Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath. No, not a reference to an especially rough Sunday in Stoke-on-Trent. It’s a Kickstarter for a horror-story anthology revolving around the Birmingham heavy rock band Black Sabbath. I hesitate to inflict a Kickstarter on readers, but it seems a worthy and novel idea, and it appears to be struggling a bit with just six days to go.

It also segways neatly into news that Home of Metal: Black Sabbath – 50 Years is a major retrospective exhibition set to open in Birmingham, on 26th June and it will then run through to 29th September 2019.