Colm O'Regan: 'Well lads, I got the electric scooter...' I love listening to the hubbub from backstage 

"The sound of an audience talking a bit of shite. I don’t mean shite pejoratively. I just mean the nice kind, the kind of small talk that you make in the time available before the beginning of formal proceedings."

Hubbub. What a lovely word. And what a lovely sound. And there is no nicer place to listen to it than from backstage, waiting to start a gig. 

The gigs have returned although we should probably open a few more windows and a few more carbon dioxide monitors because you know… airborne virus and all that. But I know nothing about nothing. So I’ll say nothing. Instead, I’ll listen to the hubbub.