NEW ProTel Solutions website launched
Ian Dore Creative designs new website for high profile, globally trading communications company, ProTel Solutions.
Are you a God at COD??
Are you the ‘God’ of COD? Call of Duty has been THE game that changed the online way of play and Puckpool Tea Gardens has a competition this Easter.
Keynsham Mencap win major funding award
Natwest Community Force Winners are announced and Keynsham’s Mencap Branch are victorious.
A tribute to the Red Arrows – Heroes of the skies
It’s every schoolboys dream to become a Red Arrow. At least it was for me. The problem was, I was cack at maths and my brain isn’t wired up that way. Having served in the Army for 10 years, a lot of the time attached to the RAF, when you hear such sad news as what happened to Flt LT Jon Egging and only a day ago, Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham. Well, you feel like you’ve lost an old friend.
Spittin Image Caricature
Yes you read the word right, it is Spittin Image and not Spitting image that hilarious puppet based pattomime from the 80s. If you’re looking for an excellent caricaturist, look no further.
Vote for Keynsham’s Mencap today!
Please support Mencap in Keynsham by taking 5 minutes out of your day to help them on their way to winning vital funding. Your small vote will make a big difference and that’s what really counts.
A new entry for the Love Bath Film Comp 2011
Ah yes the ‘Love Bath Film Competition’ is on us once again so we thought we’d dust off the box brownie and get filming. Unfortunately what we did shoot proved to be far too long for the time allocated. This left us with a full hard drive and a dilemma. Re-think and Re-shoot? Or edit to death and crack on?
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Facebook news scroller privacy problem
Facebook recently rolled out a news ticker or scroller on the right hand side of the site. Now it’s a pearler if you want to really keep up with absolutely everything in the world if you’ve nothing better to do but there is a gaping hole in it. The bottom line is this: You don’t have control.
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Ravey Davey mix
Short and sweet this one but nonetheless a medium sized portion of rave anthem pie. Enjoy 3 Blind mice with their show stopper ‘Bombscare’ and enjoy as we work our way through to ‘Way in my brain’. Finally House of Pain finish up with a little treat at the end bringing us up to modern times.
Funking Hell Fire – weekend mix podcast
As promised kiddiwinks, as Friday is upon us, here is a nice little funky mix to get you in the mood for the weekend ahead. Mixed live in the old VIP suite in Temptation, its a nice summer styled slice of house pie.
Google goes + 1 so take advantage
New social interaction on the block and its just the start as Google launches its + 1 button. Take advantage immediately.
Ian to host Peasedowns Party in the Park
If ever you wanted a cheesy ‘alright m’darlin’ showbiz pic to accompany a press release here it is. I was asked some time ago by the deputy leader of BANES Council if I’d take the mic in hand and be the MC for the up and coming Party in the Park in Peasedown.
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Website makeover to meet standards
A long standing hosting client who appreciates the benefits of keeping up with web technology, has recently had his website overhauled to bring it into line with the W3C standards.
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Weekend workout – Uplifting mix podcast
No stranger to the decks I thought it was about time I dug out some of my old CDs and give them the heave ho. Some were pony and some were brill. I stumbled across a collection of mixes that were recorded live at Woodys and Temptation. So here foot tapping friends is the first of a few. Hands in the air and off we go!
Old Bath FM podcast with Rik Mayall
As I was going through some old files with the recycle bin on a very high state of standby, I stumbled across this cheeky little number hidden away in the wrong folder. It was myself and John Watson getting up to all sorts of shennanighans on air so thought I’d post it up.
Bath Radio Licence decision
Its one of the biggest decisions that will effect the City of Bath and speculation is rife on who it could end up with. Ofcom’s Radio Licensing Committee are coming to the end of their decision making process and next week we’ll all know who takes on, what has affectionately become a poison chalice.
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The 100 foot club
If like me you do like weapons but not in a ‘lets go crazy kill things’ type way, then air rifles, pistols and catapults offer up competition based japery pa excellence. A couple of weekends ago we were messing around with one such shooter and as it was ‘the lads’, the competition and egos got bigger and better. We moved from normal targets down to things smaller and smaller until at one point I whacked a one pence piece at 73ft. This spawned the 100ft club.
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Pete Doherty at Bristol Academy
The first thing I noticed was how tall Mr D was. Quite a gangly individual with no obvious control of direction or gravity. Nonetheless here I was sat upon his tour bus meeting with a dear friend. Media stories not withstanding, I found Peter to be a very amiable and charming chap that didn’t live up to his tabloid reputation. However this was at the start of the gig and it was a long night.
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Clients website tops all 3 search engines
Following the launch of the website www.puckpoolteagardens.com recently, its nice to see that all the hard work of careful keyword and search term selection has paid off. If right this minute you searched for Puckpool Park or Puckpool Tea Gardens in the 3 big search engines, you’ll be pleasantly rewarded.
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iPhone Tracker application
As reported last week those scallywags at Apple are able to watch your every move with the secretive tracking code that is placed on the iPhone. The true contents of the file called “consolidated.db” were discovered by two British software developers who were working on ways of visualising location data for websites.
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iPhone owners are being tracked
If you own an iPhone there is a good chance that every step you have taken has been recorded! Users movements are being tracked and stored without their knowledge in a file that’s on the phone.
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Puckpool Tea Gardens site launched
It’s always a pleasure to be involved in a project that the owner oozes passion and humour about so www.puckpoolteagardens.com was a blast for me too. I was given free range with regards to design so long as it communicated the fun, food and features that Puckpool Tea Gardens has to offer.
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Smiley Culture RIP
Being a huge fan of the early days of Hip Hop, its extremely sad to hear of the demise of the legend that was Smiley Culture. He has died after allegedly stabbing himself in the heart during a police raid on his home. Sources said the musician – real name David Emmanuel – killed himself after officers swooped on his home in east Surrey.
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On the Star Wars set
I’ve met and interviewed Dave Prowse ( Darth Vader ) a bunch of times and he’s always someone you can drop an email to or have a cheeky pint with. Lovely chap with a wicked sense of humour. Green Cross Code tights aside, I will never forget seeing The Vader’s entrance in Star Wars at a cinema thats now a carpet store, on the Isle of Wight in 1977.
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Bath Radio licence application
Since the shenanigans at Bath FM started I have been in constant contact with OFCOM on a number of issues, one being the re-advertising of the Bath licence. I was actually working on a community based radio project when the licence was officially re-advertised and it was a case of all hands on deck and that got put on hold. Before committing to such a serious consideration, some ground work had to be done first to test the water so here’s what happened. Get a brew on, it’s a long story.
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Air war and assault – Gulf 1991
This is just to lay down some thoughts and views of what it felt like to be under the air war on the nights and days of the 17th / 18th / 19th.
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Gunfire and grenades – The first contact
The first 3 rounds hit the oil drum with a familiar metallic resonance, in quick succession, one after the other they let me know business had started. Caught off guard and now crouched in my insanely open fire position I could tell they had gone left to right, slightly higher each time.
Gulf War 1991 – Jan 20th – Day 74
Today being the 20th of January and much the same I’m afraid. Woody had to go to Trunk Node 031 to get some fills for our secret comms kit so I was on shift. Of course being Ptarmigan kit, it failed abysmally and the software was tits up. This meant Woody would have to go a further 30kms across the desert to Trunk Node 063 the next day. Until then, no comms! Sun cream on to watch the bombs drop and the choppers flying.
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Gulf feature in The Bath Chronicle
The very lovely Siobhan Prideaux at The Bath Chronicle decided that it would be a good thing to bring some of the stories from 20 years ago to the forefront of peoples minds. The Gulf War is often eclipsed by the second Gulf War of 2003 and is way back in peoples thoughts whilst the hostilities in Afghanistan are so prevalent.
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Gulf War 1991 – Jan 18th – Day 72
January 18 – Day 72, totally shattered now, we’ve not slept properly since it all kicked off in the early hours of the 17th. Our generator was a right mess and needed de-coking so Woody took care of that today. We’ve been in NBC suits all the time so are sweating buckets. Today we both worked on our air raid shelter.
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20 years to the day – Gulf War starts
At this exact time and day 20 years ago, Woody and I put on our NBC suits, donned our respirators and waited for the kick off. For many this will mean nothing but for us, our buddies in 21 Signal Regiment ( AS ) and all the other troops a long way from home, it was the beginning of the Mother of all wars.
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Crew Ball @ Cowes week 2010
Its back and its going to be a belter. With all that’s going on in the week, the crewball was always the most popular party and a shindig like no other. This year I’ve been invited as DJ and compere and am heartily looking forward to it.
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RNAS Yeovilton International Air Day 2010
Its this weekend and its going to be a whopper! RNAS Yeovilton will be celebrating its 70th Anniversary in 2010 and the International Air Day on Saturday 10th July offers a justifiable opportunity to look back on the 70 glorious years since RNAS Yeovilton was commissioned as HMS Heron.
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Walk the Wight 2010
Stood atop the campest flatbed in the world, blowing a gale, it was hardly the best Sunday morning you could have wished for. However, it was all for a great cause. I was asked to take mic in hand at the Needles pleasure park to welcome the walkers in at this years Walk the Wight. Its a monster of an event and up to around 12,000 people took party. That’s around 1 in every 10 Islanders.
RIP ‘H’ from steps
Its been suggested that the lovely ‘H’ from steps has gone ‘one step beyond’ and is actually pushing up the daisies. You decide.
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Matt Splatt, Macmillan Head Shave
On Tuesday 30th of April, Matt ‘Splatt’ Clifford of Somervalley FM and ex Bath FM fame. Had his head shaved for Macmillan Cancer Support. It was done live on air in the studios and due to the thickness of his golden locks, took just over an hour.
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Nick Clegg sets sights on Number 10
Laugh? I nearly filled my ballot box. Watching ‘BBC Points West’ yesterday evening and the legend that is David Garmston pulled a blinder with Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg. Clegg, who for many seems to be just ‘getting in the way’ had been featured on the National News 15 minutes earlier visiting a factory.
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Malcolm Mclaren – RIP
Well yesterday we lost a legend. Responsible for punk and general all round madness but without shadow of a doubt a major early influence for UK breakdancing. The buffalo girls video featured some fine body popping and breaking which was, at the time, just crossing over from the states.
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Coach Racing at Castle Combe
Coaches? Racing? Surely you’re having a laugh Mr Dore. No siree Bob. Mr Watson and I partook in a driving jape par excellence. Never had it been tried before but those cheeky chaps at Castle Combe racing circuit know a thing or two about speeding.
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Laser / SWR / YMC – Help is at hand
Let’s talk about the new Bath FM. No, we don’t need too. A line has now been drawn under the Laser / SWR / YMC shenanigans and where I would normally focus on going forward, this time we need to look back. Let me explain.
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Never mind the wages, where’s my bike?
The original Bath FM team came off air at Station House on January the 8th, 2009. From there on we weren’t allowed back into the building.
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Bath FM closed at Station House
At 09:52 on 25th of March 2010 I walked into Bath FM for the first time in 14 months. It was akin to walking around the body of a person that was once full of fun, laughter and pride but due to such a lack of care and attention, it’s been reduced to a sad, dirty, rotting corpse of a station.
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Charity Head Shave
My mate Matt Splatt is doing something pretty barmy for Macmillan Cancer Support in April. That is, he is getting all his hair shaved off. Now for those of you who have met the Splatt, that is no mean feat.
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Vectis Radio – A statement
Its been brought to my attention that some people think or have been lead to think that I have ( or have had ) some sort of financial investment / involvement / presenting role or any other kind of role with Vectis Radio or Wight FM. Utter cobblers dear reader.
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DJing at Goldies
A venue that was once home to the DJ mixing championships in 2000, formerly known as the Bow Bars, once played host to a venue named Goldies. One anyone would name a venue after the dog from Blue Peter is anyones guess. However, said drinking den had a unique clientèle.
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Apocalypse now? Read Chickenhawk
I’ve always been a fan of flying and when I went to join the Army, that’s what I wanted to do. I said to Sgt Dudley at the Isle of Wight Army careers office, “I want to be a pilot or a para“. With an eyebrow raised, Dudley invited me in for aptitude testing and my dreams of wearing raybans whilst skimming treetops in my chopper were coming true.”
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