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Channel M Music - Time for a change - City Life Social
Joy Joseph Bombay Bicyce Club Delphic
After a few months away the City Life Social will be back on Thursday April 16th, 10pm. The show has been running for over two years now and we've made over 140 shows.
Recently had a look over some of the early programmes, originally we had two and a half hours to get the bands in, soundcheck, set up the set and record an hours show. I have no idea how we ever got it done back then but there was certainly a little bit of magic to the whole thing, anything could go wrong and and frequently did... but we just left it in.
Ok, were not hoping that (ahem) someones teeth get knocked out ever again (yes, that actually happened) but maybe its time to reclaim a bit of that anarchy... but how do you do that?
Music shows on TV lost something a long time ago, it's difficult to capture a moment when a moment takes all day over to record multiple takes, the audience getting bored and barked at by a floor manager to look like there having fun on cue.
So what can we do... we're never gonna get the budgets that Channel 4 do but what we make up for lack of cash we make up for in passion.
This time around.. the show you will see will be recorded in an hour. All we can do is guarantee some great bands, music and features and lets invite some friends round (you) and have a party. No stops, no starts, no edits, no pretense.
A NEW TEAM
Of course your main man Gerry will be back but this time around he'll be joined by our new team of specialists... Clint Boon, Jenna G and Oli Wilson.
WHAT'S ON THE FIRST SHOW?
Live in the studio Bombay Bicycle Club, Manchester 60's tinged indie-sexpots Vagner Love and Mr Hudson and Library's Joy Joseph.
Clint Boon introduces you to New Yorkers A Place to Bury Strangers and Oli Wilson catches up with Manchester new messiahs Delphic. It's will have been exactly a year since the band launched themselves with a Channel M Music session and now 12 months on they release their debut single 'Counterpoint' that week.
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Published: Mon, 30 March, 2009
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