Comments noted re: Electric Light Hotel, will put a motion to the general assembly with a short statement – had intended to mix it up, however as they say you have to pick one’s audience and sometimes one has to lie back and think of the Boredoms, while others can only think of the Jackson Five.

The nerdy guy chasing down the long legged Jerry Hall look-a-like is a hapless and goofy way to start the week. The UK pop act Ph.D was a blip in the history of pop music. Their debut hit of 1981 – I won’t let you down, struck a curious chord with music fans seeking relief from a scene a wash with punk and new wave sounds of the time.

Turn the lights down low in random bar full of late thirty / forty somethings. Raid the turntable. Put – Temptation by New Order on, then sneak in Ph.D. Watch for empathic facial expressions amid dancers as Jimmy Diamond calls in the song’s end.

Read more about Ph.D here

In the constant search of music obsessing with being machine like, let’s segue to 1979 and a music act called Godley & Creme (G&C) and their seminal hi tech piece – an Englishman in New York. Not the crap Sting version. Prior to their Strange apparatus G&C were in a band called 10cc.

Once they gave up singing pop songs G&C then started directing music video clips. Their work started with a bang – Rock it by Herbie Hancock, continuing with highlights that include Girls on Film by Duran Duran, and Fade to Grey by Visage. The G&C duo have been doing-what-love since the late 1950s.

It has been 23 years since Weller’s last farewell in Australian and after playing for over 1 1/2 hours, a final encore rocked, in Melbourne that is, to the beat of the mod anthem – A Town like Malice. Travel well.