Between July 21st and August 1st, the High Fidelity show brought you some of the best local bands playing live in the “Disco Dungeon”. This was a first for an ELFM broadcast and was a huge success, if I do say so myself! Below are links to all of the websites of the bands who performed over the past 2 weeks.

Finally a special thank you to Ed Heaton for arranging all of the bands and making them sound so good.

Enjoy!

The Finnlys: http://www.myspace.com/thefinnlys

Lapels: http://www.myspace.com/lapels06

Supergyre: http://www.myspace.com/supergyre

Chichino: http://www.myspace.com/chichino1

Shatner: http://www.myspace.com/shatnertheband

The Thornbirds: http://www.myspace.com/theaerial360. Also have a look at the videos on YouTube of them playing “Jemima” as well as being interviewed by yours truly!

Simon Wiffen: http://www.myspace.com/simonwiffen

Please check out these sites and support local artists!

Don’t forget that ELFM will be at the Moor Music Festival between the 7th and 9th of August. Keep checking this site for more details of this!

Thanks for listening

Andy

Last night was another top night of live music from the Disco Dungeon and another guest presenter in the Nigel Zone.

Yesterdays live music came courtesy of Supergyre who played us 3 songs. If I hadn’t seen it for myself I would find it hard to believe that it was just one man, a guitar and his laptop could create the sounds he did!

In the Nigel Zone we had the Super Duper LP show with DJ LP. He’ll be back later today with some young voices from the Pupil Referral Unit on the Whateva show at 1pm, and hopefully the Super Duper LP show will be back at some point next week.

Looking forward to tonight when we have Chiccino in the Disco Dungeon and Leon in the Nigel Zone.

Looking forward to a rest this weekend!!

Andy

I thought that, as no breakfast show member had written about their experiences, I would! Essentially I have to get up earlier than them, sit around whilst they broadcast, and be generally sleepy, with none of the fun of getting to talk! Still, I’m not bitter (cough..) and they do provide me and all of us with two hours of fun each and every morning. I get the feeling this time next week they may be broadcasting in their sleep.

Moving swiftly on from what could become a rant I shall inform and educate you all of this weekends plans. The Management here at ELFM (Adrian, Ed and, to an extent, me!) have decided we should conserve our energy in order to better prepare ourselves for another monday to fridays worth of ELFM. As such we’ve decided this weekend will be an extended ‘Best Of’ with interviews, podcasts, tunes from local bands and live set from up and coming musicians.

So we might not be hear in person, but the spirit never leaves! Keep tuned in to 87.7fm or bookmark www.elfm.co.uk and listen in all weekend for excellent community radio, from the people - to the people.

So, here we are, days away from our next big broadcast on 87.7FM and streaming live on the web and we’re just about ready (we think) to begin! First things first - the full on, 100 per cent, official, completed, never-gonna-change schedule… until we change it… is:

WEEKDAY SCHEDULE:

Monday 21st July - Friday 25th and Monday 28th - Friday 1st August

7am - 9am The Breakfast Show
Jason and the Two Sick Gals are let loose to talk about, well, who knows what and wake you up in style!!!

9am - 10am Wind Up Robin
Robin Clark and a host of guests discuss current affairs, both local and from the wider world.

10am - 12pm The Lie In
Paddy, Leon, Ben and whoever else may be about play music and chat, think ‘This Morning’ but a) on the radio and b) younger..

12pm - 1pm The Lunch Hour
So titled as it’s an hour long show and mainly covers lunch time. Ed and Matty plus music, chat and their soon to be infamous ‘Ultimate Battles.’

1pm - 2pm Whateva
Local kids (a different bunch every day) talk about issues important to them and the local area.

2pm-2.30pm: Tea Break
The ELFM team have a cuppa and biscuit while you listen to a fine selection of music.

2.30pm - 4pm The Caravan Of Love
Each and every week day the ultimate in Mobile Radio Experiences hits the streets of east Leeds as The Caravan Of Love comes to a plug socket near you. For an hour and a half (or so) ELFM really is your station - Invite us to your street, come and hang out, play a CD or just watch on in awe at our beatuifully decorated caravan! On monday we will be at the Cross Gates Shopping Centre so come on down and check us out!

4-5pm: Good Bits
An hour of ELFMs’ finest moments including our impressive library of interviews and live sessions all mixed up with a fine blend of music.

5pm - 6pm Your Community
Two groups of people (local resident Mick Dodds and the Eastern Promise guys, Jonathan and Eddie) talk about what’s happening in the area, and how east Leeds may change.

6pm - 8pm High Fidelity
An hour of new, classic, and generally brilliant music brought by your musical-guru Andy Patchett. This followed by an hour of local music including live sessions every night from our Disco Dungeon.

8pm - 10pm The Nigel Zone
A different day, a different person playing all their favorite songs, radio at it’s most simple, beautiful best! Kicking off on Monday the 21st with the the man, the legend, the Nigel; Nigel Stone - the creator of The Nigel Zone.

10pm - 7am Overnight
If you can’t sleep, are a working taxi driver or are getting back in from the pub and discover nothing on the telly then listen to our handpicked selection of great music.

WEEKEND SCHEDULE:

Sunday 20th July (internet broadcast only), Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th

Tune in on the website on the 20th from 11am ’til 7pm-ish for the start of our broadcast and what we call The Weekend Pick ‘N Mix which is a colide-a-scope of different shows to get everyone warmed up for the the big broadcast on 87.7FM. The weekend in the middle of our broadcast is going to be pretty much easy listening with music and not too much of the important stuff. There is a distinct feeling, however, that on Sunday 27th F On The Groove will make a welcome return for his 3 hour epic 70’s tunes and quiz show, the stuff of legend!

Be Part Of ELFM:

So that’s about it! East Leeds FM is set and ready to go. And remember, if you want The Caravan Of Love in your street (all we need is a plug socket!) then you can get in touch in the following ways:

email: info@elfm.co.uk

telephone: 0113 273 8883

text: 60300 beginning your texts with ‘ELFM’

So turn on your radio, tune in to 87.7fm or stream us on this website, listen in, get in touch, and enjoy excellent community radio from the people, to the people. Good ol’ ELFM is back on your wireless and your computer!

Today, as the studio was being set up for the broadcast next week, me and Emma painted the big room we use for meetings.

We decided to paint it white, but the paint was ‘cornflour white’ so it is now more blue, but it looks great and much better than before. We had loads of fun and we hope everyone will enjoy the new paint work!