Here Come The Knights

Tonight on the Late Show, 10pm, Radio Ulster. Myself and The Lowly Knights will be playing tunes, getting enthused and gassing about popular music. This is what we do well, this is the entire point of the Friday show. We're looking forward to hearing about the band's tremendous year, about the intense logistics of getting 12 individuals together to rehearse and perform and bring joy to the populace.

A couple of weeks ago, I took a phone call from a bloke working for a major record label. He'd discovered the band online, he'd booked a flight and there he was, wandering around Belfast, intent on seeing the Knights during their festival spot with A Little Solidarity. That's the kind of odd energy that's at loose in the city in general and surrounding the LKs in particular.

Too much attention at this stage could be perilous, and might invade the delicate magic that's in bloom in the music at the moment. Next year, they need to save a little of themselves from the mayhem. Occasionally, they must be the Knights who say 'nope'.