...surprisingly hard to pin down all this time later. At first I thought it was CookdandBombd, the comedy forum that started life as a Peter Cook and Chris Morris fansite and expanded from there.

I'm pretty sure though that it was actually a Yahoo Group for the great eccentric Ivor Cutler. It was a proper niche within – still at that time – a niche way of connecting, and I loved the simplicity of getting the occasional email uncovering one thing or another. Like-minded people sharing very cool things, that weren't easily discoverable on your own.

Unfortunately it all ended in tears when an argument broke out about whether he played the accordion or a harmonium on a record, and everyone stopped speaking to each other.

Anyway, take it away Ivor