Was walking down to get some cash from the bank to buy something to eat when this character starts making eye contact. I thought FFS he's gonna ask me for money for his bus fare, cup of tea, can of superlager etc. He pulls down his hood and Jesus H. Christ if it isn't Rev from my old band, Fun 4.

Anyway, we stood there catching up on things. I asked, 'How's life? Are you still an alcoholic?'

Rev replied, 'Only when I'm awake.'

'OK. You wanna drink?'

We went over to my snooker hall, had a few beers, spoke of the old days and some of the guys that hung around the band. Then Rev leant over and asked, 'Do you know how much the 'Singing in the Showers' single is going for?'

I replied that I'd heard it was around £25. Rev says no that's for the bootleg version, the original is £40. He said that they were identical apart from a minor difference in the type of sleeve.

'Bootleg? What fucking bootleg? Stephen and I only pressed 1000 copies so how could there be a bootleg?'

Then I remembered that I'd given the master tape to a certain character when I signed for his label back in the '80's. I told Rev that I'd been told that this character had been re-pressing Orange Juice singles and passing them off on e-bay as originals at inflated prices and that Edwyn Collins had been made aware of this and was, putting it mildly, raging.