[S4B]

He won't answer that one!

Aled, how was Maidstone? Tell us all about it! What was your favourite part of the weekend?

[element231]

and ur favourite preformace.

[lukeyoung]

Hi Aled
Can you give me any tips on how to launch a radio presenter career as its allways been something i want to do, and i want to do it when i leave school.

cheers

luke

[Vivienne]

Good luck, Luke. Hope it works out for you!

Would you maybe like to go on a broadcasting/radio course? An HNC in this, e.g. They do this in Foot-loose's hometown.

[foot-loose]

... that's Paisley for the uneducated. I'd imagine there are better places to go.

[Bonanzoid]

Aled, why do you never visit any more?

[Aled]

What's become of wee Joce since she left? We know she went on to produce JK & Joel, but what's she doing now? I miss her and her squeaky voice and she was very nice to me at the Karaoke thingy in London (as were you obivously).

Joce has gone off and is doing a brilliant job being Vernon and Dick and Dom's producer.

Very chuffed with how well Joce is doing - she's brill.

[Aled]

Any chance of making the podcast longer? With so much material to draw from in the week I would like to hear more of the best bits.

Yes and no.

Yes there's a chance because in the past the podcast used to be broadcast on air at 4am on a Friday so it HAD to be 30 mins. That no longer happens so it can technically be longer. Ant and I LOVE the podcasts so would prefer to leave links breathe than chop them down just to hit a now fictitious time limit. For this reason they will sometimes go longer than 30 mins.

As for doing a Russell style podcast which can last up to an hour or more, no we won't be doing that. There is evidence that people don't respond well to podcasts being too long. When we look at how and when people listen it's normally when travelling, in the gym or when they have some time in the evening - and that's rarely more than 30 mins. There's also the fact that the quality of the podcasts are so high, once we get into a mindset of throw it all in there then the quality will start to drop!

[Aled]

Listener figures.

This increase in listeners of 750k on 2007.

How much of this is due to the extra half hour of the show?

Is it in any way adjusted, or is this a "fudge"

Just wondered as Wogan gets his listeners in a much shorter period.

Hey boboff. Andy's point is pretty much right. The 6:30 - 7 half hour will undoubtedly help in some way but won't add any spectacular numbers and certainly won't make up much of the 750k or the 400k that occured in the 6 months since the move. Around 1 million listen in that half hour - and although I don't have stats to hand you could take a pretty educated guess that the majority of those listen past 7 so will already have been counted. It will help "share" for the show. Share means the percentage of people listening at that time. So although there are much smaller numbers listening in that half hour a lot more of those listening to the radio will now listen to us than Sarah Kennedy or Vaughan or their local station (no offence intended to Greg). That share will contribute to the show's overall share figure which is already at record highs.

And before you ask no, there are no plans to go before 6:30. The numbers of people around listening to radio land don't justify the bad moods from Chris and the team for starting at 6am!

[Aled]

How scared were you when you posed nude for Heat magazine? and
When will these "semi-naked" pics of the whole team appear on Facebook as the target of 400,000 fans have now been reached?

Hey Misterbump - love your username btw

I wasn't scared about posing nude, I kinda got into an obsessive place in my head about "succeeding" in reaching a body image I was mildly happy with within 7 days, once I got to the photo I was feeling much more confident than I normally would so it felt like a job than me being naked.

The real scaryness has been to see the pic posted all over the place. I'm not happy with it - because I hate my own body so seeing it in places like my local Starbucks or at the magazine launch party was the worst part.

As Adam explained our target was 500,000 for the whole team to get naked. We didn't achieve that in time so there's no naked video of the team.

[Aled]

To Aled: If you had to meet any one of the forums in realy life who whould you choose and why . ?

Haha! Well I met some people off the aled.info forum in Manchester a year ago. I'd be interested in doing a Southern version at some point.

Maybe a London meet for aled.info and chrismoyles.net would be nice.

[Aled]

and ur favourite preformace.

Easily Pendulum

[Aled]

Hi Aled
Can you give me any tips on how to launch a radio presenter career as its allways been something i want to do, and i want to do it when i leave school.

cheers

luke

No offence but I hate questions like this. The answer's never short and after "What's Chris like?", "Will you play my band?" is the most common question I get asked. I've also noticed my answer changes slightly the more I'm asked it because you soon realise just how many people there are out there who want to be presenters.

I'd guess that 75% of people who work behind the scenes in radio stations all wanted to be presenters who either failed to make it or who once they saw the breadth of jobs there are behind the scenes in TV and radio choose to go into that.

Keeping all that in mind is important. You should always ask yourself two questions: "why you over anyone else?" and "what is it they're looking for?" (and by them I mean the radio station's management and audience - which, if management is good should be the same thing).

The answer to the first will come from how talented you are, any things you can do better than anyone else (humour, slickness, personality) and how much experience you've got. Your talent will grow and so will your cv by the amount of local radio, community radio, internet radio, personal tapes and generally any experience you can build up - no-one can have too much. For my one Surgery show I rehearsed for 6 weeks and did 2 pilots.

The answer to the second question is just, if not more important as the first. Who's the audience? Their age, their sex, is the radio station a more music station, a speech based one? Is the emphasis on presenter personality or the audience? etc etc. This sounds obvious written down but I can't tell you the amount of demos I've heard that are basically commercial radio djs trying to get work at Radio 1! By default having a one size fits all demo tape is the wrong thing to do when you're sending it out to lots of radio stations.

Hope this helps.

[Aled]

Aled, why do you never visit any more?

i do

[MK Chris]

When we look at how and when people listen it's normally ... in the gym ... and that's rarely more than 30 mins.

Lazy bastards!

[Rose]

Aled!!

http://www.lushtshirts.co.uk/slept-with ... b1e76a1b14

I found this t-shirt they also have a Chris Moyles one.

[Yudster]

Oh I so want one of those (dot com)!

[Andy B]

"Pretty much right"? I'll have you know I'm ALWAYS right MISTER!

I'll see you pay for you ruining my reputation! If it's the last thing I do!

Oh and if you ever fancy a drink in the Vauxhall Tavern for your London meet up I'd love to come! Not my usual haunt but it's on my way home from work and would love to have an absinthe Daquari or two with you!

Hugs and kisses and last weeks shows were the best for ages!

[S4B]

I was going to suggest Tattershall Castle! I like it there.

[MK Chris]

I'm assuming Andy B's slightly stalkerish posts towards Aled intentional.

[S4B]

Andy appears to be a man of many tastes.

[teddi-da-pirate]

do you get asked out by like random guys cause your like ermm famous ?? well i love you aled :p could you give chris a big hug from me and tell him featherstone rovers are a brilliant team luvage xmwahx

[DevilsDuck]

do you get asked out by like random guys cause your like ermm famous ?? well i love you aled :p could you give chris a big hug from me and tell him featherstone rovers are a brilliant team luvage xmwahx

Are you Iain Smith?

[Boboff]

Thank you Aled for your response on that. It's great, statistics.

Hope your are well.

[Vivienne]

Aled, what do you think of all the "Madonna-type" fuss that blew up at the big weekend? Between Madonna & The Fratellis? Glad you're feeling better, btw.