Wednesday 23rd October

I only have two editions of Steve’s LP Box recorded at the moment, with three more to do before the series airs. The first edition isn’t due to be released until November 22^nd and I had wanted to have them recorded fairly well ahead of time so that I can start something else. The chances are that I will have an all night recording session on November 21^st! To take my mind off the pressure of my workload I once again arranged the Post-It notes on my office wall into something that doesn’t increase my heart rate when I look at it. Everything is now in columns with a special Post-It as the header with either ‘Film/video’, ‘podcast’, ‘comedy sketch’, ‘art/nonsense’, and ‘miscellaneous’. My intention is to try and concentrate on one thing at a time, possibly starting at podcasts during these winter months as most of my filming projects are based outdoors (one involving a nude scene – essential to the story but not something you want to do outside  in the winter). The podcasts and most of the art/nonsense can be done from home and not take up a great deal of time to get finished, the problem lies in the preparation.

This week will go down in the NottinghamLIVE logbook as the most punctual edition so far, with me arriving at quarter to seven and Darren and two thirds of the band beating me to it. The third member turned up while I was outside having a fag in the car park and Cassia followed us in. Joe turned up a bit after seven but soon got into the swing of things, this week’s guests were a three piece acoustic band so no major setting up issues. In fact, tonight’s show went so well that it is a shame we don’t have a genuine logbook.

After last week’s busy show fell apart at the seams a bit (not so the listener would have noticed) it was nice to have a relaxing show in comparison. Last week we cancelled the news in order to accommodate the live music, which fucked up the listen again download on Natalie Duncan’s set as it records and saves in three one hour blocks, separated by the news. Luckily I recorded it myself so it still exists in its entirety, it would be a crime to have lost that. The news survived this week which is a relief to literally some people.

I wasn’t at all familiar with tonight’s band Winterhouse, but I’m glad I got to see this. They only performed three tracks but they sounded lovely and were a nice bunch too. After forgetting last week, we resurrected the popular question of cartoon character sexual encounter of choice. I’m amazed that The Nottingham Evening Post (as I still call it) didn’t get in touch with any of us to ask why we didn’t do it last week, as that is the bit that gets Nottingham talking. It would be great if people took notice and then went to the gigs and threw cuddly toy versions of the chosen characters at them in between songs. We could make this a thing, which would shame all the people who chose animals!

picture by Cassia Helme

Every now and again we will mention something on air that will snowball into an actual idea and tonight we (not sure who actually thought of it, it was more of an organic development) came up with a corker. To make sure it didn’t get forgotten about like other ideas, I immediately went on Facebook (how very 2008) and called Nottingham musicians to arms. When we planned (don’t laugh, there is a plan) the Christmas shows we weren’t going to have a live guest on the Christmas show. Things changed though, and now we are going to get as many as we can lay our hands on!

The call out was to ask as many Nottingham musicians to turn up for the Christmas show to form a Christmas choir, even during the show we had a shit-load of people saying yes to it so we could either have the best show ever that people will talk about for years to come, or have a total and utter car crash.

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