I am not really working on all cylinders during January, I don't think people should to be honest. New Year's resolutions should begin in February with, as the meme says, January as a trial run. Despite this I did film the first episode of The Random Sessions of 2018. I probably won't film every week as before, but I have a few episodes in the bank and will film enough episodes to maintain a weekly episode released on Sunday. By the way, Sunday is going to be my day for releasing anything I have to offer. Apart from the Random Sessions I will be digging through the archives and putting various things on YouTube on a regular basis including highlights from Hockley Hustle, sessions from both The Sunday Alternative (packaged as The Sunday Alternative Radio Sessions) and The Sound of Nottingham UK (packaged as Nottingham in America) from when I was a big radio name round these parts. Hopefully by having regular gifts of my old stuff, it will encourage donations towards making new stuff as I seriously want to get moving on stuff.

To return to last night, it went brilliantly and in one swift take. Scott Taylor (above) who performs musically as Squatters Wright is someone I have only met once before when we acted together. We played psychiatrists in episode two of the horror series The Curse of the Jester and I was knocked sideways by his improvisation during our key scene outside the hospital. We both hope that our doctor double act will return to the series soon as acting is something I enjoy but as I have no real ambition in that direction it is fun to do without the pressure. Perhaps we could go to a spin-off series in which we just go around assessing people? Or how about a massive twist in which it turns out that we are the mad ones (can we still say mad?) and everyone around is a member of a psychiatric hospital and we are secretly being assessed and the jester doll is actually one of us trying to freak people out by hiding it in places and using it as a cover up to kill people and the whole thing ends up with a huge fight scene involving a shoot out? After the shoot out, the doll actually comes to life and goes on a rampage while Dr Fielder (my character) has been inexplicably moonlighting as someone who films musicians doing acoustic sessions upstairs in a pub but is really using that as a way of recruiting impressionable musicians into his murderous team.

Pictures from The Curse of the Jester taken by Glen Leach

I am going off at a tangent. Scott's set was great and I am looking forward to getting this one released although it will be quite a while before it sees daylight as I film a long way in advance. Something I am going to have to rectify is the fact that I have never seen him play before as he is something indescribable yet amazing. His songs switch between dark nods to the 1950s 'death anthems' to romantic balladeer and back again without missing a beat. This will be an episode worth watching I promise.

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