Is there an accepted convention when it comes to what goes on toast? I don’t mean supper snack toast but breakfast toast. If I’m having jam or marmalade I will still put butter on first, as it softens the toast. People who spread jam straight on a slice of toast without the butter underlay are surely lining themselves for a harder toast experience, and who wants that?

Here’s another thing, I strongly advise that if you haven’t tried it already then please try Weetabix with butter and jam on. It is actually nicer than Weetabix with milk on to be honest.

I can’t be alone with this one; when I’m making myself tea at home, (I make myself two mugs at a time for reasons I don’t really know), and the cereal box is looking tempting, I will stick my hand in and pull out a handful of corn flakes to eat as a little nibble snack.

These were the main topics of conversation yesterday between four grownups at ROFL Audio studios, where we were recording this week’s exclusive USA session for The Sound of Nottingham UK. I was meant to be working with The CTRL, but due to illness they had to pull out. I went on Facebook (remember Facebook? It’s making an inexplicable comeback) to see who was online. Pulling up the live chat box from the corner of the computer screen, George was the top of the list of people online. I asked him and he said he would be up for it, and that was that sorted. If his green dot hadn’t been showing, it would have gone to someone else, that’s how things are booked nowadays it seems. It is certainly better than dealing with managers, who tend to get ridiculously above their station when it comes to trying to book an artist.  Not that I'm naming names, but I had a conversation on Twitter with a woman who said that she would definitely be up for it, but then gave me her manager’s email address to arrange. Manager emailed me to ask all sorts of snotty questions, which is a shame because it reflects badly on the artist and makes them look a bit precious. In this day and age I don’t really understand why music management is even still a thing, given that a singer can communicate directly via social media. Once an artist pisses me off enough, I add them to the c-list which is a shame because we all know what the ‘c’ stands for.

I don’t pay the artists who come on the various radio shows I do, so there’s no need for all the stupid questions from managers. If I was a singer and my manager informed me that they were responsible for losing me a live exclusive for an American radio show, which had the knock-on effect of blacklisting by the presenter who also presents two important radio shows in the UK then I would sack them immediately.

Luckily there a still a huge amount of artists in Nottingham (the UK capital of music) that haven’t got twattish managers seemingly preventing them from having a career. George had been on my want list for a while but I knew he had to go back to university in Birmingham (at the end of next week), so as I was booked pretty far ahead I knew it wasn’t worth asking him. Although I’m a massive fan of The CTRL and hopefully will reschedule their appearance on the show, this was a lucky little twist of fate. The evening was a lot of fun and evidence of it will be broadcast on The Sound of Nottingham UK this coming weekend.

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