We met on a beach, and eighteen months later, parted on the same beach. The beach has a bit to answer for. “Songs in the key of F” surfaced in its wake, largely charting the ups and downs of life with, without, and now with Fiona (along with “one for my mum”). Recorded at a beautiful studio on Primrose Hill, London, with a perfect bunch of musicians and singers, somewhat in a gospel mood, it’s as “live” as you get in the studio, with not a synth or programme or loop in sight. Everything’s played and little was written. Rather like the affair, we just went with the flow of things......