Master storyteller Scott Lavene visits Coventry just six months after the release of his critically acclaimed album Cars, Buses, Bedsits And Shops, a record widely celebrated for its bringing together of dark humour, unique love songs, and snapshots of squalor and cheek. 

“On tour, I’d become used to playing the story-based songs, the spoken-word ones,” explains Scott, in talking about the motivation behind the album. “But fans kept asking me why I didn’t sing anymore, which surprised me. So over the course of a month, I wrote a dozen proper songs!”