Music: Lily Allen

You may live in a cave, I have to consider this. Also the likelihood that you have could just returned from a long sea voyage. These are two of the very few situations that could have prevented you from having heard of Lily Allen.

Her signature track and first single 'Smile' has been the song of summer 2006. As with everything that rockets to cult status from obscurity there is a hierachy of coolness (coolivity? coolistics?) depending on how early you pick on the latest hit thing. The number of perceived cool points gained varies depending on how early you drank the proverbial kool aid. For instance I hold the prestigious accolade of being able to say that I read Dan Brown's 'Da Vinci Code' before it hit the bestsellers list 10pts there me thinks. If you picked up the book on your way out of the cinema after seeing the film then it is a minus 50pts for you. Can you feel your coolness melting away?

I reckon I did ok with Lily Allen points wise being at her Stealth (annoying flash website alert) gig in Nottingham gave a score boost, the first time she had done a gig outside of london and well before the single came out.

Great gig, great girl, fucking great music. Go and buy it.