I read an article about the five reasons band websites suck and I now wanted to throw it out there that I’m interested in developing a website for either a solo artist or a band.

I’m not too bothered as to who or what they play, but I think it’d be really great to have a go at a website like that.

You may ask “Can’t we just use MySpace?” Well you could be the problem for the music industry is that many musician’s websites, like MySpace, are very cluttered and it’s hard to make sense of all that information sometimes. A hosted website means that it’s easier to display information in a friendly way and get fans to interact. Websites also look more professional than MySpace pages. For a start you can have a proper web address like www.biggestbandever.co.uk instead of myspace.com/biggestbandeveruk! You never know, a proper site could lead to a big booking!

If you are interested or know of someone that may want a website doing for good money, then please either forward this on to them, or email me oliver@thewebguyuk.co.uk.

Seeming as we’re talking about lights and things that shine. Watch this.

Recognise the song? It’s a jazzed up version of This Little Light of Mine, which is a song that you may have sung in Primary School.

Well this morning at KingsGate in Peterborough we had the pleasure of hearing Andy Hawthorne speak. He’s from The Message Trust in Manchester and he showed us this video.

These guys are hoping to spread the word of the Holy Gospel and Jesus across the nation by releasing this (catchy) track. The video has already been approved for distribution by Universal Music across the UK. So you could start seeing it on channels like MTV and 4Music!

They want to get it into the charts and I think they’ve got a real chance.

Here’s a clip from the service, which leads up to Andy introducing the track.

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The video itself I believe is well put together and is of professional quality as well, so I was interested in posting it as a matter of media interest.

This is the poster that I did today for the Fun Farm in Spalding to promote their Easter activities over the weekend.

Nothing much more to say really!

Today I bring you the parody of Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” in the form of The Midnight Beast Feat. ST£FAN. The gents also take the Michael of Lady GaGa.

I love it because it just takes the Micky out of anyone and anything. Pure and simple. Plus the video is well put together and thoughtout.

Warning: the following video does contain lots of strong language, which some viewers may find offensive.

Yesterday I took a bit of time to come up with some rough ideas for graphics.

The video below is what we’d use as a teaser slot at the beginning of the show. There would be a voice over and bed, but I haven’t put these on yet.

Let me know what you think.

Recently one of the directors at Tulip Radio got an iPhone and he knew I’d received the app for testing so he wanted to know what it did.

So I hooked it up to our monitors in the radio studio and played him some sentences I’d made up. I added the beginning of a track by the artist, and hey presto, Peter Dickson had entered our radio studio!

Here are some samples:

Jedward

Jedward 1 – By Oliver Needham

Jedward 2 – By Oliver Needham

Lady GaGa

It’s Time To Face Lady GaGa – By Oliver Needham

You can download the Peter Dickson Pocket Announcer App for iPhone & iPod Touch here.

Speech in these clips are copyright Quapps & the Peter Dickson Pocket Announcer app. Music is copyright the respective record labels. These audio clips are not to be redistributed.

Now I’ve found the perfect feature! It’s The Endings Game, where I play you the end of a track and you guess what it is and get in contact.

But now it comes with added clues! Such as the year the artist first released a single and also when they were born!

So you can play along on Saturday mornings between 8am and 11am on Tulip Radio. 107.5 FM in South Lincolnshire and online at www.tulip-radio.co.uk across the whole world!

This afternoon I launched the newsletter service for the Fun Farm in Spalding.

The first edition was sent out this afternoon with details of the return of our Car Boot Sales, which start in March, and also the news of our new loyalty card.

You can sign up for the new Fun Farm Spalding Newsletter at http://eepurl.com/ismB

You can see the first edition of the newsletter at http://eepurl.com/iCa5

Any comments and suggestions about this feature should be sent to promotions@funfarm.co.uk

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Today I was with my mates from college today, and we were visiting Peterborough Market and the video stall there with has some old and new movies on DVD, and we were browsing through and Lawrence came across a DVD which contained episodes of a 1980s stock animation character.

This character was Charlie Chalk. Don’t remember him? Try watching the opening titles:

You remember him now?! Great! Well did you know that there were only ever 13 episodes made and aired on the BBC.

Even though the character was created in 1987 and I was born in 1992, I remember him! He was the original mascot for the UK restaurant chain Brewers Fayre and I remember going to the Brewers Fayre in Boston and going on the Charlie Chalk bouncy castle.

So yeah there’s so much attached for me to this character. Why not share your favourite moments or memories of him on here, just comment!

Want more Charlie Chalk? Great! There’s the first whole episode on YouTube. Go see!

Further reading: Charlie Chalk on Wikipedia