Hey everyone! Been a while since I've updated on the radio front, apologies, internet in the house hasn't been quite living up to its contracted expectations! Anyway, we've got a major radio event coming up soon that tickets need to be arranged for - the Student Radio Awards are on at the IndigO2 (London's O2 arena) on Wednesday the 9th of November. One of the few events that is actually black-tie, this is going to be an absolutely brilliant night, and the station even has a nomination for Best Newcomer (yours truly!), and so any support on the night would be greatly appreciated on my own behalf, and also to make some noise in general about IC Radio! Woooo! So, if you want to go to this event, please get back to me ASAP with your name - when we have numbers, we might be able to do something about subsidising tickets, although with this year's considerably tightened budget I'm not sure how possible that may be. :( But we will try our best - even without subsidising we will all get "Members-Only" prices as IC Radio is a member station of the SRA, ergo, we all get the perks. =) For some info about the night, check out this link: http://studentradio.org.uk/news/3929. Here's the most important excerpt: "The awards take place on the 9th November 2011 at the IndigO2, in London’s O2 Arena. BBC Radio 1 presenters Annie Mac and Scott Mills will be hosting on stage, with former Chair of the Student Radio Awards, Huw Stephens, becoming a roaming reporter for the second year running, gaining reactions from the audience as the results are announced." In other radio news, we are VERY NEARLY at full membership, YAAAAAY! For anyone who hasn't yet bought membership, please do so that we can hit our magical number of 65 to get access to our full budget: http://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/radio-211/radio-membership/product.html The key list should be functional now - it was updated online with all our new members' names last week but apparently the physical copy in security had yet to be updated as of yesterday. I'm good at strongly-worded emails, so this problem should be rectified! Sophie has been tipping away at training sessions and getting everyone a show slot - snaps for her! Let her know if you want a show and haven't heard anything about training/slots yet, programming@icradio.com Rob and Seth have been organising live sessions - if you want to attend or help out, production@icradio.com Craig is doing promotion for our shows - whip up a poster and email it to him so that he can plaster it around Imperial! promotions@icradio.com Plenty of free gigs and interview possibilities about the place too - anyone on music mailing lists will have been getting emails from Cahal, let him know if you haven't and are keen for a free gig! music@icradio.com So, in short, contact me if you're coming to the Radio Awards, and buy membership if you haven't yet done that so we can at least try to subsidise tickets! Love from your friendly neighbourhood station manager (who just watched Spiderman 2 so that phrase seems even more fitting right now), Ashlynn PS - Some confusion about my gender has been going around apparently - people have been surprised when they expect the IC Radio station manager and a tiny bundle of female turns up. So, yes, I am a girl, Aislinn/Ashlynn is a girl's name (even outside of Ireland). Possibly the first female IC Radio station manager ever, but that is yet to be confirmed... Now, if you'll excuse me, I must get back to the kitchen/insert female joke here. Fist pump!