October this year just wasn’t the same as one of our favourite days of the year, The Hockley Hustle was nowhere to be seen.

Nusic.org the good people who just love local Nottingham music quizzed Hockley Hustle founder Adam Pickering why?

“We tried to make it happen this year and there was, as always, a massive amount of support for it going ahead but unfortunately circumstances rendered this year’s Hustle a little too difficult. Funding was that bit harder to come by, I’d graduated so had some reality on my plate all of a sudden and all in all the team found it difficult to get into a proper flow with it all. So a couple of months ago, after much debate, we decided we had to put it to bed for a year and we have found it difficult to shout about that – hence camp HH being a little quiet lately… Many apologies for that.”

On the event happening again Adam said.“I’d love to see it happen again, though whether it can go on with myself as the driving force I’m not totally sure – I think it needs new blood, fresh enthusiasm and people who can absolutely throw themselves into it 100%. The brand, universal good will and our experience are still there and we’ve some great ideas going forward but this is really me saying if you want it to go on, you can be a part of that.”

Me Plus One and Nusic are both sad that there will be no Hockley Hustle this year,  and hope it will return next year.

For that to happen however we need volunteers and if you’d like to volunteer to help make Hockley Hustle 2012 a reality email hockleyhustle@hotmail.co.uk with a few words on what you think you could bring to the event as well as your contact details.