Nah, probably not, but you never know. I didn’t realise it was so close to awards season, but I suppose I should have, shouldn’t I.  After all, it’s a mere two months to Christmas, and as far as the shops are concerned the jingle bells started jingling well into fucking October as usual.

If I am going to get my Festive Fifty into the Contrast Podcast in time I had better bloody well get moving, and then there’s year end lists and so on… where was I?  Oh yes, awards and vote-rigging and so on.

Basically, I think Record of the Day is one of the bigger music industry newsletters, and have been nominated for blog of the year in their end of year awards.  I didn’t nominate myself for this one, and I only even knew about it because Tim from The Blue Walrus told me, so this nomination feels rather nice.  I’ve no idea if I am likely to be anywhere near the top of this list, but I’d be surprised, based on name-recognition and stuff like that, although you never know.  Anyhow, please go and vote for me if you can.  They’ll ask you to give a name and email address, but please don’t let that put you off.  Your inconvenience is a small price to pay for inflating my sense of vanity, so get voting.

And if you can’t bring yourself to vote for me because I’m a pompous blowhard, then vote for Tim at the Daily Growl instead, because he isn’t.