Shaggy Blog Podcast
I am officially rubbish.
All I can say in my defence is that my life has been all over the bleedin' shop for the last few months, and I've been struggling to corale it all into any kind of order. I have just about managed to scrape myself together enough to have a "To Do" email folder in Outlook, which contains sixty trillion emails awaiting my attention. One of those emails was all about Mike's Shaggy Blog Podcast.
It's a lovely idea - fourteen of the original contributors from Shaggy Blog Stories - the book of funny blog posts collated by Mike in aid of Comic Relief (and it's really very good) - have recorded themselves reading their SBS posts out loud.
The observant amongst you may have noticed that I rather like the sound of my own voice, hence obviously I recorded and submitted an entry. And even posted - very briefly - a link to that recording on here. But then I got distracted, forgot all about it, and never posted a link when it was published.
Mea culpa. Seriously though, go and buy it. It's very cheap (only two quid), the proceeds go to charity, and it's worth listening to, and you'll remove just a small part of the guilt I regularly heap on my own shoulders.
P.S. Ooh look, I found some shameless-plug quotes:
"I was ABSOLUTELY delighted to hear Meg for the first time, I also loved listening to Anna ( I had previously heard Anna on the BBC's "Meet the Blogger"), and having a "legal" copy of Clare's as well. I listened to those three clips at least 3 times that afternoon."
"Clare's reading is an absolute HOOT, really cleverly paced and delivered. Meg should be doing Book Of The Week with a beautiful Home Service speaking voice like that, and so should her sister Anna. As comforting as a mug of cocoa, the both of them. John Soanes, who I don't even read, is a broadcasting natural - wonderful stuff. And AUW's recitation positively drips with suppressed malice - he actually subverts himself as he goes a long. Like Anna, the man is a former drama student, and it really shows. DAMMIT THIS STUFF IS WORTH LISTENING TO!!!"
"....and Pete of Pete Dot Nu has even supplied his own original musical soundtrack! These people should be HEARD, DAMMIT!"
Oh, and it's a damn shame about copyright laws, cos I'd love to have heard this:
"I ran the whole extended intro of U2's "Where The Streets Have No Name" underneath the last couple of minutes of Clare "Boob Pencil" Sudbery's brilliant reading, and the two worked together a treat."
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All I can say in my defence is that my life has been all over the bleedin' shop for the last few months, and I've been struggling to corale it all into any kind of order. I have just about managed to scrape myself together enough to have a "To Do" email folder in Outlook, which contains sixty trillion emails awaiting my attention. One of those emails was all about Mike's Shaggy Blog Podcast.
It's a lovely idea - fourteen of the original contributors from Shaggy Blog Stories - the book of funny blog posts collated by Mike in aid of Comic Relief (and it's really very good) - have recorded themselves reading their SBS posts out loud.
The observant amongst you may have noticed that I rather like the sound of my own voice, hence obviously I recorded and submitted an entry. And even posted - very briefly - a link to that recording on here. But then I got distracted, forgot all about it, and never posted a link when it was published.
Mea culpa. Seriously though, go and buy it. It's very cheap (only two quid), the proceeds go to charity, and it's worth listening to, and you'll remove just a small part of the guilt I regularly heap on my own shoulders.
P.S. Ooh look, I found some shameless-plug quotes:
"I was ABSOLUTELY delighted to hear Meg for the first time, I also loved listening to Anna ( I had previously heard Anna on the BBC's "Meet the Blogger"), and having a "legal" copy of Clare's as well. I listened to those three clips at least 3 times that afternoon."
"Clare's reading is an absolute HOOT, really cleverly paced and delivered. Meg should be doing Book Of The Week with a beautiful Home Service speaking voice like that, and so should her sister Anna. As comforting as a mug of cocoa, the both of them. John Soanes, who I don't even read, is a broadcasting natural - wonderful stuff. And AUW's recitation positively drips with suppressed malice - he actually subverts himself as he goes a long. Like Anna, the man is a former drama student, and it really shows. DAMMIT THIS STUFF IS WORTH LISTENING TO!!!"
"....and Pete of Pete Dot Nu has even supplied his own original musical soundtrack! These people should be HEARD, DAMMIT!"
Oh, and it's a damn shame about copyright laws, cos I'd love to have heard this:
"I ran the whole extended intro of U2's "Where The Streets Have No Name" underneath the last couple of minutes of Clare "Boob Pencil" Sudbery's brilliant reading, and the two worked together a treat."
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Labels: Blogging About Blogging, Recordings
