The film idea from yesterday's blog has been running around my head all day and given that my Jake Bugg themed sitcom It's A Bugg's Life probably won't happen I need a new imaginary project. Despite the upcoming cassette launch gig I have to sort out, (along with the actual cassette to produce) and the radio play among other real projects, it seems typical that I have this idea running through my head. It wouldn't work as a full scale movie but could make an amusing web-series with short episodes, the bands could play themselves and I would take the part of Oliver Stevenson. All I need now are two people to play the totally fictional policemen Detective Inspector Jackson and Chief Inspector Del and we have a cast. I am sure that this could happen, if only I had the time and wasn't preparing proper work that will generate money. Make a donation using the PayPal button at the top of the page and we shall see. At the moment I am trying to make a short film using the cardboard cut out police that you see in shops as a theft deterrent, but getting hold of enough cardboard police officers isn't as easy as you would think. There's also a thing about Burger King I am toying with for next year which I am planning to film entirely by phone so costs will be fairly low in comparison, it will also be a one man operation in the main and will take all year to produce so it isn't on the top of my list but will be worked on intermittently throughout 2017.
Today the film without a name (can anyone think of a name?) had a sequel commissioned as it became official that The Spangle Corps are calling it a day.
I can't remember the first time I heard or played a Spangle Corps track on radio, but they're a name that seem to have been around a long time. What attracted me to them, possibly on a subconscious level, is the fact that they are outsiders to the Nottingham music scene. When I published the press release when I resigned from the American show criticising local musicians for their attitude, Vincent was among the first people to publicly fight my corner even though at the time we had never met. Since meeting and becoming friends we have worked together on a few occasions, (the band played one of my gigs at The Maze and Vincent played on the first Random Saturday Sessions of this year) and I have seen them perform several times. Also, and this means a lot to me, they thanked me for playing them on the Steve Oliver's Nottingham 2015 podcast series. This means that they actually listened to each one as I made a point of not publishing track lists. The fact that their last gig in their current form is on my stage is a huge compliment and they are headlining too. If you have never seen them before and can be in Nottingham on Sunday October 9th then it is worth coming to Bunkers Hill where I am hosting The Sunday Alternative stage for this year's Hockley Hustle.
We'd better hope that We Do Not Come From London don't arrange to have them killed and have me framed for it. That line will make no sense unless you have read yesterday's blog.
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