Today is radio day, in which we champion the very best from the city of Nottingham, and there is a huge amount to choose from. In honour of Nottingham music, here is a list of Nottingham songs, as taken from my old Twitter account.

Nottingham Songs

1. Gregory Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
2. Flying Horse Walk The Line
3. It's Now Or Netherfield
4. The Hyson Green Green Grass Of Home
5. The Lady Is A Tram
6. Chantilly Lace Market
7. Peggy Su Pollard
8. The Left Lion Sleeps Tonight
9. Raleigh The Pink
10. Ayup Where We Belong
11. Trent Bridge Over troubled Water
12. Sitting On The Dock Of The Lady Bay
13. When The Going Gets Clough
14. Hip To Be Market Square
15. There Must Be An Angel Row
16. That's The Maid Marion Way I Like It
17. Some Enchanted Evening Post
18. Jilted John Players
19. Paradise City Hospital
20. Nutbush Rock City Limits
21. Smithy Row Row Row Your Boat
22. Drive My Carlton
23. I Know Him So Bulwell
24. Phoenix Parklife
25. Never Gonna Give You Ayup (by Rick Aspley)
26. Sherwood I Lie To You?
27. Mushy Peas Release Me
28. Long Eaton Rifles

Shame to waste a quality list like that, I have others. I do realise that there isn't a lot from that list that will make any sense outside of Nottingham, but I make no apology.

We played a track by Ten Years After to start the show tonight, which we obviously did as a tribute to Alvin Lee. The show has always been predominately about new talent and unsigned artists, but there's no reason why we couldn't have played Ten Years After at any time, given how they were a Nottingham band. There were a lot of tributes in the usual places, but very few from people in the Nottingham end of the music business, which was a shame as they were the first to play a major festival. I have a recording of their Woodstock appearance, but I hadn't sent it to the studio as he died after I'd sent this week's tracks in and I couldn't find the recording at short notice. Maybe I'll play it on this weekend's American show instead.

NottinghamLIVE went without a hitch, although we thought that there might be a big hitch when this week's band turned up. One Girl One Boy turned up with a guitar and a laptop containing percussion, which we thought would be do-able. We were told it was possible, but our sound guy was having trouble getting the sound through the sound desk, which could have thrown a spanner in the works. Luckily, it all worked out in the end, and they performed one of our best sessions yet.

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