For the first time in ages, in fact maybe for the first time since we started doing NottinghamLIVE, we both arrived at the studio with plenty of time to spare. In fact it was about twenty past six, and Darren was already there. We loaded in the music we wanted to play, and then rested on our laurels about how well we were doing to be this organised. Could this be the first time the show runs smoothly from the start?

No.

We had been wanting to host a live session from Chloe McShane for ages now, I'd been impressed by her the first time she got in touch and asked me to listen to her music. The first time we played her on the show, we were inundated with tweets and messages asking who she was. She was booked there and then, and I had been looking forward to it. The first I heard that she was unavailable was when I tweeted that I was looking forward to it and she tweeted back saying that she had messaged me to say that she couldn't make it. This left us with a sizable hole in the show of course, but we managed to salvage proceedings by putting out an appeal on Trent Sound's Twitter for someone to come and play. The show's live music segment was saved by Alex Young, who drove from the other side of Nottingham to perform a live set of three songs. He sounded great so we invited him to come back with a bit more organisation next time.

When the time came for the photos, we discovered that we had been left alone in the building and had nobody to take our picture, so we had to go for the 'Myspace arms length' shot. Remember those days?

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