I do like the first of the month falling on a Monday; it makes things neat and tidy for the start of a new working week. It was with extreme panic that I welcomed in the ninth month of the year as my work schedule has built up and is now biting me on the arse with very sharp teeth. The Nathan McKenzie audio book has to be finished by the end of this week, and I still have a lot of work to do in order to finish The Woolworths Related Documentary (working title). Although the audio books are still set to be released at Christmas without a problem, it is doubtful that filming will commence this year due to timing issues. On a positive note, I will be done with audio books this year and aside from The Sunday Alternative I have no regular commitments (as much as I’d love to make a return to live radio as it is a great feeling of intimacy and immediacy) so will be able to make 2015 the year of film making. There are other podcast projects in the pipeline but I think I will concentrate on film making for at least the first six months of next year.

Bad time management dictated that The Sunday Alternative was late yesterday. I should have recorded it on Friday but I was reading the Chuckle Brothers book and watching my Happy Days DVD (not at the same time) and didn’t get round to it. My Sunday morning was spent recording the podcast (working on a Sunday again) but time was running away with me so I couldn’t wait for it to upload if I was going to get to my dad’s for lunch. Mandi isn’t well so I took Jack by myself for lunch. It wasn’t until I returned to my house that I uploaded it around five o’clock and by six o’clock it had exceeded last week’s listening figures already. This might sound like a humblebrag but it isn’t, it is gratitude that my decision to do a podcast carrying the name of my old radio show was worth it. I can’t take all the credit of course, the bands, managements, and PR people have all helped immensely by spreading the word on their social media outlets, which is the kind of thing that we often found didn’t happen on Trent Sound. It used to be a cause of frustration on NottinghamLIVE that we’d invite a band to play on the Nottingham music scene’s most important radio show and not showing off about it.

It was disappointing that the funding for the documentary didn’t work out, even though I haven’t given up on it, nor have I given up on video sessions. The fact that The Sunday Alternative is still growing tells me that there is still a long way for the name to go. I can’t in all honesty say if I would take the show back to radio given how well the podcast is doing. What is important is that we are slowly moving out of the mentality that podcasts as a medium are a poor relation to radio.

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