FED up with so much miserable news? Prepare yourself for some more. Coldplay have just announced that they are releasing a new album next month and, worse still, it’s a double. That’s awful.

But there is an antidote available right now. Cancelled Rearranged, the brilliant new album by Skewwhiff, has just been released and I had a wonderful time as special guest at the launch party in their home town of Worcester last Friday week in front of a very enthusiastic audience.

Fame is a strange and fickle thing. I’m sure most of you have seen performers of all kinds in pubs and small venues who have wowed you with their brilliance and thought: “How the hell are they not household names?”