KISS Scholarships has now closed.
Great news for KISS listener Ryan Arnold from Dartford! He's won himself a grant worth £2500 to further his studies along with £1000 worth of equipment and work experience at KISS!
The runners up are Sarah Maria Yorke for her Radio Production plan and Benjamin George Crowther for his Website Design.
Well done again to Ryan - we'll see you at KISS soon!
Manny Norte and Logan Sama
give valuable insight into what it
takes to be a club DJ and a KISS DJ.
Join Swerve as he takes you through one of the most
important mixing techniques in a DJ's arsenal - scratching.
Watch Rickie, Melvin and Charlie invite Kiss Academy members to simulate their infamous breakfast show.
Dynamite MC reveals industry secrets to interviewing the biggest stars.
Chris Blacklay explains how he works with KISS specialist DJ's
to produce amazing and unique shows.
Christian Smith talks about how he compiles KISS show playlists.
Matt Lomax reveals how he makes the jingles, imaging and promos for KISS.
Matt Lomax - Station Sound Producer
Matt Lomax has been at Kiss for 7 years and is responsible for the station sound imaging. Matt and his team create the overall personality of the station through the jingles, idents and promos that you hear through the day on Kiss. He has an apple approved logic course and an NVQ in Sound Engineering.
“If students want to work as a sound producer for a station like Kiss, I would encourage them to learn how to play the piano, absorb a lot of different genres of music, know your popular culture and most importantly get to learn a Sequencer such as Pro Tools, Logic etc!”
Bruce Mitchell - Head of Digital
Bruce Mitchell, is the Head of Digital for the Kiss Radio network and responsible for the online strategy and business development of totalkiss.com. He started out as a designer and photographer, before moving fully into the digital realm. Bruce has years of creative and business development experience in both the online and print world. He has built creative and technical departments for a number of creative agencies in London, including his own, and has been working at Kiss for the past year leading the evolution of totalkiss.com
“Increasingly the digital space is where many of us spend a large part of our waking lives. It’s important for today’s graduates to be aware of the power this gives them to advance themselves either through creative use of the space, or through it’s technical mastery.”
Adam K - Breakfast and friday night KISS producer
Having acquired a serious Music addiction at a very young age, it is no surprise Adam decided to make music his full-time career.Chasing his passion for music Adam became a devoted clubber, which lead him to pursue his ultimate ambition of working within the Radio industry.While still Studying, DJing and Clubbing, Radio became more and more prominent. This lead to him working at University Radio at Loughborugh (LCR) and at various stations until he landed a gig at The Capital Cafe in Leicester Square, which inturn lead to bigger things at Capital Fm. Having presented his own show and Produced the likes of Chris Tarrant, Neil Fox and Steve Penk, Adam left Capital FM for Radio 1.
Adam then got to work with the likes of Sara Cox, Jo Whiley and Pete Tong but whilst at the BBC, Adam was approached to work with Steve Penk again, on Key 103 and he felt this was an opportunity to complete some unfinished radio business. Leaving Key 103 and moving to Kiss 100 over 4 years ago, Adam has produced the likes of Robin Banks and Steve Smart on Friday Night Kiss but is mainly found at the break of dawn producing The Kiss Breakfast Show with Rickie and Melvin.
Aidan Cassidy - Digital Project Manager
Aidan started out back in 2003 in the digital media department of EMI Music UK & Ireland. The job was varied and gave him the chance to work with artists across all the EMI labels, including Virgin Records, Innocent, Hut, Source, EMI Records, Positiva and Parlophone. His role consisted of managing content across all the artist sites - as well as production of video content with many of the labels artists, covering interviews, EPK's (Electronic Press Kits), concerts and behind the scenes footage for DVD's which the label released.
Fast-forward to 2006, when Aidan joined Kiss as Editor of totalkiss.com. For the past two years he has been working closely with the station's programming and marketing departments to generate a wealth of online content to reflect the quality of the output on-air. Not only does the team produce high quality audio/visual content for the stations DJs, Aidan and co are tasked with delivering high end commercial projects for Kiss' many clients - which in the past have included Nike, Adidas, Coke, ITV, Mastercard, Nokia, Sony and many more. Aidan and team produce 99% of the stations videos in-house using a Sony PD-150. Post production is completed on Apple Mac G5's on Motion, Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro.
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