And we're back!
Hello from Radio 1 HQ
What an amazing week. Give or take the odd strained voice – a very successful Rallyoke week all round I feel. We managed all 7 Rallyoke nights around the UK, we raised £600,000 for Comic Relief and we didn’t kill each other in the process. Result. In fact, bar Rachel’s tiredness this morning, the whole team seemed on top form today – amazing what acting like Rock stars for a week and a day off can do for you!
After working on the project from around October we’re now faced with the daunting prospect of finishing such a big project and having to look across the rest of the year and starting to fill the show diary up to January 2008. Scary. I’m just waiting for someone to mention the Euro 2008 football event with dread! See, we don’t just turn up and open the mic you know! We ACTUALLY think about these things!
Now that I’ve painted us as this hard done by team, time to come clean and reveal that there were in fact a lot of hard working people who helped us put the Rallyoke together, 30+ people had something to do with it in fact. Without trying to be cheesy, I’d like to put into writing a big THANK YOU to… Hoop (online), Gray head Will (video), marketing, press, Piers George (who tour managed the ‘oke), Kim and Andy from Butlins, Richard, Mike and Nick (who are the best ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Engineers there are!), Asa (who looked after us all) everyone at Comic Relief who helped us a lot (especially Katie), everyone back at Radio 1 HQ who helped us rake in the money and, of course all the listeners who bothered to text that dreaded 82125 number and give us at least £1!
In the end over 800,000 texts were sent helping us get to a grand total of £600,000, so thank you very much for that.
Back to earth now. No more thinking we’re rock stars travelling our very own tour bus around the UK complaining about our sore voices, we’re now back to sitting in a basement complaining about how tired we all are and making sure the tea rather than the alcohol is flowing.
Now, which countries are the Euro 08 being held in again?
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cheers
J McC
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Well done to you all for motivating people to send in their hard earned cash and raising lots of money. As one who is involved in year-round fund raising for Africa, I can appreciated what a difference the money will make.
Anybody who forgot to text in, or decided they didn't want to lose 25% of their donation (+ gift aid!), or didn't like the prizes on offer, may like to know that The Cumbernauld Institute of Parasitology is running its own competition with all the proceeds (+gift aid) going to a registered charity working in Africa. To enter, all you need to do is make a small (or large) donation through the following website:
Your donation will be eligible for gift aid if you are a UK tax payer, and will go towards providing safe-water in rural African schools.
The competition winner will be drawn from the list of people who donate at least 50p, with the prize being a copy of my well-received book. I'll announce the winner when the donations reach £50. Make sure that you mention McCrumble when making your donation!
regards
J McC
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Hey Aled. I have an idea - why don't you guys head to Australia for your next overseas broadcast. You have plenty of Brits living in Oz who are big fans and Aussies living here who love your work. It also means you'd be doing the breakfast show in the evening - much better than doing it on New York time! Our licence fee well spent.
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