Excellent night at the Sage Gateshead last night, a small warm-up gig for the Word in Your Ear gig later this week. And everyone else was taking photos so I thought, why not, just one...

The hands-swapped over rendition of Don't You Want Me Baby was a definite highlight.

One question to anyone who's seen Neil Hannon do "Can you stand upon one leg", with the audience-supplied joke. Things looked momentarily like they might get ugly at this point, with a significantly refreshed gentleman deciding to wander on stage and tell his joke, before needing quite a lot of persuasion to return to the floor. All worked out fine in the end though, and the joke wasn't bad. So, does it usually go like that, I wonder...