One Life Left — s06e06 — #126 — Knock Knock
Knock knock! Who’s there? It’s the One Life Left team, doing some early groundwork for their One Laugh Left comedy evening at Nottingham! The One Life Left team who? Exactly.
Don’t worry, it gets better. A bit better.
Also in this episode: no, actually no idea about that, either. Since we recorded it a few weeks ago and it has been SOME TIME, you’ll have to find out yourself and please, please accept my huge apologies this is late. First there was the whole ankle thing (possibly explained in this episode, I forget) and then our host was being all not-worky.
Ignore the warnings at the end of the show because they’re out of date now. We will be back for real (and on a normal schedule) from next Monday. Letters, tweets and features to the usual address, please.
Ste + Team OLL
xxx
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One Life Left — s06e05 — #125 — Training Day
You can tell there’s a problem from the very start. Only five episodes into the new season and the team have reverted to the old theme. Something’s gone wrong. But what? Or who? And what happens next?
Find out in this week’s exciting episode of (sometimes partially) videogame radio show One Life Left.
Also in #125:
++ A barely-thought-through pitch for a videogame is made and softly rejected
++ A challenge is set for next week’s OLL (and there’s a theme for the letter’s section too)
++ It’s difficult to remember, really. It was all a bit frantic
Music this episode from J8b!t and DEADBEATBLAST. And AN Other, too. Any help?
One Life Left is at The Big Chill this Saturday. I know, we’re surprised, too. Find us at the Swap Meet area on the Friday and Saturday.
As usual, follow us on Twitter, tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast and email us.
See you Monday for the last OLL for a few weeks.
Team OLL
xxx
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One Life Left — s06e04 — #124 — No Future
“No Future!” sang some pop group, once, and maybe they were singing about OLL #124, where Wired.co.uk’s News Editor Duncan Geere joins the team to talk about what happens next. What happens next? The same thing as last time, apparently, but in 3D!!!!! OMG.
Also on #124:
++ Ste begins the show in a bit of a mood and talks about videogames far too much
++ Ann promises to do an Ann Art for next week. You might have to remind her
++ Simon holds OLL’s first ever live Twitter competition. You really should be following us
Music from Device, Coda + Cancel and — apparently — “Ant1″, although I’m still struggling with that. All help appreciated.
You can also help us out by:
Subscribing on iTunes
Emailing us
Telling you friends
Posting on forums
Following and tweeting about us
Sending us things in the post
Behaving pleasantly on public transport
See you on Monday!
Team OLL
xxx
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One Life Left — s06e03 — #123 — Gossip Boys
This episode we’re joined by Gamesbrief’s Nicholas Lovell, who has just written a book on How To Publish A Game. Intrigued? Intimidated? Don’t worry; highbrow discussion falls to lowbrow gossip pretty soon, including one especially salacious item involving Mark ‘Unreal’ Rein and a baby.
Also in episode #123, which we really should have done something special for but we didn’t remember:
++ Ann learns something about Hello Games
++ Simon instigates a new Listener Recruitment Programme
++ Ste (eventually) recalls how alcohol brought about what might be the worst decision in One Life Left’s history
Talking of which, Simon’s at Nottingham Game City nights tomorrow, so if you have a moment go and see him.
Music in #123 from Anamanaguchi, Smiletron and Grilly. Please do tell your friends / blogs / followers / whatevers about One Life Left, because we depend on word of mouth for warmth and comfort. We’ll be back live on Monday at 7pm, or you can wait for the podcast to come out on Thursday.
See you then.
Team OLL
xx
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One Life Left — s06e02 — #122 — Hot Wired
With ex-ex-exclusives galore and freelance journalist Daniel Nye Griffiths as our first guest of the season, Episode Two is the hottest show we’ve recorded for a long time. Literally, not figuratively; it’s like a sauna in the Resonance FM studio, and every bit as sexy.
ie Not at all. Still, the episode features:
++ Ann making a good joke
++ The unresolved introduction of a David Soul LP*
++ Daniel’s (doomed, but completely noble) efforts to try and engage Ste and Simon with intellectual games chat
Music from Little Scale, .hnz and Fighter X.
Email us: team@onelifeleft.com or follow us on Twitter (@onelifeleft). Letters totally appreciated (perhaps we need a weekly topic — maybe the topic this week should be ‘what should our weekly topic be?’). Would be contributors can pitch ideas to that address too, we’re always listening.
See you next Monday (or Thursday for the podcaster listeners).
Ste, Simon and Ann
xx
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One Life Left — s06e01 — #121 — False Starts
Hello. We’re back.
Discussed in Episode 1 of Season 6:
++ Where we’ve been
++ What we’re going to do next
++ Videogames (a bit)
Wanted for Episode 2:
++ Letters about anything (to team@onelifeleft)
++ Suggestions for things to do at Nottingham GameCity
++ People to tell people about us, because we’ve been away
Excellent music this episode from the brilliant Knuckle Joe and Downstate.
Oh, and hi. It’s good to be back. We’re sorry it has been so long. If you enjoy One Life Left, please let people know because we rely on word of mouth for listener figures, which are currently at zero. We’re back properly now for the forseeable future (we cannot see further than 23 weeks ahead) so we’ll see you next week.
In the meantime, follow us on twitter at @onelifeleft (you can follow our individual accounts at @steishere, @scanters and @byronicman if you want more personal nonsense).
See you!
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One Life Left — s05e24 — #120 — No Chickens
Be brave, because this is it, the final episode of our award-winning fifth season. We all knew it was coming, especially Ann, who can count. Sing along to the theme, grab a handkerchief, say your goodbyes: it’s going to be emotional, that’s for sure.
In episode #120 of San Antonio’s favourite videogame radio show:
++ Figuratively billions of features from all our favourite contributors, including special season-closing songs from Derek Williams and The Doyouinverts
++ Steven Poole reveals the three rules every good troll must follow
++ Season 5 ends 
But don’t worry, because we’ll be back soon. There’ll be bits and bobs on the podcast feed in the meantime, and do keep listening to Resonance because it’s excellent. We’ll see you in March. Bango!
Team OLL
xx
PS: Music on #120 was from the brilliant little scale and Derris-Kharlan. Find them, like so much of the music we play, at 8bitcollective.com.
PPS: Download the MP3 here.
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One Life Left — s05e23 — #119 — Deaf Jam
It’s the penultimate episode of Season 5. That comes right before the Ultimate episode of Season 5, which means, as a warm-up act, this One Life Left has quite a lot to do. Does it do it? Find out inside.
Also in #119:
++ Two guests — an OLL veteran, and an OLL newcomer
++ News on Ste’s contribution to the Global Game Jam 2010
++ And Craig The Rage returns, albeit in a slightly muted form
In fact, sorry about the overall sound quality today, which is partly because we didn’t soundcheck, but mostly down to a problem with the Resonance recording device thingy. And sorry for the delay. There was an actual power cut while I was uploading last night. I have never had a power cut before. Funny how these things happen just as Eurogamer start a podcast, isn’t it?
Music on #119:
4Mat – Matryoshka
Smiletron – BRKtime
See you next week!
Team OLL xxx
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One Life Left — s05e22 — #118 — Framing It
Coming up on this week’s description of this week’s One Life Left: a hastily written paragraph describing the content of episode #118 of Africa’s favourite gaming radio show*.
Apologies this is somewhat late. Will explain on the show next week (it’s nothing really exciting, just something else Ste’s been working on).
Episode one hundred and eighteen of One Life Left features the following content:
++ Reviews Editor Taliah, who recently turned nine, discussing boyfriends
++ Our consider response to Eurogamer’s new podcast
++ Lots of framing, just like this
See you next week.
(Still looking for a web designer / webmaster. Enquiries to the show’s address, please.)
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Team OLL
xx
*Possibly.
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One Life Left — s05e21 — #117 — Ribs Out
One Life Left returns! New episode! New decade! New resolutions, to be polite and professional and considerate to copresenters, broken straight away! Happy New Year!
It’s 2010 and hey, we live in the future. A future where:
++ Halo appears on the PS3,
++ It’s acceptable to discuss the abilities of Ron Jeremy on a videogame radio show,
++ and Music videos featuring rain are always the best.
The future, ladies and gentlemen, is now.
Apparently our shows are going to be in the national radio archives or some such now. Our ancestors are going to be mortified.
Music on #117: Spoon by Coda, Helium Stare by Downstate and The World Can’t End Today, It’s Already Tomorrow In Australia by Rhodo4.
Download the podcast MP3 directly here.
See you next week!
Team OLL
xx
PS: We’re actively looking for someone to help us run the OLL website. A ‘webmaster’, if you will. If that’s you, get in touch.
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