The Perfect 10

Matt Berry is unsentimental and determinedly forward-looking. “When it comes to my own work I’m not a fan of going backwards. I’m only interested in what’s coming next,” he says. “I’m not that bothered about looking at old photos and demos. Once it’s done it’s done and I want to get on to the next thing…”

And yet, here we are, chatting on WhatsApp while Berry’s filming series four of supernatural comedy What We Do In The Shadows in Toronto (Prog: “Any spoilers?” Berry: “No. Not if Disney have anything to do with it!”) about his decade signed to Acid Jazz Records, and his new 55-track box set Gather Up, which includes unreleased and rare tracks, sleevenotes, art prints and unseen photos.

Berry is happy to look back briefly at where it all started for him as a (possibly bearded) strapping young lad in the Bedfordshire village of Bromham, as it connects neatly with his future, though.

“I got into music when my parents put an old second-hand organ