It was this break with reality that sunk the genre in the nineties, causing big-name stars to turn in a series of stinkers, including Body of Evidence starring Madonna and the plain uncomfortable Bruce Willis vehicle Colour of Night.
There are other pleasures: a soupy seafood stir-fry with slippery coils of thin rice vermicelli, in a sauce heavy with black pepper that's the colour of night; some green beans and fat prawns tossed with chillies in a wok.
The smell that to my nose has no definable scent, is the absence of scent, is neutral, is simply me, the way our own voice and inflections have no accent; the density of water in the shower; the weight of a sheet; the rush chair seat under my legs; the soft kitchen counter stone, cold against my palm; the colour of night, the lights of the park refracted on my ceiling like a Kandinsky painting.
Side-effects include acute pain, scotomas, reduced colour vision, decreased night vision, and uncontrolled atrophic scarring [ 3, 4].
Racial appropriation amps you up into a whole new level of stupid if changing skin colours for the night is the sum and whole of your joke".
For more local colour, on Thursday nights, attend one of the high school football games, or, just sit back in one of the terrace restaurants in the centre.
As my supply of energy runs low, I have still been glad to collaborate with Pete Atkin on another album of our songs, The Colours Of The Night.
The squiggling of cigarette smoke, the heat of a dancer's body branded into the wall in glowing colours, the dark night scrubbed away to become morning - they all appear and disappear as quickly as you can cut and paste.
Eight individually designed rooms (from €140 a night) have colour schemes based on local products: "Cherry" deep red, "Honey" soft browns, "Wine" … you get the idea.
Vast swathes of green and white added a dash of colour to a throbbing night and such was the shoehorn of ticketless fans outside the kick-off had to be delayed by 15 minutes.
