Back in December, I flew to my hometown Solingen and not only played a show with my old band Stuck in a place called Cobra, I also introduced my little book to a German audience in the very same place. And to cater for my mom, who does not speak English (and all the other lovely people who showed up in droves and bought my book and showered me with affection), I decided to read a few pieces in German. My favourite encore or ‘cover’ when doing a reading is Neil Gaiman’s poem ‘The Day the Saucers Came’, but as all poems from ‘Fragile Things’ are sadly missing from the German translation of the book, I decided to translate it myself and see how it goes.

Here’s a little video from that night – see for yourself how it went down: