Surprising revelation of the week (and we're all of thirteen minutes into it): the man who produced my band's demo CD plays guitar on a psychedelic rock single named 'Cow' for which Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow provides vocals.

Feel free to re-read that once or twice. Then carry on reading this excerpt from The Guardian's article on it:

There can't be many similarities between Jimmy Evil and Pete Bastard on the one hand and Jon Snow on the other. The first two are the guitarist and bass player, respectively, in a psychedelic avant-metal band called Suitable Case For Treatment. The latter is a Channel 4 newsreader whose known dealings with psychedelia have never gone much further than some self-consciously exuberant ties.

"I'd written this song," vocalist Liam Ings-Reeves explains, "and I just thought that Jon Snow's voice would work really well. He's got this austere but welcoming tone. I went to get his autobiography signed at the Hay-on-Wye festival and I just said: 'I'm in a band and I've got a monologue I'd really like you to read' and he said, 'All right!'"

"It wasn't difficult to persuade me," Jon says. "I thought it was a great wheeze! It was a bit of a breakout from Bach and the Beatles."

[source: The Guardian - 'Unplugged but not untied']

And the producer on my band's CD? Jimmy Evil. Also ran the mixing desk when we played a gig at The Cellar in Oxford last year. Top man, and I'm sure Jon Snow thinks so too.