Music, man

On the day: 
30/11/2012 

On the way: 
It's not about the mat of dark brown hair hanging stiffly down the back of his head and swiped sideways from behind his left temple low across his forehead. (Although... is that a hint of burgundy colouring picked up by the icy morning sun?) 
It's not about the valiant attempt at a beard that scraggles across his narrow chin and clings to the strip between his thin lips and the point of his nose. 
It's not about the grungey black and white checked jacket or the fruit pastille purple jeans. (It's no big. Doesn't everyone wear fruit pastille purple jeans?) 
It's not even about the old-school headphones, padded to exclude extraneous sound and attached by a thick, curly cord to, what? A pocket record player with original Seventies vinyl? It has a warmer sound, you know. (Well, maybe it's a bit about all that.) 
But no. It's about the music. 
Man. 

On the pod: 
This Side Of The Morning - Del Amitri 

On the front page: 
Cameron spikes Press law (The Times)