June here is Flashback month and today we revisit my helpful guide to make your radio demo actually a worthwhile exercise .. Make your demo tape really sing. Put your best stuff on first. If you make it to the interview stage, wear a tie. Be prepared to travel. Bribe the program director. Remember that you might not get a reply back for a while… I learnt all that helpful stuff on how to land a job in radio 10 years ago as a just-finished-being-pimply teenager in radio school, ready to take the world on. The course had finished, I bought a stack of blank tapes (yeah CD burning hadn’t really taken off by then), borrowed the family mobile phone in case anyone called with a red hot offer and then proceeded to flood every station within a 1000km radius with tapes, resumes and even Kit Kat’s to try and land that all important first gig.
The various works and occasional ramblings of one man with no plan and everything that happens along the way. Once upon a time he checked out but like he mafia, he never really left..