Diary of a hard working hack

Some of you may know that the day job in FM104 is in the newsroom

Its a tough job..i've been camped outside the Lotto HQ on Abbey St since yesterday

As you can see its very hectic down here

Overworked radio reporters outside lotto HQ

The Simpsons

Thaks to Mark Pinsky, author of "The Gospel According to the Simpsons" for coming on the show the other night.

Lots of mixed reaction to the new movie, some people liked it some didn't, they just said it wasnt that funny

Anyway Mark's website is www.markpinsky.com if you're interested

Jezzebelle live on The Open Mic July 22

The Open Mic EGGstravaganza

We want your egg photos, it's very simple - you and your egg...

It could be you and your egg in a pub, on holiday, on the toilet, wherever!!!

No prizes, just the bragging rights to having your pic on The Open Mic Blog!

Here's an idea of what we're looking for...

E-mail your photos to openmic@fm104.ie

When in Rome do as the Eggs do

That Egg is Swedish, so are those dudes

I pulled an Egg

ITO Live in Studio Sunday July 15

Aliens and conspiracies

Thanks to Steve Basset from the Paradigm Research Group for coming on the show.

He says the US government is hiding the truth about aliens!!

You can check out his website here

http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/

Baseball...say goodbye to your working day

Baseball It is bottom of the ninth; rally your team to win the game with only 3 outs left

Play this free game now!!

The Who at Marlay Park

Went to see The Who

They rocked!!!!

Pete Townshend

Demo Dip

DEMO DIP


The Open Mic Demo Dip

Got a band or have a solo act?

The Open Mic wants your demos!

Send them to

The Open Mic

FM104

Hume House

Ballsbridge

Dublin 4

We'll take a listen and if we like what we hear you could be invited onto the show for a chat and some live tunes!

Third Show

Its the last night of Oxegen, so we throw that out there...get calls from people on their way home everyone had a great time

Snow Patrol were brilliant apparently

Dave Geraghty from Bell X1 has a solo album on the way...he's in studio with a keyboard, double bass and violin! somehow they manage to cram into the FM104 studio, tunes sound good

Lots of texts come in saying they like the songs...people are bactually worried its the end of the band! Dave says no

Check out www.davegeraghty.com you can download the new single for free

Second Night on Air

Second Night
11 days ago

So the day came around again....second show.
Had a better handle of how things worked
The superpowers thing went down well fair play to SpongeBoy, how bizarre was that?
He wants to fly over bad guys and pour dirty water on them...Anyway we went to Ebay which got a good reaction...in came Dark Room Notes bit of a chat, couple of tunes..I liked them
Fact or fiction...I know i made a sham of it.. because i gave away the fact that one answer was fiction then everyone was onto it...DOH!!!
Anyway that was show two....now to start work on number three...

First Night on Air

First Night
15 days ago

So....my first show
Nervous as hell on Sunday evening, shouted at the dogs while i was getting stuff ready on my laptop, Aileen shouted at me for shouting at the dogs
Anyway get to FM104 world HQ in ballsbridge thinking all the way in "can i do this?" "why am i doing this?"
Louise Jordan finishes the Download Chart, i have about 3 minutes to get my crap together and into the studio
Look at the mixing desk, forget everything the jocks taught me over the last two weeks, play into music, want to throw up...throw up fader instead.
Three hours radio is a long time especially when the air conditioning doesnt work and its your first night...calls come in, people about their hidden movies, porn names goes down a treat, Hybrasil in studio, good tunes
1am show over, take off headphones hands still a little shaky
One show down......THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CALLED IN AND MADE IT EASY FOR ME!!!