Songs Steve never let me play #3

One of the many things that I don’t like about airports is that they don’t understand early morning.

You know what I mean. You get up at half past yesterday for your pre-dawn flight. You feel like crying. But you’re too tired. Your eyes are so bleary you can’t quite work out if you’re actually up or just experiencing a soft-focus flashback of that time you had to get up at half past yesterday for a pre-dawn flight.

Then, you get to the airport and just when you most need to dowse your mind in cotton wool you’re thrust into a fluorescent nightmare where people rush about at 5.30am in a headache-inducing strip-lit version of Tuesday afternoon (famously voted ‘most mediocre time of the week’ four years running).

Numbers with numbers – a Tiny Dan top five

I wouldn’t want anyone to think that the demise of the Steve Show has quelled our almost pathological desire to hunt down new music.

Our New Music Quest (NMQ) was no affectation we adopted for the show. Me, Harry, Rufus and Sammy were NMQ-ing pigs, sniffing out fresh melodies like they were tune-based truffles.

For example, here’s one that, were the Show still on air, I’d be going Billy Mental for, The Phenomenal Handclap Band with 15 to 20…