Pop Shield

Tales Of A Radio Sound Engineer. This blog is dedicated to Caroline who kicked my ass to do it. Follow @popshield on Twitter @Popshieldblog on Facebook.

Yesterday the partied-out artiste KP-Nutz! was carried whilst LYING ON A SOFA from another room to be placed in front of her sparkly microphone for technical rehearsal. Today is another story as we sail very much alive and live-a-live-o into another successful radio transmission. Meanwhile, I’m exhausted after a very stimulating run of work. Hey, […]

Just spent twelve hot, long but fascinating hours babysitting a film crew recording a fictitious radio session for a feature film. I understood one of my jobs was to help consult on authenticity, but it soon became apparent that I was taking it all far too literally… “But why would you want the groupies to […]

A typical Sunday… Church – no. Pub lunch – no. Visit relatives – no. Tiptoe around in an acoustically dead basement room wiggling my fingers in a bucket of water to emanate the sound of prime minister Windsor Churchley’s goldfish being fed – yes.

Some female newsreaders aren’t just famous and dishy, they manufacture lovely pink goats’ wool socks too.  And look, I’ve been given some. This is the second item of celebrity underwear I have received in my engineering career.  I was also given a pair of frilly ‘thank you’ knickers by lead singer and actress Clare Gregory. […]