By the gracious will of DCOS (see the April newsletter - out soon), I have been allowed a small corner of what was the spare bedroom and is now the "hobbies" room. In that corner, I have crammed my Marshall JCM800 bass amplifier and 4 x 12 cabinet, 3 guitars which are hung on the wall, an offcut of kitchen worktop, a ply backboard and some shelves on which sit my modelling tools, paints etc. I have also been permitted partial space on the craft book shelf unit for my little music system.
I am a big radio fan so more often than not, when I sit down to model, I turn Radio 4 on and let whatever is playing just wash over me. I tend to find that when I am in "model mode" I am concentrating on it fairly intently so that all background noise is just out of range. Radio 4 often fits that bill as there can be some very dry subjects on there so while it's comforting to have some voices in the background, it's nice not to have to actively listen and respond to them.
If I put music on, it can be a mixture of anything from Mozart to Motorhead, but never anything I am learning the bass line to, or I start bopping away and the frames on my canopy become a little inaccurate! I have found the best combination of talking and music is Desert Island Discs, so with over 500 episodes of that on my ipod, that can also fill in some of those long hours trying not to sniff glue.
