Welcome!
March, 2010Welcome to my website!!! I hope you enjoy it!
i hope that you will be interested in my life and work, and maybe you can use this page as a prospective “voice over/compere/dj” employer you can find some examples of what i do by clicking on “hear me” or maybe if you want to find out about me…. please read on!
as you will see, i’ve been in the radio/tv business for almost all of my life and believe me it has changed, not only technically, but from a personality angle too….from independent radio stations in the uk that were truly independant, to what is now corporate radio stations that are owned by big concerns.
there are various pages for you to look at…take your time and mail me if there’s anything that’s not right! enjoy my leisure time pages too. some of the photos will make you smile… .but remember….we’re all getting older!!
so….now we are at the beginning of a new year.. last year was a busy one for me with loads of concerts, gigs.appearances and of course voice overs and synchronisations.
in october last year i went to italy to celebrate my birthday and we spent a weekend in florence, (thank you for the wishes on my myspace site!) and had a great time. what did i bring back? leather? wine? oils? no! a saxaphone! well if i cannot play it i think it will make a nice ornament! actually i have just had my first lesson and although it is pretty hard to play i am now practicsing the scales! This year we went to a therme hotel in bad gleichenberg where we had a real calming four days of relaxation!
i had some great gigs last year,with the austrian tourist board and working in austrias beautiful lake district for a crane firm called palfinger, who brought 250 of their dealers to austria from all over the world for a conference. of course .we’ve he had the fm4 frequency festival and i saw at least 17 bands while i was presenting a show each night from there including radiohead, grace jones, kasabian ,the editors and the subways to name but a few. then i went on a trip to the uk and of course we presented our reguklar radio workshops at the kids university in steyr ( for the fourth year).
at radio fm4 i now work a week on and a week off which gives me a lot of time for other projects like voice overs for image films and commercials.i also have had a part, as an american tv host in a film about austrias most famous rockstar, falco who had a number one hit around the world with rock me amadeus. you will probably only see me for about ten seconds but it wwas fun filming it. the film is now on general release! i’ve also been busy this summer with voicing the red bull cliff diving challenge series for the extreme sports channel and as part of our summer break we spent some time at carinthias keutschacher lake…blissful!
I am at the year weekender club in innsbruck a lot working with people like fuzzman from the band naked lunch playing too, and i worked with an up and coming english band called six nation state from one of my old stomping grounds, southampton. they were great! there have also been some other good bands over from england like the bishops, celest, and bromheads jacket and 8 legs. we plan to have some of them on my morning show on fm4. a new section has been added to the websites page giving the home pages for these up and coming british bands.
next year i plan a trip to australia and will spend a couple of weeks in england visiting famly and friends. we hope to go to rome for a ling weekend in my and in september i hope to spend some time around seattle.well, those are the plans, whether i do it is another question!
i have also a “my space” account that you can go to to see and hear some of my “friends”, good austrian and german bands that you might not have come accross. Check me out!
my dog amy will be five on the 15th march and is a real little treasure. she’s so friendly and likes being around people a lot. i take her with me to the studios on saturdays and public holidays where she just plays, runs around and sleeps! there will be some new photos of her click here take a look and see her first reaction to what the austrian snow was!
look at some photos of mine while i was in moscow…photos! …the cultural difference there is amazing!
and some while i was on a working visit to kosovo,with the orf and some austrian musicians who gave two concerts to the local dignatries and the youth of suva reka in kosovo (photos..click here)!
we hope to be back there this year too!
so…..till next month! …don’t forget to put your clocks forward at the end of the month…and enjoy …the light nights!…..stuart
this site is updated monthly and all comments and suggestions are welcome! if you have a site that you think might go well on this page
just e-mail me: stuart@stuartfreeman.com
and… a happy new year 2010
recommended:
films
“burn after reading” coen brothers. great!
“vicki christina barcelona” woody allens latest (now on dvd)
“slumdog millionaire” excellent!
“the informant!” matt damon at his best
“invictus” morgan freeman and matt damon
“ghost” based on the robert harris book
DVDs to rent or buy
“bones” us tv series
“have i told you how i met your mother? Better than friends!
“the west wing” (dont watch unless you want to see all 7 series..its addictive!
“boston legal” series 1 2 3 & 4! william shatner is amazing!
“extras pts 1&2″ ricky gervais at his best!
“life on mars” fantastic bbc series (series 2 is also out)
“ashes to ashes” follow up to life on mars
“hustle” great “con” series. vol 1 to 3 available
“the worlds fastest indian” sir anthony hopkins in a truly moving true story about new zealander burt monro
“control” great fiilm.. about the life and death of ian curtis from the band joy division.
“juno” really witty film with a great soundtrack
“two and a half men” charlie sheen in the new 6th series (see it in english!)”
“lie to me” american series with tim roth!
“heroes” unbelievable…but addictive!
“CDs
“an end has a start” the editors
“once upon a time in the west” hard fi
“our love to admire” interpol
“our earthly pleasures” maximo park
“yours truly, angry mob” kaiser chiefs
“radio 1 live lounge vol2 3 4 & 5!
“six nation state” self titled cd
“vampire weekend” great band from brooklyn
Books
“agent zigzag” story of criminal turned double agent eddie chapman
“ghost” robert harris …brilliant (he also wrote enigma)
“margrave of the marshes” autobiography from legendary dj john peel
“the autobiography” johnnie walker (one of the best djs in the uk)
“marley and me” john grogan (10 times better than the film!)
“my favourite wife! tony parsons
“the appeal” john grisham
“the associate” john grisham
