My new treat to myself every Wednesday is pork scratchings. I’m not sure if I’ve ever eaten them before now although I am a big fan of crackling when I have roast pork and I assumed pork scratching to be roughly similar. It was during my pre-show visit to the shop last week that I saw bags for 49p each and bought two out of curiosity. They were absolutely beautiful although I imagine that they don’t form part of your five-a-day so it probably isn’t advisable to eat them a lot. I will be saving my pork scratching fix for Wednesdays in future.

The show seemed a lot more laid back this week for some reason, perhaps because we were fired up with ideas to help save the station after Darren and I went to a meeting last night with a couple of colleagues from the station. It really would be a shame if Trent Sound was to disappear out of the lives of the people of Nottingham, (and other areas) as there isn’t anything else like it. Apart from the BBC, which only occasionally plays local music, we are the only local music station that caters across the genres. NottinghamLIVE is perhaps the most important show around as far as the Nottingham music scene is concerned; some people still listen to The Beat on BBC Radio Nottingham out of nostalgia, but they have allowed us to overtake them in terms of influence.

This week we played host to Aja, a singer I have met a handful of times at ROFL Audio (and have a little crush on) but haven’t really engaged with until tonight. She performed her set in the second hour, and Cassia carried the interview by herself. Neither Darren nor myself are really all that comfortable doing interviews and it’s rather pleasing that Cassia did such a brilliant job as it might mean she has the job from now on.

Photos by Matt Stone

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