Merry christmas everyone,
We thought we'd just send you a quick yuletide message, hope you're having a wonderful festive season.
Lockin studios is well and truly shut for a few days and so i'm afraid we haven't got any new juicy bit for you. The good news is that we both received the recording equipment that we need to help us bring you some more laughter and joy in yet another medium hopefully through sketches or short videos and inanity. So look out for those in the very near future, they'll be posted both here and on our youtube account thelockinvideos
Have an excellent little holiday and we'll be back with some audio-presents for you to enjoy in the near future. And if you're looking for a low budget alternative to the docotr who special or michael macyntire's christmas blowout, then why not check out our latest podcast - http://soundcloud.com/thelockin/the-lock-in-podcast-6
Yule hear from us soon
Sincerely
The lock in elves
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
A Christmas Gift From The Lock In
Hi blog followers,
We thought, seeing as it's christmas eve that we'd gift you with another podcast from the radio show you love to love.
It can get quite boring sometimes at christmas time, sure there's the manic rush of presents and food and everything else, but there's also a distinct lull in the evening when you've opened or eaten everything and there's nothing left to do but enjoy each others company. So this year, if you're feeling a little bit overfed and bored, gather the whole family round the fireplace and listen to the latest podcast from the lock in.
It'll be just like being back in time when families would gather round the wireless, except now it comes with the modern twist of the internet and some added dynamism from the contemporary comic duo.
Think of it as an alternative to the queens speech:
http://soundcloud.com/thelockin/the-lock-in-podcast-6
Speak to you soon readeners have a good christmas
We thought, seeing as it's christmas eve that we'd gift you with another podcast from the radio show you love to love.
It can get quite boring sometimes at christmas time, sure there's the manic rush of presents and food and everything else, but there's also a distinct lull in the evening when you've opened or eaten everything and there's nothing left to do but enjoy each others company. So this year, if you're feeling a little bit overfed and bored, gather the whole family round the fireplace and listen to the latest podcast from the lock in.
It'll be just like being back in time when families would gather round the wireless, except now it comes with the modern twist of the internet and some added dynamism from the contemporary comic duo.
Think of it as an alternative to the queens speech:
http://soundcloud.com/thelockin/the-lock-in-podcast-6
Speak to you soon readeners have a good christmas
Friday, December 23, 2011
We have a youtube...it's just not very good yet
Hello again,
Well with the flurry of work and time that we've been putting into the lock in recently, it should come as a surprise to no one that we have another medium through which you can enjoy our humourous asinine conversations.
That's right, we now have a youtube account that will feature all of the lock in podcasts as they are published as well as our archive of old podcasts. (Hooray! we finally have a sensible place to store old stuff online). Seeing as it's youtube, the format will be as a video, but it will be more of a rolling slideshow of pictures of us, along with the audio podcast that you came for.
Our youtube channel will also feature the occasional little juicy video or sketch or stupid thing from one of us or if you're lucky both. We'll post it here as well, so it's worth keeping your eyes peeled.
What's great is that youtube are now allowing users to upload videos longer than ten minutes as long as we double pinky-swear that it's not copyrighted material. In fact, the only step we had to take for them to allow us to post longer videos was to give them my mobile number. We assume that this is because if we post anything that's copyrighted, they plan to prank call us every night at 3am until we take it down.
So here it is, our very first youtube video podcast thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlz1iQ97oXc
It's not very good admittedly, the slideshow is both a bit boring and a bit broken, but we plan to fix that very soon, and hey, it's a start, right?
Speak to you soon lock in readers
Well with the flurry of work and time that we've been putting into the lock in recently, it should come as a surprise to no one that we have another medium through which you can enjoy our humourous asinine conversations.
That's right, we now have a youtube account that will feature all of the lock in podcasts as they are published as well as our archive of old podcasts. (Hooray! we finally have a sensible place to store old stuff online). Seeing as it's youtube, the format will be as a video, but it will be more of a rolling slideshow of pictures of us, along with the audio podcast that you came for.
Our youtube channel will also feature the occasional little juicy video or sketch or stupid thing from one of us or if you're lucky both. We'll post it here as well, so it's worth keeping your eyes peeled.
What's great is that youtube are now allowing users to upload videos longer than ten minutes as long as we double pinky-swear that it's not copyrighted material. In fact, the only step we had to take for them to allow us to post longer videos was to give them my mobile number. We assume that this is because if we post anything that's copyrighted, they plan to prank call us every night at 3am until we take it down.
So here it is, our very first youtube video podcast thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlz1iQ97oXc
It's not very good admittedly, the slideshow is both a bit boring and a bit broken, but we plan to fix that very soon, and hey, it's a start, right?
Speak to you soon lock in readers
Thursday, December 22, 2011
We've Discovered Soundcloud is Great!
Hi everyone,
We hope that you've enjoyed listening to the Arthur Smith podcast so far, it was a lot of fun to make, and even surprisingly pretty fun to edit this one.
Sine we've got a little xmas break at the moment from all of the various other things that happen in our lives, we're using the opportunity to catch up on some much needed lockin admin. I know admin doesn't sound very exciting, but it turns out it totally is!
One of the major problems we have is with content hosting. Being both poor and talented can make for a rough ride when you've got hours and hours of great material but no good free hosting site to make it available on. Since we started doing podcasts we'd been using podbean.com as i'm sure you know. Unfortunately, when it comes to industry standards and portfolios and things, the professional opinion of podbean is '.....what's podbean? everybody uses soundcloud" So with that in mind, we've moved out content hosting over to soundcloud now and it's pretty much excellent. We haven't discovered all of the minute details of it yet, but it looks much more slick and professional, plus it makes it easier for you to download or stream your favourite comedy fun.
The only problem with it (we experienced this with podbean too) is that you can only upload a limited amount. The limit on soundcloud is about 120 minutes, which should just about cover this arthur smith interview plus two podcasts. But once we've done that, we're going to have to start deleting stuff, meaning there'll be no place online to find the lock in archived back catalogue.
So with that in mind, we'd really appreciate it if an anonymous donor could sponsor us 500 euros so that we can afford to buy Soundcloud Pro for a year and enjoy unlimited content uploading.
Thank you
Yours expectantly
The lock in
P.S. Here's the Arthur Smith soundcloud link. Even if you've listened to it once it's worth trying this too, the experience is much funnier when you enjoy it through a better online media player:
- http://soundcloud.com/thelockin/arthur-smith
We hope that you've enjoyed listening to the Arthur Smith podcast so far, it was a lot of fun to make, and even surprisingly pretty fun to edit this one.
Sine we've got a little xmas break at the moment from all of the various other things that happen in our lives, we're using the opportunity to catch up on some much needed lockin admin. I know admin doesn't sound very exciting, but it turns out it totally is!
One of the major problems we have is with content hosting. Being both poor and talented can make for a rough ride when you've got hours and hours of great material but no good free hosting site to make it available on. Since we started doing podcasts we'd been using podbean.com as i'm sure you know. Unfortunately, when it comes to industry standards and portfolios and things, the professional opinion of podbean is '.....what's podbean? everybody uses soundcloud" So with that in mind, we've moved out content hosting over to soundcloud now and it's pretty much excellent. We haven't discovered all of the minute details of it yet, but it looks much more slick and professional, plus it makes it easier for you to download or stream your favourite comedy fun.
The only problem with it (we experienced this with podbean too) is that you can only upload a limited amount. The limit on soundcloud is about 120 minutes, which should just about cover this arthur smith interview plus two podcasts. But once we've done that, we're going to have to start deleting stuff, meaning there'll be no place online to find the lock in archived back catalogue.
So with that in mind, we'd really appreciate it if an anonymous donor could sponsor us 500 euros so that we can afford to buy Soundcloud Pro for a year and enjoy unlimited content uploading.
Thank you
Yours expectantly
The lock in
P.S. Here's the Arthur Smith soundcloud link. Even if you've listened to it once it's worth trying this too, the experience is much funnier when you enjoy it through a better online media player:
- http://soundcloud.com/thelockin/arthur-smith
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Arthur Smith has Landed
Hello lock in listener/readers,
The (largely) un-edited version of the Arthur Smith interview that we conducted on the 9th of December is now present. Listening through it, i can't say what elements of a traditional interview it has going for it, but it was a lot of fun as a first attempt. We hope for this to be the debut of our new prolific series 'The Lock In Interviews...'
The interview certainly seems to have our personality stamp on it. Whether that's to its benefit or not is up to you to decide, but it should make for some pretty enjoyable listening.
We intend to revisit this recording to edit it more throughly and see if we can extract a more factual, professional interview out of it, rather than the light-hearted discussion that it is at the moment. We'll also almost certainly include an updated version where we talk before and after about some of our thoughts about our very first interview and meeting the man himself.
Here's the link to podbean, though we'll almost certainly find a better way to host content soon:
http://thelockin.podbean.com/
Enjoy
The (largely) un-edited version of the Arthur Smith interview that we conducted on the 9th of December is now present. Listening through it, i can't say what elements of a traditional interview it has going for it, but it was a lot of fun as a first attempt. We hope for this to be the debut of our new prolific series 'The Lock In Interviews...'
The interview certainly seems to have our personality stamp on it. Whether that's to its benefit or not is up to you to decide, but it should make for some pretty enjoyable listening.
We intend to revisit this recording to edit it more throughly and see if we can extract a more factual, professional interview out of it, rather than the light-hearted discussion that it is at the moment. We'll also almost certainly include an updated version where we talk before and after about some of our thoughts about our very first interview and meeting the man himself.
Here's the link to podbean, though we'll almost certainly find a better way to host content soon:
http://thelockin.podbean.com/
Enjoy
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
The promise of things to come
Here at Lock in HQ we tire ourselves out constantly to keep up with the many many broken promises that we make on a weekly basis. By this I mean promises of podcasts and youtube and soundcloud and many other different facets through which to enjoy your favourite asinine radio fun.
Unfortunately up until now we have failed on nearly every account of staying true to these promises. However, I am writing to you today, loyal lock in listeners, with a new promise, a promise of a new age of lock in workload and output. Where you'll be seeing regular podcasts, photos, new mediums and even some videos that take you deeper into the twisted psyche of your two charming hosts.
This blog is the place to be for all this and more. Expect daily updates about what progress we're making towards striking it big, along with extra little treats for you along the way. Things to look out for in the very near future include the infamous first episode of our new sub-series 'The lock in interviews...'. This debut episode featured none other than alternative comedian and famed grumpy old man Arthur Smith. As well as the terrifyingly funny 6th lock in podcast! - I know 6 is a small number, I told you we were lazy.
On an interesting and related note, I found out recently that keeping a daily blog can really help to boost your google search engine rating. So hopefully if we can keep up with this when you google 'the lock in radio show' you should be able to find us closer to the top of the first page. The way it was explained to me was something to do with google having robotic spiders that crawl all over your writing and grab the key words (an explanation I've almost certainly misunderstood). So hello google spiders. Help yourself to some snacks from the kitchen and feel free to build a comfy web on the best blog in town.
That's all for now. See you tomorrow listeners/readers (and robo-spiders)
Unfortunately up until now we have failed on nearly every account of staying true to these promises. However, I am writing to you today, loyal lock in listeners, with a new promise, a promise of a new age of lock in workload and output. Where you'll be seeing regular podcasts, photos, new mediums and even some videos that take you deeper into the twisted psyche of your two charming hosts.
This blog is the place to be for all this and more. Expect daily updates about what progress we're making towards striking it big, along with extra little treats for you along the way. Things to look out for in the very near future include the infamous first episode of our new sub-series 'The lock in interviews...'. This debut episode featured none other than alternative comedian and famed grumpy old man Arthur Smith. As well as the terrifyingly funny 6th lock in podcast! - I know 6 is a small number, I told you we were lazy.
On an interesting and related note, I found out recently that keeping a daily blog can really help to boost your google search engine rating. So hopefully if we can keep up with this when you google 'the lock in radio show' you should be able to find us closer to the top of the first page. The way it was explained to me was something to do with google having robotic spiders that crawl all over your writing and grab the key words (an explanation I've almost certainly misunderstood). So hello google spiders. Help yourself to some snacks from the kitchen and feel free to build a comfy web on the best blog in town.
That's all for now. See you tomorrow listeners/readers (and robo-spiders)
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Welcome Lock In Fans
Hi everyone,
This is the very first post of our new blog for the lock in. Things in lock in land started moving at an incredible speed, and we wanted to start cataloguing the process of the show before we got too far ahead of ourselves.
For anyone happening upon this blog not familiar with the show, it is a student radio show broadcast live and online on bailriggfm.co.uk. Two Lancaster students - Tom Dransfield and Ryan McCann, talk, laugh and joke through the night (for at least 5 hours) at midnight on thursdays. It has best been described as "the hilarious conversations of two affable idiots". Condensed 40 minute podcasts of each show are available here: http://thelockin.podbean.com/
We've already seen the first series come and go this year before we broke up for our summer hiatus. We briefly hung up the show with great sadness to do our own thing for the summer. Over that time we promised the listeners a weekly or bi-weekly podcast update from our back catalogue of shows. Unfortunately, due to some heinous oversight, we forgot that we were both incredibly lazy and neglected to stay true to this promise. This tragic podcast void looked set to continue until we were offered the chance to air a podcast each week for the digital channel radiofreebrighton.org.uk Since then, we have had a new drive and obligation to keep up to date with the weekly podcast. At the moment they are still airing the original 3 podcasts that we completed in June, but as of the 12th of September we will all be treated to a brand new podcast of our now ancient 4th show.
That's essentially most of the current updates from us at the moment. Keep vigilant, we've got some pretty big things planned
This is the very first post of our new blog for the lock in. Things in lock in land started moving at an incredible speed, and we wanted to start cataloguing the process of the show before we got too far ahead of ourselves.
For anyone happening upon this blog not familiar with the show, it is a student radio show broadcast live and online on bailriggfm.co.uk. Two Lancaster students - Tom Dransfield and Ryan McCann, talk, laugh and joke through the night (for at least 5 hours) at midnight on thursdays. It has best been described as "the hilarious conversations of two affable idiots". Condensed 40 minute podcasts of each show are available here: http://thelockin.podbean.com/
We've already seen the first series come and go this year before we broke up for our summer hiatus. We briefly hung up the show with great sadness to do our own thing for the summer. Over that time we promised the listeners a weekly or bi-weekly podcast update from our back catalogue of shows. Unfortunately, due to some heinous oversight, we forgot that we were both incredibly lazy and neglected to stay true to this promise. This tragic podcast void looked set to continue until we were offered the chance to air a podcast each week for the digital channel radiofreebrighton.org.uk Since then, we have had a new drive and obligation to keep up to date with the weekly podcast. At the moment they are still airing the original 3 podcasts that we completed in June, but as of the 12th of September we will all be treated to a brand new podcast of our now ancient 4th show.
That's essentially most of the current updates from us at the moment. Keep vigilant, we've got some pretty big things planned
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