I became obsessed immediately and drowned myself in everything Microdisney had ever recorded. I remember walking from the Barbican to the west end that hot June evening, het up and fizzing. Where had this band been all my life? They’d only reunited for an awards performance in Dublin a few weeks prior. They were perfect, marrying elegant guitars with ferocious and articulate storytelling with a soaring voice like no other. When this band and THAT singer – Cathal – came on stage and performed, I was shaken. Ticket bought too late in untypical Jennifer style, I was stuck somewhere in the middle right of the vast hall. It was thanks to Harvey Williams that I bought a ticket in late 2017 to the Microdisney reunion show at the Barbican for June 2018, mere weeks after Ireland repealed the 8th. No musician’s death has affected me as much as this and I have floated through the afternoon and evening in a daze. Today I found out that Cathal Coughlan – the musician I’ve been most fiercely devoted to over the past few years, rivalled only by Suede – died at the too young age of 61.