2019 was neither one thing or another work-wise, or so I thought until I looked back through my work journal for the year and realised that I had done more than I thought.
- Filmed final scenes for Curse of the Jester which was released on August 29th, and you can watch it here.
- Filmed 34 episodes of The Random Sessions. There are only two episodes unreleased which will drop this month, and you can watch every episode here.
- The entirety of my final go at hosting a stage at the Hockley Hustle in 2018 was released as a playlist, you can watch those here.
- I hosted two Songwriter Sessions gigs at the Central Library in Nottingham, one as a stand in for Ben Smith and one as a crossover with The Random Sessions which of course I filmed.
- Hosted a stage at the Kimberley Jam on an insanely hot day in July, although I filmed all of the sets they are not suitable for release due to the large volume of people talking.
- On the subject of talking at gigs, I once again performed my poem Shut Up And Listen. I was a bit tipsy and forgot the words despite having them in front of me.
- I released three experimental short films:
- Completed a screenplay for a short film that I will hopefully be able to film this year.
- Edited the first four gigs from when I hosted The Sunday Alternative Live at Nottingham's much missed venue The Maze. The trailer is up now and the episodes will be released this month.
Also of course I put in two shifts when the clocks changed doing my usual good work on Twitter. This of course didn't attract any local media attention and I was disappointed in the fact that donations didn't meet expectations. I also did not manage to attract any sponsorship.
Talking of the local press, this links in to the main point of this newsletter. For some reason I am subject to a media blackout. As far as I can make out, I am the only public figure in Nottingham with this childish and unprofessional treatment, the worst part being that a charity single I released got no attention. As a way of making amends, I have suggested that Simon Wilson, the entertainment editor of the Nottingham Post (he used to have a pullout but now he has been relegated to a few pages at the back) make a donation to Hockley Hustle charities, but at the time of writing there has been no confirmation regarding the amount.
The first thing you can do to help make 2020 a successful year is to email the following people and ask that the media blackout be lifted:
simon.wilson@nottinghampost.com
newsdesk@nottinghampost.com
jaredwilson@leftlion.co.uk
There's also Notts TV, East Midlands Today and BBC Radio Nottingham, but I don't have the email addresses for them. Please BCC me in and forward me the replies as I am interested to get to the bottom of this situation.
Thank you.
#SteveO2020