Tom and I at the Horn, St. Albans. Photograph: Geoff Hicks / Culturpology

Searching the internet for people born on 1 December 1974 – a habit, which, by this point was taking up a worryingly large amount of my free time, had revealed that the drummer in the Number 1 Smith’s tribute band: The Smyths  was a Time Twin.

I therefore embarked on the shortest of all Time Twin journeys – the 25 miles from London to The Horn pub in St. Albans to meet Tom and listen to their set!

Any sense of panic about meeting another Time Twin was alleviated chatting to Tom. Thanks from us to this charming man, who was happy to answer all the questions I did ask, even those that demonstrated my less than encyclopaedic knowledge of The Smiths’ back catalogue .  Ok, think that’s enough Smith’s title references: heaven knows I’m miserable now that I have stooped to doing that!

Huge thanks to Tom for his time, especially in the minutes leading up to his performance – which was great!