There are days that make
working in radio an utter joy, and today was one of those days. The three of us
arrived in plenty of time, and we welcomed our new sound engineer Paris to the NottinghamLIVE team. We had Imperial Circus playing live in
the studio doing an acoustic set, something they aren’t familiar with and had
organised it especially for us. There was the danger that we might have had to
cancel the session because of our problem with sound engineers, which pissed
the band off because they had gone out of their way to practice and turned down
a gig for us. Thankfully everything fell into place; although I had a little
feeling of discomfort around the band to start with as for some reason I
thought they were going to be hard work. Thankfully they played a brilliant set
and turned out to be a nice bunch. So not only have we managed to maintain our
unbroken chain of live session guests every week, but it is pleasing to note
that as we approach our first anniversary next month, our prick count has so
far only amounted to one, Six By Seven who took too many arsehole tablets mixed
with alcohol before coming in.
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photo by Paris Lindon-Hall
The final hour of the show
went by in a blur, with an alcohol fuelled visit from local promoters Parisa
Eliyon and Kiki De Angelis. They had come along to talk about their upcoming
burlesque show at The Maze, and had turned up armed with wine, nipple tassels,
and penis shaped cola sweets. There are not very many opportunities to use a
sentence like that while talking about the show, or indeed any point during my
life. I didn’t count them but we didn’t play a great deal of songs in the final
hour as the conversations drifted between burlesque, the correct way to maneuver
a nipple tassel, right the way along to feminism, fracking, palm oil, and right
back to penis shaped cola sweets. Jeremy Paxman is shitting himself.
We didn’t get a demonstration
of the tassels, just in case anyone is wondering.
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