Word honchos Mark Ellen & David Hepworth have kindly invited me to talk on their very jolly podcast about Tom in the week of his 70th birthday. So on Monday December 2nd, I’ll be trotting up to north London to wax Waitsian with the two of them… as well as to listen to the evening’s main attraction: chief Guardian pop critic and Elton John’s amanuensis Alexis Petridis. More details here