In honour of the Manchester International Festival 2009, at which my wife is Very Important, I’m posting this song - and the following anecdote.

We were queuing to get into a De La Soul gig last year, when Mark E Smith rolls out of a taxi looking, you know, grumpy and inscrutable. Gem jabbed me in the ribs and, in a voice just loud enough to be heard by everyone, said, “Look! Look! It’s Mark E Fall from The Smiths!”

That is all.