"Mmmm! Just because someone else has made an adaptation of something, doesn't excluded your version: you'd bring your voice and your style to it, which alone would make it an original treatment," he says, offering encouragement.

"You would love it: it's a small place, but very much an artists' hangout; there's an art gallery on the walls, more or less a rotating permanent collection with frequent additions. There's poetry and story readings at times, to say nothing of how the owner, Crawley, is always looking for new musicians or for previous performers to return. I more or less got a start there: I'm sure he'd be more than glad to have you and Tamara perform."