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About Me

I'm Ellen, or Keldo, or any of a wide and varied number of nicknames depending on who you are and how well you know me.
Well somehow I seem to have largely achieved my dream of working in radio. I'm currently the producer of Drivetime with Rhys and Eggsy, and Music:Response with Colin Francies on Xfm South Wales, the brand new addition to the Xfm empire. If you're in a local and unsigned band, get onto the website, xfmsouthwales.co.uk and put some tracks on our Uploaded section - you might get a play on the station, and could even go on to play a gig for us! What've you got to lose?
Other things: I'm a huge advocate of sesquipedalianism and enjoy sarcasm, interesting flavoured shots, film, TV I should probably have grown out of, standing in a dingy venue watching a band strut their stuff, and judging people by their choice of footwear.
I have a great boyfriend, but we have to spend a lot of time apart which is really hard. He's pretty damn special though.
I don't really like sweets, combine this with my crippling fear of beans and the fact I didn't like pizza as a child and you've got that weird kid who was hard to feed at birthday parties.
Check this out: www.catsareamazing.blogspot.com
I'm becoming increasingly obsessed with this man:
I can't get enough of this ad, rediscovered when I stumbled across the awful truth that apparently 18 months is enough of an age gap for Rob not to remember it...
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

See below... People into music for the right reasons, people who can further my career in music / radio! The evil creator of baked beans (or any living relative will do) so I can torture them until they agree the best use for the remainder of their life is to serve me as my full-time wench.

I might be slightly in awe of this woman

Makes good music

As if I need to explain!

My Blog

Music and a moan

There are 2 main things on my mind. Firstly, I've got a lyric from the Lupin Crook album swimming round and round my head that I can't stop mulling over: "Don't light your candles for the dead, It's u...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:14:00 GMT

If you're bored too

So it happens I'm bored at work again, rather than order more cd's and clothes I can't afford to waste time; I thought today I'd write a blog& God, the last time I wrote anything more than weird shit ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:07:00 GMT

I hadn't even had cheese before bed...

Rob and I may have been going out for nearly a year, but I'm nowhere near ready to live with the boy, so I was pretty glad when I realised that I had only dreamt that I lived with him and Pennie in so...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:44:00 GMT

Self-indulgent rant

I hate when things that are completely out of your control screw up and throw a spanner in the works. It can be something as minor as someone not being able to show up at something you've planned, but...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:18:00 GMT

Tales of London living...

Tis true, I have upped sticks for a little while and am currently residing in London and sleeping in Miss Sharples' bed (cosy!) The reason? Work experience on the breakfast show at XFM! After a...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:59:00 GMT

My long-lost months

I haven't got round to writing one of these for so long I have no idea what's filled up all my time since the last one, this therefore, will probably turn into a rambling sequence of "significant even...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:33:00 GMT

Crazy weekend of SCHMOOZING

Things are moving so quickly for The Automatic now that TV appearances are more common for them than hot dinners (seriously). So when I got the opportunity to watch them record Transmission live I jum...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:35:00 GMT

The Great Escape festival

Its taken a while, but Im finally settling down (in between phone calls at work) to write about the Great Escape Festival in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. As is tradition, transport there was Megabu...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:16:00 GMT

WRONGNESS!!!!

I heard the new single (and was subjected to the video) by Towers of London yesterday: commonly known as "Air Guitar" - referred to me from.....NOW, as "that pile of bunk". I think they've ingested to...
Posted by on Tue, 16 May 2006 01:50:00 GMT

The farce that was....The Camden Crawl

Man I was looking forward to the Crawl, many bands, many drinking establishments, a few old faces to catch up with and the promise of 24 hour partying!! It started well, Jen and I were on Megab...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:35:00 GMT