We didn’t get up until half
eleven yesterday morning, so as usual I listened to Just a
Minute on Radio 4 while doing my Twitter and Facebook (remember
Facebook? It’s making an inexplicable comeback) radio admin and having a cup of
tea. As always we had lunch at my dad’s house, and I waited at my dad’s while
Mandi went to the shops to get some bits, (shopping on a Sunday, terrible). I
had a shower to wake me up a bit before the radio show and decided to walk to
the studio to set me up and blow the cobwebs away. As much as I enjoy The Sunday Alternative, it might become a casualty next year
when my work priority changes slightly and I need to free up some time. On the
other hand, I love doing radio and will probably juggle my radio commitments
with everything else just to make sure that I have a huge and tiring workload
to complain about while at the same time looking heroic.
Gary joined me for the first
time in two weeks, which was great as I am not sure the show is as good when I
am on my own. The music is great of course but I do like to have someone to
talk to and bounce ideas off. We started off rather slowly, but fell into a
brilliant stride once Gary mentioned a Nottingham strongman act called John Evans who is famous for balancing heavy objects on his head. Fresh from having
an idea stolen recently, (again in Hockley, the home of the hipster idea thief)
we decided to pitch some ideas on air in the hope that someone steals them and
makes them a reality. Finding the website of John Evans, and getting quite
excited about the fact that his phone number was there for the world to see in
his ‘contact’ section, I decided to phone and ask if he was up for our
ridiculous idea of standing in the city centre and turning his head into a
stage for musicians to perform on. It would be a piece of high concept art that
would get people stopping in their tracks and marveling at what they saw. To
prove that it was we that thought of the idea, Gary filmed it.
Even though we can rightfully
claim that we invented the idea, I am counting the days until this festival
actually happens in Hockley with another strongman act balancing musicians on
his head.
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