Stuck in the library? Sick of listening to the same old playlist on loop? Fear not!
Whilst we are no longer broadcasting live, we’ve put together a revision podcast full of the newest music to help you through get through this last push into summer. Let us be your library soundtrack!
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LSR is taking part in a competition hosted by Spotify and Jose Cuervo Tequlia to find the best University playlist across all Universities in the UK. The playlist with the most votes will win the ultimate night out on campus on Thursday 16th May 2013.
With DJ sets by Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip and Orlando Weeks from The Macabees it promises to be a legendary night out.
We’ve compiled the ultimate Leeds Uni playlist here at LSR, and we need YOUR votes to win us a massive night out, and no small amount of Tequila. Rally your mates to vote for our Spotify playlist at voteforourplaylist.com. It’s our chance to win that big campus night.
You can also be in with a chance to win prizes for yourself just by voting including Microsoft Surface tablets, ASOS vouchers , festival tickets and ice cold Jose Cuervo Tequila
Your University needs you!
After weeks of campaigning, we have our results! With a UK record of 11,383 votes cast, 6 officers and 1 editor were elected for the 2013-2014 LUU Student Executive. You can get a breakdown of results by checking out the Leeds Student liveblog, but if you want to re-live the excitement as presented to you by Leeds Student Radio, you can listen to the each result as it happened, after the break.
Our RPM specialist music shows run across 6 nights a week from 9-10pm with each one dedicated to a different style of music. Tuesday night is Rock and Punk night with Max Bower and friends present the very best in Rock and Punk music with some Blues thrown in for good measure. They often get in local bands for live interviews as well as reviewing the best new music out there and gigs going on in Leeds.
On last week’s show, Max was joined by Ian Tozer and Dan Bennett for a live session special where they exclusively play live tracks for an hour. With music from bands such as The Who, Bruce Springsteen and Them Crooked Vultures. You can listen again on their show page here and don’t forget to listen to the show, every Tuesday night at 9pm.
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Sexy Syntax is a show that discusses various quirks within the English Language presented by Alex Monk and Nicky Bremner. Covering aspects of language from pronunciation to grammar with the last ten minutes of the show dedicated to the sexy parts of language with a variety of themes discussed.
Alex and Nicky were joined this week by Sara Brio for their Americanism Special. In the show they discuss differences between British and American phrases as well as BBC Three’s Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents and their regular pronunciation segment. Listen to the show here and check out more information and other shows on their show page here.
Opening on Valentine’s day with a smart performance of Purcell’s classic Dido and Aeneas and Poulenc’s rarely performed masterpiece La Voix Humaine, Opera North treated us to a miserable delight by presenting not one but two tragic love stories of forlorn women. It was the Poulenc in particular that had the Grand Theatre brimming as this challenging, one act soprano solo also happened to mark the triumphant return of local lass Lesley Garrett. Expectations were met with a brave and commanding performance of Elle, a woman both ravishing and ravished. Abandoned on one end of the phone line, slowly crumbling in her prison of isolation, the only support Garrett could afford was from the orchestra and set design. But how they rose to the occasion, the orchestra performing a thrilling role of ‘Mickey-mousing’, almost in conversation with Garrett on stage. A stage which itself accentuated beautifully the pain of solitude, opening with us peering through Elle’s dressing room mirror, its lights framing Garrett’s face on an otherwise blacked out stage. This was the reason everyone had turned up and from this powerful opening through the fragmented collapse of Elle’s relationship and own psyche, the audience remained motionless and thoroughly enraptured by this rare and triumphant opera.
Following La Voix Humaine was Purcell’s own Baroque classic, based on the tragic love story of Dido & Aeneas. Separated only by the interval could not leave enough time to prepare us for the stark contrast between Poulenc’s mid-20th century composition and Purcell’s traditional Baroque, even though director Aletta Collins sought to ease the transition by drawing a number of visual cues between the two shows. Most striking was the innovative choreography implemented into the show, Collins greatly exploiting her dance background by turning the witches into dancing figments of Dido’s fractured consciousness. Pamela Helen Stephen’s is another well cast soprano, matching the expressive complexity of Garrett’s performance in equal measure and ensuring the always much anticipated aria’s of ‘Ah, Belinda’ and ‘Dido’s Lament’ more than matched the lofty expectations of the audience, just as Garrett had done in the first half. Though an unusual pairing, both are great opera’s in their own right and were brilliantly delivered. Perhaps the opportunity to pair such contrasting shows was ambitiously undertaken to draw in a diverse audience with which such a display could convince that opera has a vast and eclectic repertoire that should be embraced. It is therefore most telling that it was at the end of the rare and challenging Poulenc first half that a presumably younger member of the audience yelled “do it all again!”
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Hello again music lovers! A fresh new playlist for you all again this week, with plenty of new additions as always, this week including tracks from Duke Dumont feat A.M.E, Tribes, Alt-J and new name Jagwar Ma…
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We hope you look forward to hearing them as much as we look forward to playing them! As always feel free to lets us know your thoughts with a comment.
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