In my final year studying in Manchester, 1979-80, there was a clothes shop near me in Levenshulme where worked a bubbly, very friendly chap called Alan Pellay — later reinvented as Lana Pellay and now Lanah P — who introduced me to Mike Finney, and I became a bit of a Distractions fan, writing, if memory serves, a glowing live review in the local fanzine City Fun.