LAST weekend a sold out Talking Heads welcomed home Band of Skulls.

This excellent Southampton trio has just completed American and European tours picking up many accolades for their brilliant album Baby Darling Doll Face Honey.

To cap it all their next single I Know What I Am has been Fearne Cotton's Record Of The Week on Radio 1 I was ignorant of that last fact until I chatted with a fellow punter at the bar.

Homecoming gigs are great opportunities for die-hard fans to dig out favourite stories from the past, however my new informant had a different take on the “I remember when” scenario.

He’d heard Fearne Cotton play the single and, due to their Southampton connection, decided to check out Band of Skulls.

His inquiries resulted in bemusement upon discovering that he already knew the band – but under their original name Fleeing New York – the change of moniker had just passed him by.

So began a search to find a much older story and the winner on the night was Grant Sharkey, musician and comedian turned book shop owner (Chapter One, Hythe).

Grant's band supported FNY at an almost empty Railway Inn in the early days: “Genuinely nice people writing beautiful music” is his appraisal.

For the record Band of Skulls played a blinder and fans of their exquisite album sang along.

Meanwhile I was left wondering: how did they make the transformation from local to global band look so easy?