DJ Anne Quit Love FM

That's right. Some of you might already know it. I have left 97.5 Love FM last month. I am no longer a DJ there. You will no longer hear me on that radio station. As much as I miss working at Love FM, I am happy to have moved on.

Radio DJ Auditions

Have you always wanted to get into radio but never really knew what to do, where to go, and how to go about getting into radio? Here is your chance!

If you are Cambodian, have a nice speaking voice and a great personality, you can get a radio DJ job and be the next big DJ personality. In a typical radio DJ job, you’ll be introducing music, doing interviews, reading commercials, giving weather forecasts and sometimes traffic updates.

There will soon be an opportunity to work at a new English language radio station in Phnom Penh. That radio station will be like nothing your ears have ever heard before in Cambodia.

Do you think you have got what it takes to be a radio jockey? Show us what you got! Send us a demo tape (actually, what we need is a mp3 file) of how you would sound on air. Your demo should not be longer than 15 minutes.

Here is how you should do it.

1. Find a recording good audio recording source. Your best bet is a computer.
2. Find and install a program to record your voice. "Audacity" is a free recording application which would be easy to use.
3. Hook up a microphone if your computer doesn't already have one built in.
4. Prepare some scripts to include: weather, a short :30 second commercial, and a promotional announcement. Make sure you also introduce a song about to be played.
5. Decide the order you will record your scripts in. Make sure you use the station name. For this demo, pretend it is '109 Sample Radio FM'.
6. Practice what you want to say, sound natural and sound friendly.
7. Record your voice with the scripts you have prepared.
8. When you are satisfied with your presentation, save what you have recorded in MP3 format, and email it to us with your name, your gender, your date of birth, phone number, email address, as well as a short introductory letter.

Email your demo to:   audition.radio@yahoo.com

Some extra tips for making your demo.

1. Listen to Capital FM - The UK's Number 1 Hit Music Station to get an idea of what we want you to sound like. www.capitalfm.com

2. Be sure that you are speaking proper English in a clear voice. Do not use slang and do not distort your voice. Be certain of word pronunciations. Be careful to avoid ending words short (an example of this would be saying "nothin'" instead of "nothing").

2. Know what you are going to say before you speak on the air. Essentially, this information is in your head, though you can jot down notes. If you open the microphone without an idea of what you'll say, your voice will trail off and you will end up saying, "Um" and "Uh" between words.

3. Sound friendly, but real. Let the audience feel that you are smiling as you speak, unless you are transmitting serious information. In both cases, sound authoritative. Listeners expect and assume the announcer knows what they are talking about to be factual and correct.

4. Don't repeat yourself, especially in the same break. If you stated something once, with a clear, authoritative voice, the message is received. The exception is the station identifier, which commonly opens and closes your break and sometimes appears in additional announcements.

Last Song Syndrome

So, you wake up in the morning and there is a song on the radio, or you pull up to your destination, and the last song playing in the car, you just cannot get out of your head. At first you don not mind it. You even find yourself humming it or singing it (in public) quietly. Then, while having lunch with your friends, that song pops up again. The weird thing is, you're not even thinking about it anymore. You dismiss it, knowing it'll go away eventually. But then, by dinner time, that blasted music is STILL playing in your head.

You, my dear, suffer from LSS... Last Song Syndrome. The Germans call that an Ohrwurm, literally an ear worm that crawls in there and won't get out. Not bad if it is a song you like, but sometimes it can be very annoying.

Now, what song has bugged your brains lately, and how did you cope? For me it was 'Lemon Tree' by Fool's Garden the other day... And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree...

Argh! The only remedy I know of is to listen to more music. Forget the old song by listening to a new one.

I found a helpful website that helps you take that last song syndrome out of you. Just go to www.unhearit.com. There is a player embedded in the site that will play a new catchy song for you. There is even a nifty little app they made for iPhones and iPods (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/unhearit/id394588168).

Saturday Night Fever - Annual IBC Ball 2011

The International Business Club Annual Ball took place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh on the 29th of January 2011. The theme of the party was Saturday Night Fever. What a fun night it was! Of course it was organised by Live Wire Entertainment.

Hello Axiata BlackBerry Bold Launch @ Saint-Tropez Lounge - 5 January 2011

Of course it was organised by Live Wire Entertainment.

Tony Re-al, DJ Radioactive Anne, Sansana, Imran Sadiq

Jaz Sadiq, DJ Radioactive Anne

Dengue Fever :-(

The reason I have not been posting that much recently is that 1. I've been busy with work, and 2. I came down with dengue fever. I was feeling really bad and posting on my blog was the last thing I was thinking about. Luckily I am better now.

I hate mosquitoes ten times as much now though. I want them all dead!

Happy New Year 2011!

I know it's been a while since I last posted anything on my blog, but I now would like to wish everyone a good 2011. I hope you get to do the things you want.

For myself, I hope to make more music, and also to create more content for my radio show and for our radio station.