Sonic Boom NSR

Awarded the NSR Show of the Year 2020/2021! Newcastle Student Radio's prime late night radio show, e

27/06/2022

The Sonic Boom would like to pay tribute to a broadcasting giant, the late Harry Gration who has sadly passed away. Growing up in Yorkshire, he was a fixture of our lives on television and radio, and a welcome face in our living rooms every evening at 6:30pm. Pictured below is a special moment in which one of the Sonic Boom was interviewed by Mr Gration in 2009 for Look North, a treasured childhood memory. His presence on our screens will be greatly missed, and his contribution to British media, charity, and the Yorkshire region itself will never be forgotten. RIP.

21/05/2022

Last night was just incredible! We'd like to say thank you to anyone of those who sent in your nominations for this award, and for tuning in each week! Student radio has been a defining feature of our time at university, and we could never have imagined during our first time on air together that the Sonic Boom would turn into a multi-award winning radio show. Although it may be coming to an end very soon, getting this kind of recognition is a perfect way to sign off. It makes all the late Monday nights worth it!
Tune in Monday at 9pm for more!

20/05/2022

Wow, what a crazy night!! 🏆 We're genuinely speechless, and so pleased to announce that one half of the Sonic Boom has won NSR Presenter of the Year! As we've mentioned before, this has been a team effort throughout 2021/2022, and we can't thank you guys enough for acknowledging our commitment and tuning in each week. A big final thank you to Newcastle Student Radio for this award, it really means so much.

20/05/2022

Newcastle University Media Awards 2022!

14/05/2022

Exciting update on the Student Media Awards!

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One of us has been nominated for NSR Presenter of the Year!! Although there's only one half of the Sonic Boom shortlisted here, this nomination is for us both. We couldn't do it without each other, nor without any of you who sent in your votes and nominations, so thank you very much!! We'll post any updates at the Media Awards next Friday 20th May 🏆

08/04/2022

🏆 Just a quick reminder that the deadline for NUSU Celebrating Success Awards nominations is Monday 11th April, so don't hesitate to get your nominations in! Below you can find the link to the nominations page, and we've added a brief explanation of the categories that all of us at NSR and the Sonic Boom are eligible for.

Feel free to get in contact with either of us (Elliot Kilby and Luke McGibbon) with any questions about details. Thank you! 🎙️📻

https://www.nusu.co.uk/employability/awards/

06/04/2022

Hello everyone,

It's that time of year again for the NUSU Student Media Awards! As some of you may remember, we were absolutely blown away last year when the Sonic Boom won NSR Show of the Year. This year, we're encouraging all of you to get your nominations in for your favourite shows, presenters or broadcasts. Below, you can find the link to the categories page for award nominations, under 'Media Awards'. The deadline for nominations is next Monday 11th April.

We'd be over the moon if any of you considered nominating us for the awards too! These include Show of the Year and Broadcast of the Year, or individual awards such as Newcomer of the Year and Presenter of the Year. Feel free to get in contact with either of us (Elliot Kilby and Luke McGibbon) with any questions!
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https://www.nusu.co.uk/employability/awards/

07/03/2022

In light of our return to the airwaves tonight at 9pm, take a look through the playlist from our latest show where we took you through our favourite colour-themed songs and artists! 🎙️📻

21/02/2022

The countdown begins to our show at 9pm tonight, where we've chosen to focus on songs and artists that have colours in the name! It's certainly been one of the most challenging and rewarding themes we've given ourselves so far. While you wait, take a look at the last week's playlist of our all time favourite film soundtrack tunes! 🎙️📻

10/02/2022

It felt great to back in the studio last week for the first time in 2022, we'll hopefully be back on Monday to bring you 60 magical minutes of musical escapism! In the meantime, take a look at our most recent playlist, where we meandered through the 10 songs that captured our hearts the most over the Christmas break 🎙️📻

30/01/2022

We're really excited to be back in the studio tomorrow night, taking you through the 10 songs that we've had on repeat over the Christmas break. In the meantime, take a look at the playlist from our last show of 2021, where we explored the top 10 artists we'd love to see live in the future!🎙️📻

27/01/2022

We're pleased to confirm that we'll be returning to the airwaves on Mondays 9-10pm! We're extremely excited for everything 2022 has in store, the planning has already begun for what we think is going to be the best of the Sonic Boom so far. See you soon! 🎙️📻

31/12/2021

Happy new year everyone! We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who tuned in and supported the Sonic Boom in 2021, a year that brought us immense joy on the radio in times of real hardship. We hope 2022 is the year that you all achieve what you want to achieve, and become the people you want to be!!

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15/11/2021

It's an amazing feeling to be in the studio for the first time ever, and hopefully not the last! 🎙️📻

12/06/2021

Wow, what an amazing night!! It still hasn't quite sunk in yet for either of us, but we're so proud that the show has been recognised as the best of the year! Thank you to everyone who nominated us, and thank you to Newcastle Student Radio for the amazing recognition! We'll use this time to celebrate and hopefully build on this success for next year! 🏆🎙️📻

11/06/2021

We won!!! We are absolutely over the moon to be recognised as the best radio show of the year, we really didn't expect it so it's quite overwhelming to win!! Thank you to everyone who nominated us, see you on Wednesday night! 🏆🎙️📻

11/06/2021

Media awards 2021!!! 🏆

02/06/2021

We hope you enjoyed our foreign language week as much as we did, below you can find the playlist of these amazing international tunes. Join us tonight at 10pm for our live music week, where we'll be going through some of our favourite ever live performances! 🎙️📻

25/05/2021

Boy is it good to be back!! We hope you enjoyed our Easter comeback show as much as we did, we can't wait for the last few shows of this year before our long summer break. Below you can find the playlist of songs we've had on repeat the most throughout Easter, see you tomorrow at 10pm on NSR! 🎙️📻

12/05/2021

We're absolutely buzzing to have made it to the 6 person shortlist for best show of the year!!

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It means so much to us that our hard work has been recognised with this, thank you to everyone who nominated us, and good luck to all the other amazing contenders! 🎙️📻

28/04/2021

Join us at 10pm tonight for our first show back after the Easter break! A slightly different show tonight as we take you through some of the best Moon and Space related songs we know, in honour of the recent pink supermoon and the sad news that Michael Collins, the third Apollo 11 astronaut who piloted the lunar capsule alongside Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, has sadly just died. We'll be back with a bang next week for our first proper show, below you can find an incredible photo taken by Michael Collins of the lunar landing craft heading to the surface of the Moon in 1969 in the first ever venture to another world 🎙️📻

09/04/2021

We're deeply moved to hear of the death of HRH Prince Philip aged 99, a 20th century style and cultural icon. Rest in peace.

04/04/2021

Hi everyone, we've got an important announcement about the awards!! 🏆🏆🏆 The voting is now open for the Newcastle University student media awards, with the deadline being midnight on the 5th April (tomorrow). We would absolutely love it if any of you would be able to nominate us for the 'NSR Show of the Year Award'. We work really hard and put a lot of time and effort into planning the shows, curating the playlists and dealing with the myriad of technical issues that come with presenting an online show for the first time, especially when the two of us are so far apart. You can find the link to the general nominations page below, which contains information on the nomination process. Thanks again for your all your input, we would be over the moon for any nominations or questions on how to nominate us today! 🎙️📻

Website:
https://www.nusu.co.uk/employability/awards/media/

02/04/2021

Keep your eyes and ears peeled tomorrow for some really important information on how to nominate us for the 'Show of the Year Award' in the Newcastle Student Media Awards! It's a bit of a lengthy process but we'd really appreciate the effort 🎙️📻

21/03/2021

**PLAYLIST UPDATE**

We hope you all enjoyed our Paddy's Day special on Wednesday, we'll be back this Wednesday for the last show before the Easter break with a very exciting announcement! In the meantime, have a wander through our Irish playlist 🎙️📻

17/03/2021

**PLAYLIST UPDATE**

The long-awaited playlist from our natural world themed show last week is finally here for you to re-live. We hope you have as much fun listening to it as we did making it!

On that show we discussed various environmental stories and issues, including studies on global agriculture land-use, the rediscovery of lost species, and how climate change and the melting of ice sheets is disrupting ocean currents that the UK relies on.

You can find the articles we mentioned here:

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25022021/climate-change-ocean-currents-atlantic/

https://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/bird-missing-172-years-rediscovered-borneo-rainforest

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

https://earther.gizmodo.com/one-of-the-nation-s-largest-pipelines-caused-the-bigges-1846406684

Stay tuned as every week we take on a new theme. Let us know if there are any themes you'd like to see us do a show on.
And as always, tell us if you think we missed any songs!

Sonic Boom, Wednesdays 10-11pm, only on NSR.

10/03/2021

**PLAYLIST UPDATE**

Bringing you up to date with our playlist from last week covering our place-based theme, we have some hidden gems featured alongside iconic classics, all with a strong connection to the cities, regions and countries that inspired them. We can't wait for our show tonight at 10pm, join us on NSR to find out what we've got in store! 🎙️📻

09/03/2021

**PLAYLIST UPDATE**

What is love without heartbreak? Two weeks ago we reacted to our Valentine's Day themed playlist (which we also posted today!) with an Anti-Valentine's themed show.
The songs here range from hard breakups to happy departures, and we think we covered all the bases for the perfect anti-Valentine's hour.

It's one of our favourite playlists we've made so far, and we're putting it up here so that you can enjoy it too.

Think we missed a track? Let us know in the comments!

And as always, tune in to this week's show,
Wednesday @ 10-11pm on NSR.

09/03/2021

**PLAYLIST UPDATE**

We're pleased to bring you our smoking hot playlist from our Valentine's Day themed special. Definitely one of the most challenging playlists we've ever had to put together, we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we do! 🎙️📻

03/03/2021

**PLAYLIST UPDATE**

A couple of weeks ago we aired our Sonic Boomers episode, featuring a selection of our favourite artists aged 67+.

We had a lot of fun making it and even more fun listening to it.

Now, after some delay, we're posting the playlist from that week for you to relive and explore.

Keep your eyes peeled as we upload the playlists for our Valentine's Day and Anti-Valentine's playlists over the next couple of days...

And, as always, be sure to tune in @ 10pm tonight as we tackle the theme of songs with places or place names in the title!

Sonic Boom, every Wednesday 10-11pm, only on NSR x

08/02/2021

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:

As we mentioned during the show, today is our last Monday broadcast, as we are now moving to the 10-11pm slot on Wednesdays every week! We're really excited about the opportunity to reach more people with a mid-week late night slot so we hope you can join us next Wednesday for our Valentine's special! 🎙️📻

08/02/2021

We're looking forward to broadcasting in an hour and hope you can all tune in via the link below, we've got some big changes to announce too and some amazing songs to enjoy, don't miss out! 🎙️📻
https://s3.radio.co/sbb98821f4/listen

03/02/2021

Here's the playlist from Mondays Sonic Boomers episode. We hope you can join us next week for the second part of the series, where we explore our favourite groups aged 67+ 🎙️📻

01/02/2021

Hope you're all ready for the next episode of the Sonic Boom at 10pm tonight. We can reveal our theme for the next two weeks is Sonic Boomers, where we'll be featuring our favourite pensioners with a focus this week on the best solo artists aged 67+. See you in an hour! 🎙️📻
https://s3.radio.co/sbb98821f4/listen

31/01/2021

We've just received news of the new timetabling for the second term of Newcastle Student Radio and we're pleased to say we're maintaing our 10-11pm slot every Monday! Join us tomorrow for our most exciting show to date, it's been a tough one to plan but it'll be oh so worth it! 🎙️📻

26/01/2021

As promised here's last night's playlist, we really encourage anyone to explore further if they like any of the artists featured on the show. Until next week we'll be keeping our cards close to our chests regarding the theme, it's gonna be special! 🎙️📻

25/01/2021

Join us in 2 hours for the next episode of the Sonic Boom, live from studio bedroom 🎙️📻

https://s3.radio.co/sbb98821f4/listen

23/01/2021

We're deeply saddened to hear of the death of broadcasting giant Larry King, one of the main inspirations and motivations behind us setting up the Sonic Boom. Truly an iconic thread in the very fabric of the 20th and 21st century media age. RIP Mr King 🎙️📻

20/01/2021

Here's the playlist for our first show of 2021, a little tribute to Daniel Dumile. It was without doubt the best show we've aired so far, thanks so much to anyone who tuned in! Super excited for next week and the rest of the year, join us on Monday at 10pm for more! 🎙️📻

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