Amateurism Radio

A big family of my friends are used to all connecting and hanging out over the summer schedule of festivals. When the UK went into lockdown in March, I was working with fellow Amateurism collective members Leo Walton, Rob Leggatt and Aymen Bensaad on a collaborative mix that we could release around the time Amateurism should have been DJing at The Beat Hotel festival in Morocco. With all the year’s live music events cancelled, we wondered if we could do something with our mix beyond simply loading it up to a website. Could we create a shared musical experience? I floated the idea of broadcasting it at a certain time via an online radio stream – and the seed was sown. Precisely one day after discussing that idea, we launched Amateurism Radio – not just to air our collaborative 3-hour mix on a Friday night to be heard simultaneously in the kitchens of all our friends and family – but as a way to bring our musical taste and style of programming to our people via our very own radio station. I promptly designed an icon recasting the capital ‘A’ of the Amateurism logo as a kind of radio tower complete with lightning bolts symbolising the radio signal. And since 30th March 2020, Amateurism Rado has been broadcasting 24/7 – airing shows and mixes by the likes of David Holmes, Ashley Beedle, Jonny Trunk, Pete Wiggs, Keith Tenniswood and more. Our thinking has always been that if we can spread joy and positivity to even a small number of people as we all hunker in our respective bunkers – then we feel this is a worthwhile project in these crazy times. Follow us on Instagram, and tune in via the link below. http://www.amateurism.co.uk