It felt strange for me yesterday to be spending a Wednesday evening at home when I should have been presenting a radio show to Nottingham and beyond. Having not spoken to Darren and Cassia since the aborted last show, I can’t speak for them, but the feeling that I was missing out on something was picking at my brain throughout the night. It’s the Nottingham music scene I feel sorry for.

I had intended to go to HMV for their weekly in store gig, this week from Three Thirds Below, but I was getting later and later and didn’t even realise the time when I turned up just before six (the gig is 5pm-6pm). The band was packing up at three minutes to six, despite the fact that three minutes is plenty of time to get another song in. This is the wrong attitude for an up and coming band, cutting short a gig before the allotted time will only serve to piss off the fans. Luckily for them this was a free gig, I’d have been annoyed to have paid an admission to a gig (not that I ever do) expecting to see a performance of specific length and to be short-changed. For example, if I had paid a fiver to see this afternoon’s gig expecting an hour, then I would be expecting a refund of 25p according to my quick working out.

I’m joking, Three Thirds Below are great and not lazy.

Maybe I have an alignment issue with time, and it moves faster for me than it does for everyone else. There’s a lot of occasions when I am late for stuff through no fault of my own because I leave the house with plenty of time to spare and end up arriving at my destination far later than I expected. This also explains why despite being only 21 years old, all of my official documentation tells me that I am in fact 37, because although time seems to be moving properly in my head, this is happening around me without my knowledge. I am also using this to explain why my career hasn’t quite taken off, because I have all the time in the world to become a radio presenter and build up a writing career as I am only 21 years old.

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