E4 Music:

Just as all good things must come to an end, the opposite is also true, and so we find ourselves at the beginning of another joyous E4 season, glistening with hope, promise and still glowing with pride having given 'Police, Camera, Action' a good kicking in the ratings.  

The new season kicked off in fine style at a warehouse in Hackney, the venue for our E4 reunion party. The boys standing at one end of the dancefloor, looking nervously at the girls at the other, whose hands were quietly locating the mace in their handbags. The smell of scotch eggs and sexual tension hung in the air.

AND THEN THE BANDS ARRIVED.

McFly, We Are Scientists, Cage the Elephant, Iglu and Hartly, Noah and the Whale and The Automatic all swaggered through the door, wearing hats, trousers, shoes and all the other trappings of being a band. I looked down at my purple and white dungarees (the E4 colours) and wondered whether my Mum had been entirely truthful when she said I had looked ‘cool’ that morning.   

One of the girls I had been entertaining with one of my anecdotes about sugarbeet, deliberately shut her hand in the door and excused herself so she could go and get some bandages. I saw her make a bee-line for Lemar who had just arrived, her already red hand throbbed as she laughed at one of his gags, probably about corn-rows.