Let’s dance

EDLINES

I nearly always put my LPs away immediately after playing them, but I left one out recently, and a visiting mate, seeing the neo-progressive rock band IQ on the cover, asked if that was the band for which I used to paint my ear blue when I went to their gigs in the 1980s.

I said no, that was for Marillion gigs. For IQ gigs I wore a chequered suit about eight sizes too big for me. Really, it’s not something I