Free Radio Gainesville Lives #7

We're getting close! Free Radio Gainesville Lives! is about to begin!

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We lead off (again) this week with a word about the . . . FREE RADIO GAINESVILLE BENEFIT at the Covered Dish - Tuesday, March 31st - Squeaky, the Crustaceans, and Cloud Nine.

With the permission and help of the gracious Bill Bryson, we've organized a benefit at Covered Dish (210 SW 2nd Ave). Performing will be SQUEAKY, THE CRUSTACEANS and CLOUD NINE. The benefit will be Tuesday, March 31st and the doors will open at around 9pm and the show will start between 10 and 10:30pm. Please come out to support your only source for local music, radical news, experimental and international music, women's music, queer issues and lots more! Where else can you get such a variety on one station?

We're very excited that the day of the benefit is drawing near. Expect lots of interruptions from the DJs on stage and a heap o' interesting literature about the Free Radio Movement. Also excpect the roving interviewer and be ready to answer his/her questions. You could be on the radio!

Here are some Internet pages of interest:

SqueakyNet - http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/3212/

CrustaceansNet - http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/3976/

Covered DishNet - http://atlantic.net/~robg/dish/dish.html

Thanks go out to Loyal and Andy from Cloud Nine who rocked it in the studio this past Sunday. Lots of fun was had and don't forget to catch them live next Tuesday at the Benefit!

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Cup O' Joe Seeks YOUR Input

Que is kicking it on Mondays from 7-9pm with a new show called "Cup O' Joe". Every week your host, Que (pronounced "kay") explores different topics with interviews, music and spoken word. Que would like to announce the topic for next week's show is (AIGGGHHHHHH!) FEAR!

Do you FEAR something or someone and why? Please provide input to this topic by emailing your thoughts to frg@afn.org. We'll read your input on the next week's show (Monday, March 30th). Also if you can suggest music that deals with FEAR, please send suggestions to the same email address. Thanks for getting involved!

BTW, we are always looking for new shows to add to our schedule at FRG and we welcome any suggestions from the community. It is important to us to reflect the diversity in the community (of which there is a LOT!), so if you have show ideas and people to do them, please contact us at FRG.

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DJ Donna Joins the Crew - Wednesdays at 10pm

A new show being tested out is being hosted by Gainesville's own DJ Donna who hosts New Wave Night at UC on Tuesdays. Her show, "New Wave Hour w/ DJ Donna" will premier on Wednesday, March 25th at 10pm. DJ Donna spins those wonderful sounds of the 80s that are gaining in popularity these days with younger generations (i.e., New Order, Joy Division, Smiths, etc. - you know the sound).

So turn the dial to 94.7 FM and reminisce with the sounds of New Wave. You can also catch DJ Donna spinning it on Tuesday nights at the University Club in downtown Gainesville from 1pm-3am. Catch her again on Friday nights also at the UC from 8-11pm for a more ecclectic mix of tunes.

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Here is the full schedule for our station as of today.

Sundays: 5-8pm: "Night & Day" with Hyper X. Pop, folk, acoustic, hardcore, local bands and da-da w/ "Making Contact", a syndicated half-hour progressive news show on varying topics every week (see schedule below), sandwiched in between at 6pm. 8-9pm: Radical News Hour w/ Ernesto and Riff-Raff the Radio Rat 9-10pm: DIY/Hardcore Hour w/ Monica 10-Midnight: "Midnight Expressions" - hip-hop with Blaq DJand Billy the Kid (no second guessin').

Mondays: 7-9pm: "Cup o' Joe" with Que. This week's theme is "Fear" (see above). 9-10pm: "Loafer's Glory: A Hobo Jungle of the Mind" - syndicated show w/ Wobbly Utah Phillips.

Wednesdays: 6-7pm: Radical News Hour w/ Ernesto and Riff-Raff the Radio Rat 7-8pm: "Sing It Sista'" - women's music of all different kinds. 8-9pm: "Necessary T" - Gay/Lesbian/Bi/TransGender News & Music 9-10pm: "Urgent Divergence w/ S-Squared" - subculture shock radio with regular offerings of international and experimental music (Coming this summer - interviews with local innovators, activists and eccentrics), alternates bi-weekly with "Community Collective" - local and regional art & events mixed with music. 10-11pm: "New Wave Hour w/ DJ Donna" - sounds of New Wave and the 80s w/ Gainesville's own DJ Donna (see note above).

Making Contact Schedule on Free Radio Gainesville (Heard Sundays at 6pm)

Sunday, March 29th - Nuclear Fronts: Atomic Business and the U.S. Government Sunday, April 5th - Unofficial Channels: Dialogue for Middle East Peace - Over the past few years some Palestinians and Jews -- both in the United States and Israel - have been circumventing official negotiation channels and developing a dialogue among themselves. Sunday, April 12th - Cooperating for a New Economy - On this edition, we examine the international system of development set forth by the World Bank, IMF and other so-called development agencies, and look to women's cooperative in Latin America and the Carribean as alternatives to this system.

All "Making Contact" tapes are donated to the Civic Media Center & Library after broadcast, so in case you miss an episode, head down to the CMC (1021 W. University Avenue) for a membership to check out the tape (hours are from Tuesday - Saturday; Noon - 7:30pm). Memberships cost $10-20 per year and gives the privilege of checking out any of their books, audio or video tapes. You also get their newsletter and the satisfaction of knowing that you're supporting a grassroots alternative media source. And, hell, we really like the CMC.

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Often, people mistakenly refer to our station as "Radio Free Gainesville" when, in fact, our name is "Free Radio Gainesville". It's easy to do though, considering that the U.S.-government propoganda arm in Europe was called "Radio Free Europe" during the war years until recently (and there's an REM song with the same name and a column in the Alligator on Thursdays).

We call ourselves "Free Radio Gainesville" to identify ourselves as part of a growing movement of microbroadcasting stations, like Free Radio Berkeley, Free Radio Memphis, Free Radio Santa Cruz and other similarly-named stations around the U.S. Not all microbroadcasters adopt the "Free Radio X" name (San Francisco Liberation Radio, Steal This Radio (NYC), Radio Mutiny (Philadelphia, PA)) but they still are broadcasting as an act of civil disobedience in the hopes of getting out information and music which commercial radio fails to air.

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HOW TO CONTACT US:

Free Radio Gainesville now has it's own e-mail address! It is: frg@afn.org.

Our mailing address (as always) is:

Free Radio Gainesville PO Box 15094 Gainesville, FL 32604

That's it for now. Please let me know if you would not like to be receive this email newsletter or if you want to add someone else to it.

Howard Free Radio Gainesville