In order to relieve myself of the stress involved in its making, I recorded this week’s edition of The Sound of Nottingham UK today having sorted all the music yesterday. Despite this foresight I still managed to take a couple of hours at this. Even though I’ve heard the songs before I always listen to everything through prior to the recording to check for bad language that I might have missed. American media has a lower tolerance of swearing to start with, and I would hate to bring trouble to the door of a relatively small NPR station. The ‘no such thing as bad publicity’ ethos does not cut any ice with radio stations especially if I broadcast an errant ‘fuck’ or even a ‘shit’ during a show that gets broadcast at 1pm on a Sunday afternoon.  Once I’m happy that all is squeaky clean I am ready to record the show as-live and send it in. As I do the hour long show in real time I don’t make any edits to it, which means I might have to start again a couple of times if I fuck up too badly, but I try and avoid that if I can. Besides, if I can handle live radio I can surely record an hour with no mistakes? No.

While I am still trying to find a suitable studio to record live sessions for USA play, I have decided to give some of the sessions from The Sunday Alternative an airing. This week I will be starting with Blue Vulture, who are of course ‘quite good’. There really is no higher praise than that. There isn’t a system of order in place, it is simply that a trawl through the memory sticks and discs uncovered this session first, so it is nothing more than a lucky draw to see which ones I play. I will be playing The Wild Man Of Europe’s set as they were the last guests I had on, there’s also Simon Waldram, Chloe McShane and others from Nottingham to be going on with. I will have to find them first as they could be anywhere, I am currently trying to sort my archive into order but I just don’t have the time to be honest.

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