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Here's the playlist for our 1930s week! We think it went well and we're looking forward to our 1940s episode next week. If you want to to listen to the full show but missed it, it should be available on http://air3radio.com/3od/monday.html

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Didn't do my show last night, but here's the playlist anyway :)

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Off the Rock's Halloween playlist with Orkney Islands Discs chosen by Hatman and Anti-Hatman! Enjoy!

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Playlist from the Off the Rock's first episode!

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Air3 Radio - Student radio at the University of Stirling!

Listen to the OFF THE ROCK radio show in its podcast form! This week's episode was on theme of EMPOWERMENT. Follow this link and click on the player that bears the title 'Off The Rock'. A New episode will become available every Tuesday OR Listen LIVE on http://air3radio.com/ from 11pm - 1am every Monday night. Be there or be TRIANGULAR!

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Track Suggestions

Hey, folks! Off the Rock's second episode will be airing tomorrow night from 11pm - 1am on http://air3radio.com/ This week's theme is 'EMPOWERMENT', so I am looking for suggestions of songs that are upbeat and/or confidence boosting. Thanks in advance! Tune in for a variety of banter as well as Orkney Island Discs with my guests Connor Schofield Mellor and Oisin Scott. Follow me on twitter @Air3OffTheRock and 'like' the show on https://www.facebook.com/offtherockair3 :)

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I HIGHLY recommend you download the music of this wonderful, beautiful, extremely talented lady! NOW! Do it NOW! :D

I MADE THIS.

(It’s free to download because the recording quality is so crap, but hey! I had fun :)) 

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On this week's show we spoke a little about Franz Ferdinand and their sudden return to the limelight after a four year absence. Here's the link to the article which mentions the important role Orkney, my homeland, played in their triumphant return. I highly recommend you check out their New Album - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action!

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LISTEN TO MY BRAND NEW RADIO SHOW - OFF THE ROCK 

COMING MONDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER 11PM -1AM on http://air3radio.com/ 

Follow the link and click the 'Listen Live' button when the time is right.

Check out the TOTALLY LEGIT review at the bottom of the poster... 

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Radio Show?!!

Ok, so well... I'm pretty sure I had one of my insane mental blackouts and when I woke up I had the ocarina of a guy whose last name is Snape and somehow (god knows how or why) a radio show... So, well, I used to have this idea of blogging about the musings of a girl from a small island living in the big wide world, but no matter whether that idea was good or bad, it never came to fruition - generally due to my chronic procrastination habit! However, it seems that,  quite possibly while hyped-up on posh energy drink, I signed up to do a radio show with a similar vision...  My slot on Stirling University's Air3 Radio is Monday 11pm - 1am starting this coming Monday (that's right! I have three days to come up with two hours worth of content that doesn't exist). I guess I'm gonna have a trial and error thing going on format wise for a couple of weeks, but hopefully something will click... I'm probably gonna be including things like observational humour and anecdotes, host and guest reviews and recommendations of music, films, tv shows, literature, and possibly video games, as well as there being a possiblilty of comedy sketches in the future...

I guess I have to actually use this blog now, which is probably a good thing. Anyone out there who wants is free to listen to 'Off the Rock', a show with a double meaning in its title, despite the meaningless of its content. Yay! (?)

To listen follow this link http://air3radio.com/ at around 11pm every Monday from 23rd September and click on the 'Listen Live' button :) 

In the meantime I shall let you ponder how I came to have this ocarina in my possession.

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Come Home, Country Home

Until very recently, I lived in an insular world in which pretty much everyone knows everyone else (or knows someone who knows them). If you see a person in the street and you don't know them then you probably still recognise them. An old lady whom you can't recall ever having spoken to may stop you by the big tree and tell you that you look 'jist like yerr mither' and then go on to recite your entire family tree, along with not so brief descriptions of your second-cousin-twice-removed and how they once got caught stealing pik-and-mix from Woolie's, and how your grandfather, who you never met, had a way with words and could 'cherm the pents off ANYBODY.' As she slips you this final scrap of information before heading on her way, you may note a twinkle in her eye, perhaps even a cheeky wink (though the older a person gets the harder it is to tell whether they are actually winking, whether they're just that wrinkly, or whether you ought to call an ambulance because they're having a stroke) and it hits you. Your granddad quite possibly had it off with this random old lady and the very idea makes you want to throw yourself off a pier, except that where I come from, people regularly do that as a recreational activity…

Anyway, that was the world I used to spend my days in; Stirling is a completely different habitat. While my past surrounding may have seemed somewhat... smothering, there are certain aspects of life to which I had grown accustomed over the previous eighteen years, certain quirks of the insular society which I had never really noticed were quirks – that is, I had never noted that they were idiosyncratic to my place of birth until I spent some time in an alternative part of the country. For instance, where I come from, when there is a ring of sirens and a flash of blue lights everyone looks up, takes notice. Not the case down South, not a head is lifted. It may be out of worry - it could be a relative or a friend; or it may be an acquired nosiness, culturally transmitted through the generations. In either case, it is most definitely caused by the closeness of our community – chances are you know the person in that ambulance. During my adolescence, my mother had a habit of phoning me whenever she saw or heard an ambulance, fire engine (or even a police car!), just to check if I was OK. Who am I kidding? She still does it with my sisters, who are in their late twenties.

Innate and irrepressible nosiness is just one of the many eccentricities that colour my cultural heritage. I wonder if perhaps everyone, everywhere is, in fact, so inquisitive? The answer is almost certainly yes – it’s human nature right? I suppose it is just reflected in different ways depending on a person’s background. With the mish-mash of people that I have been thrown together with, in the typical university fashion, I am likely to find out the specific traits of a wide variety of people from a wide variety of places. Maybe that’s what my blog should be about… I haven’t really got a clue about that – I just started writing and this is where it took me. The only concrete thing I seem to have established is that blue flashing lights and sirens do not invoke the same reaction in the inhabitants my new locale as they do those of my old one. Maybe that’s a good conclusion to end on… Hmmm… I’ll get the hang of this eventually… Meh...

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