Come Gather Round People
A couple of months ago the two of us sat around discussing the possibility of trying some kind of live, interactive talk show that we could then release later as a podcast. The general idea was to involve people more in conversation as it happens, rather than post-recording via comments or email.
During the original discussions we’d earmarked the pre-season 2009 as a pretty good time to start such a project, but as you’re likely aware, things snowballed after we found early tryouts heaps of fun and thus plans were brought forward.
That brings us to where we are today, which is preparing for a live streaming edition of the audio podcast tomorrow afternoon. The intention is to start broadcasting live at 3pm on Sunday 17th and run for the whole duration of the recording.
We should point out that this is very early days in terms of doing this and the weekly show is by far the most complicated thing we do in terms of production and organisation. It often takes the best part of two hours from start to finish and that doesn’t account for the new equipment we’ve introduced this weekend to enable the world to hear us. Additionally this won’t be a full blown talk show from day one, although we will do our best to bring live commenting into the mix where we can.
Tomorrow afternoon will likely be a watershed moment for Sidepodcast, because either it’ll be the best show we’ve ever recorded or we’ll fall flat on our faces and be too embarrassed to show up again. It’s unlikely to be an average kind of day and it’s safe to say we’re not going to be getting a lot of sleep tonight.
If you’ve little better to do with your Sunday afternoon than hang around your computer watching our world fall apart around us, then please do tune in here and contribute your ideas, thoughts and opinions to our very first live audio show. We can promise nothing we do will ever be the same again. We’re plugging in and going electric, because the times they are a-changin.
August 17th, 2008 at 12:53 amdoctorvee said:
Sounds exciting… I’ll try and tune in!
August 17th, 2008 at 1:03 amDom said:
Oooh, ambitious. I’ll do my best to be there too
August 17th, 2008 at 1:08 amme said:
you might be confusing that adjective with “frightening“, vee!
oh lordy, the pressure is mounting
August 17th, 2008 at 1:13 amSteven Roy said:
I hope I can help pile on the pressure too.
August 17th, 2008 at 1:16 amme said:
thanks steven!!
August 17th, 2008 at 1:53 amJoe said:
Woah, sounds great. It’ll go fine guys…….well I hope so anyway.
August 17th, 2008 at 2:06 amme said:
joe, one day a long, long time from now we may look back and say “what was all the fuss about?”. right now it’s a box of wine and palpations all round.
August 17th, 2008 at 3:36 amJordan Allen said:
Maybe you should start of the live show with a soundbite of Queen/David Bowie’s “Under Pressure”…
At least you can joking laugh about it at the start of the show….
August 17th, 2008 at 4:01 amme said:
jordan, that’s a fine plan
August 17th, 2008 at 4:16 amJordan Allen said:
You should call it “Crumpets and Tea with Christine and Me”. I will leave it to you if you bring food or female guests with the Tea…..
August 17th, 2008 at 11:19 amJeremy said:
hmm GMT +10 here in Sydney. Are you GMT +1? Not sure I can stay up that late!
August 17th, 2008 at 11:27 amme said:
yeah, we figured that might be an issue. if all goes well, we’re planning to vary recording times in the future, in order that we cover as many time zones as possible.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:30 amJeremy said:
You are the Anti-Bernie!
How do you function properly with so little sleep?
August 17th, 2008 at 11:42 amme said:
thank you
August 17th, 2008 at 12:29 pmAlianora La Canta said:
I’ll see if I can be there. I should be able to, but it depends if I get sent anywhere.
August 17th, 2008 at 12:49 pmAlex Andronov said:
So a few hours to go… This is when I guess those little butterflies will start flitting around in your stomach…
Good luck guys I’ll try and join you on the live commenting live… thing
August 17th, 2008 at 12:59 pmAlex Andronov said:
Oh and I don’t think anyone will shout out Judas!
August 17th, 2008 at 1:03 pmChristine said:
Well, I wasn’t nervous… until now.
August 17th, 2008 at 1:07 pmAlex Andronov said:
Sorry Christine!
August 17th, 2008 at 2:02 pmlou said:
August 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pmJordan Allen said:
Greetings.
I have found an interesting show on the Discovery Channel here in Canada, called “Fifth Gear”. Apparently the main host is a certain Vicki Butler-Henderson that “me” seems to be interested with.
Here’s the link:
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/shows/castdetails.aspx?cid=9515&sid=9500
or if that does not work: http://www.discoverychannel.ca should and hunt down “Fifth Gear”.
August 17th, 2008 at 2:51 pmChristine said:
Thanks for saying that Lou, you might have made his day
August 17th, 2008 at 4:01 pmSteven Roy said:
Jordan,
Fifth is Channel 5’s response to the BBC’s Top Gear. VBH and Tiff Needell were on Top Gear until the BBC cancelled it and went off to Channel 5 just before the BBC re-started Top Gear.
http://fifthgear.five.tv/