A busy day at the chocolate teapot factory, coupled with the fact that my trusty Smart car was at the garage for a service meant that I got no listening at all done on the commute to and from work – as my Land Rover has no stereo in it – and very little listening at the chocolate teapot factory either. In fact, all I managed was White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground. The title track is such a glorious shambles.

At home, I found that the new BBC Music magazine had arrived, and so I cooked the dinner while not really paying attention to Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (in fact I was so busy reading the reviews section that I didn’t really pay attention to what was bubbling away on the hob either, with the result that my pasta boiled over). I can’t offer anything by way of intelligent comment on the BBC disc. I’ll listen to it properly tomorrow.

This evening it’s been a “jazz curiosities” session:

• Christof Lauer – Fragile Network
• Michel Godard – Castel del Monte II

And, finally, the new Echo & The Bunnymen single, Think I Need It Too. I wasn’t going to buy it, as both tracks are on the album. But that meant depriving myself of hearing them for a fortnight, and that simply wouldn’t do. Needless to say, it’s perfect – classic Bunnymen, with a Krautrocky motoric rhythm, two chords and the sort of chorus that none of today’s mummy’s boys can manage. And Mac is in particularly fine voice.