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Wednesday 12 February 2014

Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots...

...in Exeter.                                                                    

Project co-ordinator Ghee Bowman joined me on Hot Pebbles! on Phonic FM today and he proved a brilliant story teller.

The stories he told were collected as part of the Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots project exploring Exeter's long multicultural history. Find out more here.

 Listen here to my interview with Ghee Bowman
interspersed with relevant music. 
Playlist included along with the recording.

Wednesday 5 February 2014

Lukas Drinkwater...

...did a great live set for us in the Phonic FM studio today. He talked about the wide range of music he plays as a solo musician and as a session musician and accompanying, amongst others, Emily Howard and Jim Causley and with the 3 Daft Monkeys.


 See playlist and listen to a "cloudcast" of the show here 


See Lukas Drinkwater's website for more information about - and recordings of - his music and his gigs. 


See the 3 Daft Monkeys in concert with Dumber Than The Average Bear for Phonic FM at Exeter Phoenix on Saturday, 15 February


More details on the Exeter Phoenix website.






 More pictures of Lukas Drinkwater's session in this Facebook album

Monday 3 February 2014

The blog resumes

So, what is happening to the Hot Pebbles on Phonic FM blog?

After a lull for deliberation, I have decided to continue this blog site but with some changes. 

I have been using it to give a fullish report on my Hot Pebbles! on Phonic FM radio shows along with studio photos of guests and playlists.

Since starting the blogs, I have generally given the playlist of live music and recordings. Now I am using Mixcloud for podcasts of shows, the playlist can be seen there but at present only one photo for each "cloudcast". 

Photos from radio sessions are mostly being posted in Facebook albums now. 



So, what you will see on this blog site from now on will be:

A very brief report on Hot Pebbles! on Phonic FM radio shows along with
  • some photos plus links to see Facebook photo albums
  • links to my Mixcloud pages to hear "cloudcasts" of shows and extracts from shows plus playlists and details of other items on the show.
http://www.mixcloud.com/martinhodgeuk/ 

Old blog entries will still be available here. 
Many of these have links to listen again to old shows. Use the search on this blog (top left) to find entries with particular musicians and organisations - like theatres and theatre companies - that have been featured on Hot Pebbles!

Many thanks to photographer Cecil Hatfield. Cecil will still be providing some photos of studio guests, particularly musicians.