Tuesday Breakfast Show!!!

As we March into a new month (get the pun?), I thought I'd fire up my blog and post some of the stuff that's been happening on my Tuesday Breakfast Radio Show! (about time, you might say. If you see my iCal, you'll see why I've been leaving it till this late. I'm a student, after all!)


Some highlights from my show from the 31 January 2012 to 28 February 2012...


Records of the Week...


Every week (unless I screwed up and completely forgot), I pick a song to be my record of the week. I try to pick new stuff, obviously. And as you can tell, my music taste is quite mainstream - Top 40-ish sort of stuff, so if you're into that sort of thing, you might find a few tracks below that you may not have heard of, but like. So, enjoy!


31 Jan: Roll Deep - Picture Perfect



7 Feb: Madeon - Pop Culture
(Retrospectively declared - didn't realise I didn't pick a record that week... But as I said on air, this is a mix of samples from 39 different tracks, done in Ableton Live, by a 17-year-old kid. Not bad, for a DJ that can't buy alcohol yet...)



14 Feb: DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora - Hot Right Now
(Note: This record went to #1 in the week I made it my RoTW! Not saying I didn't have anything to do with that, but, let's just say I did. In a very small way, perhaps.)



21 Feb: Clock Opera - Once And For All
(Something to get you up in the early morning, perhaps?)



28 Feb: Nero - Must Be The Feeling


Retro Record of the Week...


I only introduced this feature in my latest show (28 Feb), so there's only one to get out of the way, but it's a gem. Taken off the 1965 record "Bringing It All Back Home", it reached #1 in the UK and US Charts (a first for Dylan), it's Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man. What a tune...




Ed Sheeran Remixes of the Week...


Every week, I played an Ed Sheeran Remix of the Week on my show. You can catch more remixes from Ed's SoundCloud page, or alternatively, I've embedded my picks below for your convenience & listening pleasure...


31 Jan: You Need Me, I Don't Need You (Gemini Remix)



7 Feb: Drunk (Rudimental Remix)



14 Feb: The A Team (KoanSound Remix)



21 Feb: Lego House Subscape Remix



28 Feb: Drunk (Lazy Jay's Rave-o-Lution Dub Remix)







31 JAN 2012: FIRST SHOW!!!
First show! Quite nervous, but stoked to finally own a share of the Xpression FM schedule slot to call my own...


Since it's a first show, I thought I'd pick songs to reflect stuff I/people do in the morning (outside the toilet, I mean)


Songs for the Hungover: Ed Sheeran - Drunk

Songs for the people who can’t open their eyes: Steve Angello ft Alex Metric - Open Your Eyes

Songs for the 1D fans out there / My Guilty Pleasure: One Direction - One Thing 

Song for those walking to campus: Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream

Songs for those working out early in the morning: Skrillex - Breakin' A Sweat

Songs for the Cyclists: Mark Ronson ft. The Business Int'l - The Bike Song

Songs for feeling good today: Flo Rida - Good Feelin

Songs for the Brightonian inside me: Fatboy Slim - Praise You

Most apt song request ever: Panic! At The Disco - Nine In The Afternoon (Thanks, Josh Irwandi!)

7 FEB 2012: GUILD ELECTION WEEK


I was being all corporate and promoting the Guild Election Debates that were happening that night + the Xpression FM Coverage of the elections. Obviously, the elections are over, the winners have been announced, and everyone's forgotten about it. But if you want to relive the Guild Election madness, we still have interviews with the winning candidates on the XpressionFM SoundCloud. We also have the debate shows + ALL candidates (bar one who was quite late to their interview slot, so we didn't have time to put hers on - Delphi!) on our Podomatic Podcast...






14 FEB 2012: BIRTHDAY & VALENTINE'S DAY PICKS

Thanks to the Xpression FM Crew for the surprise Birthday celebration they put up for me the night before my show - did not expect the surprise at all...


Because of what happened the night before, this was my hangover show, so pardon the not-so-brilliant picks, but for my Valentine's Day feature, I went with...

• Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars
• Oasis - Let There Be Love
• David Guetta – Love Don't Let Me Go
• Ke$ha – Your Love Is My Drug

And the anti-V-day tune...

• Mark Ronson & The Business Intl – Somebody To Love Me

And for my Birthday, (thanks to Leonie for finding me this track)

• The Courteeners – Not Nineteen Forever

21 FEB 2012: Shrove Tuesday, AKA PANCAKE DAY


So, 21 Feb was pancake day. Days before the day, I was planning a really dull feature where I get my Mac to read out pancake recipes. Not very interesting, is it? Then, Robin came up to me and, well, he didn't suggest to me, he told me it's happening - Pancake, Skype, his house, me in Studio 2, Live on Air, Keen Team (Hazel Morgan & Genevieve Ladd, the freshers) vs the Dream/Safe Team (Jack Franklin and Robin Chu). Pancake Face-off! It's ON!!!!!


The result? See below...

The Keen Team's entry...

The Dream Team's Entry...

The Pancake Faceoff Crew... (L-R: Hazel Morgan, Jack Franklin, Robin Chu, GenevieveLadd)

Photo credits: Jack Franklin and Genevieve Ladd.

Massive massive THANK YOU to the Dream Team and Keen Team!

28 FEB 2012: Chart Attack & Reverse Challenge

#1 on Student Chart: DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora: Hot Right Now

#1 on UK Charts: Gotye: Somebody That I Used To Know

#1 Album: Adele 21 (played the John Legend Cover of "Rolling In The Deep")

Reverse Challenge: 

This is the newest feature that I hope to make a regular one on my show...

Simple: I pop a song into Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition, reverse it, play it on air, you try to guess what it is, and I give you the answer right after I play a reverse remix.

Avicii - Levels (Gorge Monev Reverse Remix)

And The answer to the week's reverse challenge: Lana Del Ray - Born To Die

Tune in to the Tuesday Breakfast Show with Ronald Liong / @ronfiles, Tuesdays 8am - 10am, on 87.7 Xpression FM. 

You can listen online... 

via the XpressionFM website, 

via the widget on the right column of my blog (they're HTML 5, so they're experimental), 

via the Tunein Radio App,
or via iTunes (Click on the Radio tab on the left, look under "College / University", and scroll to the bottom.)

Within the Exeter area, you can hear us on 87.7FM (unless you live beyond Arena and the Quay/river, in which case your mileage may vary).

And of course, we are on campus - in the Student Shop.

You can get involved with the show via:

Twitter: @ronfiles or @xpressionfm

Facebook: XpressionFM or Ronald Liong

Call: 01392 723568

Email: rl305@exeter.ac.uk 

New Year's Resolution, 2012

It's 2012! Happy New Year!

That can only mean one thing...

The End is Nigh!

Ok, we don't know, really. The Mayans were probably tired and gave up at 2012 when they made their calendar.

Anyway, after deliberating over the exam period, it's finally done. Here's my New Year's Resolution for 2012...


ACADEMICS

• I will finish my 2nd year with at least a 2:1 overall.
• I will NOT go back to Jakarta over Christmas, so I can focus on my January exams in 2013.

JOB PROSPECTS

• I will get an Internship, and I will actually enjoy my internship &// find it useful and beneficial.
• I will actually help Robin with his Bubble Today website (have you heard of it? it's really good)
• I will brush up on any sort of code. HTML5/CSS/Objective-C, etc. Seriously, I will actually improve my knowledge of one/more of the above-mentioned computer/web design languages.

SOCIETY STUFF

• I will be in a committee in my 3rd year and not regret it.
• I will submit 6 articles to Exeposé by December 2013. Surely not that difficult, right?
• I will single-handedly work in a team to make Photosoc awesome. 
• I will learn to develop film.
• I will get presenter-trained/tested and get my own radio show on Xpression. 2 ideas for a show at the moment: A "Versus" show, in the style of Zane Lowe, AND/OR a food review show, reviewing the food on campus and in Exeter. (If I do get that food review show, I'll get off my pescatarian diet straight away.)

MUSIC CRED

• I will go to a gig in 2012.
• I will not chicken out like I did in 2010/2011, and I will actually get tickets to Glastonbury 2013. (ANYONE ELSE INTERESTED?)
• Failing that, I'd love to go to any of the major music festivals while I'm still in the UK. BBL, perhaps?

PERSONAL LIFE

• I will get a girlfriend. I'm 20 (as of 14 Feb, which is exactly one month away.), my brother's getting married tomorrow (15th Jan), so every nosey member of my extended family (and my mum) is going to start asking me now. Alright. THERE! I'll have a girlfriend by the end of 2012! HAPPY?!
• I will give up chocolate for Lent.
• I will wean off my Pescatarian diet by the time the June exams come. And I will then learn to cut the sugars and carbs out of my diet.
• I will run a 10K (standard triathlon distance).
• I will cycle 40K (standard triathlon distance).
• I will try to do a triathlon in one day. Yes, I know I've had this resolution as holiday targets that never ever gets done, but I'm going to give it a try.

FINANCES/TECH

• I will NOT ask my parents for any more money until the 2012/2013 academic year, when I really need money to pay my tuition fees.
• I'm allowed to buy an iPhone 5 and a new Mac this year. NO MORE. No iPad, no iPod.

20 resolutions in 2012. Let's see how I get on!