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"FIRE IN THE ETHER" – to make
the asleep cackle!

I am running breathless down the stairs. O, no! In the bustle I have forgotten the script upstairs, on the desk. Again upwards, then downwards…Until the red light in the studio gets switched on. I , however, adore this little chaos. I live with it a year and a half now – every Sunday night. I am a part of the teenage radio broadcast "Fire In The Ether" – in the town radio station – "Radio Stara Zagora". We are six members/people altogether, at the enthusiasm, most precious – the satisfaction after well done work., and most difficult - to make our older collegues to accept our curious ideas. Few of them smile at us charmfully when they find out how scanty the script is . But we just love to improvise, that is the way everything appears more natural. I always reproduce various sounds with materials at hand, such as simulation of drawing lots with my own silver rings. " Laughter makes the world go round" is the favourite maxim of every member of our crew. We laugh a lot and we do it frequently, bringing the party mood from the street (outside the studio). Every young person who feels misunderstood because of the colour of their hair, the piercing on their body or simply because of their outlook in life listens to us. Our aim is to create something strange, nonserious and funny. We meet interesting people. More often than not, they have unordinary outer appearance (tattoos, homosexuality, earings all over their bodies that expresses their bright individuality. It is more important that they are aware that something in the System is not as supposed to be and that they are tireless aiming at changing that imperfection. Their Protest!I am running breathless down the stairs. O, no! In the bustle I have forgotten the script upstairs, on the desk. Again upwards, then downwards…Until the red light in the studio gets switched on. I , however, adore this little chaos. I live with it a year and a half now – every Sunday night. I am a part of the teenage radio broadcast "Fire In The Ether" – in the town radio station – "Radio Stara Zagora". We are six members/people altogether, at the enthusiasm, most precious – the satisfaction after well done work., and most difficult - to make our older collegues to accept our curious ideas. Few of them smile at us charmfully when they find out how scanty the script is. But we just love to improvise, that is the way everything appears more natural. I always reproduce various sounds with materials at hand, such as simulation of drawing lots with my own silver rings. " Laughter makes the world go round" is the favourite maxim of every member of our crew. We laugh a lot and we do it frequently, bringing the party mood from the street (outside the studio). Every young person who feels misunderstood because of the colour of their hair, the piercing on their body or simply because of their outlook in life listens to us. Our aim is to create something strange, nonserious and funny. We meet interesting people. More often than not, they have unordinary outer appearance (tattoos, homosexuality, earings all over their bodies that expresses their bright individuality. It is more important that they are aware that something in the System is not as supposed to be and that they are tireless aiming at changing that imperfection. Their Protest!

We treasure good music too. Still, it is a moving force in the world around us. As we are infants of the progressing techno and underground music culture, there is no chance for the music in our broadcast to be anything else but electronic or hard rock in a wide range of varieties and styles.
We fan the fire scandalizing society , provoking it with live topics and an avant-gardeway of thinking. We are trying hard to break all taboos as long not sermonizing but simply stating what is actually happening. For instance , every other teenager smokes joints and every other one repuduates such an activity . In Holland and Italy the problem is solved by legalizing light drugs. And I am aware that when I am on the microphone listeners want to hear this in stead of well-known terms like "drug-addiction" ,abstenence and so on.

Most typical of our broadcast seems to be a phrase taken from one of our aoutoadvertisements: "Just like that, let there be action". Sometimes it is getting pretty hot. But calm down! Up to now nobody is stricken . Only brains burning with imaginatiopn and creative ideas.

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