And in the effort to keep up the REM related posts in recent times, last weekend, I went to see the band at Manchester’s cricket ground, the scene of the earlier cricket and later drunken stupor while trying to watch England do something on the field.

Now normally, as you would expect a manly stallion such as the Lord of Leisure, he would have been accompanied by a playboy model, or failing that, a cheap group of prostitutes who are more than happy to be paid by the hour for standing on a field filled with drunk people.

However on this occasion it was not to be, due to laziness (a true sign of being the Lord of Leisure) the decision was made to take someone else along.

Now, we cannot just bring this person on without some grander introduction because this is a person who helped make this all possible. So we’ll steal the top gear introduction: Some say that the big bang was started by a noise coming from her arse, and that she eats Jehovah’s witnesses who dare knock on her door.

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