NEWCASTLE RADIO ON TWITTER

NEWCASTLE RADIO STATION

Back in September 2011, I attended an interview for the role of a web developer for an agency in Newcastle named "Th_nk". 

I have experience of working with PHP and developing CSS, but it was seen very quickly during the test session of the interview that I still had a lot to learn to take on such a technical role. That saying, the result was that I was not offered the place. The senior developer at Think was incredibly helpful when giving me feedback and felt that my enthusiasm for the practice was undoubted, but my skills were still in need of developing further. 

He mentioned that if this was going to be something I was serious about getting into, I needed to learn to hand code in HTML, so that is what I went about doing. 

Whilst picking up the basics, I felt that I needed to put some context to my learning and come up with a project that I could add to, learn more to better it and generally, have something that would keep me motivated. 

I came up with GumBum Radio. I love using social media, so set the site up to connect to Twitter where I began to tweet YouTube music videos that showed up on my site. At first a one page site, but as I began to tweet, I began to gain followers and in particular, independent artists asking to have their own videos tweeted to my followers. The growth in just  the first week, took the follower stats to 1000 and also got my radio station (I mean this in creative terms) to a featured station on reelr.tv.  

I have had the pleasure of now interviewing several artists and even held my first Tweeterview with a talented rapper Bl'eve Brown. I have a tune of the week and artists request plays every day. My last is an artist call DjCell Block who's last mixtape got 500,000 downloads before he approached me.

In addition, the connection that twitter has given me with these artists, has even resulted in couple of design projects for them, branding for Freezy and soon, a new site for Bl'eve Brown. 

Please take a look at the work and I hope you enjoy the music that these musicians fortunately share with me. 

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO GUMBUMRADIO.