Today I recorded the third edition of the Nottingham 2015 podcast and realised that this has become a bigger project than I first anticipated. Having just finished I realise that I have at least a fourth podcast on this theme to squeeze out. If this one is going out on the 27th then I think I will just do one more for New Year's Day (when everyone is spending the day recovering so effectively I have a captive audience because January 1st is the day everyone stays in bed until at least two o'clock. The positive of course is that this means that there is still a vast pool of great music of all genres being made in Nottingham and there's still so many new acts coming through that it is hard to keep up, if only I wasn't so busy/tired all the time I would make a serious move into going to more gigs. At one point I would at least go to one a week but things have tailed off a bit again, at least it gives Mark 'literally' Del a chance to catch up. I think I will draw the line at four editions because otherwise things will get so ridiculous that I'll end up doing it once a week and I don't really want that because I pulled out of the American show because it was such a pain trying to get songs from the artist. With this short series I have chosen the music myself simply based on the fact that I like it and am not trying to please anyone. 

I have made the decision not to release a Charles Dickens Christmas story audio book this year, mostly down to not being able to find enough time to record them. When I first started doing them I imagined that I would be somehow carrying on the work that Dickens did by releasing something every year just like the man himself did when he published a new story each Christmas in a magazine. Making people aware of the other Christmas stories was another reason for doing it because nobody seems to have thought of making a film or play based on anything other that A Christmas Carol. On a similar theme, I will be releasing the audio book version of Bowie Day which is a sort of version of A Christmas Carol although has nothing to do with Christmas. One of my bucket list is crossed off by becoming part of the canon of this great story, and next year I will hopefully be making yet another contribution but superstition (and fear of my ideas being stolen again) prevents me from revealing how. 

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