Big up Whitto

John Whittingdale (Toy, Maldon and East Chelmsford) gets a bizarre big-up from Tara Hamilton-Miller this morning for not being a total muppet when it comes to music:

Whitto has never missed a Brit Awards. "I was there for all the best bits - Chumbawamba soaking Prescott, Sam Fox, Jarvis. I talked to Debbie Harry, who I had been in love with for years."

In 2004 he was the only MP not to complain about Eric Prydz's naughty leotard pop video for "Call On Me", telling a BBC journalist that he wanted to watch it again. "How many of the so-called Jam generation actually saw them in concert?" he says. "I did."

So, here for John, some noodling from the God of House. We're off to start work on a list of Tory MPs who've been to a Jam concert.