120 invited guests turned up for the event, which commenced at 7.30pm with food and wine, accompanied by The Beards CD album, ‘Beggars Belief’, playing in the main hall.
Lyme Regis Community Media Association was launched at 8pm with an introduction by Nomad and some film clips to demonstrate the range of work we are covering in the community. These included the film made by our youth camera team of B Sharp during Evolution Rocks at the Marine, which announced our forthcoming sessions at Insparation. Lyme Regis Community Media Association is designed to act as a catalyst for the whole community, to establish and develop community based communications media for empowerment, cultural expression, information, local economic development and entertainment. We want our work to build on the reputation of Lyme Regis as a cohesive community with diverse interests and CoMA will be a platform for cultural programmes, supporting new and existing businesses, entertaining the community and visitors and providing information that is of interest to all.
LymeRegisTV was launched with a short clip from our movie of ‘Candles on the Cobb’, which attracted so much attention on YouTube last year. The platform we have chosen is a number of stand alone channels, each channel will stream film all the time, but visitors can click on the ‘On Demand’ button to choose from the list of programmes available on each channel. Channels at present, including content, are as follows:
Evolution Rocks: An example of how we can create a TV Channel for s specific event. Currently running is the Opening Night, UNESCO Youth Summit, Around the Marquees, a clip from Herbie Treehead, and B Sharp at the Marine, with still more to come.
Events Channel: Look here to find the May Day Fete, the Bermuda 400 Celebrations with film from both Whitchurch Canonicorum and Lyme Regis, and Food Rocks!, including interview with Mark Hix.
Civic Channel, presently featuring this years Mayor-Making, and the first Full Council Meeting with Mayor Michaela Ellis in the Chair.
News Channel: Big feature at present is the complete 2 hour meeting about the Three Cups at Woodmead Halls, which is already attracting significant numbers of viewers! You could also see the Gig Club AGM, and the story of Bills Hat!
More Channels will be set up in the next few days:
Lyme Live Weekly: and the first public interview with Michaela Ellis, plus a special edition from the BIG Launch.
MusicLyme Channel: first uploading will be a live set in Lyme from Adam Watson.
HolisticTV: with your host Sue Darling, opening with next weekends Psychic Fayre at the Orchard Hotel, Rousden.
B Sharp Channel: Will soon feature all the bands who performed at the Summers Day of Music last year, the fabulous session at the Marine, and the Music Session from Woodroffe School last week. (interrupted by false alarm fire engines!)
‘Beggars Belief’ by The Beard CD Album was launched next with a video of The Beard performing ‘The Tramp’ from the album in a very Chaplinesque setting! A.K.A. Simon Leach, The Beard is a true ‘born and bred’ local who has been singing his excellent songs around the area for many years.
This album also marks the first release from Lost Region Records, which will act as a catalyst for local musical talent, creating CD’s and DVD’s to promote our musical culture. Further releases will be announced in October this year.
‘A Postcard From Lyme Regis’ was the highlight of the evening, featuring a 10 minute trailer of this epic movie with over 3 hours of Lyme on video. After the trailer, Mary Ball presented Mary Godwin with a copy for the museum archives.
After a short break, festivities continued with a special edition of Lyme Live Weekly, the new title for Friday Night Live, a light-hearted magazine programme featuring local interviews and local talent, ,hosted by Alan Vian who interviewed Sue Outhwaite, organiser of this weekends Psychic Fayre, followed by Nomad and Bill McCallum, with music from talented 16 year old singer and keyboard player Emily Blech performing her own song, and 2 songs from the excellent sound of Mark Foxhall, who performed a thrilling version of ‘Halleluya’.
Breathless? For sure! But no time to rest because local young brothers rock outfit, Wise Intentions, fresh from their triumph at the Nettle Eating Championships, hit the stage and provided a storming end to the evening!
In conclusion? we want to work with you “The Community”, we need you to keep us informed about what’s important to you, to get you involved in making programmes. CoMA is open to members from across all interests within the community. Our key issue is now to raise the funds that we need to add to our equipment to enable us to produce top quality films for both the community and as saleable products.
Next? ‘A postcard from Lyme Regis’, and ‘Beggars Belief’ will be on sale locally and online in the next few days, at only £5 each. Buy both and get £1 off each!
We ended the evening by driving down to the Three Cups at midnight to take sausage rolls and sandwiches down to the vigilantes, Rikey Austin, Jo Farmer and Peter Wiles They had already collected around 750 signatures! Note to WDDC: The Three Cups is an important piece of Lyme’s heritage, it MUST be compulsorily purchased and re-opened as a hotel!
Lyme Regis Community Media Association was launched at 8pm with an introduction by Nomad and some film clips to demonstrate the range of work we are covering in the community. These included the film made by our youth camera team of B Sharp during Evolution Rocks at the Marine, which announced our forthcoming sessions at Insparation. Lyme Regis Community Media Association is designed to act as a catalyst for the whole community, to establish and develop community based communications media for empowerment, cultural expression, information, local economic development and entertainment. We want our work to build on the reputation of Lyme Regis as a cohesive community with diverse interests and CoMA will be a platform for cultural programmes, supporting new and existing businesses, entertaining the community and visitors and providing information that is of interest to all.
LymeRegisTV was launched with a short clip from our movie of ‘Candles on the Cobb’, which attracted so much attention on YouTube last year. The platform we have chosen is a number of stand alone channels, each channel will stream film all the time, but visitors can click on the ‘On Demand’ button to choose from the list of programmes available on each channel. Channels at present, including content, are as follows:
Evolution Rocks: An example of how we can create a TV Channel for s specific event. Currently running is the Opening Night, UNESCO Youth Summit, Around the Marquees, a clip from Herbie Treehead, and B Sharp at the Marine, with still more to come.
Events Channel: Look here to find the May Day Fete, the Bermuda 400 Celebrations with film from both Whitchurch Canonicorum and Lyme Regis, and Food Rocks!, including interview with Mark Hix.
Civic Channel, presently featuring this years Mayor-Making, and the first Full Council Meeting with Mayor Michaela Ellis in the Chair.
News Channel: Big feature at present is the complete 2 hour meeting about the Three Cups at Woodmead Halls, which is already attracting significant numbers of viewers! You could also see the Gig Club AGM, and the story of Bills Hat!
More Channels will be set up in the next few days:
Lyme Live Weekly: and the first public interview with Michaela Ellis, plus a special edition from the BIG Launch.
MusicLyme Channel: first uploading will be a live set in Lyme from Adam Watson.
HolisticTV: with your host Sue Darling, opening with next weekends Psychic Fayre at the Orchard Hotel, Rousden.
B Sharp Channel: Will soon feature all the bands who performed at the Summers Day of Music last year, the fabulous session at the Marine, and the Music Session from Woodroffe School last week. (interrupted by false alarm fire engines!)
‘Beggars Belief’ by The Beard CD Album was launched next with a video of The Beard performing ‘The Tramp’ from the album in a very Chaplinesque setting! A.K.A. Simon Leach, The Beard is a true ‘born and bred’ local who has been singing his excellent songs around the area for many years.
This album also marks the first release from Lost Region Records, which will act as a catalyst for local musical talent, creating CD’s and DVD’s to promote our musical culture. Further releases will be announced in October this year.
‘A Postcard From Lyme Regis’ was the highlight of the evening, featuring a 10 minute trailer of this epic movie with over 3 hours of Lyme on video. After the trailer, Mary Ball presented Mary Godwin with a copy for the museum archives.
After a short break, festivities continued with a special edition of Lyme Live Weekly, the new title for Friday Night Live, a light-hearted magazine programme featuring local interviews and local talent, ,hosted by Alan Vian who interviewed Sue Outhwaite, organiser of this weekends Psychic Fayre, followed by Nomad and Bill McCallum, with music from talented 16 year old singer and keyboard player Emily Blech performing her own song, and 2 songs from the excellent sound of Mark Foxhall, who performed a thrilling version of ‘Halleluya’.
Breathless? For sure! But no time to rest because local young brothers rock outfit, Wise Intentions, fresh from their triumph at the Nettle Eating Championships, hit the stage and provided a storming end to the evening!
In conclusion? we want to work with you “The Community”, we need you to keep us informed about what’s important to you, to get you involved in making programmes. CoMA is open to members from across all interests within the community. Our key issue is now to raise the funds that we need to add to our equipment to enable us to produce top quality films for both the community and as saleable products.
Next? ‘A postcard from Lyme Regis’, and ‘Beggars Belief’ will be on sale locally and online in the next few days, at only £5 each. Buy both and get £1 off each!
We ended the evening by driving down to the Three Cups at midnight to take sausage rolls and sandwiches down to the vigilantes, Rikey Austin, Jo Farmer and Peter Wiles They had already collected around 750 signatures! Note to WDDC: The Three Cups is an important piece of Lyme’s heritage, it MUST be compulsorily purchased and re-opened as a hotel!
