Wednesday comes around again
and so off I go to Trent Towers to meet up with the NottinghamLIVE
team. After last week’s crazy edition we took it down a notch this week, doing
the gig guide in the first hour and building slowly. I wasn’t sure if Cassia
would be in today as she left before the show without saying goodbye last week,
but the three of us were back together again for one of the last proper shows
of the year.
Our guest was Lauren Lovejoy,
a singer influenced heavily by the Northern Soul revival scene of the sixties
who recently made the papers due to her filming a video in her local pub. She
turned up with her manager and partner (two people) and was meant to be
bringing a guitarist and sax with her but for some reason they couldn’t make
it. She ended up performing to a backing track, which isn’t ideal as they might
as well just send us the song to play, but I shouldn’t complain as we have got
a 100% unbroken run of shows with a live guest. Cassia and I watched the
performance from the live room and not the broadcasting room, which didn’t work
as we couldn’t hear the music as it was being pumped straight into the sound
desk so the listeners would have heard it properly. Without the music it
sounded disjointed and a little bit messy in places, and her manager didn’t
seem able to cue her backing tracks on the laptop properly so she kept having
to walk over and set it up. It’s a big enough pain in the arse when people tune
guitars in between songs, seemingly forgetting for a moment that they’re on
live radio, but this was worse as there was nothing but silence.
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Photo by Matt Stone
We had a new photographer on
board this week called Matt, who followed us around snapping away as if to the
manor born, which is exactly what we need. We usually just had a couple of
snaps taken by whoever happened to be around. Lauren’s partner turned up on a
beautiful scooter, (Lauren might have too but we didn’t see them arrive or
leave), which I decided would make a great group picture.
I was allowed a go on it too,
by which I mean sit on it and make the noises.
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