I’ve spent this morning’s journey in to London thinking about this weekend’s podcast and the podcast in general. It has built up a tremendous number of listeners in less than a year and while that’s very gratifying, I find it’s easy to become inhibited by its success.<\/p>\n
It’s a little like writing. Once you’ve found a formula that works for you, the temptation to take risks – or stray outside the comfort zone that has been established – almost vanishes.<\/p>\n
You want to play it safe because that’s your area of success. This week though, I’ve decided to step right outside the comfort zone.<\/p>\n
I need to rant about the dire state of radio in London and that gives me the perfect excuse to begin with a mental thrash metal band from Birmingham – Sienna.<\/p>\n
Quite how I link that<\/em> to the pop\/folk image of Akiva, a guy I found on Twitter, I don’t know, but the challenge is there to be done.<\/p>\n Then there’s a very talented young guy named Ben P who performs under the name Rural Roots; easily the best British urban\/rap artist I’ve heard. Think about it for a moment. How many good British<\/em> urban\/rap acts can you name? Yeah, quite.<\/p>\n It’s going to be a challenge to knit these diverse genres together, but that’s my job. Their job is just to do their thing.<\/p>\n Regular listeners can tell that I’m actually trying to do some prep for this one! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve spent this morning’s journey in to London thinking about this weekend’s podcast and the podcast in general. It has built up a tremendous number<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}