MARLON: Do you remember when we went to see Mike and the Mechanics
ROSCOE: Marlon, I remember when we mistakenly went to see Mike and the Machinists and they turned out to be a very different band indeed
MARLON: I thought this was going to be funny but I think the fact there’s not a band called Mike and the Machinists kind of limits the humour, right? Because the reader doesn’t know the dissonance between the two bands’ styles
ROSCOE: Well reader, Mike and the Machinists were a very abrasive-sounding band of the sort I hadn’t prepared myself for, expecting as I was to hear Mike and the Mechanics
MARLON: We’ve been gone a while and I feel like this hasn’t been an adequate return for us
ROSCOE: Hmm. Incidentally, do you remember our old friend BARRY-PRIMSALL?
MARLON: Oh yes, the man who wrote that shit thing about how rap is shit and P!nk is really good and who then became a famous hip-hop rap entertainer and our friend
ROSCOE: Yes. I wonder where he is
DOUGIE-PRIMSALL emerges from the bit of the washing machine where you put the powder in
ROSCOE: Oh my gosh, is that BARRY-PRIMSALL? We haven’t seen him for twenty-five years
MARLON: Do you still love rap music?
DOUGIE-PRIMSALL: … rap music