Millie Week 56: Mon 30 Sept - Sat Oct 5 October

Remember Perhaps (Six Plastic Flasks), the bit of Gnomefumbler music that I posted last Saturday, the one with an extended Tupperware percussion break in the middle? It directly inspired the third strip this week.

I'm not making up the stylophone either. Of course, it has a long and noble history in pop music, being heard on David Bowie's Space Oddity and The Beatles' Continuing Ballad of Bungalow Bill to name but two. And Gnomefumbler used it to subvert the lumbering Heavy Metal riff of Bod and the Ice Pop and underline its ludicrousness.

Ironically, busking sites on the London Underground have since been commercialised - you have to be a professional busker nowadays, and have to play on a sponsored pitch. If you want to play the tube now, you need a manager!