Hot off the press (yesterday) comes this collaboration between the two top synth pop duos of our time. Or – let’s be fair – any other time.

It really is the best of both worlds and I have nothing more to say about it because that would waste time that could be better spent listening to it.

Curiously, I have met all four participants at different times but never together.

I once ran into Chris Lowe, my fellow Gooner, at an Arsenal event; I met Neil Tennant, who I remember being extremely polite, at the opening of an art exhibition; I interviewed Marc Almond somewhere for work; and Dave is an old mate whom I regularly encounter.

We first met in a pub, we used to do a pop quiz in a pub – with David John Chambers, Jeremy Simmonds, Karin Mochan, Graham Mathias, John Earls and quizmaster Richard Thomas – and I’m fairly sure that on every subsequent occasion we have met in pubs.

It is therefore entirely fitting, if not inevitable, that the scenes in the video in which the four of them are playing dominoes in this video were shot in Dave’s local pub.

It’s an astonishing achievement when you think that Soft Cell’s first hit was back in 1981 (you know the one), and PSB’s was in 1985 (ditto), giving them a combined 78 years of making hit records.