Today should have started with me announcing and pushing The Sunday Alternative, but alas I have had to miss a week due to my Internet issues. I couldn’t for the same reasons announce the lack of a podcast on social media so hopefully nobody was too disappointed. I have decided to make TSA a weekly podcast from now on, so hopefully this problem won’t rear its head again. Ratings are positive so I want to keep the Sunday Alternative name going as it is the thing I’m best known for and is well respected within the music industry, although like NottinghamLIVE it probably gets more listeners from the music business than it does from the public. At some point it would be nice to return to live radio and have live bands back in again, but for the moment I am pulling more listeners for a half hour-ish podcast than I did for the radio show on Trent Sound. I am contemplating a working holiday to London next year to try and pitch the show to a station down there as most of the PR companies are based in London and it would be good to get to some gigs there and try to nudge my way in. nudging is how I got to be a part of the Nottingham music scene, and my Nottingham connection might come in handy in the same way that DJs used to exploit coming from Liverpool in the 1960s.

I’ve been digging through my collection of demo/promo CDs as research for The Shoebox Demos (the finished article might have a different name) and found some gems. Some of the bands sadly have no trace whatsoever besides an old MySpace address and looking there is pointless because part of MySpace’s ruination plan was to remove all the information that people had previously put on. As a lot of promos are from 2009/2010 there aren’t a lot of Facebook pages as the facility didn’t exist for bands back then as MySpace was still the best of the social networking bunch.

Although some names have fallen off the radar it is nice to see that so many artists are still around. Jake Morley and Hadfis among others received their first radio play thanks to me, and many names are still making music.

There’s a good few Nottingham artists within the collection, which could come in useful for a proposed project that was mentioned in passing on NottinghamLIVE a few times. I won’t mention it here as it might come to fruition next year and I don’t want someone else with more time on his or her hands to steal my idea and receive all the credit (Broadway Cinema Syndrome is the official name for that happening). One of my favourite finds was a collection of discs and ‘single sheet’ press releases for Captain Dangerous dating back to 2009 advertising new singles that are now well known songs, an advantage of not throwing stuff out if ever there was one.

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