Somewhere in the Old Testament book of Leviticus, there's a law that goes something along the lines of "Actors shalt never the hell attempt to string a tune together, on account of it will most likely be pretentious pish." Who would question this judgment? To be honest, some of those laws about homosexuality and maybe the ones about you can't eat prawns and stuff, some of those things are a little bit "daft as fuck", as many theologians have stated. The one about actors should stick to the acting, though, that one gets The Duke's vote, let me state for the vinyl.

Who in their right mind wants to listen to, say, those records Johnny Depp made a while back? Who but the most committed of sadists would wish to endure the Russell Crowe album?

Mind you, I hear the Billy Bob Thornton record is highly reasonable, but I wouldn't know on account I haven't heard it. He was, however, very entertaining in the film were he acts as Santa but its funny cause he has sex in the bum and stuff.

So, then, what happened is that The Duke was fairly cautious when it came down to listening to the album Mad Brilliant by Ghost Of The Robot.

In case you didn't know, Ghost Of The Robot is none other than the band fronted by the fella from Buffy What Slays The Vampires, the Spike fella, ie, the one with the faux-cockney accent and the spiky blonde hair. He might have a real name, but I've searched like, three websites, and none of them mention the fucker.

I already knew he had a fair old voice to be getting on with, in a kind of endearingly untrained kind of way. The musical episode from Season 6 of Buffy had that song where he did the rock number about Let Me Rest In Peace For Fucks Sakes, and so on. It was very catchy.

Everyone knows, though, that the one Tara sung was at least a whole lot better.

Tara doesn't show up on this record, but hold on just a second, because the thing is actually rather damn good. Surprisingly so.

I'd go as far as to say that even if Spike wasn't the singer, there's a chance this would still appeal to The Duke on account of the really rather good songs contained herein.