Live and Local mentioned in City Weekly’s Best Of!

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 @ 6:57PM

Pick it up on newsstands now! X96 won best radio station again, and for two years in a row my little local show was mentioned in the article. So thank you City Weekly. It feels good to be loved!

Also for CW staff choice, my friend Circus Brown won best live local band performances for his “Not A Side Show” program on KRCL 90.9 fm. Saturday late nights. When I first read his win, I have to admit I took it personally for a sec. Then I accepted it.  Okay I was pretty angry, and stewed for an hour sitting in my car in the Caputo’s/Carlucci’s parking lot drinking my iced coffee staring at the article wondering what the heck I was doing wrong! But Circus definitely deserves the mention. As far as I remember he’s had the show for at least two years, and I will give it to him that he does have some killer acts on his program, and his personality is #1 in my book. Plus I bet the bands (and perhaps the host) are allowed to drink live in the studio there at the community radio station (....well for now. When you go commercial Circus, just watch your back!). So I think I had a handicap there. But seriously, he puts on an immensely entertaining show, and he even played James Brown and locals The Wolfs for me back-to-back once last year, and I couldn’t do that on my show...unless I get proof that James Brown was a local here at one time, but I doubt it. As far as the Utah indie scene goes, Circus, Helmut Von Schmidt from that one metal station, and I share our passion for local talent, and we have been friends since we met, and we haven’t have bashed each other at all. At least not to each other’s faces. So anywho, congrats, Circus! It’s about damn time you received media recognition! And, uh, I really mean it.

Thanks to City Weekly again for praising X96 Live and Local as part of the best radio station in Utah!

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