A pre-Christmas double whammy from der Rose and friends: This coming weekend sees The Modified Toy Orchestra line up for Capsule’s 10th Birthday Closing Party.  It promises to be a special night. Further UK gigs for the mto are planned for the spring, starting with Newcastle Life Science Centre in March. Following saturday’s shenanigans, the following night sees Craig and me compereing the Christmas Retort at King’s Heath’s Kitchen Garden Café. Ours is hardly a honed act. There’s talk of a Festive rewrite of our moody Perseverers epic ‘Extension 526’, a scratch ‘n sniff version of the Nativity, a celebrity phone-in… Whatever… if true to form it’ll be delivered on the hoof – much like Santa’s prezzies, I guess.