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Jack Evans “Marathon Man”

People all across the Sheffield region are currently helping out with our Spring 2009 appeal. Some by giving up their time and some by giving up much, much more! Take for example Jack Evans; one of our duty managers here at the station. This weekend he raised over £150 by running the “Sheffield Half Marathon” on behalf of Sheffield Live! and finishing in a very respectable time of ‘1 hour 55 minutes’. Before running the marathon he spoke to Fabian Beckett, part our Communities Live! team, about his preparations and his personal choice of motivational Ipod music.

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“Radiothon” Coming to Sheffield’s Airwaves

Sheffield Live! 93.2 FM, the local community radio, is to launch its first “radiothon”, a week long fundraising campaign on-the-air and in venues across Sheffield, starting Monday 27 April 2009.

The Sheffield Live! Spring Appeal 2009 marks 18 months on-air as a full-time community radio service for Sheffield Live! 93.2 FM and celebrates World Press Freedom Day 2009 on 3 May.

Sheffield Live! volunteer programme makers and presenters will drop their usual schedule to broadcast a round-the-clock campaign for listener donations and support. The Sheffield Live! Spring 2009 Appeal is supported by local musicians and artists who will be performing at venues around Sheffield as well as donating music tracks to a Sheffield Live! digital compilation.

Sangita Basudev, Chief Executive of Sheffield Live! said: “This is the first time that Sheffield Live! has organised an on-air fundraising appeal of this kind. We have been delighted by the number of offers of help and assistance that have already come forward. We are just hoping the enormous goodwill there is towards our work will be translated into real contributions and support.”

Local musicians backing the appeal include Toddler T, Mark Stoney and Mim Suleiman. The Harley will host a Sheffield Live! Showcase of local bands on Wednesday 29 April while other activities include a Jazz night at the Riverside on Monday, a latin music night at Cubana on Tuesday and a bhangra music night at DQ on Thursday. On Saturday, 2 May, Sticky music collective will join forces with Sheffield Live!for a day long local music event at the Stockroom.

Sheffield Live! is a not-for-profit community organisation that provides media facilities, training and broadcast services in support of community voices and cultural diversity. The Sheffield Live! Spring 2009 Appeal aims to raise funds to support programme making of community benefit, media training for disadvantaged groups and the provision of public access media facilities.

Throughout the week, the Communities Live! team at Sheffield Live! will be broadcasting from the Winter Gardens, where members of the public can drop by and find out how to get involved.

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New Look Website!

If you’re reading this, then you’ve probably already noticed that we’ve got a brand new website, one which will hopefully allow us to deliver the best online content straight to your browser.

For those of you familiar with the old site, don’t worry. Here on the new look Sheffieldlive.org you’ll still be able listen to our ‘live stream’ and all of our ‘archived podcasts’. But as well as those old familiar services, you’ll now be able to read our regular blog, get involved with our training program, download extra goodies, visit our online shop, listen to our interview archive and find out even more about your favourites shows.

Also while we’ve got your attention, don’t forget to check out our new pages on, Myspace, Facebook and Twitter for the complete online Sheffield Live! experience.

We’ll be adding even more content over the next few months and also explaining how you can get involved with creating items the website yourself. So in the meantime, keep it locked on Sheffieldlive.org and remember, “Love Sheffield, Love Sheffield Live!”

Jeff Wayne Interview

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Jeff Wayne, composer of one of the most successful concept albums of all time “War of the Worlds”, came into the studio this week to record an interview with Graham Marshall, presenter of our classic rock show “Spirit of the Wapentake”. Jeff talked about what inspired him to come up with the original album and also explained what we can expect from the live “30th Anniversary” stage show, which comes to the ‘Sheffield Arena’ on the 16th of June. If you missed the live interview don’t despair, because now you can now listen to it again via our brand new “interview archive” section.

Sheffield Live! Benefit Gig at the Harley

On Monday 23rd March the Harley Hotel & Bar and Sheffield Live! 93.2FM join forces to showcase some of the city’s finest musical talent at a special benefit gig for Sheffield Live!

A top night featuring the who’s who of Sheffield’s up and coming indie bands:

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Pistola Kicks; billed as Sheffield’s tightest liveliest act by the Sheffield Telegraph myspace.com/pistolakicks

The Interiors; described as ‘A glorious tribute following in the footsteps of some of the greatest bands of the post-punk age’ by Subba Cultcha webzine myspace.com/theinteriorsband

Cats:For:Peru; praised by Sandman Magazine as “Perfect avant-pop that John Peel would undoubtedly be championing myspace.com/catsforperu

Standard Fare; whose demo was described as “brilliant” by Huw Stephenson on his Radio 1 show, ‘In new music we trust’ myspace.com/standardfare

The night will close with Sheffield Live! DJ sets from the fabulous people behind Mixtape, The Indie Hour and The Breakdown.

Doors open at 8pm and £3 gets you in.

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Tune in to Sheffield Live! to hear tracks from all the bands and interviews with the music makers!

Sheffield Live! 93.2 FM Celebrates First Birthday

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Sheffield’s first fulltime community radio station celebrates its first birthday today. In just one year Sheffield Live! 93.2fm has made its mark on the UK’s fourth largest city by introducing a new brand of radio that celebrates Sheffield’s rich diversity.  With a strong commitment to local people, issues, music and culture the station has created a truly inclusive soundscape of modern day Sheffield, broadcast everyday on FM to a potential audience of 350,000 people.

Sheffield City Council Leader and regular Sheffield Live! listener Paul Scriven said: “It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Sheffield Live! on its first year of fulltime broadcasting.  The station has made a positive impact on the city’s cultural life, by offering a powerful platform to local people for debate, political engagement, creative expression and community celebration.”

A wide range of Sheffield Live’s programmes have become household names like the ‘Indie Hour’ which features tracks from the now legendary Sheffield Indie scene.  ‘Sheffield in Focus’, a magazine programme for local visually impaired people is produced and presented by a seasoned team of broadcasters who are themselves visually impaired.  Produced and presented by two of the city’s top scientists ‘The Sound of Science’ is a world class science, engineering and technology programme, delivered in an accessible and entertaining format.  ‘Sabrang’, a discussion programme in Urdu has a vibrant phone-in that gets the community talking every week whilst ‘Siteen Daqiqa be Alarabi’ and ‘Luisheng Sheffield’ provide Sheffield’s only radio programmes in Arabic, Cantonese and Mandarin.  In addition the station hosts a wide variety of youth orientated, cutting edge music programmes featuring Alternative, RnB, Hip Hop, House and Baseline, presented by some of Sheffield’s best known club DJs.

Sangita Basudev, Chief Executive of Sheffield Live! said: “We are one year old! What a great opportunity to celebrate the hard work, commitment and creative enthusiasm of the 100’s of volunteers that are Sheffield Live! 93.2fm.  Sheffield Live! provides a high quality, eclectic service 24 hours a day.  We take pride in the creative input the station has made to Sheffield and the investment we have made in a new generation of home grown broadcasters of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.”

Join the Sheffield Live! Fantasy Football League

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Sheffield Live! is running an open Fantasy Football League for ‘Talking Balls’ listeners and anyone else keen on Premier League Football.

Tune into 93.2FM every Friday between 6 and 7pm for a weekly league table update with Jonathan Cordingly and Daniel Rutherford on ‘Talking Balls’.

The Sheffield Live! league is registered on the official Premier League website and it’s free to join.

1.Enter your team on www.fantasy.premierleague.com

2.Then join the Sheffield Live! league by entering the code: 112309-28652

Radio Launch Success gets the Nod from Westminster

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Sheffield Lord Mayor Arthur Dunworth was joined by scores of musicians, DJs, community heads and other VIPs to celebrate the launch of Sheffield Live! 93.2FM: the city’s first new FM local radio station since the 1970s.

Around 200 people attended the launch event on Monday 29th October to raise a glass to Sangita Basudev, Chief Executive, and the Sheffield Live! team, who have campaigned for years for a full time FM community radio licence for the city. Sangita said: “There has been hundreds of people involved in the push for a full time licence over the years and we’ve been receiving messages of good will from all over the world.

“It was fantastic that so many people were able to join us for our launch and I’m looking forward to as many people as possible being involved with the station in the months and years to come.”

The launch of Sheffield Live! was also welcomed in the House of Commons. Ian Lucas MP for Wrexham and a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Home Office, speaking at a House of Commons adjournment debate on community radio, said: “Sheffield Live, is beginning to broadcast today. I wish it all the best; I am sure it will contribute hugely to its community.”

“Community radio is one of the Government’s great success stories. It was introduced by the Communications Act 2003 and is now governed by the Community Radio Order 2004. Some 148 licences have been awarded under the community radio legislation and at present 85 new stations are broadcasting to provide services to their local communities.”

Sheffield Live! hit the airwaves at 7am on Monday 29 October, broadcasting live for an initial 18 hours a day to a potential audience of more than 350,000 people in Sheffield and Rotherham, on 93.2FM. “The response we’ve had since we first heard we’d been granted the FM licence has been phenomenal,” said Sangita. “It was an incredible moment when we ‘flicked the switch’ and went live across South Yorkshire to over 350,000 people.”

Sheffield Live! 93.2FM is offering a true alternative to existing local FM stations, providing a platform for local artists and offering a voice for all communities in the city and surrounding region.