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Still, she shares her mug of coffee with me (service is relaxed), even though I get lipstick on the rim, and lippy is a thing she can't stand, for reasons we'll come to. She is also half of the rock world's latest royal couple - she lives with Blur's Damon "Babe" Albarn - and it's lately become hard to get an audience, she's that busy. Decked out in dog-eared hipsters, leather bomber and natty Phil Oakey crop, the same skewed pop-punk minimalism she brings to her music, Frischmann is the UK's most significant female cult sex symbol, and is frequently called "Sir" in shops. Justine Frischmann can explain a point through a mouthful of dripping toast and still look cryogenically cool. And all of this with his guitar strung upside-down and back to front It was marvellous for about 20 minutes.. He then got wedged between the drum-kit and the back wall and had to go the long way round to get home, endangering the stability of the drummer, his drums, a wall of amplifiers and a video-cameraman as he went.Then he played the bass-player's bass with a mixture of thumbs and drum sticks, made everyone in the audience yell "he-e-ey, Bo Diddley!" over and over again and assaulted a microphone stand with the neck of The Beast, his ancient, frazzled Fender.In between times he did actually play The Beast, with a combustible mixture of brutal intent and limited technique, which usually involved a bit of twangy melody, a lot of mandolin-style high-frequency glissandi up and down the fingerboard and, to conclude, a sequence of pile-driving cadences from truckstop hell.