My computer seems a lot happier now that all the 2013 episodes of The Sunday Alternative from Trent Sound are safely on a USB stick and not clogging up memory. I seem to have become addicted to saving my audio archive onto CDs, and did another ten pack of discs today. A lot of space is being wasted on the discs because I’m only putting one thing on each; a radio session of around twenty minutes in length for example, so none of the discs are being filled up. In the downloads folder on my computer I have a lot of music that I want to keep so as soon as something is on disc I delete it from the USB and replace it with an EP or album, eventually using the USB sticks purely for my Nottingham music archive. My collection of Nottingham music is something of a history lesson. A while ago I played a very old track on The Sound of Nottingham UK and was messaged by a guitarist I know from a band I love to say that he played guitar on it. I had no idea, and he was amazed that I had the track in the first place and asked where I got it. The honest answer is that I don’t have a clue.

On the subject of old Nottingham music, a mutual friend of Adam and Miles from Captain Dangerous recently gave me two CDs that even I didn’t own. One was a collection of songs dated 2005 with a MySpace URL instead of a website (this was when MySpace was a free website service to bands) and the other was a limited edition CD called The House That Jack Hayter Built. I had resigned myself to never being able to lay my hands on a copy, convincing myself that this CD was nothing more than an urban legend that people in Nottingham talk about in hushed tones and pretend they own it when in fact they can’t because there were only 100 made, mine being 52. I mentioned to Adam that I have these rarities and he couldn’t believe it as he wasn’t sure he even had a copy of the ‘MySpace’ CD. In their early days they used to record a song or two on a CD to give out at gigs, I’d love to know where they are now. There must be at least one drawer somewhere containing these treasures. I think the time is right for a re-release, perhaps as a download only in order to keep the costs down, as they are a popular band (albeit hugely underrated) and this would be a nice curio for their newer fans.

Two chapters of the audio book were recorded today.

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