Kate Evans

That's fantastic.

Yes, whoever has the best songs wins.

It's just something that I've obviously put into one of the characters' mouth.

Are you walking it back, are you?

No, no, no, no.

I totally believe in it.

I mean, that's why I've injected it in there.

It's sort of a natural thing.

It's not some sort of super wild concept, you know.

There's musicians on Mars or something that has everyone just sort of bewildered.

I wanted something real but also just unexpected.

It's just something I've noticed that often really cool bands in the music press or, you know, like online or whatever, often don't have the greatest songs.

And there can be bands that you think are a bit naff and, you know, ordinary and, you know, like cheesy, and they can have great songs.

So that's one part of the idea.

The other idea is, within this concept, is that basically the whole music industry is based on songs, on songwriting.

You know, it's even if you're doing it, you know, like some sort of industrial punk band, the industrial punk band that writes the best songs is going to go the furthest.

It was just this idea that I've been working on and I just put it into Mick's mouth and I just thought it was a funny thing.

When people are on drugs and drinking beer and smoking cigarettes in a car, that's what they talk about.

He's a man in his late 50s, early 60s, and he's a schoolteacher.

A love school teacher, very, you know, from the evidence you get from the book, a very good one.