Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you very much indeed for tuning in.

Sorry about, I don't know why I did that in a silly voice briefly.

I just kind of felt like the urge to become someone else for a second.

So thank you very much for tuning in to Rock and Roll Politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

That's it. I just needed to get into it by being someone else in a kind of strange way.

Anyway, as ever, we have got a ton of things to get through

some fantastic questions have come in during the week and all of them urgently topical,

so they're a guide to some of the key issues that we all need to make sense of in the time

we've got together.

And for those of you who are tuning in for the first time,

the kind of general format which we keep to,

I'll reflect for a bit at the beginning,

a kind of prologue, as Frankie Howard used to call it,

in Up Pompeii.

I'll do a prolog.

And then we'll reflect on current

dramas via questions and points from the rock and roll politics community, a growing, growing

community. Before all of that, just a quick reminder, if it's okay with all of you.

February the 17th, rock and roll politics streaming live.

Tickets available now at the King's Place website.

And let's face it, you won't have many clashes that evening.

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