A week ago I warmed up for Cassy at Ministerium club in Lisbon, playing from 23h to 01h in the downstairs room, which, on a good night, is up there with the best sounding rooms in the city.

My fantasies in the run-up to the gig included, but weren’t limited to:

• Fantasy: Playing my classic mash-up of Cassy’s ‘Endless Endeavour’ and the original version of Robert Miles ‘Children’ as my final tune before she would take over.

  • Reality: rendered impossible by the fact I sold both records many years ago.

• Fantasy: Playing The Mole ‘Last Ditch’ and reminding Cassy of the time she played it at the Best Party Ever™ aka her all-nighter at the Hoxton Gallery Basement, July 2010, a party where the vibe and the drugs and the music were so good that when someone vomited on my leg I merely shrugged and carried on raving.

  • Reality: I played ‘Last Ditch’ but was unable to deliver on the anecdote, for reasons that will become apparent later.

• Fantasy: Reminding Cassy of the time we saw her in fabric in 2012 and told her it was outrageous how she’d been flown over “all the way from Berlin” to play only two hours. We would laugh together about how young and naive I had been back then, but also how wise.

  • Reality: Unrealised, for the same reasons.

• Fantasy: Artfully constructing an entire set of tracks we never actually heard Cassy play back in the day, but which she surely must have played given the way they sound, as a kind of art project.

  • Reality: Not too far from the truth.

• Fantasy: The sound in Ministerium being so clear, and my selection so on point, that the crowd (which I knew was going to be of my generation) would feel transported back to the halcyon days of the late 00s and everyone, including Cassy, would have the best time dancing to my set.

  • Reality: