surreal

"People were finding their way around by torchlight. It was quite surreal seeing the view from my window totally black especially as I live next to a dual carriageway," he said.

The light is too harshly angled and full of diodes, too precise, too careful and still somehow not careful enough, not surreal, sepia and tender enough.

"It was a surreal moment when I found out. I was in absolute shock, quite emotional but very thrilled," she says.

Even for a club that is fast becoming used to success and the surreal, this is different.

That must have felt like a surreal, full-circle moment to be coming back to this seminal character in your career while returning to a place that had meaning in real life.