I had a huge set ready for last hour, and warmed up with some choice downtempo classics for the first. Adam Regan delivered a great set from 10-12,

followed by two heavy breaks sets from Sumo residents Steve Lopan and Dani C.

Jibbering, Jam Jah and Funbox were keeping in nice and toasty in room two,

and Liam Blendstate’s visuals were awesome once again.

with us both rockin the last hour to a lovely crowd

All in all another fantastic night at the hare, with nice drinkies with friends til the early hours of the morn.

If you’re reading this in your rss reader, you’ve probably just got all the drafts for the last 2 months. The site still needs some work (like posts being categorised, pages being rewritten, etc), but we pretty back to normal transmission, and hope to improve each week.

I’ll leave you with you the second zeitgeist film and welcome any comments if you watch it

Finally i’ve made the plunge and bought some earplugs. Expensive custom made ones from the best place i could find, in the hope that they will save my hearing from getting damaged.

Its going to take at least 2 months before i get them as there needs to be an ear impression and then the making, but i’ll be sure to review them for any other djs and musicians out there. Until then, check out their site – http://www.audiorelief.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=40 and if you are wondering why i chose them, they seemed to be the preffered one for djs like Danny Byrd and the like.

Although i’m saving posts as drafts, i do wish you a very merry xmas all the same

It was Aarts birthday yesterday, who has been our Mr Elephant designer for the last 2 years, and is pretty fluent with the ole css. However even he was stumped by the child and parent themes i was trying to design, so i think i’m going to revert back to one of the more simpler themes i have found, as this can, and has, taken up a lot more time that i was anticipating!

He did however design the fabulous new header which is sported at the top! He’s got a new site coming, but for now catch him at T.V.S or his old site

Expect a new look and some helpful tutorials in 2009.

Ah well, it generally leads to healthier living, and it did give me time to take my trusty Iriver apart and replace the battery with a larger ipod one. All felt pretty clever after doing that one! Check out the guide here, or watch this video below

Nevertheless it tied in nicely with a meeting i had with Dave Peebles at the custard Factory last week, and i went again this week to have another look at the premises. The initial one were a lot smaller than i remembered, so Jonathan showed me one that was double the size, which seemed ideal.

I had a great chat with some of the side projects for Share to Create  including the outreach projects, and was inspired with our chat. Its been really postive each time i chat about the project to new people, and once the site is built i think we could really have something on our hands. Anyway the premises were great and heres a little video i shot.

After that i went home to get a bite to eat and then back to the custard factory to record my first radio show from the rhubarb studios. I initially started and designed the show to broadcast from home, but there has been a change to the computer i broadcast onto, so until there is  another option i’ll have to either prerecord or come into to host it from rhubarb.

It was a lot of fun hosting at the studio, and while theres so much i cant do, it felt good to be back doing it again. The studio is somewhat lacking in equipment being a free community run radio station, so the second half of the show wasnt possible, and with one of the cdjs not working, the only option was to play one of the mr elephant shows, and host it on the mic, which to be honest was a nice introduction to the desk.

We also got to host another competition, this time for a pair of tickets for new years eve at the hare and hounds, courtesy of the very generous Adam Regan. The internet computer in the studio was ridiculously slow, so communication was somewhat stifled, and reading the messages was difficult, but thankfully there was only 4 entries to the competition and i got to read all the replies just in the nick of time.

We’ll be having a few weeks off until the 9th, but there’s a very clever listen again function on the show, so if you missed it and fancy a listen (to any of the shows on rhubarb) you can hear them again at your leisure. If any of them sound like intermission music by the way, it probably is, as the computer automatically records shows at the alloted times

UPDATE – our show from the 19th has been accidently deleted, but will be back online again soon

Sir Real was playing before me, and Nik Wells was playing after so in terms of music selection i had a lot of freedom. I started with some funky breaks, then heavier techy stuff, some old techno, and then into drum and bass, and by the end of the the room was absolutely rammed. So much energy in there, and glad Pyn was able to capture some of it on the camera phone.

Custom made room was great, proper festive feelings in there, and the evolve crew did a great job hosting the outside stage. I didnt venture upstairs, but heard the music was quality. Didnt enjoy the whole thing as much as the first one, but then it was freezing cold!

All in all another good demonstration of what the city has to offer in it’s night life, and a attracted a real mix of people, which is always a good thing.

Seems like 2009 is going to be a good year!