For those going to the Reading festival this summer - and I appreciate, knowing most of our seven readers on first name terms, this is unlikely - we at the Beeb have taken the liberty of preparing you in advance.

The Carling new bands stage will be alive with talent over the three days, so the two of us in charge of the Berkshire website have selected our own personal favourites from the relative unknowns on offer.

Click here to read the article. If I have yet to persuade you to look, there is also a small yet excruciatingly formed photo of me accompanying my choices. We had trouble fitting my face plus my hair in the frame. That, as much as anything, is reason enough to pursue a haircut at the first available opportunity.