Mark Morriss (The Bluetones)

Can it really be twenty years since Mark Morriss first shimmied into our lives as singer with The Bluetones? Apparently so. But thirteen hit singles, three Top Ten albums and a collaboration with a national treasure later - more of which shortly - his ability to sieve poetry from the colander of every day life remains unique.

"I always try to add little things that most songs wouldn't use," he says of the lyrics on his remarkable first solo album 'proper', A Flash Of Darkness. "If I can squeeze a mention of Bergerac into a song (as he does in surefire smash 'Consuela') then I'm happy.