Old Boys Out To Lunch Tuesday Spectacular

A shot too good not to share, former RTRFM music director, and currently Thursday's Out to Lunch presenter Dave Cutbush, guesting with Office Manager Chris Wheeldon on current RTRFM music director Adam Trainer's Tuesday Out to Lunch.

Peter Barr was involved in this old fella palaver via the magic of technology over in the phone room too.

But it's not just RTRFM institutions mixing it up on today's Out to Lunch, Usurper of Modern Medicine popped in to have a big of a chin wag as well.

Gulls came in to show their love for RTR:

And then Tristan Fiddler also came in to visit Mr Trainer:

The tastiest new music, local or otherwise, every weekday on Out to Lunch. If you want to keep it around, please help us out and subscribe. 9260 9210!

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Happy Radiothon Tuesday!

We're almost halfway through Radiothon! Here's a look at what's been going down here at the station:

The phone room has been lively, here's a bunch of our super awesome volunteers:

 
Here's Peter Barr with Jamie Macdonald this morning on Breakfast:

Jamie then returned to studio for Morning Magazine. Here he is with regular guest Daniel Midgley:

A special thanks goes out to all you who have subscribed today! And if you haven't yet, what are you waiting for? 9260 9210, it's time to Get on Board!

One big, happy, slightly smelly, family

Normally, our radio studios are islands of calm and professionalism, broken up by the guests from time to time.

During radiothon however, this is not the case. [although we're totally still super duper professional]

Unsurprisingly Micah and Ben M are filling the studio with stacks of electronic music gremlins

But Jo Lettenmaier holds the record so far with monday's out to lunch.

Let's hope we don't reach critical mass, eh?

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**edit**
Upon hearing that they'd lost out to Out to Lunch, Full Frequency upped the ante.

7 is the new number to beat.

The Voice of Power

Much like Ursula, the witch octopus from the Little Mermaid, we here at RTR like to collect voices and store them in bottles. 

This is how happy we look when somebody subscribes.

Here is the voice of Byron Bard, local poet and all-around genius, whose voice we stole in order to promote Radiothon:

You can listen to more of Mr Bard's seductive sounds in the "On Air Highlights" tab.

Happy Radiothon!

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Studio Action!

Throughout Radiothon, we are joined by a varied cast of guests in the studio...

Here's the Electronic Brains Trust, who bring Ambient Zone to the airwaves every Sunday night:

A big thank you goes to all those who subscribed during Ambient Zone!

Rok Riley was joined by the Assembly Line and Nick from the Paper Plane Project:

And here's Meri Fatin hashing it out with Grant Stone on Morning Magazine this morning:

And there's still plenty more guests where that came from!

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Radiothon Opening Party

The Bakery was full, the bands were pumping, the DJ's were swinging and the punters were dancing. Can only mean one thing.. Radiothon was officially opened with the traditional opening party.

After hanging in the phone room all day, RTRFM headed down to everyones favourite hang out The Bakery to kick things off with a bang.


Big thanks to all that came down and big thanks to all the artists and the staff of The Bakery.

Check out a review here.

And don't forget Radiothon is still kicking along so subscribe 9260 9210.

Radiothon Day One - Battlestations!

No amount of meticulous planning can adequately prepare for the insanity that is Radiothon.

Day one is always a testing of the battlements, seeing which sections of the wall will hold, and which will be over run by the onslaught of subscribers. Our trebuchets have been tested, our pikemen at the phone room have been tempered in the forge of a run of busy shows, and we [just barely] emerge.

It's the funnest kind of insanity, when the stations numbers swell and you can barely turn around without stumbling into somone hard at work doing something to encourage subscribers. Sometimes it gets so busy we spill over into the street outside.

It's not just behind the scenes that get hectic though, the studios have such an steady flow of guests that the soundproof double doors get left propped wide open. Like when former morning mag presenter Bren McGurk and sexologist Dr Gareth Merryman speak to current Friday Morning Mag Presenter Stacy Gougoulis.

Speaking of sassytimes, check out one of the mad spot prizes we've got for the [engage mental Barry White voice sythesis for the next word] Laaaaaaadies. Sorry girls, our vollie doesn't come with the prize.

Speaking of spot prizes, wanna see how many of them we've got [not that it's a competition or anything, but I bet it's more that you]

What's that I hear you say? "Golly RTRFM, that sure is quite a lot of spot prizes, but I think I might still have more." Well, to you sir/madam [sirdam?] I say the following...

... I wasn't finished.

 
One of these has a very good chance of landing in your hands for subscribing during the next nine and a half day, not to mention that you then go into the running to win some epic major prizes.

So, even if you don't think subscribing in order to have the warm and fuzzy feeling of moral superiority over others is enough reason to subscribe, rest assured that your cold, calculating, reward driven mind will be well rewarded too.

RTRFM 92.1, covering all the bases.

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