I don’t believe in a fairytale end.

I don’t want to be a fuck-up anymore.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

Fleabag (2016-2019), written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

- The End of the F***ing World (TV Series 2017-)

Imagine you’ve had a friend, a very dear one, who went for a long journey away. Sure he wrote, he sent postcards telling he’s fine, but not very often, not enough. So you waited for his return, eager to hear all the stories. One year, another year… He wasn’t coming back, not yet, maybe next year. A decade passed by and out of the blue he’s back in town, a vivid postcard comes beforehand announcing the return. You set up the meeting and full of hope, disbelief and joy go to see him…

This little tale is how Jack Peñate’s fans must have felt about /dealt with his comeback. Ten long years yet the information came like a fresh breeze on worn wanderer’s face. So were the songs ‘Prayer’ and 'Murder’ when they were released. A shaman dancing calling his gathering back to the circle. The show was the meeting, the show was the ritual. The preacher and his faithful flock. Sceptical at first, like the friend from the tale above, wondering if the one on stage is still the one he loved. Then came the reverence of the dance, the voice proving the wonderful soul is shining with bright new colours and audience was hypnotised, gave in to the trance. Enthusiasm took over - 'Be the One’ was the seal. The tales told from the stage, even the ones ending with 'I don’t even know where I was going with this’ or ones like 'ten years, I could have had a kid, he or she would be in second year now…’ , in not very big Louisiana made the gig so intimate, familiar, like it was friends chatting at the house party. Some songs were asked for and missed and wish wasn’t granted (like’ Let’s all die’, Jack laughed and answered 'I forgot about that one’ or 'Lay your body down’). One wish was granted though and 'My Yvonne’ enchanted everyone.