I’ve been out with Colin tonight, on another of my ‘last gasp’ nights out in London before becoming a totally committed country girl – it’s what I suspect is a bit like that last drag on the last cigarette before giving up…..deeply satisfying, deeply guilt-ridden and you’re kind of glad you don’t have to do it any more.

Why guilt-ridden? Well, because I feel strange about admitting I still love all of this despite moving to somewhere where it’ll be almost impossible to see a band like KMO – he plays rarely (as rare as hens’ teeth), it’s usually in Scotland but yet even he can make the trudge down the M1 to London to play for us punters who remember a day, long ago…..

I’m glad I don’t have to do it anymore because I’ve decided I’m obviously past-it because if truth be told, I’d have happily gone home at 9pm, after supper (at Mantra, an Indian veggie restaurant in Dean Street – yum, yum) but before the gig started.

So, let’s start this again, I seem to be going off at various tangents.

Laydeez and Gennulmen – let me introduce you to the very wonderful Kevin McDermott and his Orchestra…..not that you can see any of the ‘Orchestra’ in this pic. A fine band, hailing from Scotland whose album ‘Mother Nature’s Kitchen’ is among my most treasured musical possessions. What a record.

In fact, I’ve got several albums by the man but that surely is his seminal work. A masterpiece released at a time when music was, in my view, pretty much in the doldrums.

This pic is taken at ‘The Borderline’, a small venue in Soho, which is something of a dump really but they do at least have live music there which is more than can be said for many London venues these days.

Colin and I have seen this man play a few times before and I think, though am by no means sure, that the last time I saw him was at the Borderline in 1990 so a lot of water has passed under all of our bridges since then.

Mother Nature’s Kitchen is KMOs seminal album and I have had my own ‘seminal moment’ because of a KMO record.

You know how it is when you are in those first, heady, exciting, thrilling days of a new love? Come on now, of course you do, no-one ever forgets it no matter how long ago it last happened because it’s just too important. Well, part of that ‘thrill’ process for DM and me was the sharing of the musical loves of our lives. Both of us agree that music has shaped our lives and helped form us into the people we are.

One night, after we’d been together a few months, I was at David’s house (when it was still nasty, cold and damp…..before we smashed the hell out of it and made it nice) and while I was laying on the sofa, DM was playing me the music that he loved.

It was really exciting to find we share the same musical taste (on the whole) and he was pulling out wonderful tunes by the likes of BB King, Stan Getz and Astrid Gilberto, the Who, Richard Ashcroft and a whole load more. My spirits were soaring to the feeling of a kindred spirit in my world though they were momentarily crushed by a dirge from Pink Floyd but restored immediately when he put on a Kevin McDermott Orchestra single.

Now to put this in context, at the peak of his ‘success’ KMO probably sold 10-15,000 copies of their best album (I dunno – this is a wild guess and probably miles off the mark), most of which have probably long-ago made it to an Oxfam shop shelf near you, or been made into ashtrays or whatever people do with these things when they’re bored with them.

So to find DM not only had this treasure in his collection but that he too valued it as a prize, not just a forgotten moment of the past, just sealed my happiness in a perfect bubble. A seminal moment in our relationship.

Thanks to the KMO for a fabulous show tonight – shame they were late on stage because we had to leave before the end so I could get my train BUT I was a truly happy girl when they performed ‘Slowboat’ – aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Last year, I was pondering on ointment for sore breasts and the year before Sarah, Bondy and I were bonding over a Spurs mug that we all have and a fabulous 5-2 scoreline for the team - wow!!!