pat radio

I guess promises were made to be broken. No new podcast this week either. I promise great things soon, though.

Like last week, I did submit a show to WCRS. This week it's all excerpts from the various live sessions I've done over the past year. Music from Paper Airplane, The Umbrella Men, Bird and Flower, Jerry DeCicca, and Lydia Loveless. So if you're near a radio at 6 p.m. tonight, tune to WCRS (102.1 near Easton. 98.3 near Marblecliff/Grandview) and enjoy.

Dispatch Obit

I'm doing another happy hour at the Tip Top Kitchen and Cocktails. It's on February 21, from 6 p.m. to about 10. From 6-9 p.m., I'll be "spinning" the mp3s, both local and international. Then at 9 p.m. we'll break the seal on the new Rosehips album and listen to it in its entirety.

A week after the happy hour, on March 1, the Rosehips cd release party is taking place at Carabar. The entire line-up is Rosehips, Dayton band Moon High, The Lindsay, and Mors Ontologica. Killer!

Here's a great interview with Cassie of Rosehips from the awesome midwest music blog, People with Animal Heads. While you're there, bookmark Christopher Animalhead's most excellent blog.

I always neglect my own blog...I've posted this just about everywhere else. I'm doing a happy hour at the Tip Top with the good people of Columbus Underground. It's co-sponsored by the equally good folks at What The Rock?!.

I'll be giving away 3 $20 gift certificates to What The Rock?!, and I'll have a pair of tickets to give away to the Times New Viking show at the Wexner this Friday.

See you there.

If you live in Columbus, Ohio you can now listen to pat radio on your FM radio. Simply Living's radio voice, WCRS has graciously given me an hour on Wednesday evenings to replay my podcasts.

WCRS is on two frequencies in town, 102.1 in the Northeast corner of the county, and 98.3 near campus, Clintonville and surrounding areas.

For my inaugural broadcast, I'm rerunning program 96, the one with Sarah Asher on it. I promise some new material for the second show. Please tune in and please support Simply Living and WCRS.

Lessons learned from the first pat radio happy hour at the Tip Top:

1. Bring a sign or a banner. Most of the folks who came Thursday night were regulars who were stopping in for a bite to eat or some drinks. I needed a sign behind me indicating who I was and what I was doing there.

2. Never attempt to do a dj set remotely via the internet. I kept losing the Tip Top's wireless connection. On my to-do list is to finish copying my mp3 collection over to my external hard drive, so I can bring it all with me next time.

3. The pot roast at the Tip Top is to die for.

Thanks to Chuck and the staff of the Tip Top. Thanks also to Kyle at Lost Weekend Records, Ron at Used Kids, and Chris and John of the Columbus Alive. (I gave away the extra copy of "Swinging Sounds" that you gave me.)

We will do it again. Oh yes...we will.

I stopped into Wholly Craft! last night to hear Bird and Flower, the Proper Nouns, and Heavy Mole. What a neat little shop and what a cool place to hear music. And it was an early show. I love early shows! If you've never been to Wholly Craft, tonight is a perfect opportunity to do so. They're having a midnight madness sale. Details cut and pasted directly from Wholly Craft's myspace:

Midnight Madness Sale!!
Saturday December 8th, 8pm-12am

Our biggest holiday event is back this year and better than ever!
Here’s what to expect:
Crazy blue light specials every ½ hour!
Free Holiday Food and Drink!
Free Gift Wrapping!
Door Prizes!
* PLUS 10% of all proceeds benefit the Ohio AIDS Coalition!

I just realized I've stuck this press release everywhere else except my own blog. I hope to see many of you at this special event. Read on...

Local podcaster Pat Radio is teaming up with the Tip Top Kitchen and Cocktails to host the first-ever internet happy hour, Thursday December 6 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Tip Top Kitchen and Cocktails, located at 73 E. Gay Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The happy hour is a benefit and awareness event for Simply Living’s broadcast voice, WCRS FM.

Pat Radio’s Pat Leonard will be the guest disc jockey at the Tip Top, and the music he will be spinning will be heard throughout the bar and around the world at www.patradio.org. There will also be cd, gift certificate and t-shirt give-aways and special drink prices.

This event will raise awareness of Simply Living , a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a compassionate and sustainable world. Simply Living is broadcasting on a low-power FM station, WCRS, at two frequencies in the Columbus area: 102.1 FM in Northeastern Franklin County and 98.3 FM near OSU campus. WCRS broadcasts news and current-affairs programs from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays. They plan to expand their programming schedule and include music programming in the near future. Representatives from the Simply Living will be on-hand at the Tip Top to answer questions about Simply Living and WCRS and to accept donations.

The Tip Top Kitchen and Cocktails, open since May, features Ohio comfort food, drink specialties, draught microbrews, and pies.

Pat Radio has been on the internet airwaves since 2005. Pat’s weekly local music podcast attracts hundreds of listeners from central Ohio and around the world.

I ditched the streaming today. If you were one of the handful of people who listened to my stream, then you'll probably like the "radio statiion" I have done up over at last.fm.

I was facing another month of royalty payments here in a couple days and finally decided that it wasn't worth it. Now that cash can go toward making the podcasts better.

Maybe I'll win the lottery and bring it back, but right now, the last.fm thing ain't so bad and it only costs $3 a month.

Play it, homes.

Read about pat radio here and confirm for yourself that yes, I do indeed have a face for radio.

I opted to play Karaoke Revolution with my kids last night instead. A-Ha's "Take On Me" is a much harder song to sing than it would seem.

The show will start an hour later and will only be 60 minutes long tonight. Changes afoot. I'll talk about them on air in a bit.

I just started up a loop of silence on my dj software and uploaded an intro file to my shoutcast servers, urging all my listeners in the USA to call their Congressional representatives and urge them to support the Internet Radio Equality Act.

If you connect to the listen live link, loudcity.com will divert you to a sound effects loop. When I just tried it, I heard what sounded like someone walking through the woods. If you've bookmarked my stream, you'll hear a brief announcement from me and then....nothing. For 24 hours.

If the CBR's rate hikes are not overturned, I will most likely stop the stream and discontinue the mixtape = love podcast until I can determine how to do so legally. That means contacting artists and labels and securing permission to include their songs in my podcast.

It would be so much easier and so much more enjoyable for me ( and I would hope for you as well ) if I could continue to pay a reasonable royalty fee and play whatever I feel like playing, without worrying about breaking the law. I'm trying to be a good guy.

Go to savenetradio.org to find directions on how to contact Congress. The outlook is good for this bill's passage, but it's the timeliness that worries me. If the CBR ruling is not overturned by July 15, I'll have to start paying the new rate and pay the hike retroactive to the beginning of 2006. This is why we need a big push now to get Congress to act. Please do your part. Thanks.

It's either my router or my cable internet connection. One or both is contributing once again to a choppy upstream. Bear with me. It might take a couple more days to resolve.

I'm having technical difficulties and I just don't want to deal with them right now. Those of you who subscribe to the notify list, watch it for when the archive is ready for downloading.

The mixtape will be on Friday this week, roughly the same time.