The Stranglers were on Radio 3 last night….

Yep, Radio 3. As part of the BBC proms, performing with the London Sinfonietta. Some people have expressed surprised at this. Not me. Punk was always a very middle-class phenomenon. So the Stranglers fans in the sixth-form common room grew up to be the corporate clients at the Royal Albert Hall. With Hugh and Jean-Jacques there last night, “Johnny Rotten” advertising butter and Joe Strummer no longer with us – this track now seems particularly apt.