Getting back to brass, Thomas explained the appearance of horn sections in bands such as Kim Salmon & The Surrealists, Dumb Earth and Thomas’s band, The Brass Bed, was all part of music’s endless recycling system.

  “We’ve had this punk resurgence-all guitar and grunge-and I suppose people had forgotten what else there was,” he said. “Someone started doing it and someone thought “that’s a good idea’.”

  The Brass Bed consists of Thomas on vocals and bass, drummer Rhys Braddock and trombonists Tatiana Pajo and Tim Hilton.

  A band featuring zero guitarists is a rare beast . Thomas calls it “an invisible guitar band”, in which the horn section creates the melody.

  The music is influenced by 50’s crime music-guys such as Henry Mancini and the spaghetti western guru Ennio Morricone and early 80’s Australian bands The Birthday Party and The Scientists.