stuart freeman

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 independent, 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 the photo page…some will make you laugh… .but remember….we’re all getting older!!

so….now we are into the new year, may i wish you a very happy and prosperous one! one sad point of last year was the deaths of two of my colleagues, duncan larkin who passed away at christmas and andreas kolbl who died in a car crash at christmas. we will miss them both.
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! i have had some good times working this year with the austrian tourist board (i will work with them again at the end of thiiss month)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 had the european championship in austria and switzerland and i actually got to see a couple of the games live. of course summer is the time of weddings and i have already djayed at four so far and two more to go!! last month i was pretty busy, we had the fm4 frequency festival and i saw at least 17 bands while i was presenting a show each night from there including rem, the fantastishe vier, manic street preachers, the wombats and many many more, 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!

last year i was at the weekender club in innsbruck a lot working with people like fuzzman from the band naked lunch playing too, and 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.

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 is now three and a half and is turning out to be a real little treasure. shes so friendly and likes being around people a lot. i take her with me to the studios on saturdays and public holidays and as shes out out of the chewing stage now just sleeps and plays! there will be some new photos of her on my link “my dog amy” soon, so 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!

till next month!
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

recommended:

films

“mamma mia” outrageous
“curious case of benjamin button” long but certainly an oscar winner
“burn after reading” coen brothers. great!
“vicki christina barcelona” woody allens latest (now on dvd)
“7 pounds” will smiths new one ( i thought it was great)
“slumdog millionaire” excellent!
“the young victoria” (not beckham!)
“the reader” kate winslett oscar nominated

DVDs to rent or buy

“3:10 to Yuma” great western with russell crowe and christian bale
“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.
“once” featuring glen hansard from the frames with the oscar winning song.
“juno” really witty film with a great soundtrack

“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” great cover versions from bbcs acoustic sessions
“radio 1 live lounge vol2″.. as above
“six nation state” self titled cd
“vampire weekend” great band from brooklyn

Books

“agent zigzag” story of criminal turned double agent eddie chapman
“fatherland” 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!)
“exit musik” ian rankin (rebus retires)
“playing for pizza” john grisham
“my favourite wife! tony parsons
“the appeal” john grisham