I've been a fan since my early teens. I've never found his music depressing in the least. Just the opposite. He probes the dark side, it's true, but I don't mind exploring it with him. He's one of the great modern poets, and discovering him in my early teens was one of those enormous concrete blocks that drop from the sky and force you to change your path for ever.
Anyway SP, you won't have been in the queue for tickets this morning I suppose then?
I'm delighted to have been able to grab a couple of tickets for his gig in Manchester in June.
Another life-long ambition I can cross off.
