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== Enfield Music Originals == The London Borough of Enfield's best and most popular podcast and live broadcast. Enfield Music supports local, national and international artists to get recorded and exposure. EM produces a three shows a week with additional shows broadcasted or recorded from community events from around the borough. More recently starting with #Episode27 they produced a video show with the promise of more to come. The presenting team have moved further afield and recorded from Southend, Land's End, Norwich and Great Yarmouth.

== Early History == http://enfieldmusic.com Enfield Music is a weekly podcast and live broadcast created by Mark Riley. It originally started in 2009 as a series of local pub gigs in the London borough of Enfield. EM supported a number of local and up and coming bands by giving them a platform and introduction into the live music scene. EM created a small music festival lasting four days across four venues, The Hop Poles, Bar Form, The Millfield Theatre and finally finishing off at The Old Bell, featuring bands such as The Fetts, Syn X, Trucida, 9Blind, Justin Wayne, 11leven Worst Case Scenario, Paris Rabone and Mostly. In November 2010 the last local gig was held at the Old Bell and the headlining act was Brian Nash the guitarist from 'Frankie Goes To Hollywood' it was well attended and fitting act to close the series of gigs. The recording of the show featured in the Red Room's 2011 podcast presented by Jamie McClory.

== Missing Years == From 2011 - 13 Enfield Music was still in operation but was working under a different name of the dRed Room, a production that specialised in an annual Halloween event. EM resurfaced to support the Friends of Forty Hall put on their 'Music in the walled garden' event in July 2013 and supported the band Mostly with series of live concerts they had at Albany Park and Islington.

== 2014 and beyond == In May 2014, Enfield Music produced in partnership with the Friends of Forty Hall the 'Come A Maying' festival which in turn led to the Homemade festival and finally Live On The Lawn in August. Each of the three festivals was recorded to be published later on. In late August, the first podcast #Episode1 was recorded and published. Following on from the three festivals, EM had enough material to podcast for 2 months. EM was then asked to produce another show at Albany Park by Eastern Enfield Events using many of the artists from the previous festivals. The frequency of the podcasts was once a week and it was decided that would be reduced to once a month for the winter months starting at the end of October 14.

== Success and new interest == In October 2014 the dRed Room events had reached their fifth year and this was the first time that EM had produced a dRed Room on their own with out a partner supporting. EM produced two spoof ghost hunting movies that are available to watch on the website and also vimeo.com. After dRed Room five the team decided to take a break and reduce the number of shows. When Drew Barker from S.O.U.P. among a few others contacted Mark to ask when the next show was going to be released. Not realising anybody was listening, the team reassembled and started again towards the end of November 14 producing shows once a week. Mark would regularly post on the Enfield Music twitter account, a weekly request for people to send material they wanted featured on the show. A Lady with the twitter handle 'Lisa Lisa' responded with a number of tracks per week, thus giving birth to the Lisa Lisa section. The 2014 shows culminated with an hour long special live broadcast on December 23rd, with live performances from Tom Hards and Jesse Caxton. A large number of people tuned in to listen but for the first time the show was drought with technical difficulties and although the show continued the listening number decreased. Mark then produced a make up show for the artists who music was featured on the special so people didn't miss out.

== 2015 New Shows and Partnerships == In 2015 Enfield Music has new support and a larger listening base. The weekly shows were replaced with a regular broadcast live from the website at 10pm every Friday night and we available as a free podcast download from iTunes. In February Enfield Music met with www.inclusiveFM.co.uk and created a partnership where EM would produce and present a live video show every Wednesday at 5pm, the first was show was aired on Wednesday the 18th March and presented by Mark. Lisa Lisa introduced Enfield Music to a number of online music communities and there has been a steady influx of music submitted from all over the world ever since. So much so that a second show had to be introduced into the weekly schedule on a Tuesday evening at 7pm called the MidWeek #(number) to accommodate. In March EM returned to Albany park to broadcast their Eggstravaganzer event at Easter. It was the last event that EM operated as both a PA company and a broadcasting company.

== Creation Of The Enfield Music Group == In May 2014 EM registered as company as opposed to a sole trader it had been before. There was a lot of confusion over the branding as to what was the main offer, so the decision was made to expand and create 'The LJ Audio Company' under the EM banner to handle all of the live audio reinforcement and studio based editing work. The community work was then to be handed over to Eastern Enfield Events where Mark had been voted as Chairman.