This week finds me in The Big Apple on business and the sound of cab horns and people reminded me of Grace Jones wonderful track from Living My Life. The Apple Stretching, is a cover of a Broadway song - in her own inimitable style. Together with Nightclubbing and Warm Leatherette they make a perfect trilogy and if you don't have them in your collection, you should.

While NY basks in late summer sunshine the media continues to have a field day with the aftermath of Katrina - to the exclusion of practically everything else. The area of devastation is bigger than the UK and in reality New Orleans has been destroyed - shame I never went there pre disaster.