it does so well. For his part, Phil Wilding is a writer and producer, his first novel is Cross Country Murder Song and it unnerves people, frankly. He can also be seen on the GMTV sofa occasionally. He also writes for Mojo, Empire and Classic Rock magazines. He’s currently ghosting someone’s memoir and scripting a computer game, consequently, he doesn’t have as much time to walk his dog as he’d like. Phil and Phil will be hosting
Brighton Festival radio from 3-6pm on the 12th May.
Mark Higgins
Mark Higgins is a freelance radio person who also writes about music, when time permits. He lives in vibrant south London. As well as working at radio stations including BBC 6 Music, Radio 4 and Resonance FM, he also reports on concerts and events for BBC 6 Music News. He regular blogs about music at Bitter Fingers and also tweets http://twitter.com/amateurhour
Victoria Hannaford
Victoria Hannaford will be bringing you the best of the festival, with engaging chat, interviews and brilliant music. But it's a two-way street, and we want you on the airwaves too... Get involved by joining Brighton Festival Radio's page on facebook and follow us on twitter to have your say on what's happening around town all through the festival.
Follow Victoria on Twitter
http://twitter.com/vhannaford
Bryan Whellams
Bryan Whellams, 35, aka Flying White Dots, has over the last four years earned a small but loyal following for making down-tempo Floydian bootleg mash-up albums, which have caught the ears of Rob da Bank and Eddy Temple Morris among others. Having very strong opinions and an undying passion for music, Bryan's tastes range from beat-less ambient music right through to uncompromising thrash metal and all that is interesting in between in all its forms of all ages and places.
As well as submitting a live 2 hour mix for broadcast, Bryan will be dropping in the studio over the month to cast his one-off views on some of the most fascinating Festival events.
Chris Hawkins
Chris Hawkins presents a daily show on BBC 6 Music and can also be heard on Radio 2 as well as on BBC Radio 5Live.He recently compered Suede's Teenage Cancer Trust gig at the Royal Albert Hall and regularly DJ's at venues across the UK.
For Brighton Festival Radio Chris will be focussing on the Great Escape Festival with live bands in for sessions from 2-6pm 14th May, 2-6pm Saturday 16th May and as co-host with Jo Youle for The Optimistic Breakfast on Sunday 16th May 10am-12pm.
Ruth Barnes
Ruth Barnes is a radio presenter and music journalist, she can be heard promoting new female artists on her Resonance FM show The Other Woman and also on BBC 6 Music Introducing. To pay the bills she also talks about music on BBC Radio 5 Live, the BBC World Service and on Radio 2.
First and foremost Ruth has a huge love of new music and having just been to Womad in Abu Dhabi you can expect some pretty interesting tunes to come out of the bag! Kicking off the live radio programming on Saturday May 1st Ruth will have a full overview of what the festival has to offer, live guests, a bit of input from you (if you like... go on...) and some great music.
Tom Mallow
Tom mallow came to radio only 2 years ago, which was a bit backward as it has been around for most of the 209th century. Since then he has been doing shows in the Midlands on a freelance basis, along with voiceover ads for washing machines and power showers which are much in demand in that part of the country.
Previously he has been a comedy writer for TV pilots that never seem to have gotten made, apart from his pole dancing mockumentary that was shown on cable. They thought it was the real thing they were buying so he will never eat lunch in this country again he was told. "This will help me keep my weight down" says Tom.
For Brighton Festival Radio Tom will be presenting on Launch day 4-6 and again on Sunday 2nd 2-4pm.
Clare Reeves
Clare is originally from Devon and is a presenter on BBC radio and facilitator of live events.
Join Clare on Drivetime which will give you the run down of festival events about to happen that evening, live guests, reports and reviews as well as some feel good music to get you into the festival going mood.
Clare has a love of 1940s vintage fashions and music, which doesn’t explain the fact that she has performed as Debbie Harry in a Blondie Tribute band and played bass guitar in several indie bands in London.
Follow Clare on Twitter
http://twitter.com/clareonairlive
The Two Wrongies
The Two Wrongies celebrate and re-interpret the double act in a funny, crude, un-restrained honest female sort of way.
Pushing the Locker Room mentality in a brave exposé of the female sexual psyche,their onstage relationship, playful rivalry and absurdist humour is not for the faint hearted.
The Two Wrongies are Avis Cockbill and Janine Fletcher who share a love of bad jokes, lunging and the power of dance.…they are ‘the double act who dare to do the dirty!’
The Two Wrongies ‘World of Wrong ‘ is at The Basement 7th and 8th May and on Brighton Festival Radio 10-11pm 7th May.
Eames
Eames aka Angus Wilson is a London based dj and producer. His 2 hour mix of leftfield disco gems and forgotten classics is set to air on Brighton Festival Radio on Sunday May 2nd at 10pm, which marks his radio debut.
As well as an artist is his own right, he's dj-ed all over the world and lends his production skills to dance act Streetlife DJs.
He also plays keyboards with the hotly-tipped missdavinalee.Eames had great fun putting the mix together and is thrilled to be a part of the festival radio line-up.
www.eamesmusic.com
Clare Sherman
Clare has worked for various radio stations over the years, usually specialising in environmental themes. She is looking forward to spreading her wings at the Brighton Festival. Her show will feature interviews with artists performing on the 8th and 9th May.
Follow Clare on Twitter
http://twitter.com/ClareSherman.
Tom Mangan
Tom Mangan has been making and playing records for close to ten years. He's released an album with Berlin's Front Room and singles & remixes with Wall of Sound, Souvenir, Fine, Virgin, Bedrock and few others. He lives in Hove, runs T-shirt label Millionhands (millionhands.net) & time permitting still makes & plays the occasional record.
His sound is a mixture of folk, disco, vintage house, reggae, pop and just about anything else he can find, all woven together.... like a musical basket. For his Brighton Festival Radio mix expect music from the likes of John Martyn, Grace Jones, Prince, Arthur Russell, Four Tet & Gwen Guthrie.
Georgie Rogers
Georgie Rogers is excited to be presenting the Breakfast Show early doors between 7-10am on Brighton Festival Radio. She's been a freelance music news reporter at BBC 6 Music for the past two years, making podcasts, writing and reading music news bulletins, interviewing bands, covering festivals and writing articles for 6 Music and BBC Entertainment online. Before that, she worked at indie station Xfm in London and presented on Channel 103 in Jersey and Birmingham Student Radio station Burn FM.
She'll be playing an eclectic mix of tunes to ease you into the day, discussing the hot tickets of the day, catching up with our team of reviewers to discuss a plethora of Brighton Festival events and will be hearing from a wide range of artists involved in this year's bash.
Follow Georgie on Twitter
http://twitter.com/GeorgieRogers
Jack Jay
Jack Jay is thrilled to be part of the newly formed festival radio team. He is an up and coming presenter with experience in both live stage shows and television documentary making. His appearance on Brighton Festival Radio marks Jacks radio debut. Throughout this festival Jack will be the 'Roaming reporter' for the station, getting out and capturing the true essence of the events for your listening pleasure, a challenge Jack takes on happily " Its great, a bit like being an explorer out there! Think Bear Grylls, but with a microphone instead of a swiss army knife...."
Catch Jack's reviews on shows and installations, also look out for him at one of the many events he will be reporting from and you could be getting on air yourself!!
Jack Pinder
'Jack Pinder has been in the entertainment industry since 1975. Having trained as an actor he has, over passing decades, turned up in many guises: Actor-Musician, Singer, Composer, Voice artist, Teacher of tomorrow's performers and now radio presenter. He's delighted to be part of this years Brighton Festival Radio team. His programme will include a look back over some of this year's events interspersed with an eclectic mix of tracks from yesteryear.
We are here to get you geared up and ready for what is on each day but also to give you the feeling you were there even if you weren't so you don't miss out on a single minute.
The radio station in on air right through 'till the big festival finish on 23 May.
Weekdays involve a lunchtime debate hour, so you can get up to speed over your sandwich, followed with recorded highlights of the line-up from the night before. Drive-time 4-7pm will be jam packed with the best festival music and interviews, plus the nightly Kids Bedtime Radio Hour from 7-8pm, to make bath time that little bit more interesting....or get you out of that nightly book reading gig, so Mum and Dad can get back to the sofa for a well earned rest.
Here is today's schedule listed below:
Sun 23 May
10-12pm Naked Brunch with Melita Dennet giving you a round up of three weeks of festival madness, fun frolics and more.
12-1pm Victoria Hannaford talks to Liz Kessler about her best selling book series Emily Windsnap and talks about how she got into writing for children.
1-4pm Mark Higgins takes over 3 hours bringing you the best festival highlights and three hours of ship shape music.
4-5pm Jack Pindar makes his festival radio debut with an hour’s chat, backstage gossip and an in depth look at 77 Million paintings, and the highlights of this years event.
5-6pm Classical music shuffle
6-7pm Brief encounters – mini stories based in and around Brighton linked to our cities biggest characters and landmarks.
7-8pm Tales from the afterlives. Stories from the book previewing tonight's event with the books author and Brian Eno.
8-10pm Lali Puna and Jon Hopkins specially crafted one hour mixes for Brighton Festival Radio back to back.
10-11pm Nick kent lifts the lid on the 60's and 70's hanging out with the likes of the Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop and the late Malcolm Mc Laren.
11-pm-10am Great music all night long.