EPISODE 11 RELIGION

Almost at the end of the first series and we could not ask "Why are we here" without having a little go at cracking this God puzzle.


CROSS TALK - with guest Yvonne Stewart Williams / civil & gay rights campaigner / Christian & Athiest.
MUSIC INTERVIEW - with The High Priest - violent comedian
VOX POPS - ramblings from Londoners tourists and anyone unaware enough to have a mic foisted in their face
GUEST PRESENTER - George Daniel Lea [yes the show is a kinda hour long miserable corner ]

TRACK LISTING

Prepare - The Hughmans
Creationist Cousins - Baba Brinkman
Evolution - Richard Bastian
L.I.B.Y.A - High Priest
You Gotta Laugh - High Priest
Dogma - Eastroad
Love Sweet Love - Frankie Blake 

EPISODE 10 EMPLOYMENT

The radio show team, talk around themes of employment in a harsh city in harsh economic times. As usual we keep it light, throwing some comedy and off key observations into the melting pot.

CROSS TALK - Graham Burton of St Mungos Employment Team

MUSIC INTERVIEW - Marc Hayward from The Dash

MISERABLE CORNER - "work shy from the North East"

VOX POPS - putting the public on the spot

TRACK LISTING

Scrub Club Crew - The Cost of Living

Michael Anderson - Credit Crunch

3 String G - Untitled

The Dash - Return to Broomhouse Road

The Dash - Repetition (Live Track)

Steve Light - Script Kid In Fantasy Land

LJ - Motivation

EPISODE 9 HOPE

The first series of radio shows is coming to an end. Four shows left and this month as spring is in the air we consider the theme of........hope. Yes we know this seems a little jaunty but we cannot delight you with misery all of the time.

CROSS TALK - With Cristoph Warrack of Open Cinema

MUSIC INTERVIEW - With The Dash

MISERABLE CORNER - Ousted for a little Dr / Patient exchange

VOX POPS - Tourists and toilers unlucky enough not to avoid the microphone on the streets of central London.

TRACK LISTING

S.I. Productions – Everybody Round Here

Globetown People – I’m an Eastender

The Episdodes – Hope

MC Devious – I Wish

The Outbursts - “In 77”

The Acappella Punk – Crazy Paving

DFG – I’m a blind Man

We would also like to welcome new Camden Calling member Andrew aboard his track features in the show and the video can be seen here. This track won the UK Songwriting Contest!

ONE YEAR ON

It has been a year since our very first workshop session to get this little radio ting off the ground and as we draw to the close of series one, and prepare to start on series two.

To mark this occasion Chogaia has made a short film about Locked On Radio, we hope you find it interesting and will join us for the final 4 shows in this series.
Hope / Employment / Religion / Exit

WHEN LARRY LOVE CAME TO PLAY

Here at Locked On we are very excited to announce that the featured artist for this months music interview is Rob Spragg AKA Larry Love frontman of The Alabama 3. Larry came into the studio on Friday 20th January as part of visit to St Mungos Endell St Hostel where he was checking out the facilities and support offered to homeless people supported by this service. Larry also played a live track for us from the bands new album Shoplifting for Jesus.

During his visit he said "Having experienced homelessness myself, and the attendant problems associated with having no shelter, I was really looking forward to seeing how

St Mungo's is dealing with this situation and all I can say is Wicked! There was tremendous enthusiasm in the studio from all those involved and hopefully Alabama3 rose to the occasion. Brilliant. P.S Can I move in please?"

Locked On is a joint project between Endell St Studios & Camden Calling. A radio show created by a group of homeless & ex-homeless people for a mainstream audience; showcasing unsigned artists and opening discussion on issues that effect the lives of us all.

Locked On Music Interviewer Rob Pollack had this to say "I have been really looking forward to interviewing Larry Love. I am a pretty big fan of The Alabama 3. I feel being the music interviewer for Locked On Radio has been positive for me in lots of ways personally and, I am starting to feel, professionally. It is a project I can be really excited about and very different to the help I was offered when I lived in a hostel. It makes me sit up and take responsibility for helping myself."

The interview will be broadcast via our SoundCloud site on The 20th Feb as part of a special extended show this month themed around the subject of Empathy.

This is a rather special show as Peter Guinness the patron of Camden Calling also came in to give an interview for Cross Talk our serious discussion feature. Peter has some very interesting points to make about the erosion of arts funding and the impact the culture of celebrity on the creative industries.

Camden Calling is a very small community project working as an arts collective with exceptional homeless and vulnerable people to create opportunities for them to develop their creative skills; hosting main stream live music events & working on music video in addition to the Locked On project. The project is run as a partnership with members and has a unique ethic and way of working.

The recording studio at Endell St hostel helps support clients with opportunities to write, record and produce music, learning sound production skills or working towards recording an album.

Camden Calling & Endell St Studio's have been working together for over three years and the Locked On radio project is hoping to receive funding for a second year, as well as a scheduled move for the show to independent radio station Recharged Radio

The show empathy show will be posted online & via these pages on 20th Feb until then you can hear past shows below.

WEAKNESS

So how long did those new years resolutions last, have you given up the cancer sticks, steered clear of the sweeties or stopped having dodgy fantasies about that work colleague? Ben Jonny & Richard get to grips with this and more as we welcome in 2012.

Very strong language and adult humour!

EDUCATION

Episode 6 considers all things mind expanding as the team get to grips with education. Yes it is Christmas but we can promise you, NO Carols, NO Sir Bob, and NO bloody Cliff.
Education by lockedonradio

REALITY

This months theme is about to get all philosophical, as we debate he subjectiveness of reality in the studio, armed with research from Darren and some mumblings and sound bites from the general public. This show also touches far more on the issues around homelessness than previous shows. However you know us well by now so do not expect a politically correct show, whinging or too many platitudes

Reality by lockedonradio

For full details and a track listing see the What's On Page

CROSS TALK FULL INTERVIEW

The next episode of in our series goes on-line on Friday the 25th November. The theme for this show is REALITY and we are focussing this show more on the issues that impact upon homeless people and homeless and ex-homeless people themselves.

We were very fortunate for this months Cross Talk feature to be able to talk to Jeremy Swain the CEO of Thamesreach & Charles Fraser the CEO of St Mungos.

So before the fully edited version of the interview goes out we would like to offer you all the chance to hear the interview in it's entire format.

Cross Talk - Charles Fraser & Jeremy Swain by lockedonradio

ANARCHY

This month we explore the theme of Anarchy, often misinterpreted and therefore almost always misunderstood. Speaking to fantastic guests who without exception have the balls to walk it like they talk it. As usual we have lots of unsigned music, some muppet porn and a show that is not for the easily offended. For full listing see the What's On Page!


Anarchy by lockedonradio

SHOW 3 YEARNING

Do we really yearn for our hearts desires? Or is this an emotion we invoke when things are a little bit tough, we are feeling a little bit wet and we cannot really be bothered to get off our backsides.
For more information and a full track listing visit the What's On Page
Yearning by lockedonradio

SHOW 2 HAPPINESS

Show 2 is now up and here it is. Thanks to Lemos & Crane, John Hegley & Heavy Load. This show contains themes and language of an adult nature for more info and track listing please visit our WHAT'S ON PAGE.
Happiness by lockedonradio

Happiness & Fetishes with Ben

I was not expecting to be interviewing for the fetish Cross Talk section that had long been bagged another member of the crew but unfortunately they were unable to finish the piece. Luckily I am a well know and totally unashamed pervert and brought in a good friend who I knew liked a bit of rubber. You will here we had great fun recording the interview and I hope it cracks a few smiles your side of the mic. The fetish interview goes out as part of the happiness show on Monday 29th Sept. For my part now I am cleaning out my tent to get ready to interview some very cool alternative lifestyle types in Wales at the Watusi festival next weekend.

The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund - With Richard

The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund aims to take the top students in schools and train them to a high standard so that they put the skills to use to better the lives of children. As Marion explains this Bethany who takes part in the programme is joining us.

The questions I ask and the responses given provoke the thought that at the risk of sounding like a cliché Nelson Mandela believes that the children are the future and he does care a lot about giving children the best start.

I ask Bethany how she came to be involved and she revealed that it all started when they came to her school and gave a talk. She then became intrigued and wanted to get involved. Se told me that on a trip to South Africa she went to volunteer tat a school and was in charge of a class. That experience was what made her want to do this. Local communities can even get involved with fundraising too in the country as well as in South Africa.

I was a little nervous before the interview but was put at ease with the casual nature of the whole thing. I was really impressed with Bethany who was only 16; someone who is young and willing to help in whatever way she could to help towards a bigger picture. I hope that this work continues to go from strength to strength and attracts a lot more people to help such a good cause.

During the interview I actually forgot I was interviewing Marion and I felt like I was there to sign up to the programme luckily the response of the recorder kicked me back into conducting an interview. This was my first roving report for Locke on Radio and I really enjoyed it.

Richards Interview will feature on Episode 3 – YEARNING ON 25^TH SEPT.

EPISODE 1 WILDERNESS

Wilderness by lockedonradio

Playlist for Wilderness Episode.........

1. Kilburn High Road – Jonnny Granville

2. Northern Skies – The Bedrooms

3. Emotional Confusion – Steve Light

4. You Don’t Wanna Know – Rukas

5. In the Morning – Gee

6. Mercedes Benz – Mingus

7. The Estates – Dekay & the Dmans

8. Coins – Erin K & Tash

All tracks recorded at Endell Street Studio

HAPPINESS & WELL BEING - WITH BEN

"Thats right, in the quest for more information and hopefully some snappy quotes, I, Ben Goddard headed off to the Lemos & Crane RISE conference on "Happiness and Wellbeing". I was told there would be food and coffee...

Essentially what the conference boiled down to was Mental Health Care Professionals from various circles giving their opinion and findings on happiness, then discussing new and innovative ways to combat depression and other mental illnesses. As I remember that day at the moment it seems quite strange. The reason being this, when I was attending they all seemed marvellous ideas of ways to help. However, recently I have been encountering my own reccurrent problems with depression and despite hearing all these marvellous ideas, I couldnt possibly tell you what they were. Though I do remember one being essentially, a jolly good walk in the countryside, which yes would be great, though honestly right now, I would prefer Valium I think.

I managed to talk to some fascinating people though, who have dragged themselves up and out of black dog country and are doing well. I don't mean "functioning members of society", as society doesn't give a flying balls about me generally and the feeling is largely mutual, I mean well for themselves. They are an inspiration to me at the moment and encourage me not to dwell (as difficult as that is with uncontrollable thought patterns ).

I don't think David Cameron was listening, to find out if people were happy. Though I imagine you would have to shout pretty fucking loud for him to hear. As apparently half a million people booing as they proceeded past his front door was insufficient (march against the cuts 2011).

I did manage to have a good chat with the lovely John Hegley the poet whilst I was there. I say "chat", he sweetly agreed to a short interview actually, but can we pretend that the two of us are super best friends now ? Either way you can hear more about this on the rado show which I am now metaphorically pointing to.

As it goes, writing this was quite therapeutic. Maybe next year I'll suggest writing reviews of RISE as a treatment for depression...."

This roving report forms part of the August show on the theme of HAPPINESS.

LAUNCH DATE

After 3 months of pre production work we are now very happy to announce that LOCKED ON RADIO will be launching on Monday 25th July 2011 and a show will be going online the last Monday of every month until June 2012.

WILDERNESS Locked On Radio launches with a show that explores themes around our urban sprawl, the untamed nature of the city and the impact this has upon our lives and the well being of future generations. With musical influences from around the world.

ROVING REPORT - from Kentish Town City Farm

MUSIC INTERVIEW - with Hugh Mattan

CROSS TALK - Hosted By John Richardson interviewing a PGCE student on the subject of wilderness in education

VOX POPS - Views from all walks of life collected by our street & facebook team

MISERABLE CORNER - Wilderness in acting with Ross Sutherland

Interviewing Heavy Load - with Jonny

After a pleasant train journey, a walk along the front and a spot of lunch I met with Heavy Load in The Levellers studio in a quiet little back street in Brighton. Having played on the same bill as this band a couple of times in the last 12 months I can safely agree with The Sunday Times that they are "probabaly the most important punk band playing in the UK today"

We arrived to find the guys putting final touches to their new album to which Camden Calling member Dekay was contributing on a reworked cover of the Ting Tings hit That's Not My Name. The song is being released to highlight and promote awareness of hate crime towards individuals with learning disabilities.

The guys were as always in bloody high spirits and had plenty to say on the subject of happiness. Simon in particular was very happy with my resemblance to Bruce Forsyth.

Michael the founder of the Stay Up Late Campaign gave us an interesting and poignant insight into the problems faced by individuals who rely on carer support to conduct decent evening social lives.

The interview is going to be featured on show 2 HAPPINESS where you can find out more about how the guys are torch bearers for disability rights, and why they really do need officials from Brighton & Hove council writing lyrics about predjudice for them.

Jonny

The Story So Far

LOCKED ON RADIO has been in pre production for 10 weeks now bringing together a core team of nine homeless and ex-homeless people, passionate about music, passionate about the issues that impact our lives and passionate about wanting to make an impact in the world.

The front page of this blog will be updated with news about the project and blog entries from the people behind this show as well as being a place to listen to the shows. We want this blog to be a platform for you to get involved and help us shape the future of LOCKED ON RADIO.

My name is Alex and I am the Project Director of Camden Calling an organisation that is run as an arts collective with homeless & vulnerable people. LOCKED ON RADIO is a project we have been excited about as a team for some time now.

As well as hearing from me you will also here from Matt the engineer at Endell St Studios as he moves the show forward from the pre production to the production phase.