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.