Picture by Steve McGill
I am not now and will never be
an Apple user, simply because I can’t fathom why photos that get sent to me
that have been taken using any device that begins with ‘i’ never appear the
right way up when I upload them. Maybe it’s because my Dell laptop knows that
it has come from Apple and refuses to play the game? On my laptop screen the picture
above was the right way up, and now it isn’t.
Anyway, having recorded a
radio session on Tuesday evening with Steve McGill twenty four hours earlier, I
was working with him again yesterday on NottinghamLIVE.
We did all the lines you would expect; “it seems like only yesterday that we
last worked together”, that kind of thing. When I say ‘we’ did all the lines, I
of course mean that I did all the lines. I am hilarious.
My run of travelling luck
seemed to be holding out, as I managed to get to the studio in plenty of time
to get a shop visit in first. If I don’t have my bottle of cheap substitute Red
Bull, some crisps, a can of Coca-Cola, and a packet of cigarettes then I don’t
feel comfortable. You might wonder why Trent Sound don’t have a member of staff
to get my items together at just the right temperature to greet me on arrival,
but I don’t demand special treatment. It’s just as well really, as I wouldn’t
get it anyway. We’re lucky Trent Sound has electricity to be honest, especially
as it is in Bulwell, where most of the people who live nearby haven’t totally
done with evolution yet. So I arrived in a good mood and all fired up to
entertain the good (and bad) people of Nottingham.
Steve did a cracking live set
for us in the second hour, and beat the listeners into submission with his
views on the Nottingham music scene, a lot of which I share. We had a third
hour guest so Cassia knocked off early with Joe, sadly before we had done a
picture for our collection, which is why we did a ‘selfie’. Do you still have
to use quotes around the word ‘selfie’ anymore now that it has become a real word?
I still don’t really want it to be a real word, where do you draw the line?
Dom Gourlay, writer from Drowned in Sound, joined us for the third hour of the show
to play through some of his musical choices. His wealth of knowledge of the local
scene sometimes even went over our heads as he name checked bands that Darren
and I weren’t familiar with. Dom has been on the show before, but I can’t
really remember that happening to be honest. It must have been on one of the
three occasions that I was absent. The
conversations we had off air during the songs was ever so slightly better than
the ones we had on air, although of course I can’t mention who we slagged off
from the musical world of Nottingham.
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