Dapper Frenchman signed to Air's Record Makers imprint headlines, playing from his (second) LP 'Politics', which ranges from Randy Newman-styled pop to the dreamy, Massive Attack-like epic of new single 'La Ritournelle' (fêted by Gilles Peterson and Rob Da Bank).

After a few years of thoroughly enjoying my new career (ask me later), I have just realised that, though I have made some fantastic friends in my...