This year, the station has chosen to pitch up in the north-east, a part of England perennially underserved by touring bands.
And all the time explaining to bemused fans of so-called bigger clubs why I cared so much about this little provincial side who perennially hung around the third and fourth divisions.
Vilma is a "granger" – a term I coined to describe the "grey anger" of those who won't willingly enter the people farms, who don't want to spend their retirement twiddling thumbs and perennially tapping little white balls into a hole in a patch of cultivated grass.
And that left the tedium to ITV, the perennially downcast Adrian Chiles figure of British television.
Against a snowy London backdrop, something perennially ignored and unloved finds the attention it craves against all odds.
Though the Mobos are a long-running music-calendar fixture, they're perennially controversial.
Iraq's government closed Abu Ghraib in April 2014 and it now stands empty, 15 miles from Baghdad's western outskirts, near the frontline between Isis and Iraq's security forces, who seem perennially under-prepared as they stare into the heat haze shimmering over the highway that leads towards the badlands of Falluja and Ramadi.
Flames fans have been prepared for a few years of living like Oilers fans, existing perennially on nothing but potential, accepting the long-ish process of rebuilding while watching the seasons slip away without a serious playoff run.
We should always remember the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup – fondly glorifying it, misremembering how slow the net run rates actually were, perennially overrating some of the ropey touring sides who made up the numbers against Australia and the West Indies and convincing the generations below us that it was cricket nirvana because occasionally, it truly was.
In Tyrone's county town, Omagh, where a dissident Real IRA bomb killed 29 people in August 1998, SDLP candidate and perennially elegant Stormont agriculture minister, Brid Rodgers, 66, greets shoppers.
That applies to Lord Hill, who has the plum financial services portfolio, a UK vital interest and one which it is perennially arguing about with Brussels.
