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Spring Term and More Rare Sessions

We hope you've had a chance to do your first show of the new term and let everyone know what you've been doing and listening to over the holidays.

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Gideon Conn Gets Rare

Gideon Conn brought his unique musical stylings to the Rare studio.

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Thank You For Making PYC a Success

Thank you very much for coming down to the first Pensioners' Yacht Club of the academic year.

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Pensioners' Yacht Club - Friday 4th Dec.

Rare FM is more than proud to present Pensioners' Yacht Club... A lovely jubbly brand spanking new club night at The Relentless Garage, next to Highbury and Islington tube station on Friday Dec. 4th. A two room oracular spectacular featuring both Live Bands and DJs.

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Into The Woods - 3rd, 4th and 5th December

Rare FM is proud to recommend UCLU Musical Theatre's first Bloomsbury show of 2009 - 2010.

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Latest DJ Blog Posts:

The Joker and the Thief
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The Bizets
Posted in Live on Rare by Robbie Hayward on January 24, 2010 8:35 PM

"You cut the legs off a desk with a breadknife?" - Saturday Jan. 23rd
Posted in The Closer Sound by Ben Lawrence on January 24, 2010 7:09 PM

A New Year, A New Hope...
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Super Strings Theory's Top 20 Albums of 2009
Posted in Super Strings Theory by Robbie Hayward on January 19, 2010 9:16 PM

Latest Reviews:

Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Posted in Albums / EPs by Jonathan Wilson on January 24, 2010 5:58 PM

Malcom Middleton at Bush Hall - 24/11/09
Posted in Gigs by Robbie Hayward on January 20, 2010 4:13 PM

Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
Posted in Albums / EPs by Robbie Hayward on January 20, 2010 3:54 PM

Good Shoes - Under Control
Posted in Singles by Robbie Hayward on January 20, 2010 3:48 PM

You Me At Six - The Consequence
Posted in Singles by Robbie Hayward on January 20, 2010 3:22 PM

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schedule: Thursday

mon | tue | wed | thu | fri | sat | sun

10:00
DJ Saz and Chaz In The House
Your weekly dose of crazy tunes and random chat with UCL's geographical drama queens Saz and Chaz.
11:00
It'a Grim Ooop North
with Alex Drake. Music from Eastern Europe to Western London with requests and listener participation
12:00
It's Al(l) Relative
presented by Al Fresh. Playing you music from and relative to one (cult-ish) band each week selected moments before the show.
13:00
Culture Vulture
presented by Vanessa Barlow. With fresh new music, theatre, film, poetry and comedy, Culture Vulture keeps you up to date with all things arty.
14:00
Hear The Year
with Gareth Wright. Music of all genres from a different year each week, guess the year to win a prize!
15:00
Bang Bang Bang Pow Pow Pow
with Richard Bendall-Jones. Fluffy Northern scamp plays a happy-go-lucky selection of pop, electro & oldies around stock market chit-chat etc...
16:00
The Speculum
A retrospective of the week in music. Tenuous links between our weekly pursuits and most loved music from across the decades
17:00
The Mixtape
presented by Fav. An assortment of new tracks, old tracks, features and banter to tickle your fancy!
18:00
Beats, Bass and Banter
with JK & Mercedes. A mammoth mix of serious electronic beats, with some not-so-serious kick arse chit-chat.
19:00
Mix It Up!
with Prash. A blend of music including: hip-hop, drum &bass, dubstep and indie
20:00
Drum & Bass in the Mix
Upfront, heavyweight drum & bass tracks in the mix, brought to you by DJ EL.Man
21:00
Naturally speaking
with Jess and Luke. Environmental discussion with special guests and music you control.
22:00
Death to the Author
presented by DJ Treebare and DJ Freephone. They resist with their blood - Resist with your ears.
23:00
Freebass sessions
Bringing the free party sound out of the warehouse and into to your front livng room. So you and your gran can mash it out to jungle, dubstep, drum & bass, hard-tek breakbeat, reggae, dub, hip-hop, sound effects and codded gabba. THIS IS THE FREEBASS SESSIONS, TUNE IT, TEK OUT.