Apart from taking Jack for a play on the park, I didn’t leave the house at all yesterday. We hammered through the continuing saga of Frasier Crane and his family, now on series seven. The Sunday Alternative had already been recorded and I had promised Mandi that I wouldn’t do any work. This weekend sees the third anniversary of the show but it will go ahead with the minimum amount of fuss as I haven’t had time to organise anything. This has encouraged me to reboot the documentary about the show, although how long it will take is another matter. Hopefully it will at least be ready for the show’s fifth anniversary as that is going to have a full weekend of events behind it.

It doesn’t feel like three years ago that I presented The Sunday Alternative on radio for the first time; the Sundays seem to have flown by. The show has opened a lot of doors for me, and of course slammed some in my face which makes life interesting. I remember how nervous I was on that first day having never done live radio before, (the Sherwood Radio show was pre-recorded). Mandi bore the brunt of my pacing around watching the clock ticking away towards nine o’clock that evening. There was a live band, Circus Envy, and Chris Underwood was the show’s first co-presenter. Sadly there isn’t a recording of that first show, it remains ‘missing’ despite me best efforts to retrieve a copy. All that remains from the first show are the live session tracks on video. Maybe one day after I’m dead a copy will surface Dad’s Army style in a shed somewhere.

As for the show itself, I have no memory of it as it happened in a haze of nerves and the show blog has no other detail than the list of songs played and some photographs. I do remember not being able to sleep when I got home due to adrenalin. It can’t have gone too badly as I was allowed back and The Sunday Alternative name is still going strong. What I didn’t know at the time was that in the following three years it would become the show I am still best known for. I’m amazed it lasted for three shows.

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