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Welcome to SHIRE EXTRA. Thank you for visiting us. Nice to have you here. Since you’ve selected this page out of curiosity, let us tell you who and what we are – and why we exist.
SHIRE EXTRA is a sister channel of SHIRE RADIO, with the intention of enriching your life by celebrating the music, art and culture of Scotland and beyond – but mainly that of Lanarkshire because we’re proud of what we have. Let’s face it, quite a lot goes on in Lanarkshire and since we have a bigger population than the City of Glasgow’s local authority area, we want to counteract the bias that almost all of the other media channels have towards Glasgow and Edinburgh when it comes to plugging art or music events.
This is the brainchild of a nutty person named Art Grainger, a Lanarkshire-born-and bred tech guru, website creator, an accidental inventor, a concept creator, a DJ, an MC and a pure music buff, with possibly one of the biggest CD and record collections in the county (other than music stores).
SHIRE EXTRA is for people who love music and spend a fortune each month on CD’s or records, as well as merchandise and tickets for gigs. It’s also for people who love theatre, film, comedy, books, poetry, storytelling and art in its many forms, especially new and emerging shows, upcoming performers, writers, exhibitions and more. We even cater for those who have an appreciation of ethnic or multicultural art and music.
SHIRE EXTRA intends to be a community for music, art and culture lovers across the best county in the world, as well as those who live outside of Lanarkshire. We are a volunteer-driven and non-profit organisation hoping to foster relationships through our radio channel, website, social media and magazine where we create some of the content – but you can as well, by contributing your own music, comedy, film, writings or artwork – or even just inform us about your projects related to any of the above.
SHIRE EXTRA is focused on championing music from Lanarkshire, Scotland and elsewhere around the world. We play many styles and genres, with an emphasis on singer-songwriters during daytimes, plus new music, niche preferences, ethnic music styles and music for eclectic tastes at nights and weekends. We also focus on the many other performance and art forms made by creators across the county and around the world.
At SHIRE EXTRA we believe that music, art and culture really matters and should be preserved, supported, showcased and promoted to the maximum.
So welcome once again to Lanarkshire’s Music, Art and Culture Station – SHIRE EXTRA.
The programming and format for SHIRE EXTRA has been inspired by four English language radio services in Hong Kong: AM864, Metro Plus 1044, RTHK Radio 3 and RTHK Radio 4, as well as KEXP in Seattle, KMZT (K-Mozart) in Los Angeles, WBGO in New York, WKWF in Florida, 8 Radio and the many community radio stations in Dublin, FIP Radio in Paris and Studio Brussels in Belgium. So now you know.
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