This year Freshair is holding a LIVE Battle of the Bands contest in Teviot Underground on Tuesday 23rd March. Every week on “Evenings with Dave” we interview one of the 5 bands getting ready to fight it out for the winning prize: a slot at The Wickerman Festival. This week we have Vegas Loft in the studio for a chat and to perform a live acoustic set. Tune in every Thursday from 6.30 to get the build up to the Battle of the Bands. Catch up with previous guests (Ok Social Club, Lead By Example) by watching their interviews.

“Evenings with Dave” broadcasts every Thursday at 6.30pm

Erratic Thinking is a brand new podcast that features some contemporary academics talking about wonderful things. In Episode 1, Jack Wright talks to Dr Alasdair Richmond (University of Edinburgh) about the paradoxes and possibilities of time travel.

Erratic Functions – Episode 1: Dr Alasdair Richmond – Time Travel

For more information, check out the Erratic Thinking blog.

Catch the show live every Friday at 12.30 only on FreshAir.org.uk

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In our last brodcast of the year “Evenings with Dave” has a very special 2 hour Christmas Special to warm you up from revision!  We have our interview with Lead By Example, the winners of Get Heard and our very own Best New Unsigned Artist of 2009!  The show will take place from 7-9pm on wednesday night with a very special guest presenter.

Tune in Wednesday 9th 7-9pm for the very last Freshair brodcast of 2009!

“Evenings with Dave” has now got 4 semi-finalists in FreshAir’s competition “Get Heard” – the search for the “Best New Unsigned Artist of 2009“.  The winning band will recieve interviews in both our studio AND 103.1 CentralFM’s studio with Grant Thomson.  Their song will then be played live over central Scotland in CentralFM’s own competition.  We need your votes as FreshAir listeners – you will decide on who will be crowned “Best New Unsigned Artist of 2009″.  The semi finals of the competition will be aired this Sunday at 9pm on “Evenings with Dave”.

The winning bands so far are:

• Mocker – Get On (mp3)
• Sarcastic Affection – Danielle’s Song (mp3)
• Lead By Example – Lego Structures (mp3)
• Polarsets – Just Dont Open Your Eyes Yet (mp3)

“Evenings with Dave” – Every Sunday 9pm

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It time for the finals!  Eventually after a month of voting on Evenings With Dave’s competition “Get Heard” we have our two finalists: Sarcastic Affection and Lead By Example.  The semifinals proved very popular with massive support from you, our listeners.  We need your help once again to be part of Freshair history as we prepare to to award our winning band this Sunday night with the title of Best New Unsigned Artist of 2009.  Its all down to you who wins.  Simply tune in this Sunday night at 9pm to Evenings With Dave to submit your vote by emailing studio@freshair.org.uk.  The winner will then join me in the studio to chat and promote their band AND appear live across central Scotland on 103.1 CentralFM culminating with an interview with Grant Thomson.

Tune into “Evenings with Dave” every Sunday 9pm

Get your song played LIVE ON AIR with “Evenings with Dave”

(Sunday 9pm)

“Get Heard” is the brand new feature on “Evenings with Dave” every Sunday from 9pm.  We need YOUR songs for our competition.  Listeners vote their favourite through to the next round culminating in the dramatic final at the end of term.  The winner will be invited into the studio to chat and perform LIVE.

• Last weeks winner – Sarcastic Affection with “Danielle’s Song“
• This week  **CONFIRMED** – “Lead by Example” and “Cardiem”

Submit your demos to dave_edinburgh@hotmail.co.uk

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Another week, another Fresh Air Film Show. This week, the studio takes a turn towards animation and children’s adaptation. Be sure to check out the show next week, from noon on Wednesday, or if you can’t wait that long, why not check out the very latest from the team here.
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A 24-hour long continuous radio show, broadcast live on Edinburgh’s student radio station right here at www.freshair.org.uk – packed full of guests, bands, games, features, an outside link-up and more…

Please: listen in just for a little while and make a small donation to help us reach our target. If you’re in the area you can also drop by to the studio!

If you click here – right here – you can see the official information, timetable and prizes for Radio Day

Most important of all is the fact that you can donate – all you have to do is head to www.myrednoseday.com/radioday and click the big ’sponsor me’ button near the top of the page.

Tune in to ‘Radio Day’, kicking off at 12.30pm on Thursday 22nd February, 2007

Download the trailer right here

Even though they’re about to release their third single, What Would Steve Do? on February 19th, and though they’re playing the Shockwaves NME Awards Indie Rock Tour with The Automatic, The View and The Horrors, Mumm-Ra has found some time to pay us a visit here at Fresh Air!

That’s right, tune into Fresh Air this Friday February 2nd from 12:30-2pm during Don’t Hassel The HoMs to hear an exclusive live session from Mumm-Ra. Not only that, but you could also be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets to the Shockwaves NME Awards Indie Rock Tour this Friday night at Glasgow’s Carling Academy!

This evening (Saturday) at 5pm tune into Fresh Air to hear the start of your Saturday night out with the Club SAturn show. DJ Steve Anderson plays the best in quality trance – aiming to disperse some of the myths surrounding the genre, assisted this week by a guest mix from the world’s number 3 DJ Armin Van Buuren (pictured) Club SAturn on Fresh Air – Saturday 5-6.30pm .

Enjoy the clarity!