No, it’s not ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ (I’m a man of taste I like to think, but certainly not wealth).

Rather, I’m going to be making my BBC Introducing début on 6 December – not under my own name, but in session with the rather remarkable Sebastian Vale – who you should take a listen to.

If you win some and you lose some, this hopefully balances out the gig I lost the other day because a player from ‘out of town’ (meaning not near Islington apparently) was ‘too much of a risk’ for the project management team. Ho hum, looking to BBC Introducing (in Brighton) and doing some suitably dark photos with The Filthy Spectacula on Monday. The website and gig bookings are so near we can almost touch them …