"Perhaps something with all three of us, if she's open to the notion. I'd be game for a collaboration, if she was. And as for the art in the gallery, it's quite well-executed, the work of some local young folk with talent and skill and an eye for the darkly beautiful.

"I'll have to bring my best material to the table that night: they're letting me reissue some old albums, and so I've brought some of those songs into our sets," he says. With an outright fiendish if playful smirk and a bow, he says, "In that case, allow this man with the name of the angel of death be your guide as you enter and explore the underworld?"