July 10, 2009 at 10:02 am · Filed under Events
Stuck in your office thinking longingly of the time when you were a student and July meant only endless holidays and sleeping all day?
ASRA is the Association of Student Radio Alumni. If you’ve ever been involved in student radio then you’re automatically a member.
We exist to try and keep student radio friends in touch with each other, whether you work in radio now or not, and to generally be kind to today’s generation of student radio.
ASRA will be having our sort of annual summer drink in London outside The Crown and Sceptre on Great Titchfield Street http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/91/915/Crown_and_Sceptre/Fitzrovia on Wednesday 15th July.
Please come along and remember the good old days of struggling to get your Student Radio Awards entries ready in time. Bring along some ex-student radio mates or just come along on your own - we’re all a friendly bunch!
We’ll be there from 6pm.
October 29, 2007 at 9:32 am · Filed under awards
A few people have emailed us asking if they can go to the Student Radio Awards. Absolutely! There’s a few ASRA tables, if you want to go, get on it quickly. Download an Awards Ticket Form.
October 16, 2007 at 3:31 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Thanks to those of you who came to the event below. It was great! We’re looking to hold another social soon and we’d love to hold one somewhere else in the UK. Do you fancy helping us? All you have to do is suggest a venue and be the first one there and we’ll send some local members your way! Email info@[the address above] and we can talk more. It’s very easy, so please volunteer.
Our Facebook group has grown quite large, which whilst cool, means that soon we won’t be able to email people through it. Evil Mark Zuckerberg stops you sending emails when you get big! Therefore please sign up to our mailing list here, that way we can keep in touch and when your student station asks “do you know any of our ex-members?” we can then email you to get in touch with them. Also plase mention us to your ex-student radio mates so they can do the same. Just think, one day you might lose touch and then ASRA can reunite you, probably in a pub.
One last thing. We’re doing an advert for the Student Radio Awards brochure at the moment and we want to include advice from you to the current students. It can be serious or funny, though ideally just a sentence. If you’ve got one, email it (by 19th Oct) to advice@[the address of this website].
June 29, 2007 at 1:18 pm · Filed under Events
Northern England is under water, and play at Wimbledon has been suspended. It must be time for the ASRA Summer Social!
This time we’re heading to London’s glamourous South Bank, to the Founders Arms - a prime riverside location, directly in front of Tate Modern. The Good Pub Guide says “the views from the waterside terrace are among the best from any pub along the Thames with fine views of the river, St Paul’s, and the Millennium Bridge.” Okay, so it’s a teensy weensy bit outside W1, but if you can drop by, we’re sure it’l be memorable.
DATE: Thursday 19th July from 18.00.
VENUE: The Founders Arms, 52 Hopton Street, Bankside, London. SE1 9JH
MORE INFO & DIRECTIONS: http://www.foundersarms.co.uk
(nearest tubes: Blackfriars, Southwark & St Paul ’s)
There’s plenty of riverside space and seating - and even if the sun doesn’t shine, we’ve booked a bar area to ourselves and food will be available.
So, you know the drill: Clear that date. Forward this to all your friends from Uni and any other types who might be interested. And please please email social@studentradioalumni.com to let us know that you are coming.
If you’ve never been before these ASRA socials, they’re top drinking events with a little bit of networking on the side.You can also think of it as your station’s reunion, that we’re organising, so contact your ex-student radio mates and tell them!
April 8, 2007 at 3:59 pm · Filed under Information
Ben Toone’s been in touch and said:
Hello Radio Alumni!
I’m pitching a doc for this years Radio Academy Production 07 and need some fun stories/interesting history/famous alumni from Student Radio. If anyone could help me out it would be fantastic-
I know a lot of stuff from York but if anyone has some interesting stuff from their own student radio stations I’d be interested to know,
Many thanks,
Ben Toone
Ben’s email address is benjamin.toone@googlemail.com
April 5, 2007 at 3:50 pm · Filed under Events
ASRA’s pleased to announce that its next Masterclass (in association with the Radio Academy and Radio 1) is at One Big Weekend in Preston.
Like every Masterclass it’s an opportunity to find out about the Radio Industry from those in it, with sessions on production, programming and music, but this time you get to go backstage at One Big Weekend.
It’s £25 which includes a sandwich lunch and free guest entry to Radio 1’s Big Weekend on Sat 19 and Sun 20 May. Wristbands for the Big Weekend will only be handed out at the conclusion of the Masterclass at 1700 on Sat 19 May. The Masterclass is only open to people aged 16 or over.
if you want a ticket you can order online at the Radio Academy website. Places are limited to 75, so be quick!
March 8, 2007 at 12:25 pm · Filed under URF
A message from Kelvin, ex-University of Sussex (URF)
The first rule of radio club is you only talk about radio club…
The best thing about bank holidays is you can have a couple of beers on a Sunday without feeling guilty about work on a monday, so we thought the May Day Sunday (May 6th) would be a perfect chance to gather together some members of URF old and new for a relaxed drink in East Slope Bar.
If your intrested if you could let me know - kelvinshuffle@gmail.com - and I’ll fill you in on the details.
March 7, 2007 at 12:05 am · Filed under Events
ASRA & The Radio Academy is pleased to announce the first Masterclass of 2007 will take place at Kerrang! in Birmingham on Saturday 24th March. Aimed at giving you practical advice about get ting into and getting on in the radio industry, we have speakers lined up from Heart, BRMB, Radio 2, Saga, The Asian Network, BBC Radio WM and, of course, Kerrang!
The events starts at 10.30am and will run until 6pm. Radio Academy Masterclasses are valuable opportunities to meet and learn from experienced radio professionals and to swap ideas, contacts and knowledge with like-minded people.
Delegate registration costs £8 (including a sandwich lunch) and can only be booked through the Radio Academy website. This is a paperless process, so you will need a valid credit/debit card and an email address.
Kerrang! is based at 20 Lionel Street, Birmingham B3 1AQ.
Please book as soon as possible - delegate numbers are limited because of the size of the venue. We are expecting to sell out.
January 20, 2007 at 3:29 pm · Filed under Events
Hello - did you miss us? Oh, well, anyway, we’re back and we’re having another social. Plenty of warning this time, it will be at The Royal George, Goslett Yard, off Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EA (map) in London’s Trendy West End at 6pm on Thursday 22 March. Put it in your diaries now!
The venue has been personally booked by Xfm’s weekend breakfast presenter Marsha Shandur, who once had a party there and says its dead good. They’ll be a small quiz-based element and all the usual drunken palaver, but this event will be nothing without you and your student radio friends.
So. Clear that date. Forward this to all your friends. And please please email social@studentradioalumni.com to let us know that you are coming. We don’t charge to get in, just ask that you join our (very occasional) mailing list.
If you’ve never been before these ASRA socials are top drinking events with a little bit of networking on the side - we’re all doing jolly well in our careers thank you very much, and whilst that’s undoubtedly down to raw talent (*cough*) a little bit of who you know can’t go amiss, can it? eh? eh? You can also think of it as your station’s reunion, that we’re organising, so contact your ex-student radio mates and tell them!
See you in March!
Love
The ASRA Committee
January 20, 2007 at 2:58 pm · Filed under Information
Hello Alumni,
We’ve had a bit of a tidy-up here at studentradioalumni.com, mainly because we’ve got lots of stuff planned and we want tell you about it.
If you’re new here and want to know what we’re all about, it’s actually very simple. If you were in student radio, you’re a member of ASRA, we just might not have your email address. We organise get-togethers, usually around beer. Think of us as the organisers of your student radio reunion party. And if only two of your mates turn up it doesn’t matter as there’ll be loads of other ex-student radio people there too.
We also organise, on behalf of the Radio Academy, their Masterclass events. These are great days where if you want to get into radio (student radio or not) you can come along and hear from people who work in the business.
Anyway, the key thing is to sign-up for our mailing list, so we know how to tell you about all the stuff we’re doing. And if you want to get in touch, you can, by emailing asra@studentradioalumni.com.