Wednesday 25th September

During the course of my relatively short but colourful time on Trent Sound, I like to think that I have provided my listeners with plenty of ‘water cooler moments’. For those who still don’t know, a water cooler moment is an American television industry expression, meaning something that will be talked about the next day at work, around the water cooler. I suppose that they could also be referred to as ‘coffee machine moments’, or ‘gathering in the smoking area moments’. Tonight the bar wasn’t so much raised, as picked up and thrown out of the room. We had the full team back together, as Cassia has returned from her holiday (choosing Bali over Bulwell can’t have been an easy decision to make), so the three of us were presenting together again. Unfortunately, Mike Atkinson from off of the papers couldn’t make it, but we still managed to have a pretty packed show going on. In the first hour we had a representative from Little Wolf Parade in to talk about their involvement in the Great Nottingham Show, which is taking place in the Market Square this weekend, (our music for the first hour centred on those who are booked to perform). It was however the second hour that gave tomorrow’s workplace chats something memorable. I hope that there was at least one future pub quiz question writer listening tonight, as we gave him or her a brilliant question:

Trent Sound’s flagship show NottinghamLIVE earned which first on Wednesday 25^th September 2013?

We’ll get to the fallout later, but we are all pretty proud of the fact that our guest band tonight, Dick Venom and the Terrortones, managed to bring the police to our door to investigate the noise.

Dick Venom and the Terrortones have been on our wish list since we started doing the show in January, but haven’t been available to us before now. They were booked in once before but had to pull out, and tonight we finally hosted what was one of our most exciting live sessions. Not only did they perform a killer four song set, but became the first band on our show to perform an encore. Having casually suggesting that they would be keen to do another song, we eventually got them to do two more. There was a slight moment of doubt because we hadn’t thought to ask Joe the sound man, but he was cool with it. He disappears into the Nottingham night to perform in an open mic night after he’s done our sound engineering, and as he has to rely on Bulwell’s ridiculously random bus service, we don’t like to make him hang around too long. He made it though, if I wasn’t so drained after a show I’d follow him to town and catch him as I’ve only seen him play solo once, and that was when he stepped in at the last minute to replace one of our no-shows.

As Darren and I were stuck in the broadcasting room during the set, we weren’t aware of the police visit until later on. From now on we just have to remember to not allow anyone to go outside during the performance, as someone had gone out for a cigarette during, and had no choice but to talk to them. Cassia was there too, she told me about it after we had interviewed Dick Venom. Rather than show any remorse, I congratulated the band on making history.

It is my opinion, (which I reiterated in the email from the management that we received after the show); there wasn’t a genuine complaint as although there are houses and flats in the area, they aren’t close enough to the studio building to cause a disturbance. Bulwell should be proud to be the home of Nottingham’s only independent radio station, and not try to bring us down. Surely they were listening in and therefore should have known what to expect? All we did was to provide the locals with a proper ‘live’ experience, and they should have been thanking us rather than complaining. They’ll be sorry when Trent Sound moves into the city centre, and Bulwell no longer has anything to bitch about. Besides, they live in Bulwell, so the sound of a brilliant home-grown punk band should be a welcome change from the sound of guns or stolen cars being torched.

Pleased to report that we attracted the attention of real police, not those fancy dress idiots who don’t have any real power.

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