More on that gig on 19th September. It’s at 8 pm, in the White Horse, Canongate, and it’ll focus on Venus’s travels (hence Venus in Orbit). Unfortunately Kirsti Wishart can’t make it this time, but our other regular reader, Halsted M Bernard, is going to do an extra shift with the spoken word pieces. She’s fresh from being the star of the Illicit Ink Unbound show at the Book Festival, so we’re very lucky to have her.

There’ll be new songs, newly-discovered fragments of Venus’s life story, and even a prize draw where you can win your very own Venus Carmichael mug – all for the tiny admission fee of £4/£3 concession. So come on down – what else will you be doing on a Saturday night in mid-September, when Bake Off’s not on and the Voice hasn’t started up yet?

Stand by for more news of a mysterious Venus-related find in an Edinburgh record shop…