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Making a tit of myself

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We all do things that make us look a bit um… odd at one time or another and my most recent was playing the part of a musician for the pilot of a new radio show I’m making.

With that explanation you’d expect it to be a comedy but it isn’t - the show is a weekly look at new music in Jersey and playing tracks/interviews from local bands.

However, BBC local radio is traditionally aimed at people over 55 and Jersey is no exception - so, although many a local station has launched new music shows - including a podcast from Northamptons Weekender - boards are being tread lightly when it comes to something this different.

We’ve more or less been given the go ahead but we needed to make a pilot to prove the idea, to showcase some of the music we’ll be playing and to prove we can actually talk like human beings.

We’ve been told to put a rough cut pilot together without expending too many resources - so we did and one of our regular features is called I was, I am and I will be - where we ask a musician for a track he was inspired by, a track he wrote and a track he wished he wrote or would like to write one like.

This is where the being able to talk like human beings bit falls down.

We didn’t have a musician to hand so I played one - this was ALL improv done on the spot - Claire (asking questions) didn’t know how I would play it and I didn’t know what she would ask or what the name of my band would be.

Obviously this would never go to air - normally it would feature a Jersey musician talking to us about his musical tastes and playing the songs he puts forward - but I thought I’d share my moment of um… making a tit of myself with you.

Listen to me making a tit of myself (mp3) >>>

Oh and for non Brits - ASDA is Wal-Mart and George is their own brand clothing line.

And yes I know we didn’t really play the Teletubbies or Bob the Builder - we didn’t have either to hand when making the pilot.

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