Fosca are looking for a stand-up violin or viola player to join the band. Pass it on.

I’m tempted to ask Dickon of the Tindersticks. Partly because they appear to be resting at the moment, but mainly because I like the idea of speaking to someone else called Dickon.

Rather impressively, Plan B magazine is now on sale at my local newsagent of choice – Northwood News in Northwood Road N6. Filed next to The Wire, but I’ve never been attracted to that more long-running publication. It takes lesser-known music very seriously indeed, which is fine, but without any sense of joy or playfulness, which for me is less fine. The writers of The Wire like to celebrate music, but without evincing any signs of actually enjoying it. So much for Delighting The Heart.

As for Word magazine, well, it follows up an issue with a Bruce Springsteen cover with one, er, featuring ‘On Tour With Bruce Springsteen’. Any colour as long as it’s Bruce. I suppose someone important must have told them they had to pretend to be Mojo, or die. Such a shame.

‘And what do you bring to the party?’
‘A sense of trying to be someone else.’