I was awake all night last
night as I couldn’t get to sleep due to anxiety about waking up early today to
appear on BBC Radio Nottingham. The advantage of this was that I was able to
catch up with some work in my office, and still have time to have a shower and
make myself presentable. Presentable isn’t the number one priority when it
comes to appearing on radio, but I was going to ask for a photo for the event
page on Facebook, (remember Facebook? It’s making an inexplicable comeback), so
I didn’t want to look as if I had just woken up in a skip.
This was probably my best appearance
on this station; I have been on a few shows now and haven’t really managed to
hit a stride. BBC local programmes are mainly based around topical news
discussions, and as such are rather fast paced and I don’t always get the time
that I need to get my point across. Today was different, and I had rehearsed in
my head to some extent what I was going to say.
My appearance was to promote a
peaceful protest taking place in Nottingham’s Victoria Centre this coming
Sunday, against the rumoured proposal to move the Emett Clock that has been
there since the place opened.
Nottingham is a city that
seems to be slowly declining, don’t get me wrong I love the city, but the
damage that has been done cannot go unnoticed. We don’t seem to have any
respect for history and heritage, as you can see by looking around the city and
its ridiculous variation of architectural styles. This dates back to the
wrecking ball era of the late 1960s when a large part of Nottingham was carved up
and destroyed. Lessons have not been learned unfortunately, and no public
apology has ever been volunteered by any representative of the city. Only this
year we watched helplessly as the Odeon cinema was pulled down in favour of
building more unnecessary student accommodation when the building would have
made a nice theatre or a live music venue (considering the only thing
Nottingham has going for it is the music scene), it might even have made a nice
cinema. This leads me to the core of the problem; apathy.
The Facebook event for Sunday’s
meet up stands at eleven people going and this is after I have been on the
radio talking about it. People in Nottingham are far too keen on complaining about
things but not doing anything about it and then complaining some more when the
change has been made. This is what I predict will happen with the Emett clock,
the protest on Sunday will be a fucking waste of time as nobody will go, then
they’ll move the clock and everyone will start bitching about it and it will be
too late. It wasn’t too long ago that Nottingham could have (and should have)
voted in favour of a Mayor of Nottingham, but for whatever reason not enough
people left their house to vote and alas we don’t have a mayor. The words ‘can’t
be arsed’ should in some way be incorporated into the city’s motto.
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