Read on for an exclusive chat with our brand new Amazing Breakfast presenter Georgie Rogers.

Georgie Rogers

Hello! Who are you?

I’m Georgie Rogers, presenter of the Amazing Breakfast show.

How did you find out about Amazing Radio?

Initially I spotted it on the old Facebook mini-feed ages ago when Greg (of Greg and Burtt) was plugging his show. Later I saw an advert on Media UK calling for new presenters so sent in my demo.

Before we plucked you from relative obscurity and plonked you on the Amazing airwaves, what did you do?

After a load of work experience and some presenting in Jersey on Channel 103 in the six months after graduating from the University of Birmingham with an English and Drama degree, I ended up working in the online team at Xfm, writing news articles and interviewing bands.

After XFM I got a lucky break and went to BBC 6 Music, where for the past two and a bit years I’ve developed skills as a music reporter. My work there has involved meeting some of my absolute heroes, covering more festivals and gigs than I can remember, including Glastonbury and Coachella in the US, writing and reading music news bulletins live on the 6 airwaves, making packages, podcasts and writing articles for the website and BBC Entertainment online. It was a blast and I still freelance there, but after doing the Breakfast Show on Brighton Festival Radio earlier this year, I decided I wanted to do more presenting.

Tell us about your show please!

It’s nice and early, between 7-10am, to accompany your tea and toast to in the morning. It’s all about the music with some light-hearted banter and music-related topical chat.  Any funny stories that I hear on my travels will no doubt make an appearance too.  Each week we feature an artist from amazingtunes.com get them on, as well as a comedian.  We also highlight a gig each day that we think you should go to and pick a track of the week, which we get to play five times in a row… Result.

Georgie Rogers: Making breakfast beautiful!

Why should we listen?

Simple; because it’s all new music and you’ll be surprised at how much is fabulous.

Aside from your own fabulous show, have you got any other favourite Amazing Radio shows?

Tough one as I’m the ‘new girl’ and I think they’re all great, so want to say everyone!

As you might tell from Amazing Breakfast and my glee at getting to play big tunes by Absorb Vs Sequel and Moscow Youth Cult at 8.30 in the morning every now and then, I’m a big fan of dance music, so Mark Ryan’s Amazing Beats Friday night marathon is right up my street.

Also, I totally dig the Are You More Rock and Read? feature on Kyle Wilkinson’s Afternoon Show with the lovely Producer Frankie, as Kevin Read is one of the funniest men in the north. Fact.

Finally, what makes Amazing so, well, amazing!?

There’s nothing else on the radio that is solely dedicated, 24 hours a day, to nurturing emerging talent.  The UK is blessed with a fruitful music scene and it’s up to showcase all the smashing acts before they get snapped up by the big boys.

You can hear the wonderful spoken words of Georgie Rogers between 7 and 10 every weekday morning on Amazing Breakfast.

This week the highlighted free song is by amazingtunes.com newcomers Love in the Asylum. We’ve been loving their track Pull the Plug on Amazing Radio, so we were extra thrilled when we found out that they were giving the track away for free!

Love in the Asylum

Apparently the band are currently holed up in a World War II RAF base with producer Jim Anderson, the man credited with shaping the sounds of bands such as Blood Red Shoes, Mark Ronson and Los Campesinos! so we’re hoping that their musical exile will be producing the stuff of melodic wonder…

So why should you take the time download and love this track then? Well, because it’s an infectious pop number with sweet sounding synths, afropop rhythms and some laid back vocal grooves. Plus, the band are tipped for big things, so this is a bandwagon you should definitely be jumping onto!

Hear Kyle and Frankie chatting Freebie of the Week on The Afternoon Show from 3pm today, on Amazing Radio.

This time we’re talking to Rock Show DJ Aaron Phillips.

Aaron Phillips

Hello! Who are you?

Well, Hello to you! I go by the name of Aaron Phillips…most of the time!

How did you find out about Amazing Radio?

Purely by chance! To be honest, it was only after I applied to work here!

Before we plucked you from relative obscurity and plonked you on the Amazing airwaves, what did you do?

A whole plethora of mediocre jobs, mixed in with writing for Powerplay [a rock music mag], drumming in my band, and generally being a nuisance!

Tell us about your show please!

I play the finest Rock/Metal, and Indie tracks currently available on amazingtunes.com. It’s as simple as that! Of course, there’s my witty charm to add in, along with occasional band interviews, the  gig guide, and my track of the week… (quite a bit really then!)

Why should we listen?

What else is there to do on a Saturday teatime?! No seriously, I carefully pick  the music to play you, to bring you the newest, original, and exciting tracks that you hear before anyone else. I also love being able to share something new and exciting that I’ve discovered.

Aaron Phillips

Aside from your own fabulous show, have you got any other favourite Amazing Radio shows?

I do enjoy Charlie Ashcroft’s shows [Audition and the Amazing Radio Chart Show]. I like his presenting style and interview technique. He also plays some rather good tunes!

Finally, what makes Amazing so, well, amazing!?

Apart from me, I love the fact that you can hear new music before anyone else. You could be listening to the next big thing, before anyone else. It’s a great idea, and a excellent platform for new band’s to get exposure, national airplay, and a whole new fan base.

I actually am privileged to be a part of Amazing radio, and long may it continue! Rock!

Tune into Amazing Radio from 6pm on Saturdays and Mondays to hear Aaron Phillips in all his Rock Show glory!

This week Amazing Live’s Rich Brant is taking on the K-Train challenge, and he’s nervous. Not that he’d admit he’s nervous of course, but you can quite clearly see it in his eyes…

Rich Brant

Rich claims that, despite his shifty eyes, he’s actually ‘big on the continent’, having previous performed on air duties as a radio presenter in Luxembourg. This role required Rich to socialize with both celebrity and rock star, and therefore Rich feels that he is more than qualified to cite his own rock and roll credentials.

Kev, meanwhile, has had great fun compiling a list of ‘comedy aliases’ for Little Lord Brantleboy. He’s fully aware that Emily Brante is going to pull out a continental back story and is digging deep into his personal rock history to bring on the defeat.

The K Train gets 'listy'

We’re pretty hopeful for Brant – quite possibly because no one else will take him seriously. (Just look at that picture of innocence!) But you never know, he might surprise us. After all, his girlfriend has family from Darlington, and apparently that means something. We’re not sure what…

If you’re also wondering who won the mighty rock off between Amazing Breakfast’s  Georgie Rogers and Kevin Read last week, we can now reveal that Georgie took the crown with an astonishing 100% of the vote! Now that’s hardcore!

Catch Mister Brantybombastic laying down the rock and roll gauntlet from 3pm today, on Amazing Radio.

This time we’re talking to one of our newest presenters, Amazing Live’s Rich Brant.

Rich Brant

Hello! Who are you?

I’m Rich Brant, but if you were to walk in to the Amazing Towers I’d probably be nearing about 50 nicknames by now! (Little Lord Brantleroy, Brantabulous, Brantosaurus, Charlotte, etc…)

How did you find out about Amazing Radio?

I actually worked with Amazing’s very own beats expert Mark Ryan not so long ago in a short stint at BBC 6 Music. I then saw that a few more presenters were needed and jumped at the chance to get involved in a station the sought to be at the cutting edge in new music.

Before we plucked you from relative obscurity and plonked you on the Amazing airwaves, what did you do?

(I take exception to that… everyone knows who I am down my local pub!)

I’ve been involved in radio in a full time sense ever since I left university. I had been involved in hospital radio, uni radio and when I finished my degree at Loughborough I decided to send a demo off to one of the first adverts I saw for a presenter. The job happened to be in Luxembourg (tiny country in the middle of Europe) and they hired me pretty quickly. Before I knew it I was finding a flat and opening bank accounts in the Grand Duchy, and generally sh****g myself about the whole thing.

Like David Hasslehoff in Germany, I’m huge in Luxembourg!

Tell us about your show please!

The show is all about letting the ludicrously handsome Amazing Radio listeners know all about where they can catch the best unsigned artists (or artists without a traditional record deal) out and about Live. Simple as that.

Each week we try (I say we, I mean me and my fantastic producer Dani Charlton) to ensure we have interviews with industry folk, such as promoters, venue owners, festival organizers, managers, labels etc. so we get different perspectives on how to get ahead in a pretty turbulent industry and get music listened to on the live circuit. We also try to make sure we speak to bands established or new to hear their advice to new bands, and generally what they’ve been getting up to.

Little Lord Brantleroy

Why should we listen?

Because it’s awesome! Like Amazing Radio in general, the show focuses on the grass roots of music and gives a platform to those bands that deserve the limelight but lack the attention of already established acts. It’s a great way to find out where you can see these great bands in intimate venues before they inevitably get picked up and become huge.

Aside from your own fabulous show, have you got any other favourite Amazing Radio shows?

It’s always quite exciting to see how the amazingtunes.com community feel about the music we play, so the Amazing Chart Show with Charlie Ashcroft is always a good one. I also find the musings of the many expert opinions on the Trevor Dann fronted It’s Amazing good fun

Finally, what makes Amazing so, well, amazing!?
A radio station that concentrates on the grass roots of music and exposes thousands of unsigned gems? That’s pretty amazing. Is that a cheesy line? Yeah probably… but I’ve said it now, so get over it and go enjoy the music!

You can hear Rich presenting Amazing Live every Friday at 1pm.

This week we were contacted by Rachel Chismon, who was looking for an act who could compliment her love for lady artists such as Rhianna, Madonna and Kate Nash.

We decide to get Amazing Radio’s most prolific musical cupid, Music Scheduler Tom Cotton, in on the action. He was only too pleased to scour amazingtunes.com for the perfect act, but was happy to admit that his quest was a difficult one.

The first track Tom has chosen for Rachel is by Anglo-Czech MC V-Double-E. Her track Don’t Hold Me Back has been causing a storm on the Amazing Radio. It’s a fiesta, attitude packed number with a funky bass line and some ‘irresistible lyric spitting.’

The second track Tom’s decided to present to Rachel is by female fronted act Jazica. The Southampton four piece are hugely popular on the Amazing Radio, with their synthy electro stylings proving infectious. The Jazica track Tom has chosen for Rachel is called Illusions.

Hear Tom play Matchmaker on The Afternoon Show from 3pm today, on Amazing Radio.

After yet another keenly-contested week, The Stereo Shutdown have made it two weeks at Number 1 on The Amazing Radio Chart with Feels Like Summer.

The Stereo Shutdown boys

Whether the Bank Holiday weather has felt like summer where you live is another matter entirely, but the popularity of the Guildford quartet’s track has shown no sign of abating as August draws to a close.

In spite of some hefty climbs and a record number of New Entries on the Chart, The Stereo Shutdown remain in pole position, ahead of Brighton quartet Tom & The Tides, whose Spider stays at Number 2 in its ninth week inside the rundown.

Scotland has two big climbers inside this week’s Top 10, with May The Forth by Futuristic Retro Champions up two places to Number 3, and Hummingbird by Julia & The Doogans climbing four to Number 6.

The Ukrainian pop train shows no sign of slowing down either, with Kiev collective Champagne Morning hitting the Amazing Radio Chart Top 5 for the first time with Miracle.

What about these New Entries then? Well, we’ve got five of them this week, and all of them are proper belters.

Charly Coombes & The New Breed are the highest-placed of them all, in at Number 12 with Panic In Between The Sheets, while Worthing producer extraordinaire Tony Tronic goes straight in at Number 15 with Diskonexion.

Elsewhere we’ve got other new kids in school in the form of Zell Am See, Bim and Luna Park Rescue, forming an orderly queue behind Mr Tronic at 16, 17 and 18.

Click here to see the The Amazing Radio Chart Top 20 in full. Find out if The Stereo Shutdown can make it three weeks at Number 1 by tuning in to Amazing Radio this coming Sunday from 5pm.

In the next installment of our getting to know series we’re getting the info from radio royalty Trevor Dann.

Trevor Dann

Hello! Who are you?

Trevor Dann.

How did you find out about Amazing Radio?

I met founder Paul Campbell before he’d even invented it!

Before we plucked you from ‘relative obscurity’ and plonked you on the Amazing Radio airwaves, what did you do?

Chief Executive of the Radio Academy, Head of BBC Music Entertainment, Head of Music at Radio 1, Executive Producer of Top of the Pops, writer, broadcaster, dreadful guitarist, grumpy old man…

Tell us about your show please!

It’s Amazing: Quality chat about quality choons.

Why should we listen?

Well, as the trail says, “there’s only one thing better than listening to music and that’s talking about music.”

Aside from your own fabulous show, have you got any other favourite Amazing Radio shows?

Frankie’s Amazing Folk Roots Show is a special favourite, but it’s all good really.

Finally, what makes Amazing so, well, amazing!?

The bands.

You can hear Trevor’s ‘quality chat about quality choons’ on It’s Amazing every Sunday at 4pm, Wednesday at 1pm and Friday at 6pm.

In this blog, The Quietus tell us more about how they’ve become one of the coolest musical destinations on the ‘net.

At the start of 2008 we were of the opinion that there was a massive gap in the market for an online music publication not in thrall to snarky one-upmanship, hype, or an overload of fast-click, low-quality content. We also thought there was a gap in the market for a magazine that treated music of all genres from the last 30 years with the same reverence that titles such as MOJO and Word treat the rock & roll hall of fame.We chose a completely spurious Year Zero of 1974 because that’s when Kraftwerk released ‘Autobahn’ as a single. It seemed to us the birth of modern music. Modern sounding, that is.

Since then we’ve aimed to bring you the best of everything. We’re here to give music ranging from dubstep, death metal and post punk to hip hop, pop and spacerock the coverage it deserves. We’d like to inject some much-needed humour, intelligence and passion back into journalism, so we run in-depth features, reviews and opinion pieces from the best new writers and established greats. We also cover film, books, TV and comics, old and new, concentrating on quality over hype.

Whether we’ve achieved all this is not for us to say, but Record of the Day gave us the Music Publication Of The Year (Student Award) in 2008 and Music Website of the Year award in 2009. Da Capo’s respected Best Music Writing guide also picked out three of our features for praise in its 2009 edition, edited by Greil Marcus. Add to this praise from publications and broadcasters including the Guardian, The Sun, Fader, Observer, The Independent, BBC, New York Times and Chicago Time Out, and we’re at least confident we’re doing something right.

Our independent approach allows us avoid the pitfalls faced by comparable print and web publications: our word-counts are generous and we’re not afraid of surprising our readers. We have regular contributions from many of the best music writers working today – you may recognize their names as published authors, broadcasters on the BBC, Sky and beyond, or members of bands like The Bad Seeds and Pulp, and from newspapers, magazines and websites including… The Guardian, Independent, The Observer, The New Statesman, Sunday Times, Times, The Telegraph, Esquire, Harpers Bazaar and many more…

Hear Kyle and Frankie getting the low down on The Quietus from 3pm today, on Amazing Radio.

Today we’ve got banter aplenty from Saturday Show presenters Colin and Matt.

Matt (L) and Colin (R)

Hello! Who are you?

Why, hello there! We’re Colin and Matt, and we present The Saturday Show every Saturday (naturally) from 9 in the morning until 12pm. We bring the ‘Amazing’ to Amazing Radio.

How did you find out about Amazing Radio?

A couple of years ago, we read about this site where users could upload their track and earn money for their efforts. As we were skint at the time, we decided to upload a track that we made for these podcasts that we did before presenting on Amazing Radio. The track, Lady Noise, never did get many ‘likes’ but maybe this interview can bring us more exposure and we can finally get it to number 1 in the Amazing Radio Chart!

Before we plucked you from relative obscurity and plonked you on the Amazing airwaves, what did you do?

As mentioned above, we used to produce weekly comedy and entertainment podcasts imaginatively entitled The Colin and Matt Show (it was a working title that ended up sticking). We did three seasons of these shows and have to say, we’re very proud of them. They were nominated for awards on 3 separate occasions, including one high-profile award nomination for Channel 4’s WEX branch, 4Talent. (We didn’t win though.)

Tell us about your show please!

Our show is a less-explicit version of our podcasts, with music. Therefore, we’re talking features that include the ridiculous What Would Who Do? where we suggest what hilarious things different celebrities might do in everyday situations. We also bring you the week’s Quirky News, the Random Song Generator, the Hangover Cure (where we aim to get all you lazy bums out of your pit in a morning via massive tunes), and so much more. We literally can’t fit in the amount of things we cover, but we’ve been told we’re brilliant (thanks mum).

Colin and Matt get casual

Why should we listen?

We have to get up early, so you should too!

Aside from your own fabulous show, have you got any other favourite Amazing Radio shows?

Erm, all of them? Okay, we’ll stop sitting on the fence and plump for the Chart Show with Charlie Ashcroft. You can’t beat a good chart show! It’s created by you, the listener, simply through interaction on amazingtunes.com and airplay on Amazing Radio.

Finally, what makes Amazing so, well, amazing!?

The fact that no other station in the universe is like this. You very easily get sick of the monotonous over-produced rubbish on other commercial stations, and there’s always new tunes to enjoy on this station. Now, THAT’S amazing!

Catch up with Colin and Matt every Saturday morning from 9 ’til 12 as they present The Saturday Show.