Amazing Radio
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Amazing Radio is a national radio station broadcasting on digital radio in the United Kingdom
. The station plays new music from a number of music genres including pop
, rock
, indie, hip hop
, electronica
and jazz
. The station is broadcasting on the Digital One
ensemble
and replaced the temporary Birdsong
test transmission which had been running for a year and a half beforehand.
The station takes its music from its sister website amazingtunes.com and encourages its listeners to have their say as to which songs should make the station's playlist.
and Brighton Festival Radio.
Chris Martin: Presents a self-titled show every weekday between 10am and 1pm. He joined the station after a successful stint on NME Radio
and still DJs regularly for Propaganda.
Kyle Wilkinson: Presents The Afternoon Show every weekday from 3pm to 7pm. He was nominated for the Student Radio Awards
in the 'Best Specialist Music Programming' category in 2010, for the 'Monday Night Mix with Kyle Wilkinson' on Spark FM.
Charlie Ashcroft: Presents The Amazing Chart every Sunday between 5pm and 7pm, and Audition every Monday between 1pm and 3pm, and every Saturday between 4pm and 6pm, to showcase for the best new and emerging music from amazingtunes.com. Charlie is also a music journalist for Artrocker (magazine), This Is Fake DIY
and Gigwise.
Jim Gellatly
: Presents a self-titled show every Sunday between 2pm and 4pm, repeated every Wednesday between 10pm and midnight. He is renowned for unearthing new musical talent in Scotland, and he often features guests on his show, from established artists to newcomers and music industry insiders. He also writes a regular new music column for The Scottish Sun.
Mark Ryan: Presents Amazing Beats every Friday between 7pm and 12am, where you can expect to hear a whole range of music genres, including down tempo electronica
, house
, techno, dubstep
, and drum and bass
.
Colin Greaves and Matt Horne: Present The Saturday Show every Saturday between 9am and 12pm, providing light-hearted features and hilarious banter. Previously, they produced and presented an award-nominated podcast 'The Colin and Matt Show'
Aaron Phillips: Presents Amazing Rock Show every Saturday between 6pm and 8pm, repeated every Tuesday between 10pm and midnight, featuring a selection of rock music
from the amazingtunes.com website, from thrash metal
through to indie
.
Bethan Elfyn
: Presents The Bethan Elfyn Show every Monday between 7pm and 9pm, repeated every Friday between 1pm and 3pm, featuring a selection of the best new and emerging music from the amazingtunes.com website.
Gill Mills: Presents her self titled show every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 7pm and 9pm. The show features indie, electro
and rock music
from the amazingtunes.com website, including her handpicked selections from The Amazing Chart and the new uploads to amazingtunes.com.
Matt Jamison: Presents The Amazing Chill every Sunday between 9am and 12pm. The show features ambient
, chillout, chillwave
music from amazingtunes.com that is both strange and stupendous in equal measure. The last 30 minutes of each show is based on a theme selected each week by the listener.
Paul Lester
: Presents The Paul Lester Show every Thursday between 1pm and 3pm. Paul is best known as the writer of The Guardian
's renowned New Band of the Day and the show features Paul's picks from amazingtunes.com.
Dani Charlton: Presents her self titled show every Saturday between 1pm and 3pm. The show takes music from amazingtunes.com that is both strange and stupendous in equal measure. The last 30 minutes of each show is based on a theme selected each week by the listener.
Ruth Barnes: Presents Amazing Radio
's newest show; The Other Woman every Sunday between 7pm and 9pm. The show is and extension of Ruth's unique blog and new music podcast The Other Woman which features female artists and bands fronted by women exclusively. All of the music for the show is taken from amazingtunes.com.
Digital radio in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the roll-out of digital radio is proceeding since test transmissions were started by the BBC in 1990. The UK currently has the world's biggest digital radio network, with 103 transmitters, two national DAB ensembles and 48 local and regional DAB ensembles...
. The station plays new music from a number of music genres including pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, indie, hip hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
, electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
. The station is broadcasting on the Digital One
Digital One
Digital One is a national commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, owned by Arqiva. , the multiplex covers more than 90% of the populationfrom a total of 137 transmitters...
ensemble
DAB ensemble
DAB ensembles are groups of Digital audio broadcasting broadcasters transmitting multiple digital radio channels on a single radio transmission....
and replaced the temporary Birdsong
Birdsong (digital radio channel)
Birdsong was a temporary radio channel which used to broadcast on national digital radio in the United Kingdom. The transmission consisted of a continuously looping recording of bird song. It was available via the Digital One DAB network. The recording is also available via the Digital One website...
test transmission which had been running for a year and a half beforehand.
The station takes its music from its sister website amazingtunes.com and encourages its listeners to have their say as to which songs should make the station's playlist.
Presenters
Georgie Rogers: Presents Amazing Breakfast every weekday between 7am and 10am. Previously, she has been a music reporter on BBC 6 MusicBBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's digital radio stations, was launched on 11 March 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years....
and Brighton Festival Radio.
Chris Martin: Presents a self-titled show every weekday between 10am and 1pm. He joined the station after a successful stint on NME Radio
NME Radio
NME Radio is the radio station from NME magazine, that broadcasts in a new commercially oriented alternative music format. It first began broadcasting on 24 June 2008.- History :...
and still DJs regularly for Propaganda.
Kyle Wilkinson: Presents The Afternoon Show every weekday from 3pm to 7pm. He was nominated for the Student Radio Awards
Student Radio Awards
The Student Radio Awards is a UK awards scheme celebrating talent within the UK student radio industry, held annually since 1996 by the Student Radio Association and supported by BBC Radio 1....
in the 'Best Specialist Music Programming' category in 2010, for the 'Monday Night Mix with Kyle Wilkinson' on Spark FM.
Charlie Ashcroft: Presents The Amazing Chart every Sunday between 5pm and 7pm, and Audition every Monday between 1pm and 3pm, and every Saturday between 4pm and 6pm, to showcase for the best new and emerging music from amazingtunes.com. Charlie is also a music journalist for Artrocker (magazine), This Is Fake DIY
This Is Fake DIY
This Is Fake DIY is a United Kingdom-based music webzine dedicated to alternative music. It is named after a song by the Scottish alternative rock group Bis....
and Gigwise.
Jim Gellatly
Jim Gellatly
Jim Gellatly is a Scottish radio presenter and DJ. He currently presents the New Music show In:Demand Uncut across Scotland, and a weekly showcase on the UK-wide DAB digital radio station Amazing Radio.-Biography:...
: Presents a self-titled show every Sunday between 2pm and 4pm, repeated every Wednesday between 10pm and midnight. He is renowned for unearthing new musical talent in Scotland, and he often features guests on his show, from established artists to newcomers and music industry insiders. He also writes a regular new music column for The Scottish Sun.
Mark Ryan: Presents Amazing Beats every Friday between 7pm and 12am, where you can expect to hear a whole range of music genres, including down tempo electronica
Downtempo
Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...
, house
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
, techno, dubstep
Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....
, and drum and bass
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
.
Colin Greaves and Matt Horne: Present The Saturday Show every Saturday between 9am and 12pm, providing light-hearted features and hilarious banter. Previously, they produced and presented an award-nominated podcast 'The Colin and Matt Show'
Aaron Phillips: Presents Amazing Rock Show every Saturday between 6pm and 8pm, repeated every Tuesday between 10pm and midnight, featuring a selection of rock music
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
from the amazingtunes.com website, from thrash metal
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...
through to indie
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
.
Bethan Elfyn
Bethan Elfyn
Bethan Elfyn is a Welsh radio and television presenter.Bethan was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, was brought up in Newtown, Powys, and now lives in Cardiff. She is a fluent Welsh speaker and has appeared as a panellist on Welsh language channel S4C's music talent show Waw Ffactor...
: Presents The Bethan Elfyn Show every Monday between 7pm and 9pm, repeated every Friday between 1pm and 3pm, featuring a selection of the best new and emerging music from the amazingtunes.com website.
Gill Mills: Presents her self titled show every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 7pm and 9pm. The show features indie, electro
Electro (music)
Electro is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 drum machines, Moog keytar synthesizers and funk sampling...
and rock music
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
from the amazingtunes.com website, including her handpicked selections from The Amazing Chart and the new uploads to amazingtunes.com.
Matt Jamison: Presents The Amazing Chill every Sunday between 9am and 12pm. The show features ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
, chillout, chillwave
Chillwave
Chillwave, sometimes also referred to as glo-fi, is a genre of music whose artists are often characterized by their heavy use of effects processing, synthesizers, looping, sampling, and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines....
music from amazingtunes.com that is both strange and stupendous in equal measure. The last 30 minutes of each show is based on a theme selected each week by the listener.
Paul Lester
Paul Lester
Paul Lester is a British music journalist, author and broadcaster from Elstree, North London.- Career :He began his career as a freelance, writing for Melody Maker in the early 1990s, as well as City Limits, 20/20 , Sky Magazine and The Jewish Chronicle...
: Presents The Paul Lester Show every Thursday between 1pm and 3pm. Paul is best known as the writer of The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
's renowned New Band of the Day and the show features Paul's picks from amazingtunes.com.
Dani Charlton: Presents her self titled show every Saturday between 1pm and 3pm. The show takes music from amazingtunes.com that is both strange and stupendous in equal measure. The last 30 minutes of each show is based on a theme selected each week by the listener.
Ruth Barnes: Presents Amazing Radio
Amazing Radio
Amazing Radio is a national radio station broadcasting on digital radio in the United Kingdom. The station plays new music from a number of music genres including pop, rock, indie, hip hop, electronica and jazz...
's newest show; The Other Woman every Sunday between 7pm and 9pm. The show is and extension of Ruth's unique blog and new music podcast The Other Woman which features female artists and bands fronted by women exclusively. All of the music for the show is taken from amazingtunes.com.