The Magic Number's Romeo Stodart is the headliner of the night, a very special Christmas concert in Sofia Kyrka in Stockholm. He's joined on stage by his fellow local musicians Af Scherp, Sidechild, Jörgen Kjellgren, Magnus Olsson (percussion) and Stockholm Strings'n'Horns. Romeo is happy but admits too few hours of sleep resulting in some mistakes, cheerfully "repaired" by this charming artist.

"Hobnobbing with idols and critical hyperbole while nice don't explain the drive to create music or what keeps a fraternally-bonded band together as musicians. Stodart explains: “I do feel very lucky when I think of who we’ve worked with, and to have achieved half of what we’ve done as a band; playing big festivals, or small gigs where you see people down the front singing the songs. I can’t even describe it; it’s like ‘man…I never thought I’d be here’. The all-time maddest one was – I’m big into harmonies, as you can probably tell – when we supported Brian Wilson on tour in the UK,” Stodart says, his voice still redolent with disbelief. “We were touring with him and occasionally chatting to him after shows and for the last four nights of the tour he got us up to sing backing vocals on Love and Mercy, which is one of my favourite songs of his. To this day I look at this whole thing and that experience especially, as…not real." Interviews/reviews of Andy Hazel 

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