I'll be taking the red eye special to Juarez tonight then on to Nuevo Casas Grandes to begin recording. Albuquerque saw the cross pollination of radiofreepeterborough and three sided hole - a local community festival founded by Thomas Bluefeather. Future collaborations are inevitable. More to follow...

Well, as Brian posted in his blog yesterday, he is now on his way to Mexico to spread the Radio Free Peterborough concept to international development. Yesterday, Brian and I started with a nice greasy breakfast at the Speakeasy Pub in Peterborough and then made our way to my place here in Toronto by bus.

We enjoyed our in-flight movie Invincible Shaolin (ok, we watched it on my laptop with a headphone splitter) and then set about some last-minute shopping for a dedicated external hard drive for Brian's powerbook.

After months of preparation, I am headed to mexico - to the Copper Canyon where radiofreepeterborough will meet the Tarahumara - an indigenous people living in Chihuahua state.

I will get the opportunity to see if our internet radio model can inform the creation of an internet radio station in northern mexico. details to follow in the coming days...

Hey everybody...come see me play at Hot Belly Mama's, Monday June 27 in PeterboroughThe Spill in Peterborough, wed june 29, The Free Times Cafe in Toronto, Thurs June 30, and the Casbah in Hamilton, July 1...also it Sadlier house in Peterborough July 7

We've just uploaded the first chunk of tracks from the mound we slurped down from Trent Radio's digital archives. This update was 726 more mp3 tracks - bringing the catalogue to a digital hernia-risk at 1856 tracks! There's at least that much more to come as soon as brian gets those DVD's in the mail (hint hint brian :)

We also know this is just the tip of the iceberg, so tighten your trusses and get ready for even MORE Peterborough culture. Get your discs in to Trent Radio, make sure they're marked local, and drop us a line and tell us it's there. If you'd rather use the postal mail,just ask and we'll send you the details.

Sometimes you forget how great people can be. Sometimes I need reminding. I got a fantastic reminder this weekend.

I spent most of friday afternoon at Trent Radio slurping a vast quantity of local music from their storage network, as well as ripping about 115 tracks from CD. Many heartfelt thanks to Jill Staveley and John K. Muir of Trent Radio and my pal Brian Sanderson, without which this tidal wave of audio wouldn't have happened.

We had trouble finding DVD blanks that Brian's powerbook could burn, so I had to be content with the one dvd I have (800+ tracks!) for now until Brian can get the rest into the mail. Poor me eh? I also discovered that whatever burning setttings Brian used truncated the filenames to 64 characters. Since Trent Radio uses the filename to encode the track info, many are much longer. Luckily, John was able to send me a complete listing of the files in their storage server, and with the help of a handy dandy program I put together I've now got 863 mp3 files, all tagged up nicely. It took about 7 hours to run, but what the heck - I just let it run overnight, and tah dah. All done. Some of those are duplicates, or are mis-tagged as being local when they really aren't, so we'll have to sort through them all. But even if we have to throw 200 away, it's still going to push us over 2000+ tracks no problem!

Very exciting. Now we've got a fully functional Drupal install, and assuming people actually want to use the thing and interact with the RFP project - and each other, this is going to be pretty damn cool.

No more sitting around passively sucking up RFP folks. We want you to become an active participant. You can contribte as much or a s little as you want.

Like to write? Publish stories about your favourite band, photos, show reviews, d.i.y. instructional articles, whatever you think will help RFP move forward as a community.

Here are some older weblog entries dating from 18 Oct 2004 until 02 April 2005.

Go Trent Radio Go!
I just popped in to check on the Trent Radio Stream stats. There are 9 people listening. Right now there are listeners in Hungary, Columbia, Spain, Mexico, Argentina and of course, Canada.

It's so great to see the stream stats chugging away, spreading the culture of Peterborough to far flung corners of the globe.

Keep it up folks. We're kicking some serious community radio butt now.
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