It shouldn’t be allowed. At an age when they should be revelling in their Freedom Passes, the Westbrooks refuse to compromise with the Furies and instead, like all great artists, they grasp life and dare to reflect it back to us in all its tainted glory. A Bigger Show is a sprawling big band project featuring three very different vocalists and a roaring chorus of brass.

Building on the premise that life is a circus, with the internet offering all the treats and tricks of the fairground, the Westbrooks, as they have done for decades, have brought together voices from the local community, long time pals (Holdsworth first offered his services to Mike W in the 1960s), theatre, cabaret and Mingus-scaled arrangements to enchant, thrill, scare, baffle and boggle us. As a live recording, you’d expect longeurs, but the whole drives on, mixing acerbic intellect with, particularly in the second half, unfettered emotions, notably on the blues-soaked dynamics of ‘Gas, Dust, Stone’. Less a recording than a pledge to life, love and the future.

The show must go on, bigger, better, forever.