Hello, and thank you very much for coming to our show tonight.

It's Good Friday, of course! So please help yourself to tea and hot-crossed buns. And please find yourself a good seat.

It's getting warmer out, which seems to loosen things up. The holiday doesn't hurt, either! The weather has pushed me to Mainstream by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions and I've been purposefully aimless on my Saturdays, losing myself in the record. It sounds like Spring to me, airy and romantic. LC may have been trying to sound jaded on that album, but he still sounds young to me.

It set me thinking about these Spring days, and warm weekends... and being young but getting older, growing through that. Cooking for someone, trying to impress... Lloyd would've done that a fair bit in his digs I imagine, when he wasn't creasing the spines of Joan Didion novels and leaving them on window sills.

This theme revolves around having the place to yourself and being debonair, despite the clatter of the grill pan. It'd be sunny out, warm and gentle, and it'd Saturday. And you wouldn't really be able to believe it, but you'd be old enough to be on a promise.

A kiss, the smell of a neck, that always struck me as more fulfilling in those circumstances.

I've been walking around thinking of that, thinking about what it's like around here, watching sunlight fall across the houses opposite and then falling into darkness. It aches, to be honest. I find myself hoping this all goes on in places still. I find myself hoping that one of our songs could be playing for someone as the evening unfolds.

We're going to start the evening with a film called Glasgow Belongs To Me. It's a British Transport Film from 1963 and it is described as "... a sketch of the emotional quality of life in this great city. The Glasgow man is the product of historical tensions, and the film traces his development from the inhabitant of a Clydeside hamlet to the beneficiary and victim of a unique industrialisation."

They've got me figured out!

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