The Culture Blog’s snapper desk has received this image of Ray Davies prior to his gig at The Phil last night.

The former Kinks frontman is, of course, a genius but the Culture Blog was wincing through two hours of One Night In Istanbul instead, for reasons that will never be clear.

For a man who, bizarrely, was shot fairly recently and has probably got five decades of hard living behind him Davies looks pretty good.

My spies tell me the sold-out gig at the Philharmonic was a cracker, and no doubt there’s an article in the Echo about Liverpool Sunset from yesterday’s edition if you want to know more.

• Image by Dave the Pap