Gladioli writes: I just found out that there's a record coming out in February 2002 with Coe reciting songs/poems/extracts from his novels. Coe is for me the best living English novelist. Funnily enough, the album released by Tricatel, one of my favourite French labels and some of the music is written with Louis Philippe, one of my favourite artists ever! Here's a small extract from Coe's foreword to the album mentioning Moz and the Smiths. The rest can be found here: http://www.tricatel.com/biocoe.html.

[...] For a few years The Smiths provided some crumbs of comfort, with Morrissey's irony-laden melancholy and Johnny Marr's brilliant melodic gift (they were much better songwriters than Lennon and McCartney, in my view). But then I stumbled upon él records, Britain's great musical secret of the 1980s, home to Bid [The Monochrome Set] and Marden Hill and The King of Luxembourg and a cluster of other acts who proved that pop songs could still be written with style and feeling and classical elegance. And also home, of course, to Louis Philippe. At the time I discovered Louis' music, there were two things happening in my creative life. The student band for which I had written songs and played keyboards was on the point of collapsing, and my novels were beginning to be published.[...]