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Astute listeners and readers will have already noticed that I haven’t posted any musicology shows for a few weeks. You may have thought I’d been having a break but you’d have been wrong.

I’ve been having a lot of fun with the shows but I’ve been finding it increasingly restrictive balancing the two formats – the live radio broadcast and the downloadable podcast – and I think that both formats suffer for the compromise. Knowing that the show is being recorded and archived means there are things I’ve been hesitant to try out in case they go horribly wrong where I should just be taking a risk and doing it anyway for the sake of the live broadcast.

Essentially I think radio works best as a live, immediate medium. One of the greatest music discovery kicks you can ever have is hearing a song in the car while you’re driving home and it sounds so good that when you get to your house you just have to sit there in the dark until the song finishes. You can’t even take your keys out. You can’t even rush inside to switch the radio on for fear of breaking the spell.

That’s the kind of thrill that only live radio can deliver in this age of on-demand media, and I don’t want to dilute it.

So from now on if you want to hear musicology you’ll have to be in Raglan on Tuesday nights. I may still do podcasts if there’s a particular reason to but it definitely won’t be every week and they’ll be posted in the main bside site feed: http://www.bsidebeats.com/feed/ so the podcast feed will become inactive as of now.

Thanks for listening and I hope you’ve enjoyed it. I’ll leave the archive up for a couple of weeks in case anyone wants to download anything. edit: all gone.

p.s. regular bside posting should be resuming shortly…