Last week, this week

So our time on the airwaves is almost over. Two shows down and one to go. Last week went really well, everything worked well (except the phones, natch) and Dave sounded good, and the banter was better than in the first week.

Hal was a good guest, and the music game was tighter after we cut it down to 3 goes each. And I won, so that was good. Yay.

This week we'll have Dave in again to talk about the European Cup final and the Monaco GP, and we'll also be taking a quick look ahead to the Olympics, as well as hopefully having another uni sports star in the studio with us, although this is as yet unconfirmed. The speedway package we did a few weeks ago should finally be aired too, after we've not had time for it the last two weeks!

The FM transmitter has been turned off now so you can only get us on utopiafm.net, at the same time, 7-9 on Sunday night.

I'm sure we'll have something special planned for the end of the show too because we're the penultimate show of the broadcast.

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This Week...

On this show this Sunday...

- We'll reflect on the 127th FA Cup final, as Portsmouth or Cardiff go all out to win the trophy for a second time.

- It's been a week since the end of the Premier League season, so we'll take a considered look at Sunderland's first season back in the top flight and look at what Roy Keane needs to do in the summer. Sunderland fan David Allison will be with us in the studio to talk all things SAFC.

- Was Kevin Keegan right when he said no amount of money could help Newcastle break into the top four? We'll speak to Ryan McKnight, editor of FC Business magazine, the trade magazine for the football industry in the UK, about football finance as clubs prepare to splash the cash this summer. Check FC Business magazine out online at www.fcbusiness.co.uk

- After 8pm, we're joined live in the studio by Sunderland University student Hal Ridge who's our Uni Sports Star this week. Hal's a rising star in the motor sport rally cross and hopes to race in the European Championships later this year. Find out more about Hal online at www.halridge.com.

- We'll bring you the report from our recent visit to the Speedway at Newcastle.

- There's also another round of the hugely popular Music Game - the quiz that combines music with sport.

- And some great songs as well, including a cracker from Simon Webbe!

That's Sporting Heads, live on 87.7 Utopia FM in Sunderland and across the world on the web at utopiafm.net.

Join us this Sunday from 7pm!

Matt

1 down, 2 to go!

Well we were on air on Sunday night from 7-9 on 87.7 Utopia FM and utopiafm.net, and despite humongous technical problems, we think it went quite well.

The phones wouldn't work so we couldn't do the interviews we'd lined up, and a couple of times we had to play back-to-back songs because we were trying to sort out the computer.

We also ran out of time because we didn't keep to our schedule. It's funny really, we originally planned to be a discussion show and because we came up with so many great feature ideas the discussion kind of got put on the back-burner. But some of our features weren't ready or we couldn't do them for whatever reason, so we ended up back as a discussion show!

Which worked quite well. Matt did his prompting well and Shaun managed to sound almost knowledgable. Of course, I was the shining light, 'funny and engaging', reviewed a friend, but that was always going to be the case.

Maybe next week I'll let the other two have some of the spotlight!

Vish was fantastic, told some great stories and it was a good half-hour of the show. To be honest, we could have gone on all night. This week we have my old flatmate Hal, who will be just as good no doubt.

Jamie.

PS Remember to tune in on Sunday night from 7-9 on 87.7 Utopia FM and Utopiafm.net.

New news!

Last night we took a trip to Newcastle Stadium to watch some speedway. What is speedway, I hear you cry? It's a motor sport. On bikes. To find out any more you'll have to listen to the show on Sunday night at 7 on 87.7 Utopia FM and utopiafm.net. But it's a really good evening out, the riders were friendly, the people at the track were great to us and we got some fantastic material for the show.

The whole point of the out-and-about feature is that we can present to you sporting activities that are available within half an hour of Sunderland, and speedway fitted into that criteria well. It was a real family-run affair, and it was noticable how amicable the atmosphere was, even with some pantomime booing of a former Newcastle rider that was riding for the visitors from Glasgow (or Edinburgh as Shaun kept referring to them all night). It's all Greek to him. Or Scottish.

Here's some pictures from the night, taken by our expert photographer Shaun (although he managed to not get any of the bikes in action!):

The crowd filing into Newcastle Stadium















Matt talking to the stadium announcer

















The riders walking onto the track















The bikes preparing for the first race