Below is a bit of information about the people who run the station and provide input!
To the left is a list of useful links to either contact individual members or to join NSR yourself.
Izaac Carlisle- Station Manager
LIKES: People with attitude and opinions, music festivals, Facebook,
strawberries, lemons, garlic bread.
DISLIKES: Marcus Bent, people that ask stupid questions in lectures, DJs that like
every single piece of music (Zane Lowe!), Carling, slow internet connections, nuts and coffee.
FAVOURITE BAND: Pink Floyd
RANDOM FACT: The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
Katie Ashworth - Deputy Station Manager
LIKES: Music, Comics/graphic novels, Jack Daniels, rock climbing
DISLIKES: Crap clubs, hangovers, 9am lectures, being woken up
FAVOURITE BAND: Death Cab for Cutie
RANDOM FACT: I sometimes wear children's clothes
Kate Edwards - Head of News
LIKES: News!!! Current affairs, reading political blogs and newspapers...
also, I'm a self-confessed music nut.
DISLIKES: Average 'indie' bands, commercial music, people who follow the crowd
FAVOURITE BAND: The Flaming Lips
RANDOM FACT: I can play the saxophone
Tom Walsh - Head of Technical
LIKES: Music (obviously), gigs, spiderman, cheese, feeling clever and important haha
DISLIKES: Tomatoes, expensive drinks, lifts
FAVOURITE BAND: Anything heavy suits me but Disturbed will always have a place in my heart
RANDOM FACT: I can wiggle my left ear but not my right ear
Alex Fraser
LIKES: Tea, Germany, Byker Grove.
DISLIKES: Nuts, low fat milk
FAVOURITE BANDS: The Beatles, The Smiths, Kings Of Leon, Bright Eyes, The Strokes etc etc
RANDOM FACT: I'm a black belt at Karate.
Oliver Bone and Mark Levine - Heads of Production
LIKES: Football, Squash, Pro Evo, Jack Bauer's No Nonsense approach to life
DISLIKES: Bloc Party, Jermaine Jenas
FAVOURITE BAND: Belle and Sebastian. The Strokes, Metric, Charlatans
RANDOM FACT: The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees
Mark Levine
Christopher Lloyd-Jones - Head of Sport
LIKES: Music, Jagermeister, Gigs & Festivals, Cheese
DISLIKES: Jellyfish, fundamentals, celery
FAVOURITE BANDS: Feeder, Placebo, Radiohead, Bloc Party...
RANDOM FACT: I have displaced knuckles on both little fingers
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Union News
Jun 7th : ArcaneThis tri-annual mega end of term blow-out is one of the North East's biggest dance nights, featuring six (yes, six!) ;rooms full of top class music for you to blow out the end of your term in style! All proceeds go to the South African Scholarship Fund.
New Solution, Old Price!
You may have recently completed a Union Student Services Survey? Well, one of the things that came back loud and clear was that you love the new look Solution but you really really want it back at it's old 3 pounds price! Who are we to argue?
Stan Calvert Cup - NEWCASTLE WIN!
Team Newcastle - sponsored by ALDI - triumphed over their Northumbria counterparts to reclaim the Stan Calvert Cup. More details as they come in but WELL DONE to everyone involved
