[roymartin]

New jingles have started today on the Real Radio network in England, Wales and Scotland.

Have a listen and let us know your thoughts – they've been on-air just a couple of hours already.

Cheers
Roy

[simon_t123Member]

Ahhhh for a moment (on hearing a familiar logo !) I was thinking Bespoke Music … but is this a package thru Chris's new sung imaging company ?

[DJDave]

Not sure on these, this not music 4 anymore? bit century sounding again but that now sounds dated.

[IainJohnstonMember]

I also immediately thought "back to the Bespoke style" – similar sort of beat in the backing tracks (but Gawd, please, please, not "Woah Woah Yeah Yeah" ever ever ever again…), and they've dropped the "You're Listening to Real" logo which I still maintain must have confused eastern Scotland listeners as it was a very close "clone" of the "Fife's Kingdom FM" one from their now-very-successfully syndicated TM Studios custom(s).

Didn't know they might be by Chris (Stevens?), but they seem to be much, much "brighter" and fresher than the last Bespoke lot, although the "Feel Good" tagline seems to get a bit fiddly.

Overall, the station sound has (in Scotland at least) been very "cleaned up" I notice, and seems much tighter than the last time I listened (which I'd stopped doing due to the overbearing "Weedgie" presenter style), and the new jingles DO seem to work really well with the less-cluttered presentation.

Only criticism? Certainly not the jingles! – just the apparent attempt to "go for a younger audience" by playing too much of the (ghastly) Capital FM "X-Factor viewers" playlist instead of sticking with the "music for grown-ups" approach.

Whats Chris's company called by the way, and is there a website for it we can have a look at?

[DJDave]

The more I hear them I'm starting to like even more, saying that it was like that at first to the music 4 stuff. Talking of Music 4 I see they are still doing the breakfast jingles.

[simon_t123Member]

Wales seemed to be struggling to use these this morning, it was a case of mind the gaps or let's pre-fade the news intro over the last song of the hour lols /wink.gif’ class=’bbc_emoticon’ alt=’‘ />

A good sound overall anyway, I've a feeling they are thru Chris's production company as they are similar to audio on the Ignite website, bright, modern, well sung and ripe for the personal cuts market one day we hope lols … I'm sure someone will be along to confirm all in good time IainJohnston

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[simon_t123Member]

Thanks for that Jessie
(…by the way, I think I have "your song" (!) somewhere on one of my daughter's children's song CDs!)

I like Chris' "pun" on "i…..jingles" – can't think where he might possibly have got the idea for the name from!
:^)

[brooky148]

Take a listen simon_t123

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[brooky148]

lala "realgood feelgood" lala simon_t123

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[brooky148]

… wonder if there's a deal between Ignite & TM for vocals ??? like for Lighthouse & Kissville stuff which seems to be either a division of TM or has a deal for vocals thru TM …

[robertpobjoy]

These aren't Ignite Jingles…

[brooky148]

lala "realgood feelgood" lala simon_t123

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[brooky148]

ahh @Rob we were hoping someone might have confirmed by now if they were Ignite, Bespoke or whoever productions … do you know who produced these ??? @brooky DEFINITELY Bespoke-ish, and certainly more upbeat !!! the strapline sung is maybe a little tongue twisty, or maybe not, pah either way I like 'em

[robertpobjoy]

ahh @Rob we were hoping someone might have confirmed by now if they were Ignite, Bespoke or whoever productions … do you know who produced these ??? @brooky DEFINITELY Bespoke-ish, and certainly more upbeat !!! the strapline sung is maybe a little tongue twisty, or maybe not, pah either way I like 'em

I think you are on the right lines with congratulating "Real Radio".
Say no more?

[brooky148]

@Simon…well i have some news, I emailed Sandy Beech at Music4 for abit of info, heres how it went:

ME: Hi Sandy,

Just a quick question,

when can we expect to hear some Real Radio 2011 Jingles on the website!?!?!

I know that you have produced the Breakfast package, but who has done all of their new package? is that your work, many people are wondering!

also, when you do upload them, can we here a mixture of the stations including Yorkshire not just the North West, that's where im from and i love them!

Many Thanks

SANDY REPLIED:

Hi Dale,

We are getting very close to the completion of the new Music 4 website and that will be loaded with tons of audio from the past 12 months…I appreciate our current site is very out of date in terms of audio uploads.

I can’t give you an exact date but within the next 8-12 weeks or so.

On the subject of Real Radio, yes, we did the breakfast cuts plus ‘re-logoed’ a couple of the feature beds (Real Entertainment/Showbiz and The Real Guide).

The rest of the cuts are, to the best of my knowledge, being treated as in-house productions by GMG Radio overseen by Chris Stevens (but not via his company Ignite). I also believe Tim at Bespoke has also contributed to the package so it’s all a bit of a team effort really.

Chris Stevens can probably fill in the rest of the details for you.

Hope that helps
Best wishes
Sandy

So i hope this clears things up abit…looking forward to the new website though!

[simon_t123Member]

ahhh thanks @brooky for that, I reckon Sandy's got that spot on as the more I listen to the female singer in the new jingles the more I'm thinking "BESPOKE" !!! the tracks however are quite different to normal Bespoke Music cuts, a team efforts cool with the results being pretty good */