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''Jane Gazzo's Dream Ticket'' was a music radio show on
BBC Radio 6 Music
BBC Radio 6 Music is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC, specialising primarily in alternative music. BBC 6 Music was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years. It is available onl ...
, presented by
Jane Gazzo
Jane Gazzo is an Australian television presenter, radio presenter, performance and club DJ, television personality, voice artist, author, and music journalist.
Early life and education
Gazzo was born and raised in Melbourne and is the daughter ...
from 5 July 2004 to 29 September 2005.
It operates on the premise of making a ''Dream Ticket'' or ''Ultimate Gig'' requested by its listeners, and carefully chosen and drawn by the producer and staff from the BBC music session and live performance archives. One evening's radio show is made up of several of these Ultimate Gigs, contributed by different listeners.
An Ultimate Gig is a listener-selected collection of musical artists (though, in general theory, not necessarily restricted to musical artists), and blended from different performances into one virtual concert performance.
Some archival music chosen also includes unique classic sessions done for BBC's
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly fr ...
, a pioneer in getting new and
alternative music Alternative music may refer to the following types of music:
*Alternative rock
*Alternative pop
*Alternative R&B
*Neo soul, sometimes known as alternative soul
*Alternative reggaeton
*Alternative hip hop
*Alternative dance
*Alternative metal
*Chris ...
recorded and aired.
Ultimate Gig submitters are usually interviewed on-air, so that they may share their thoughts and reasons for choosing their particular virtual musical admixture.
In addition, there are other musical themes and sub-themes running in parallel on the show. These intertwined themes may variously include a ''Headline Set'', ''Classic Session'', and a ''Disc From Down Under''. Sundry live reports are filed from journalists and correspondents at the best of the evening's concerts in and about England and elsewhere world-wide. Sometimes, actual radio show listeners report on concerts. New and to-be-released current music of popular and alternative interest is also played and intertwined.
As is one super-theme of BBC 6 Music generally, there is strong listener (user) interaction with the show, ''in vivo''. Text messages, emails, and telephone calls affect certain non-Ultimate Gig musical themes and musical selections. One way this is done on the show is with listeners emailing in or text messaging in their votes with one word of an appropriately named
antonym
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ical word pair, usually with an explanation. One word recommends stopping the currently playing music, another recommends continuing more of it. Examples are ''tragic'' (stop) or ''magic'' (continue), ''sound'' or ''silence'', and ''fan'' or ''can''. The music voted upon, if decided dynamically by the listeners not to be continued, is usually gracefully brought to a reasonable end.
Another aspect of this show is something called ''
webcam
A webcam is a video camera which is designed to record or stream to a computer or computer network. They are primarily used in videotelephony, livestreaming and social media, and security. Webcams can be built-in computer hardware or peripheral d ...
words'' which comprise a webcam message. This particular instantiation and expression ''webcam words'' may have been invented by this radio show, although live in-studio webcams are becoming ubiquitous in the radio broadcasting industry.
Webcam words refer to several paper signs in different locations in the live broadcast studio, each appearing on a different webcam, each containing a word, which make up a challenging and subtle related train of thought. It might be topical or musical or both. In some sense, it is
semiotic
Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes ( semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something ...
ally driven in a classical fashion. Listeners are, in an artistic sense, entertained by the possible twists of phrase. Often, listeners compose clever complementary wordings around the webcam words and send them into the show, which are frequently read. Quite regularly, the webcam message is related to a musical theme on that particular evening's show.
Innovations with this show include the interplay of several new technological forces being applied to radio, visual interaction in the otherwise exclusively aural arena of radio, the listener being able to change the direction of the show ''in vivo'', and the simple powerful concept of a virtual performance (Ultimate Gig or Dream Ticket).
Another challenging thematic innovation of the show is the blending and balancing of current popular music, classic session and performance music from the BBC archives, and new and possibly heretofore unheard alternative music.
Critical Reviews
In the 2005 article, "ANALYSIS: RADIO: Lend them your ears" by Ian Burrell, The Independent, (London), 23 May 2005, the show is mentioned along with a characterisation of BBC 6 Music:
"BBC 6 MUSIC Audience: 311,000 Expect: New Order, Blur, British Sea Power A great station for the music cognoscenti, it has the feel of an
indie record shop where they know every record ever made, who produced it, who played on it, what label it was on and who designed the sleeve. That’s maybe why some women say it’s ‘too blokey’. Star DJs include Steve Lamacq and Bruce Dickinson. Liz Kershaw and Jane Gazzo try to correct any imbalance. The best thing is Dream Ticket, where you imagine you’re at some of the greatest gigs ever … /blockquote>
See also
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Jane Gazzo
Jane Gazzo is an Australian television presenter, radio presenter, performance and club DJ, television personality, voice artist, author, and music journalist.
Early life and education
Gazzo was born and raised in Melbourne and is the daughter ...
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Dream Ticket
''Dream Ticket'' was a music radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music, and on the air since the opening of the radio station in 2002 until 2007.
The presenters have been Janice Long (11 March 2002 – 1 July 2004), Jane Gazzo (5 July 2004 – 29 Septem ...
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BBC Radio 6 Music
BBC Radio 6 Music is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC, specialising primarily in alternative music. BBC 6 Music was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years. It is available onl ...
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